The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-12-23
the innocent reader and make him wish
he was Mohammedan instead of a
Christian.
PASSAGE OF GOLD STANDARD BILL,

the lower house of Congress last Mon
day afternoon by vote of 100 to $780,
and by the terms of the special rule
under which it was passed no substitute
OF amendment to the bill was in order.
Every Republican voted for it, and
eleven Sound money" Democrats
joined them, eight of them being from
New York, and one each from Mary
land, Massachusetts,, and Pennsylvania.
The House of Representatives has arbi-
trarily disposed Of the financial ques-
ton regardless OF the will of the people,
and fondly imagines that silver is dead
for ever more. The men who have
done such high-handed act will be
held responsible, for they are the serv-
ants OF the people and not their masters.
The Silver Republicans and Democrats
in Congress were outvoted, but they
are not dismayed. The plutocrats are
Jublfant over the victory, but they will
hear from the people later on. The
chief issue of the campaign of 1896 be-
tween Mckinley and Bryan has not yet
been disposed of to the satisfaction of
the voters of the country. The election
OF Mckinley was achieved under false
pretenses. The Republican platform
adopted at St. Louis said on the cur
rency question: "We are opposed to
the free coinage OF silver except by in
ternational agreement with the leading
commercial nations of the world, which
we pledge ourselves to promote, and
until such agreement can be obtained
the existing gold standard must be pre-
served" Thousands of Republicans
who were bimetallists then, and are so
to-day, voted for Mckinley in the ex-
pectation that an international agree
ment could be had. Had the Republi-
cans declared unequivocally for the gold
standard in the St. Louis platform Will
liam J. Bryan would have been elected
instead of William Mckinley. The Re-
publicans were insncere and BAN
boozled the people on the money ques-
ton. The promise to promote inter-
national free coinage OF silver was not
made in good faith, as was subsequently
proved. The commission appointed for
the purpose was handicapped by the
President and the Chicago banker
whom he appointed as secretary of the
treasury. Senator Wolcott, of Colo
RADIO, the head of the commission, de-
clared on his return from Europe be-
fore the United States senate that the
interviews given by Secretary Gage had
destroyed every prospect of an inter-
national agreement.
The leading Republicans who left
their party in 1896 are up in arms
against the action OF the House of
Representatives. They have issued a
manifesto to the people in which they
charge the congressman with be-
trayal OF their party. Having dwelt at
length OH the promises made and
broken by the Gold Republicans and
condemned them for destroying the
greenbacks by changing them into gold
certificates to be locked up in the treas
TRY, and favoring the national banks to
the detriment OF the masses, they con-
clude as follows:
"Thus, fellow citizens, the scheme we
denounced in 1896 is nearing consu1n-
nation. The policy that was denied by
the Republican party in that campaign
stands now confessed. Millions OF you
who voted the Republican ticket in 1896
would not have done so had you be-
lieved your party destined so soon to
be the agent OF the forces that now
dominate it. Millions OF you were BIZ
metallists in 1896 and remain so to-day.
Now that the promises then made you
are clearly seen to have been insincere;
now that as consequence of the de-
ception practiced upon your honest con-
fidence, your country is about to be
handed to the ownership and control of
the great speculative banks and their
associated trusts and combinations, may
we not appeal to you to come to the
rescue OF the liberties of the people and
their imperiled institutions? We believe
that the highest devotion to the Repub-
licanism you once venerated demands
that you oppose to the uttermost the
present tendencies OF the party which
still wears the name but has forsaken
the principles OF its heroic days"
The names appended to this vigorous
protest are Charles A. Towne, Henry
M. Teller, Frank ]. Cannon, Edgar
Wilson, Charles S. Hartman, John
Sfafroth and Fred T. Dubois. The bill
will reach the Senate early in January,
where it will encounter strong opposi-
ton. Mckinley will try to influence the
senators in its favor and may succeed
as in the Philippine resolution. 1t is
about time for the people to reprimand
their servants in Washington.
THE BRITISH WHIPPED AGAIN. 4~
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