Iron County register., 1899-09-07
DEMOCRATIC DECLARATION.
Made by Hon. William II. Mooney,
Temporary Chairman at the
Ohio State Convention.

state convention at ZaneSVllle, august
80, Hon. William L. Mooney, temporary
chairman, in the course of his remarks
said:
tThere will be to-day no contest as to
the platform declarations which our party
shall make. There is no difference OF opln-
ion. The democratic party of Ohio STANDS
square!y upon every plank of the chicago
platform of 1896. We believed it then ana
we believe it now
The people who sent US here do not oe-
lieve in a double standard OF democracy
In 1896 the test was: Are you loyal to the
PLATFORM and that is the Ohio test to-day.
1.-The party in Ohio is too thoroughly
honest too completely convinced, too deS-
perateIy in earnest, to desire to be mis-
understood. The reafirmation of the ma
tional platform does not eliminate ana
does not fail to both recognize ana en-
phasize that we demand the free and un-
limited coinage of both god ard SILVER.
at the ratio of sixteen to one, without
waiting for the consent or assistance OF
any nation on earth.
I'VE believe that the decentralization of
silver in this country in 1873 was accom-
plished by fraud and crime; that the ac-
tion was taken without any demand from
or the consent of the people OF the United
States, and we decline to believe that bless
ings have flowed or will flow from legis-
lation so procured and so enacted. We still
distrust the new found solicitude of Eng
land to promote our material welfare, and
we deny the right of the British paria-
ment to participate in the government or
this union. in monetary or other matters.
THE leaders of the republican party are
committed to a bank currency. Not be-
ing able to go into partnership with Eu-
rope on the silver question, and recog-
nizing their inability to cope with the
question themselves, the republicans have
resolved to appoint a receiver for the
money question, and their selection for a
receiver, not inappropriately, to be the
banks of the country. All honest men,
however, may be amazed at the enrontery
of a party which one moment contends
that this government is unable to sus-
tain an American financial policy and the
next moment asserts that the American
banks can be relied upon to formulate
and carry out a safe and proper financial
policy. And we are at loss to under
stand 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.
IF there has been an increase in the
worlds supply of gold, and if that increase
has in any measure found its way to our
mintS and if an increase in our money
supply has contributed to our prosperity,
our adverSaries state, it follows tina
we were right in 1896. when we contended
that the money supply if increased would
result in prosperous times. If it be added
ing only the commodities the manufacture
and sale of which is controlled by trust
that the scale of general prices of all
other articles is still on the decline, ana
if it be further considered that India has
been forced by the money power of Eng
land to go to the gold standard, and the
bank of England has been for some time
and is now making frantic efforts to sup
ply from other sources a gold reserve for
it's vasSal thus reducing this country s
ct a aJn mi
are right now in our contention for recog-
milton of the white metal.
I'VE are pointed to a business revival
! in the United States and it is argued that
this makes most strongly against our
position. That there has been a revival
none will deny, and that the revival is
not confined to this country our adversaries
Will certainly not contend. Revival OF
trade in Canada, Germany and Mexico, as
well as the United States, proves too much; :;
for the republican party has nothing in
common with Germany, holds Mexico as
a horrible example, and till it yields up
a portion of Alaska will not be reestab-
lished on couSinIy terms with Canada.
The business revival for which so much is
claimed is naught but the reaction sue
ceeding a world panic and world fam
inc. Such reactions always come, are al
ways marked and are sometimes spas
modic. Business revived after the panics
of '73, '84, and ST. but remember waves
ride the ebbing well as the flowing tides
The existence of the revival fails as evil
dence to establish the fact that trade will
continue. Proper conditions are neces-
sary to support and maintain it. and an
Increase in trade requires inevitably an
increase in the medium through which
trade is carried on.
"Concede,. however, that we are increas-
ing our stock of money: admit that the
balance of trade will continue in our favor
and will continue to supply to us a balance
in gold. Is there, then, any reason why
this country may not establish and main
tain an American monetary policy? In
this undeveloped country money is re-
quired to establish, well to carry
on, enterprises, and if money must be bor-
roWed, If interest must be paid, let it be
borrowed and paid here, to be returned
without decrease again and again into
the field of activities and to be used
again and again in the further develop
ment and in furthering the prosperity of
our own country.
The silver question is not dead, and
till men cease to think, till the American
people are willing to take their laws from
Britain, till the republican party recog-
niZes that not the existence but the dis
tribution of wealth makes prosperity till
ease comes to the agricultural classes,
till a fair wage is paid to the mechanic
and till content and satisfaction come to
those who toll, until silver is restored to
its proper place in the coinage the demo-
cratic party will stand by the Chicago
platform.
THE money question is not however,
the only issue in this campaign. Every
thing, from pine lands to peanuts from
steel rails to Sardines from straw board
to sugar from Tin cans to tobacco from
crackers to chewing gum, has been or
ganized into a trust.
Not only are these aggrega tions of
wealth intended to control prices and to
beat down wages, but in politics they
threaten TO affect our liberties
we are informed by an eminent re-
publican, who processes to know his own
business, that no political issue can be
made of the truS. question. And why not:
Because it is ineffectual? Because the
state cannot control its creatures? He
cause these giant corporations have TOO
much power?
The republican party is in power in
the state and nation. Why does il not,
instead of denouncing the trusts on raper
prosecute them in the courts, and why
does it not hold up the hands of officers
who try in this respect to do their duty?
But is not all this in line with what was
to be expected? To be consistent must
not the re epublican party favor the trusts?
To pay debt OF gratitude must not that
party be for the trusts? Must not that
party, which favored q tariff to eliminate
competition so that the favorites of the
governments might plunder the pockets of
the people. be in favor of trusts while they
talks the people by the throats? Is Hanna
against TIE trusts? Garry the news to
Aicnnett. Hanna against the trusts? In
these latter days do men gather grapes
Of thornS or fiSs of tastles?
we charge that the trusts of the coun-
try C %n this administration, and that their
title to 4 WIS acquired by purchase, and
until Mr.. Hanna is dethroEed we insist
TIA the trusts viii continue as ncw to
qG.tad. That the trusts can pe controlled
by The sta tes only. and not by the general