The Lamar register., 1897-03-27

IN speaking OF our people as free peo-
pie
Their safety and interest require
thar they promote such manufaefures
as tend 70 render them Independent ~
others for essentials. particularly mill
iary supplies"
In his seventh annual message he
shows that our agriculture eonmsvcs
and manufactures prosper beyond ex-
ample JundsE tas tariff Of 1850. Every
part of the unlon displays Indications
Of rapid and various Improvement
and With burdens 90 light as 70 hs
scarcely perceived. Is it too much 10
say that cur country exhibits A spec
tacls o. national happiness never sur
Psassd n ever before equaiedg-
In hts eighth and last auuuai 1nssgaza
Warrington said
Congress has repeatedly and not
Hithout reason directed their attention
10 the encouragement % manufactures.
The object il % TOO much consequences
GOT 20 Insure a eOntinuanrs OF their ef-
torts n ever way which shah appear
eligible
Fa.hiaE international HiraStaIIisun.
international binst4llian has been
much discussed acre during the past
isE days. aad the discussion has shown
two or three interesting facts. One Of
Ihsse IN the determination Of the Re
publican Leaders 10 maintain absolutely
the pledge o; The Republican party with
rnfergacs to this subject While a
szndiui of the Representatives of the
great hnangIal ceuters opposed action
oa The senate authorizing the appoint
mant o. delegates 70 IN international
conference they Ecre a. nothing com
pared With the overwhelming Ecntl-
zlsui Of the party and Of the leaders Of
the party In favor Of doing All that can
b. done Ia behalf q International ac-
ton. while 6, Is fact that a surpris-
ingly large proportion Of the newspa-
ps-s OF the eo1utry profess the belief
that international action for the reh&b-
liiIation Of silver A. money metal upon
an equality with gold Is impossible
nevertheless Ii. leaders OF the Repub-
iieAn party and It's representatives In
congress are determined to move
steadily forward In the line outlined
hy state conventions and pledged BY
the Republican national convention In
the year isss as well as that OF the year
1854
That the Republicans % the country
generally have expected aud demanded
this course OF action and that the
pledge male By the Hstional eonven-
tlon Ras In recognition or this demand
on the part OF the people Is shown by
a compilation o; Republican state plat
forms Of the year 1895. which has re-
eently been made and brought 10 the
attention OF members Of congress and
others interested In this subject. That
compilation shows that the Republican
conventions in thirty OF the forty-five
states declared either explicitly or by
Implication tn favor OF International
action on the silver question. and also
declared In equally explicit terms that
Individual action by the United States
without international aid would be unt
RyRiliuE This latter feature Of these
state declarations Is especially inter
estinE because 1t was a declaration by
the wisest Republicans Of two thirds
OF the states prior to the meeting of
the national convention that an indi-
viduai attempt by the United States to
restore silver to Its primary relation to
gold would be unsuccessful and disas-
trous. but that united action with other
nations was advisable. The states
whose platforms thus declared contain
fifty million OF the seventy million In
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