The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-28

An honest attempt will be the best proof
of sincerity of purpose Discussion cam
not hurt, il will only help the cause. Let
us have full and free discussion We are
the last to avoid or evade It. Intelligent
discussion viii strengthen the Indifferent
and encourage The friends of stable sys-
TEN of finance. Ha.f-heartedness never
won a battle Nations and parties without
abiding principles and stern resolutions
to enforce them, even If 1t costs a con-
tinuous struggle to do So and temporary
sacrifices are never in the highest degree
successful leaders in the progress Of man
kind. For us 40 attempt nothing in the
face of the prevalent fallacies and the con-
slant effort to spread them is to lose val
liable ground already won, and practically
to weaken the forces Of the sound money
for their battles of the future.
1.-THE financial plank of the ST. Louis
platform is still as commanding upon Re
publicans and those who served with them
in the said convention IS on the day ii
was adopted and promulgated. Happily,
the tariff part of the platform has already
been engrafted into public statute, but that
other plank, not already bu!lded into cur
constitution, Is of binding force upon all
of US What is it?
The Republican party Is unreservadly
for sound money II caused the enactment
of the law providing for the resumption
cry dollar has been as good as gold.
1--we are unalterably opposed to every
measure calculated TO debase our currency
or impair the credit of our country. We
are therefore, opposed to the free coinage
of silver except by international agree
ment with the leading commercial nations
of the world which we pledge ourselves
to promote, and until such agreement can
be obtained the existing gold standard
must be preserved. All our silver and pa
per currency must be maintained at Tar-
ity with gold and we favor all measures
designed to maintain inviolably the obi
cations of the United States and all cur
money, whether coin or paper at the pres
ent standard the standard OF the most
enlightened nations of the earth.
This is, in reality, a command from
the people who gave the administration to
the party now in power, and who are sin
anxiousy awaiting for the execution of
their free and omnipotent will by those
of us who hold commissions from that SUI
Dreme tribunal.
II have tonight spoken in a somewhat
serious strain, because | believe It is due
! both to the membership of this associa-
ton and to the conditions under which
their assemblage has met. The confer
ences and systematic efforts OF such a
body of men as this are capable of infinite
good to their respective communities In
which the members ilNe ana 10 the Ia
ton at large. The country Is now cmerg-
ing from trying conditions II. is only just
beginning to recover from depression In
certain lines Of business long continued
and altogether unparalleled. Progress,
therefore, will naturally be slow, but let
us not be impatient. Rather let US exer-
else just patience, and one which In time
will surely bring its own high reward.
81 have no fear for the future Of our
beloved country. While l discern I'm it's
present condition the necessity that al
ways exists for the faithful devotion Of
its citizens the history Of its past is as
surance to me that this will be, as II al
ways has been, through every struggle
and emergency, stlll onward and upward.
It has not suffered from any trial, or been
unequal TO any test. Founded upon right
principles, we have nothing TO fear frcm
the vicissitudes which may lie across our
pathway.
This nation. founded by the fathers
upon principles of virtue, education, free
dom and human rights; moulded by the
great discussions which established It's
sovereignty, tried In the crucible of civli
war its integrity confirmed by the results
OF reconstruction, with union stronger
and better than ever before. stands to-day
not upon shifting sands, but upon inn
movable foundations.
LET us resolve by our laws and by our
administration OF them to maintain the