The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-16

Por several years the expenses of this state have steadily increased, and when the present administration began eve rything pointed to q renewal of the state tax on towns or a large increase of the public debt
 With the inauguration of Governor CooKe' retrenchment in expenditure be- sah' and aided by a general assembly Whose watchword was economy, mar Velous change has been wrought, so that without borrowing a dollar, 1t is now made clear that no increase of tax atlon will be needed to meet the states expenses.
 Tn the eleven months of the present Escal year as compared with last. the expenses have been reduced $1S5, ,OSS 72- lVo' and receipts increased $242 909 A. | 100
 Not only that, but of the actual ex- | penses paid, ,about$115, 900 have been for war expenses, which under existing law VIII be refunded by the national gov ernment, and possibly before the close or our present fiscal year. Deductfng this, the 1st of September, 9S, compared with the 30th of Septem- ber '97, the close of the last fiscal year, with show a betterment in the states condition of $4S9,95S 45-1OO.
 These figures will speak to the pru- dent, thrifty people of Connecticut, in louder tones then penny line crit icism of our political opponents, and may well be source of pride to the republican party of this state.
 
 But peace has one, and with it grave problems which must be solved. | Problems, indeed, in the solution of which, we were engaged when the war began, and more urgent now by so much as our nations debt is greater. i If current reports can be accepted, the silver democracy of this state will | try to dodge them all, and fight this falls campaign on state issues, in the vain hope of thus securing a reunited party.
 I charge 1t home upon them now that | if they do this they are political and moral towards and will surely meet a | towards fate.
 | If free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 and reDudiation of honest debts were right in '96 they are right now.
 If they were politically wise then they are wiser now, for 8 righteous war has brought us to owe $200 900, 900 more than we did then.
 Two years ago the republicans of | Connecticut declared "A single stand ard of value and that standard gold"
 Two years ago the united democracy of Connecticut, in convention assem- bled, announced as an essential doc- 1 Urine of their party creed ''The honest payment of our debts and the sacred preservation of the public faith,' and to that end declared that The gold standard of money as a mesure of value must be maintained" They denounce the free coinage of silver as "A device for the debasement of the currency, a repudiation of the earner and means of destruction of legitimate business, and great suffering l among the laboring classes"
 It was a plain, straightforward dec laration for individual and national honesty, and when the lightning change came over the Chicago convention and | populism captured the democratic par ty, its intelligence and patriotism as- serted itself, and the gold democrats of Connecticut, like Moses of old, ''chose 1 rather to suffer affiiction, with the peo- pie of God, than to enjoy the pleasures 1 of sin for a season."
 I want here and now, in the name of my countrys honor, to thank them every one, for their splendid devotion l to principle, and to ask again their united and determined cooperation with the republicans of Connecticut in putting into the national statutes a specific and unequivocal declaration for the single gold standard of value and compulsory redemption of all other money in gold and thus place the United States in financial accord with I the other great commercial powers o1 | the world.
 There can be no possible doubt as tc the republican position on this ques- tion.
 In January of this year William Me Kinley settled that beyond dispute when he used these words: | The money of the United states is and must forever be unquestioned an6 unassailable If doubts remain they must be removed. If weak places are discovered they must be strengthened Nothing should ever tempt us, noth. ing will ever tempt us to scale dowr the sacred debt of the nation, through legal technicality, nor will we evel consent that the wages of labor, or its frugal savings, shall be scaled dowI by permitting payment in dollars o1 less value than the dollars ac. cepted as the best in every enlightened nation of the earth.
 Under existing conditions our citizens cannot be excused if they do not re- double their efforts to secure such fl nancial legislation as will place thei honorable intentions beyond dispute.
 This is our plain duty to more thar 100000 voters, who fifteen months agt won great political battle on the issu among others, that the United State government would not permit doub to exist anywhere concerning the sta bility and integrity of it's obligations O every kind.
 This is my interpretation of that vic tory.
 Whatever effort therefore is requiret to make the settlement of this vita question clear and conclusive for al | .l. 1@,~ i,,