Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-20

until our demands are accomplished
facts. We know that this demand is
restitution and not reputation We
know that this demand will give to us
stable currency, and not a rich mans
dollar of appreciating value. We
know that the accomplishment of this
demand will crowd the land with hap
py homes and contented men and wo-
men. We know that the gold stand
ard dollar is an appreciating dollar
an interest gathering dollar, and not q
working dollar. That to continue
that stand means that the rich shall
grow richer and the poor poorer; that
prices must continue to fall until in a
short period OF time, all the wealth of
the land will be absorbed by the few
and the masses of the people reduced
to serfdom.
In recent interview in Washing
City, James Hamilton Lewis not only
voiced the sentiments of the Democ-
racy of Washington, but of the nation
when he said:
"Free silver and the Chicago platform
must be the battle cry OF the Demo-
Gratis in the next presidential CAM
paign. There must be no shaving of
or toning down OF that platform"
Other questions of great Importance
have arisen since 1896. In adjusting
them we should not allow a difference
of opinion to divide our counsel and
destroy our enthusiasm for the Chi
cagO platform of 1896. We ought not
to forget, however, that the grandest
pages of our country's history were
written by Democratic statesmen in the
acquision of new territory for Ameri-
can enterprise, and establishing there.
in our free institutions. Providence
in mysterious way has placed in our
keeping the most productive OF the
Atlantic and Pacific islands, and the
fate and welfare of 100000 alien
people. We are great enough to
faithfully fulfill that trust, and there
should be no halting or wavering in
that duty. Must the Democratic
party become mere party of opposi.
ton? The leaders of the organiza.
ton at this critical time have the
fate of the party and the great issues
of 1896, which hare not get been set
tied, in their keeping. A false or halt.
ing decision on the new questions
that press for adjustment growing
out of our war with Spain, means dis
a-ter to our party and those unsettled
issues.
Another has said, "Shall we think
only OF ourselves as we confront the
momentous question OF the houri
Afraid of any policy that is new, ter
rified by the spectral figure of i'm.
perialism and unwilling to assume ad'
ditional responsibilities, shall we raise
the cry Of America for the Ameri.
cans? Is American civilization to be
limited, so far as We are concerned to
the western hemisphere? Are we
afraid of ourselves that we do not
care for these weak peoples who have
just come under our fagY If so the
eagle flies low for once, and America
proves herself unworthy of her op.
portunity."
No leader, no matter how loved he
may be, can stand against the Ameri-
can idea. We believe our political
institutions are the freest and the best
the world has ever seen. We believe
in the expansion of these institutions
Where the flag has once been set up
emblematic of sovereign control, un-
less we have otherwise stipulated,
there let it remain. But 1 trench
upon a subject assigned to another
who will eloquently and patriotically
discuss it,
Andrew Jackson's opposition to the
United States Bank brought upon
himself the most malignant abuse
that ever assailed public man in our
country. But the people stood by him
and he was triumphantly reelected.
In 1884 in his annual message to Con.
gress, speaking of the bank, he again
said, Events have satisfied my mind,
and think the minds of the Ameri-
can people, that the mischiefs and
dangers which flow from a national
bank, far Overbalance all it's advan-
tages. The bold effort the present
bank has made to control the Govern
ment, the distress it has wantonly pro.
duced. the violence of which it has
been the occasion in one of our cities
famed for its observance of law and
order, are but premonitions of the fate
which awaits the American people,
should they he deluded into q per-
petuation of this institution or the
establishment of another like it. 1t is
fervently hoped that thus admonished
those who have heretofore favored the
establishment OF substitute for the
present bank, will be induced to
abandon it, as it is evidently better to
incur any inconvenience that may be
reasonably expected, than to concen'
trate the whole moneyed power OF the
Republic in any form whatsoever OF
under any restrictions"
For over thirty years the warning
voice of Jackson was needed, but the
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