The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-02
Now Is The Time TO
Push The Fighting


from the commercial Advertiser.
We hope the Republican national COM
mittee is making full use of the resourc-
es at its command in allahe states where
important elections are to be held this
fall. The committee should not permit
itself to be deluded by the impression
that this is an "off year" because neither
congressman nor president are to be
elected. AS we have repeatedly pointed
out the elections of 1897 are of peculiar
Importance. Last years presidential
contest was of no common order. For
the first time in its history the United
States saw reputation and defiance of
national authority formally proclaimed
as articles of faith by one of it's great
parties. For the first time the theories
of socialism were embodied in one of the
two leading platforms and the integrity
of our courts was violently assaled.
That attack on public credit, on national
honor and on American institutions was
beaten back. The free silver fanatics,
the champions of communism. the advC-
Gates of the policy of plunder under Alt
geld, Tillman, Bryan and the most reck-
less demagogues of an era overflowing
with demagogy were defeated by the
forces of sanity and honesty. The time
is ripe for following up this victory with
crushing blow which will make repe-
tition of last years sinister and abnor-
NAL conditions permanently impossible.
o
The stars in their courses fight for the
cause of stable government and sound
currency. The tremendous wheat crop,
with the coincidng scarcity of grain
abroad, helps to bring prosperity to the
farmer while the enactment of a pro-
tective tariff has given a distinct impetus
to the manufacturing and mechanical in
dustries. The man who tills the soil, the
man who tolls in the factory and the
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all beginning to feel the effect of better
times. There is a keener demand for
labor ldleness is no longer enforced up
on industrious men. Wages show a ten
dency toward greater frmness. Farm
ers are paying off their mortgages and
taking fresh courage as they contem-
plate the profitable prices of nearly every
one of the staples of agriculture. And
all this, be 1t remembered, is taking place
under the gold standard-the standard
which Mr. Bryan and his associates de-
clared depressed prices, reduced wages
beggared the farmer and made a return
of prosperity out Of the question while
it endured.
Now is the time to drive the lesson
home. The Republican party i'm every
important state of this union stands for
those things that make for public right
eousness and real progress. 1t is for the
SOlu sldnuaTu. IL Is Tor equitable pro-
lection. 1t upholds the just authority of
the Federal government with unswerving
resolution 1t is pledged to keep the
courts above the fear of mobs and the
communicating touch of demagogues.
Everywhere-in Ohio, in Kentucky, in
Iowa. in Maryland, in Nebraska-lts tri-
umph by decisive majorites means the
rout of the forces of disorder and dis
honesty. The larger the Republican vote
this year the safer will be every poor
mans dollar invested in savings banks
and mutual aid associations. The great
er its victory the stronger confidence
in our institutions and currency will be
on both sides of the Atlantic. A Re-
publican sweep i'm 1897 means that the
task Of electing Republican congress in
1898 will be easy; II means that the Me-
Kinley administration will enter upon
its second year of office with the added
power of emphatic public approval Of it's
work and policies Organism is crippled,
but not yet dead This is the time to
| smite and finish IL, Republicansm Is en-
trenched in governmental authority. This
is an opportunity TO make its position
impregnable. The Republican national
committee ought to have all these con-
siderations In mind. 1t should begin a
straightforward, aggressive campaign on
national issues at once and keep II up
| until election day.