Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-18
A $1,000 BANQUET.
THE WAY THE WCBBLER WAS
PAMPERED BY GOLDBUGS

PAMPERED BY GOLDBUGS
To Make Him Steady at the Aus.
riciOus Moment. When Il Strictly
Party Vote Was Necessary to
Rebuke the AudaciOus Silver
Men of the L. S. Senate.
Silver Knght-watchman.
While one may not be disposed to
criticise the magnificent display of the
gorgeous banquet given to the Presi-
dent of the United States on the 26th
ult., by the millionaires of New York,
the time chosen and its patent effect
should not be passed without going
upon enduring record. The goldbugs
had right to expend their money
and exhibit unparalleled pomp and
splendor to do honor to the executive
of great nation. The painful con-
trast between the New York banquet
and the humble fare of millions of
American citizens may be distasteful
to those who believe that our govern
ment was ordained for the comfort of
the many and not the luxury of the
few, but they must remember that
inequalities in fortunes of men always
have and will always exist; but in
considering the great banquet and the
countless wealth of those who gave it
we cannot help from alluding to the
modern mode of making millionaires
which the President, in view Of the
hospitalities extended to him, could
not refrain from approving in the
most emphatic manner. He said.
There is another duty resting upon
the national government ct coin
money and regulate the value thereof"
This duty requires that our government
shall regulate the value of its money by
the highest standards of commercial
honesty and national honor. [Cheers. ]
The money of the United States is and
must forever be unquestioned and un-
assailable. Cheers.l If doubts remain,
they must be removed. If weak places
are discovered, they must be strength
ened. [Great cheering Nothing
should ever tempt us-nothing ever will
| tempt us-to scale down the sacred debt
of the nation through legal technicality.
Whatever may be the language of the
contract, the United States will discharge
all OF its obligations in the currency
recognized as the best throughout the
civilized world at the times of payment.
(Renewed cheering.
The President states truthfully that
our government should regulate the
value of its money by the highest
standards of commercial honesty and
national honor, but he proposes to
accomplish that result by the disre-
gard of the obligation OF contracts and
by changing the measure of value by
arbitrarily increasing the value of
money and reducing the price Of
property. Well might his declara-
tion that whatever may be the
language of the contract the United
States would discharge all OF its obli-
cations in the currency recognized as
the best throughout the civilized
world, be cheered by the benefciaries
of the wicked policy which he pro-
claimed. The contract to which he
referred is contract to pay the
bonded debt in either gold or silver
coin. The honesty" and "sacred
honor" which he invoked to cover the
crime Of demonetizing silver and
thereby depriving the taxpayers of
the country of the use of that metal
with which to pay the sacred debt"
according to contract would be that
sort of honesty" and "honor" as.
sumed by Satin rebuking sin.
When the President of the United
States, in addressing millionaires, tells
them that no matter what contract
they have made with the government,
no matter what consideration they
have given, and no matter what un-
just legislation they have secured to
change such contract, they will be
paid their full demands in the
currency recognized as the best
throughout the civilized world,
whether it be United States money or
the money of some foreign potentate,
how can he claim to be the impair
tial Executive of all the people? We
call the attention of the President to
the Matthews resolution, for which he
voted twenty years ago, and we also
call his attention to the debate on
that resolution and its final passage by
fifteen majority, Jan. 2Sth, and ask
him to hold up the intelligence thus
acquired as mirror, and take fresh