The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-31
IMPORTANCE OF
THE NEXT HOUSE
Sound Money Majority
imperative.
H. H. HANNA SCENTS DANGER
VITAL ISSUE THAT CANNOT BE j.,
oBsCURED.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 30-A
statement regarding the Importance Of
the election of sound money House
this autumn was made public to-day
by H. H. Hanna, the chairman of the
executive committee of the Indianap-
oils Monetary Conference. Mr.. Hanna
said:
L regard it as of the greatest Importance
to the business prosperity of the country
that the House of Representatives CHOSEN
next month should have clear majority
for sound money This issue is being OBJ
scured in some quarters; and an effort is
being made to evade it. 1t cannot be
evaded in Congress, nor could the effect
of a silver victory be obsCured in it's in
fiuence upon the prosperity of the coun-
try. 1t is almost, if not quite, as impor-
tant as it was in 1896 that the friends of
sound money should act together to Sc
cure majority in the next Congress. The
country is upon the threshold Of revival
of business activity which will mean work
for many hands and increased wages in
many pockets. The election of silver
majority in the House might not check
this revival absolutely in respect to cur
rent production, but it would exercise a
far-reaching effect by preventing the or
ganization of new enterprises requiring
time for their development. The abandon
ment of such enterprises would react 1tro1
all industries and interests by diminish
ing the demand for capital and the en-
What 1 consider important, and what I
considers important, is that the majority
of the next House shall be pledged to
organize the House for. sound money. The
really important question is not so much
the exact shade of opinion professed by
a candidate upon the money question but
whether he intends to vote for a Speaker
who is a friend of the gold standard or a
supporter of the free coinage of silver
This question, In my opinion, ought to be
squarely answered by every candidate for
Congress: Twill you vote under any cir
cumstances for candidate for Speaker
who is favorable to the free coinage of
silver?" A candidate who answers lit In
the affirmative or who evades 1t should
not receive a single sound-money vote
from either party, no matter what haze
he seeks to throw over his personal views
upon the silver problem.
/ think the importance of the election
of a sound-money House is beginning to
be appreciated throughout the country.
and that the issue will be more distinctly
drawn during the closing days of the cam
paign than it has thus far been.
Mr. Hanna concludes by saying that
he has received letters referring to the
Importance of the issue and the neces-
sity for a sound money victory from
the following: Ex-senator Edmunds
of Vermont, John Clafiin of New York.
ex-senator John NJ. Palmer of Illinois,
William E. Dodge of New York, Seth
Low of New York, John c. Buliitt of
Philadelphia, John K. Cowan of Balti-
more, Stuyvesant Fish of New York
and ex-Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Charles S. Hamlin of Boston.
Hamlin's is perhaps the most pithy of
the letters received. 1t says:
1 believe 1t to be of the highest i'm
portance that sound-money Congress be
elected in the coming election. The silver
de1usion is on the wahe and most of the
people begin to comprehend that it would
be more difficult to get cheap dollars than
dollars of the present standard; that tney
would have to work harder and receive,
in the end, less remuneration other
words, that free silver would aHect them
lust as does protective tax. Every enort
should be made to bring out the voters to
the caucuses and the polls that the real
will of the people may be maze mahhest.