Arizona silver belt., 1899-12-14
REPUBLICAN FINANCE BILL
Senator Morgan Declares It to be the Most Vicious Legislation Att
 tempted in Half Century.

| h NHtOldl iV UllN 1uii i"h'i'N' ~~N aminer says: Senator Morgan makes several pungent criticisms of President Mckinley and his message. The sen ator declares the proposed financial bill is calculated to do more harm than any measure proposed m the last half century, that it proposes to establish d feudal system by the creation of an enormous permanent public debt, and | it is the same old jackasS clothed in ! the lions skin. Senator Morgan, in an interview, says in part:
 ''It is noticeable that in dealing with financial matters the president omits to indicate policy as to the supply of currency to our new posses sions. This is the leading feature of a
 wise policy in providing good govern
 ment in those islands. l regret that
 the president did not take it up for special consideration.
 "One should study well the proposed
 financial bill of the republicans in the senate before attempting to dissect it.
 While l have not had long to look it over, am convinced that it is calcu-
 lated to do more harm to this country
 than any measure which has been pro-
 posed in half century. It is deep,
 and intended to be so, fear. l have
 looked into it as one might reflect the sun into well with a mirror, and
 have discovered some rough stones at the bottom.
 ''I regard this measure as pivotal { point in the history of our people. My opinion now is that it is intended to tix permanently an enormous public debt like that of England on the peo- pie of the United States, debt never to be paid, the interest omit to be met by the labor of the people. There will be two classes here just as there are two classes there.
 'It will be an establishment of the save that where they had landlord anC
 tenant we would have bondholder an6
 taxpayer. It is the same old jackasS
 clothed in the lions skin.
 "Whether it passes or not, the Re
 publican party is committed to 1t ant , to the permanency of the public debt This is contrary to all democratic
 doctrines. There has never been { l. democratic president who has no' , favored reducing the debt and paying
 as we go. If the people fully realized
 what was intended by this bill the! would rise up and sweep the repub . lican party from power
 U II look upon President Mckinley a the man wno is doing more harm t'
 the American people than any on'
 who has preceded him since the repub U lican party came into existence. H,
 is doing this harm by adding respecta T. b.lity to the republican party, StriS 0 down Mckinley and who is there If 5 in the party to whom the people 0 1T any number of them in this countr u would look with trust or any degre ; of confidence.
 U II do not know that we are bette J off in our party, for there is but tn
 one figure in the public eye. Fortur n ately, that figure stands for the pet 2 pie rather than against them. Neve Ee before has there been such conditio m of affairs in this country when befoi {. nomination and, in fact, three year in before one, there has been no secon ie choice among the people in eithe W party. The people have no SecOn W choice. It is marvellous condition ( De affairs.
 IF "I have heard It said that the repgl ic licans are in earnest about this bill.
 know nothing about the politics s- the situation. l must accept the nv measures for what they appear on u a face. But, as l said, whether tht .ir pass it or not they are committed in it and thereby ito the permanency a. the public debt"