The Topeka state journal., 1898-01-28
is of binding force upon all of us. What

is it?
=" The Republican party is unreserv-
edly for sound money. 1t caused the
enactment of the law providing for the
resumption of specie payments in 1879;
since then every dollar has been as
good as gold.
GO We are unalterably opposed to ev-
cry measure calculated to debase our
currency or impair the credit of our
country. We are therefore opposed to
the free coinage of silver. except by in
ternatiOnal agreement with the leading
commercial nations of the world, which
we pledge ourselves to promote, and un-
til such agreement can be obtained the
existing standard must be preserved.
All our silver and paper currency must
be maintained at parity with gold, and
we favor all measures designed to
maintain inviolabIe the obligations of
the United States, and all our money,
whether coin or paper, at the present
standard, the standard of the most en-
HShtened nations of earth
This is in reality a command from
the people who gave the administration
TO the party now in power and who are
still anXiOusly waiting for the execu-
tiOn of their free and omnipotent will
by those of US who hold commissions
from that supreme tribunal.
i have tonight spoken in a someWhat t
serious strain because L believe it is due
both to the membership of this associa-
non ana 70 the conditions under which
I inns @lills asseInbIage has met. The confer
enceS and systematic efforts of such a
DOQy OF men as this are capable of in
finite good to the respective communities
IN which the members live and to the
nation at large.
The country is now emerging from trv-
ing conditions. 1t is only lust beginning
to recover from the depression in certain
INES OF business long continued and alto
gether unparalleled. Progress, therefore.
will naturally be SLOW but let US not be
impatient Rather let US exercise Just
patience and one which in time will sure
ly bring its own high reward.
Il have no fear for the future of our
beloved country. While I discern in it's
present condition the necessity that al
ways exists for the faithful devotion of
its citizens, the history of its past is as
Surance to me that this will be it al
ways has been through every struggle and
emergency, still onward and upward. It
has never suffered from any trial been
unequal to any task Founded upon right
principles, have nothing to fear from
the vicissitudes which may lie across our
pathway. The nation founded by the
fathers upon principles of virtue, educa-
ton, freedom and human rights. nodded
by the great discussions which eSta blish-
of civil war, it's integrity confirmed by the
results of reconstruction, with a union
stronger and better than ever before,
stands today, not upon shifting sands,
but upon immovable foundations.
Let US resolve by our laws and by our
administra ton of them to maintain the
rights of the citizen, to cement the union
by still closer bonds, to eXalt the stand
ards of American civilzaton, encourage
the promotion Of thrift, industry and
economy and the homely virtues which
have ennObled our people, uphold the sta
bility of our currency and credit and il
municipal government; and though the
rain deSCends and the floods come and
the winds blow. the nation will stand, for
it is founded upon rock"