Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-02-07
sENA TOR LODGE FOR OUR HONOR.

II
The honest, fearless Republican SEN
timent of this country is expressed in
the following resolution proposed by
Senator Lodge in tie United States
Senate to take thu place of the cow
ardly and reasonable resolution de-
claring that bonds shall be paid in
both goltl ,nd silver:
That all the bonds Of the United
States, issued or authorized to be is
sued, under the said acts of Congress
herein before recited are payable,
principal and interest, in gold coin or
it's equivalent, and that any other
payment without the consent of the
creditor would be in violation of the
public faith and in derogation of his
rights.
That is what majority Of the peo-
pie of the United States voted for in
1896. If there had been any doubt in
their minds as to what the st. Louis
platform meant the Republican ticket
would have been defeated. 1t meant
that bonds and all other obligations
should be paid in gold. To pay them
every creditor in the United States.
The Republican party, in the cam
paign of 1896, scorned to compromise
with swindle. The voters upheld it
because it rejected the swindle.
The present silver resolution Of the
reputation Senators is the same old
swindle. The substitute resolution of
Senator Lodge is the same Republican
rejection of the swindle. II the Re
publican party failed to indorse the
resolution Of Senator Lodge it could
not live day after the next election.
If the Eastern and Northern States
should backslide from their honorable
position Of 1896, Organism would
throw the United States Government
from it's foundation.
Bonds must be payable in gold, be-
cause silver cannot pay honest debts.
To any man to whom is due a dollar
let it be paid in full dollar. Let |
there be no talk among Republicans
of paying it in silver, for the people |
of this country will repudiate a Re- |
publican swindling proposition as
surely and as forcibly AS they repudi-
ated the swindling proposition of
Y. Press.
One Minute Cough Cure cures quickly |
That's what you want! Fl. G. Pierce, Barton;
q. s. Webster, Barton Landing; r. e. Fren CHI.
Glover; G. w. Russell, Irasburgh.
The Maine goes to Havana not as
3ne of the dogs of war, but as Que of
5he doves Of peace. We are at peace
with Spain, and our warships are at
IS much liberty to visit Spanish ports
Is hers are to come into American
1arbors. The only significance the
presence of the Maine in Havana
1arbor has is that it indicates a rever-
sal of the policy heretofore followed
If considering, perhaps only too scru-
oulously, the Spanish sensibilities.
President Cleveland kept all our
out of Venezuelan waters
Turing the controversy with Great
Britain, for fear that their presence
here should be misconstrued. A
similar fear of misconstruction ap-
pears to have dictated his policy with
'egard to our squadron in the Gulf of
Mexico. Since the outbreak of the
Cuban insurrection nearly three years
lgo, not an American warship had
)een seen in Cuban port until the
Maine anchored in Havana. Her ar
'ival seems to have excited Washing
Jon more than it did Havana. The
animation is current that the Maine
will remain at Havana some time as
guard ship of American interests.
Doubtless her presence will have a
influence on any tendency
IF the Havana mob to direct their
energies against Ameri-
cans in that city.