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

rious victory will be won and that it is even now in sight.
 Compared with this all other issues sink into insignihcance.
 Richard CrolSer in New York, fresh from English race tracks, and Little Tammany in Connecticut, eager for mo- toriety and hungry for office, may both cry "state issues," but until the United States senate is purged of every vestige of it's free silver populistic majority and the verdict of '96 enacted into law, the issue remains unchanged.
 We want no Spanish victory Dewey and Schley have set the pace and until every financial heresy which has disgraced American politics is bur jed in the sea of political oblivion this battle will not stop.
 Free silver and fiat money must be destroyed.
 How can the issue be changed when the senate of the United States, by a vote of 47 to 32, declares that it is not in violation of the public faith nor in derogation of the rights of the public creditor to restore silver to free coinage at 16 to 1 as a legal tender in payment of the principal and interest of the pub lie debt," and republican house, by a solid party vote, squarely repudiates the declaration?
 How can the issue be changed when a populistic senate and a worse than populistic, democratic, party in the | house declared that the expenses of the war must be met by free silver coinage | and fiat money issued with no provision for redemption, and the republican par ty and gold democrats in both branches | united answered "No?"
 ] In the face of the great problems of foreign commerce, sound finance and national destiny which now confront us, discussion of town representation would be as ridiculous as an angel whistling on the plains of paradise to | furnish music for the heavenly choir Since the republican party has shown ! the courage of it's conviction in this l country Russia, Japan, Peru, India and | even little Hayti and Corea have made their standard gold, and yet the stock | of gold coin here has increased from 567 | to 771 millions in the past two years, | and now the golden sands of the Klon- | dike and the coffers of all Europe are | pouring their treasure into our hands until we bid fair to soon become the | financial center of the world. | During these same two years our ex- | ports have exceeded our imports by | $901, ,5S7, ,935, as against $165, 7S6,91 in the previous two years.
 The prospect for the year to come Is | no less bright.
 l The question for every voter in the United States to answer in November 1 is:
 Shall the unsettled balance of this
 great debt, with all future obligations
 be paid to us in gold or in the worlds discarded silver, or in the fiat money ot populistic fancy, for it is just as true
 to-day as it was two thousand years
 ago that "in what measure ye mete il
 shall be measured to you again?"
 Eight hundred and fifty millions ot | the inhabitants of the globe, the active living, thinking, progressive nations oi the world, are calling to us to trade with them upon a basis of value which
 does not change from day to day, while
 the silver democrats of this land, g
 hundred years behind the age, with
 crab-like instincts, would march us l backward to Mexican and Chinese l financial policies and seclusion from | the worlds activities. l They held the nation by the throat
 and forbde the prosecution of the war
 except upon a pledge that, the silver
 bullion in the treasury should be coin
 ed, but thousand million good Ameri
 can dollars bid for two hundred mil. | lion loan hp1so Sy,1n
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