The Irish standard., 1899-09-09
Republicans are Responsible
For the Trusts.
OWN THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION
The Philippines are to be Held
.As a Dependency.

At the state convention OF the Ohio
democrats held last week at GAINESVILLE,
Judge r. Mooney, as temporary chair
man, delivered the following address:
There will be to-day no contest as to
the platform declarations which our
party shall make There is no differ
cncc OF opinion The democratic party
OF Ohio stands squarely upon every
plank OF the Chicago platform OF 1896.
We believed it then and we believe it
now.
The people who sent lis here do not
believe in double standard Of dcmoc-
racy. In 1896 the test was: "Arc you
loyal to the platform?" and that is the
Ohio test to-day.
The party in Ohio is too thoroughly
honest, too completely convinced, too
desperately in earnest, to desire to be
misunderstood. The rcaffirmaton OF
the national platform does not eliminate
ard does not fail to both recognize and
emphasize that we demand the free and
unlimited coinage OF both gold and sill
yer at the ratio Of 16 to 1, without wait
ing for the consent or assistance OF any
other nation on earth. ~ ,..+
We believe that the demonetization OF
silver in this country in 1873 was ac-
compishcd by fraud and crime; that
the action was taken without any de-
mand from or consent by the people OF
the United States, and we decline to be-
levc that blessings have flowed or will
flow from legislation so procured and
so enacted We still dstrust the new
found solicitudc OF England to promote
our national welfare and we deny the
right OF the British parliament to par
tcipatc in the government OF this
union, in monetary or other matters.
The leaders OF the republican party
are committed to bank currency. Not
being able to go into partnership with
Europe on the silver question, and
recognizing their inability to cope with
the question themselves, the republicans
have resolved to appoint a receiver for
the money question. and their selection
for receiver not nappropriately to be
the banks OF the country. All honest
men, however, may be amazed at the
cffrontcry OF a party which one moment
contends that this government is un-
able to sustain an American financial
,n nd I1o, 1,1f
the American banks can be relied upon
to formulate and carry out safe and
proper financial policy. And we are at
a loss to understand why, if the banks
can be charged with this exercise of
governmental power, they did not, in
some manner demonstrate their fitness
for the trust in the money famine of
1894, when their vaults were bursting
with the accumulated money.
We are pointed to business revival
in the United States, and it is argued
that this makes most strongly against
our position. That there has been a re-
vival none will deny, and that the re-
vival is not confined to this country our
advcrsaries will certainly not contend.
Revival of trade in Canada, Germany
and Mexico, as we'll as the United
States, proves too much; for the repub-
lican party has nothing in common with
Germany, holds Mexico as horrible
example," and till it yields up portion
OF Alaska, will not be re-established on
cousinly terms with Canada. The bust
ness revival for which so much is
claimed is naught but the reaction sue
cccding a world panic and world
famine. Such reactions always come,
are always marked, and are sometimes
spasmodic. Business revived after the
panics OF '73, "a and '87, but remember
waves ride the ebbing as we'll as the
flowing tides. The existence ol the re-
vival fails as evidence to establish the
fact that trade will continue. Proper
conditions are necessary to support and
maintain it, and an increase in trade
requires inevitably an increase in the
medium through which trade is carried
on.
The silver question is not dead, and
till men cease to think, till the Amer
ican people are willing to take their
laws from Britain, till the republican
party recognizes that not the existence
but the distribution of wealth makes
prosperity, till ease comes to the agri-
cultural classes, till a fair wage is paid
TO the mechanic and till content and