Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-03-25

should not he restored.
II the Republicans obtain control o
the Senate and House in the election
of 1898, there is no doubt that they
will, by law, surrender the contrac
right which the government now has
to pay coin obligations in silver 20
which we are large producers) ant
bind the nation to pay in gold. Gan ap
preciative metal, the production O
which is largely controlled by En-
gland).
The Republican party will, if it OBJ
tains control of Congress in 1898
abandon the system which gives the
debtor the option, and substitute 6
new system which first permits the
money lenders to choose the coin o
payment; and second, allows them tc
increase the purchasing power of the
dollars which they demand, to the i'm.
poverishment of the wealth producers
of the world.
LET EACH VOTER ANSWER THESE CUES.
| TIONs.
Should those who oppose this finan'
cial heresy, this child of greed and
avarice, fight each other while the
American people are bound with fet-
tiers of gold?
The administration is clearly COM
mitted to the policy of opposing indie.
pendent bimetallism. Should the
friends of bimetallism help the admin
tration by fighting each other2
The Secretary of the Treasury is
planning the retirement of the green
backs. Should those who oppose re.
tirement of greenbacks help them by
fighting each other?
The administration has recon-
mended an enlargement of the privil-
eges and profits of national banks of
issue. Should those who oppose ma
tional banks of issue strengthen the
banks by fighting each other?
The Secretary of the Treasury asks
authority to issue interest-bearing
bonds. Should those who oppose
such bonds aid in increasing the
interest-boaring debt by fighting each
other?
INCOME TAX NEEDED.
Our federal taxes are collected en-
tirely from internal revenue and by
import duties, both systems bearing
more heavily upon the poorer peo-
pie than upon the rich. The Re-
publicans refuse to grant the relief
which could be secured through an
amendment to the constitution pro-
viding for an income tax. Should
those who favor an income tax oppose
this needed reform by fighting each
other?
TRUSTS MUST GO.
Trusts are being organized on every
hand, and the political as we'll as the
industrial welfare of the country is
being menaced by these great aggre-
cations of capital. Should those who
oppose trusts aid in perpetuating their
existence by fighting each other!
DOWN WITH GOVERNMENT BY INJUNc.
TON.
Government by injunction has, even
since the election of 1896, developed
new dangers, and to-day threatens the
existence Of trial by jury. Should
those who oppose government by in
junction aid in making it a perma-
nent part of our judicial system by
fighting each otherP
Recent events have shown the ne
cessity for arbitration as q means of
settling difficulties between labor and
capital and the federal government,
by applying the principle carriers en-
gagged in interstate commerce, would
set a most salutatory example to the
States. Should those who favor arbi.
tration, by fighting each other, deny
to the laboring men this great boonf
If the questions above presented
have lost none of their importance, it
would seem that cooperation is
proper now, if proper eighteen months
ago, unless it can be shown that the
parties which could trust each other
then cannot do so now. As there has
been no national convention since
1896, it is impossible to judge of the
present intentions of the three parties
unless we take for our criterian the
actions of those who stand in a repre-
sentative capacity.
The Democrats, Populists and Silver
Republicans who in 1896 favored the
reforms which l have mentioned favor
them to-day. There is not promi-
nent man of any of the parties which
united in 1896 who has abandoned
any of the reforms which drew the
parties together.
THE GOLD SYNDICATE AND THE TRUSTS
WILL BE UNITED.
The advocates of the gold standard,
the enemies of independent bimetal-
lism, the opponents of the greenbacks,
the friends of national bank notes, the
defenders of trusts, the supporters OF
government by injunction, and those
who object to arbitration and an in.
come tax-all these find no difficulty
in uniting on the main issues, nc
matter how much they may differ
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