Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-07-09

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the Democratic kite was quite
enough for the average Populist
He wants no more of it this year,
and is determined that he will not
have it,
President Mckinley has reason to
congratulate himself and his party
on the tact that the tariff bill has
been passed more quickly after his
Inauguration than any tariff since
the first Congress.
The fact that the Democrats pro
pose to grab all the fat offices in the
States where they are now urging
another fusion" with the Populists
makes the members of the latter
party somewhat wary this time.
Railroad men, manufacturers, and
business men of all sections and
parties report marked improvement
in business and confidence, and pre-
dict that the renewal of activity is
permanent III its character.
The average Southern Democrat
who finds the productions of his
section well protected by the new
tariff measure, now looks with en-
tire complaisancy upon the fact that
one-half of the members of Con
gress from south of Mason and
Dixon S line voted for protection.
The demand for those beautiful
tables by which the silver orators
sought to prove last year that the
price of wheat is dependent upon the
price of silver has suddenly fallen off
since wheat has continued to ad-
vance and silver has steadily de
creased in price for many months
past
Silver mine owners who are at
tempting to carry Iowa and Ohio on
5he silver issue this fall should have
Il "business" consultation with Mr..
Debs and arrange with him to delay
the departure of his communistic
organization until after the election
They need all of that for votes they
can muster.
The Commissioner of Pensions
does not agree with the Democratic
idea that the duty of examining sur
geons is to invent ways and means
of keeping old soldiers from getting
pensions Justly due them, and so has
l;.,,,ie.o1 n 1nn,,t G1,o b,,,,1,-a6 Do,,, ,
@ attic examining surgeons who seem
to have thought that their chief duty
during the past four years.
The proposition for half fiat dol
lar has no further charms for Tom
Watson and his Populist followers.
He has announced new platform
of a government issue of paper
money which shall give per capita
of fifty dollars to everybody, and he
expects to put this in the platform
at the convention of his party this
week and send the free-coinage pro
position to the rear.
1t is doubtless a great disappoint-
ment to Mr.. Bryan to know that he
is not to figure as the chief of the
silver movement in the next cam
paign But the mine owners who
put up the cash for the silver fight
have decided that man with a los
ing record will not do for a second
race, and have therefore passed the
word along the line that he is to be
ignored in the future
No wonder Chairman Butler of
the Populist National Committee re-
jected Mr. Bryan's 81 500 contribu-
ton to the campaign fund of that
party under the circumstances The
idea of supposing that so small
a sum would command the Presi-
dental nomination of great party
is preposterous. A man with the
/ financial wisdom which Mr.. Bryan
processes ought to have known bet
/ ter.
"For one, do not believe it pos
sible to succeed upon platform that
demands the unqualified free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with
gold. We have fought that battle
and it is lost. We can never fight il
over under circumstances more fav-
orable to ourselves. If we hope to
succeed, we must abandon this ex
treme demand" -Ex-GovernoI
Boies of Iowa in letter to Col. d. NJ
Fox, of Des Moines
Democratic support for the pro
tective tariff is one of the causes of
the improved conditions through the
country. Business men who are
constantly studying these condi-
tions are of the opinion that the
tariff bill which has just been
framed will remain ON the statute
books for long time because of the
growth of the protective sentiment
among the Democrats, and that
with its permanency there will be
permanent business prosperity.
Ex- Governor Boies of Iowa has re-
fused longer to follow the free coin
age-of-silver proposition, and is out
in an urgent argument in favor of a
paper currency based solely on the
market value of the silver bullion
against which it would be issued.
Governor Boies Reputation of the
Democratic doctrine which proposes
to base a currency on Legislative
action which should call 46 cents a
dollar is severe blow to the free
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