The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-28
he TALKS GOLD
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and free discussion. We arc the last TO
avoid evade 1t. INTEL gent discD. sion
will strengthen the ind aren't and - n
courage the friends of a stable IS stem OF
finance.
..haIf-heartedness never won a battle
Nations and parties without abid4l pri.-
cipies and stern r,soIut on 10 ,hforee-
ment, even II it costs a cont nuodS ru :
gle TO do SO and every sacrnce, are IN
tire highest aNSIee sCeEtSs8.i .c4e L.
the progress OF mankind. For Us to at
tempt nothing in the face of the present
faIiacies and the cons ant nor. /. sp. a.
them is TO lose valuable sIo,.nd "A gay
won and practically weaken the 10. C s
of sound money Tor their battles OF the
future.
THE financial plank of the st. Louis
platform is still as command nS up n
republicans and those who seIve vi a.
them In the last campaign as on tie day
IL was adopted and prumulBated, itappi +,
the tar.fi part of the platform has already
been engraited into pubic statute. B~t
that other plank not already bun nj b
our constitution is a binding force upon
US. w hat is it?
1.-THE republican party is unres rvs dly
for sound money II caused the enactmC Mt
of the law providing for the resumption
of specie payment in 1873: since then oss. y
dollar has been good as gold.
1--WE are unalterably opposed to oy ry
measure calculated to debase our cur
rency or impair the credit of our coun-
try.
Opposed to Free Coinage.
I'VE are therefore opposed to the free
coinage of silver, except by Internal o al
agreement with the leading comme q
nations of the world, winch we p ed e
ourselves to promote. and until such
agreement can be obtained the ,xls iAg
gold standard must be preserved. All our
silver and paper currency must be mai
tanned al a parity with god, and we IA
vor measures designed to mainta II IN
violsbly the obligations Of tie UHit Z
States and all our money, whether DIN
or paper, at the present standard, the
standard of the enlightened nations o.
the earth.
This is in reality a command from
the people, who gave the admi iStrdt on
to the party who are now II power and
who are still anxiously waiting foo he
execution Of their free and onn pot mt
will by those of us who old commits
sions from that supreme tribunal.
Il have tonight spoken "a q som what
serious strain, because l believe Il is ue,
both to the membership of this asst cia =
ton and TO the conditions un0cr y hich
| this asse mblagc has met. The confer ne s
| and systematic efforts of such body
men as this are capable of infinite good
| To the respective commun ties in Viii h
| the members live and TO the nation at
| large.
1.-The country Is now emerging from
| trying conditions. II IL only Just begin
| ming to recover from the d pres sim in
certain lines of business long continued
| and altogether unparalleled. + og ess,
| therefore. will naturally be slow. but let
| us not be impatient. Rather let us exur-
| else a just patience and one which In
| time will surely bring it's own high ce-
| ward.
~ have no fear for the future OF cur
beloved \NhfIp / discern n G
| present condition the necessity that a.
| ways exists for the faithful devotion OF
| Its citizens, the history of its past is s.
! surance to me that 1t viii be as 1t has al
| ways been through every struggle and
| emergency still onward and upward. II
| has never suffered from any trial or Leer
| unequal TO any task. Founded upon r s h
! principles. we have nothing to fear from
| the vieissitudes which may lie across ouI
| pathway.
THE nation. founded by the fathers
| upon principles of virtue, education. free
| dom and human rights. moulded by the
| great discussions which established Is
! sovereignty. tried I'm the crucible of civil
war, its integrity confirmed by the resul :
Of reconstruction, with a union stronger
and better than ever before, stands to-
day, not upon shifting sands but upon
| lmmovabe foundations.
| Let us resolve by our laws and by our
/ administration of them to maintain the
| rights of the citizen. to cement the urioa
! by still closer bonds to exalt the stand
ards of American civilization, encpur &c
the promotion of thrift. Industry and
economy and the homely Writ es viii h
have onnobled our people. Uphold the sta
biIity of our currency and credit and IL
| lustrate the purity of our national AID
municipal government, and tho the rains
descend and the Hoods and the winds
blow. the nation VIII stand, for 1t is
| founded upon n rock"