The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-08
BEcINNlNo BADLY.
1she New Administration Ignoring
the Curreney Questlon.

4he New Administration Ignoring
the Currency Question.
1t Is TO be noted that the proposition
70 eonfne the extra session of congress
wholly to consideration of tho proposed
tarin bill Is not received with the salts
faction the republican leaders at Wash
ington seem to think it deserves. The
New York chamber OF commerce has
thought it necessary to send an ur-
gent memorial to President Mckinley,
requesting him to impress upon the
minds OF the lawmakers in extraordi-
nary session assembled, that there is
pressing need for prompt and decisive
action on the currency question, and
il is quite likely that other bodies of
this character, as well as vast hosts
of individual citizens, are of the same
miEd regarding the really serious mat
ter demanding congressional attention
Just now. The interests that are ask
ing for protective legislation can wen
efford to wait; the interests that hope
for relief through currency reform are
not SO favorably situated.
1t is simple nonsense to assert that
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the tariff question is due to the people
because Of the verdict of last Novem-
Der. No man of intelligence and fair
ness cap honestly assert that the tariff
reached the dignity Of an issue inslast
Yeas campaign. 1t is true, of~.course,
that the platforms of the parties out
lined the parties different policies on
that question, but the electoral eonten-
ton was based wholly on the currency
question, for information on which the
public clamored, and upon which, both
in the press and upon. the stump, the
contest was fought. The voice of the
people clearly was for currency re-
form, and as President Mckinley said
in his inaugural address, the voice OF
the people is ga power vastly more po-
tential than the expression of any TO
litical platform
Speaking in respect to this matter.
the Washington Times says: "TAe
president might assume that the pro
tective tariff plank in the republican
platform was the vital point in his
candidacy and election, and therefore
justified a strictly tariff session; but
nobody would be convinced by such
assumption. It is too Notorious that
the fight was made and the victory &C,
quired in some way on the sole issue
of the currency. A currency extra
session then would have been the log,
ical thing, but we shall be satisfied tc
see one open to all the questions thai
agitate and embarrass the nation, anG
which ought to be discussed and set
tied, if that be possible"
This is the proper course to pursue
If the republican leaders think thai
the tariff ought to be changed, wei
and good, but the currency should alst
have every attention; the earliest at
tention, in fact, because it was on,th,
currency issue the verdict of 1896 wa.
rendered. If prosperity shall fail t.
materialize, the republican party can
with better grace, hold itself excns
able for such failure, If it shall pro
coed to act in accordance with the un
m~istakaDie mauduty oe4hA-oe~a+-P
To postpone consideration of a question
whose settlement was most emphat
ically demanded by the people is to g
wrong at the very outset.-Bingham
ton IN. " Leader.