Evening star., 1898-09-12

lem stands as follows: Total amount Of
bonds Cleveland fdministrationl s262. .315.-
800; rate of inte' est authorised under Nc
kinley, per cent; total. 81 .s69, 462.
TT will thus be seen that If the bonds
issued undec the Cleveland administration
nae been neated fCt the low rate of inter
est authorized ur der the Mckinley admin
istrs ,s., ssiuon.C;eyela1q a. annual interest $ll.-
E,2,6l6; Mckinley annual interest. sT.S6g.
462-it would have saved the people 81, CT
154. or SS6.231 .5+o- in ten years, anu S1O8.-
0'a,ss9 o u ho tSprty yfars: .. y 49,
cent bond ,yas sf5En by the extraordinary
demand of the public for the 500, 600 900
placed In small sums last July at that rate.
me bids ex3eeded a round billion. Nothing
demonstrates better than these two fnan-
ciering fests the difference between the
economic administfation of the republican
party and the bpndering policy of the DEM
ocrats in national affairs, especially if we
consider, as we certainly should DO. that
the democrats foated their loan in time of
peace. while the republicans 1oated S3p.-
UO,SOo bonds-s62. .315. 400 less than under
tive saving to the country of $3,62s, 154 PEI
annum"
silver Coinage.
Referring to silver coinage is the follow
ing para graph: Il So.
The total -coina &c of standard silver dol
lars during the fiscal year 1897 amounted
to S2l BOB, To1. This, Is significant consider
Ell side by side with table NI1lI contained
In the report of thr director of the mint.
giving the tctal coinage of silver dollars
iom 1792 to 1873, the year in which 1t Is
alleged silver was struck down This Ia
bic shows the coinage of silver dollars 10
have been: From 1872 to 1858, s.. 500. Ssl:
from 1853 to February II, 1873. O.524, 34S:
total coinage in eishty-one years. $s,o31 .23S
1t will be seen that the coinage of silver
dollars during the single year of 1891 ex-
ceeded the total coinage for the eishty-one
Tvfr, q
per cent. Coinage of 1897, 81, ,a05. 7o1 coin-
age from 1872 to 1873, Ss,03l lSS; excess in
1897, $13. 1T2. 463
The coinage of silver dollars since the
crime Of 13 foots up the enormous total
OF $i97, ,692 AS, down to June 30, 1898. This
Is what republican legislation has done to
oiscredit the money of the people
several pages are devoted to compaTi-
sons between the Dingley tariff act ant
the Wilson act One paragraph says:
fhe Wilson bilfSw in operation nine
I,onths before it showed surplus revenue.
Ihe amount then was only S3, 332, ,4i1 while
the Dingley act yielded q surplus of 81 .91:.,-
1921 at the end Of the sixth month OF its
existence, in spite of the fact that It hare
the burden of vast anticipatory importa-
tfons. rushed through our custom houses
during March, April, May. June and July.
1897. to take advantage of the lower rates
and defective appraisement under the VII
son bill"
The status of the Pacific railroad debt is
administration thus far in the case is COM
mended
The Spanish War.
Several pages are devoted to the Spanish
v ar. The action of the President n not
recognizing the Cuban republic is a source
of congratulaticn, as follows:
IF the resolution introduced by Mr..
Bailey or reported by the minority oC the
committee on foreign affairs of the House
had prevailed, the complications growing
out of Cuban affairs would have exceeded
any entangled situation known in the last
century. The people Vf this country will
certainly trust to the wisdom of President
Mckinley and the leaders Of Congress who
so wisely provided for the emergency which
we have just passed in sowing the prob
lens of TIE future in the settlement of the
complicated questions growing out of the
war" u u
The difticultirsui encountered in prose-
cutting the war are enumerated. and the
unjust criticism upon the War Depar: ment
repeilad. In this connection the hand
book reDrodices ~ recent interview in The
Evening Star with an army officer in
which the latter claimed that much of the
difficulty was dIe4o democratic parSimony
in Congress ana the departments in pre-
ViouS years. ig
The hand book is intended for distribu-
ton among republican campaign speakers.