Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-13

features and commerce tended to in
crease the value of agricultural prod
! ucts.
| l6. In cases OF real doubt, as to
matters of mere public policy, he ad-
vocated II direct appeal to the people,
the source of all power, as the most
sacred of all obligations, and the wisest
and most safe course to pursue.
II. He advocated Just and equit-
able bankrupt law, as beneficial to the
country at large, because after the
means to discharge debts had entirely
been exhausted, not to discharge them,
only served to dispirit the debtor, sink
him into a state uf apathy, make him
useless drone in society, or n vicious
member of it, if not a feeling witness
OF the rigor and inhumanity of his coun-
try. Oppressive debt being the bane of
enterprise, it should be the care of the
republic not to exert a grinding power
over misfortune and poverty.
Is. He declared in favor of the
principle, that no money should be
expended, until first appropriated for
the purpose by the legislature. The
people paid the taxes, and their direct
representatives should alone have the
right to say what they should be taxed
for, in what sums, and how, and when
it should be paid.
19. He utterly opposed the system
of government aiding private corpora
tions in making internal improve
ments. 1t was deceptive and conduct.
i've of improvidence in the expenditure
of public moneys. For this appropria-
tions could be obtained with greater
facilities, granted with inadequate Sc
curi'y, and frequently complicated the
administration OF government.
20. The operations of the general
government should be strictly confined
to the few simple, but important OBJ
jects for which it was originally de-
signed.
81. He favored the veto power i'll
the executive, but only to be exercised
in cases Of attempted violation of the
Constitution, or in cases next to it in
importance.
%. He advocated State rights, as
far as consistent with the rightful ac-
tion of the general government, as the
very best means OF preserving harmony
between them; and pronounced this
The true faith. and the one to which
might be mainly attributed the sue
cess of the entire system, and to which
alone we must look for stability in it
%. He advocated "a uniform and
sound currency" but doubted the con-
stitutionality and expediency of ma
tional bank; and afterwards made his
administration famous by successfully
opposing the renewal of its charter.
"a. Precious metal as the only
currency known to the constitution.
Their peculiar properties rendered
them the standard of values in other
countries and had been adopted in
this. The experience of the evils of
paper money had made it so obnoxious
in the past, that the trainers of the
constitution had forbidden its adoption
as the legal tender currency of tie
country.
Variableness must ever he the char
acteristic of currency not based upon
those metals. Expansion and con-
traction. without regard to principles
which regulate the value of those
metals, as a standard in the general
trade Of the world were, he said, ex-
tremely pernicious.
Where these properties are not in
fused into the circulation, and do not
control it, prices must vary, according
to the tide OF the issue; the value and
stability of property exposed, uncer-
tainty attending the administration of
institutions, constantly liable to temp
tations of an interest distinct from
that of the community at large, all
this attended by loss to the laboring
class, who have neither time nor op-
portunity to watch the ebb and flow of
the money market.
25. He renews his advocacy of a
cheerful compliance with the will of
the majority; and the exercise OF the
power as expressed in spirit OF mod
Grafton, justice and brotherly kindness,
rs the best means to cement, and for
ever preserve the Union. Those, he
classes, who advocate sentiments ad-
verse to those expressed, however hon
est, are, in effect, the worst enemies of
their country.
These are principles as enunciated
by eminent statesman of the Demo
cratic party, and almost universally
quoted as sound Democratic doctrines.
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