The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-01-19

metallists who still adhered to the
Republican party, and set them tc
wondering whether Mckinley would
allow him to remain in the cabinet
No kitchen scullion has less voice in
naming the guests at his masters din,
ner table than our titular President
has in the financial policy Of his ad,
ministration, or the utterances Of his
Secretary of the Treasury.
Aud now comes the 6ns.l. reroTit erpoTt .
tbe~so-caIilsu monetary commission
made up of private citizens, appoint
ed by private citizens, and indorset
in advance by the President of the
United States. It comes like the
sound OF the last trumpet, summon
ing men to judgment, preparatory tc
sitting them out into the two classes
to one OF which every man belongs
1t declares in favor of making gold
coin the only legal tender. It favor:
the destruction of the greenbacks and
the Sherman coiu notes. 1t favor<
the exchange of silver dollars fo1
gold, and the sale of those silver dol,
lars as bullion. 1t favors the author.
ization of bonds to be issued when
ever it pleases the administration, c,
rather the owners of the administra
ton. It favors an unlimited issue o.
bank notes by the government tc
private banks, for which the govern
ment shall be responsible, and for the
redemption of which it shall have nc
security. There is no device whlcl
has ever been suggested for the ag'
grardizement Of bankers and debt
owners which is not provided for II
this scheme. 1t should all be incor.
porated in one bill and entitled "a
bill to confscate one-half of the prop
erty in the United States except
money, and to donate the confscateo
portion to bankers and creditors. Il
is a project with no smack OF grace
in it. Conceived in greed, it is
brought forth in utter obliviousness
of it's shameless origin. Those who
framed it are given over to impu'
dence and ignorance-impudence al
daring to ask the people to surrender
half their possessions to highwaymen
and ignorance in the utter Inability
to understand the Infamous, because
destructive, character Of their OWL
proposition. Ignorant because they
seek to base credit on general impov'
erishment, and because they cannot
comprehend the impossibility O.
building individual credit on genera
ruin.
The friends of the people welcome
the issue presented by the gold powe,
speaking through its agents, Mckin.
ley, Gage and the Indianapolis Colo
Commission. We long for the day
when Republican Representatives and
Senators will cast their votes for OF
against it, which they must do at the
present session. We long for the
day, too, when the people will cast
their votes for or against it at the
Congressional elections next Novem'
Der, and the elections for Legislat
ures to choose United States Sena'
tors
When the time came for slavery tc
destroy itself, it demanded Con
gressional slave code for the free ter
ritories. It would be satisfied with
nothing less. 1t was drowned in
sea of blood, and its remains reduced
to ashes in the flames of a civil war
In like manner, the gold power, AFRO,
giant in its purchased success, de-
mands the gold standard against
which the people voted when they
placed its two-faced agent in power
This outrage upon the Republican bi.
metallists, whose votes were obtained
for Mckinley under false pretenses
will be met by hundreds of thousands
of them, as the demand for slave
code was met by Northern Democrats
under the leadership of Stephen A
Douglas sIr. Breckenridge, the can,
didate of the slave code party was
fourth in the Presidential race Of
1860, although supported by Dem
ocratic administration. The candl'
date of the gold standard party, now
so bravely championed by Mckinley
will be the last in the Presidential
race of 1900.
It was when Pharaoh was most
certain Of his power that he was over
thrown. pride goeth before de-
struction and a naughty spirit before
4 fall" The advocates of the gold
standard -treacheroue, false, remorse-
less-have now overloaded them.
selves with burden under which
they will be crushed We congratu,
late the country that the day of its
deliverance is at hand. On with the
war.-Silver knight-Watchman.