Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-12

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both our credit and currency with hon
or, stability and inviolability. The
American people hold the financial hon
or OF our government as sacred as our
flag, and can be relied upon to guard it
with this same sleepless vigilance.
They hold Its preservation above party
fealty. and have often demonstrated
that party ties avail nothing when the
spotless credit OF our co,eltry is threat
ened.
The dollar paid to the farmer. the
wage Garner and the pensioner must
continue forever equal in purchasing
and debt-paying power to the dollar
paid to any other government creditor.
Our industrial supremacy, our pro-
ductiye capacity: our business and
comm zrctal prosperity. our labor and
Its rewards, our notional credit and
currency, our proud financial honor and
our splendid free citizenship. the BIRTH
right Of every American, are all in-
volved in the pending campaign and
thus every home in the land is directly
and intimately connected with their
proper settlement.
Our domestic trade must be won
back and our idle working people em-
ployed in gainful occupations at lAmeri-
can wages. Our home market must be
restored to its proud ra nix of first in the
world and our foreign trade, so precipi-
lately cut Off by adverse national legis-
lation. reopened on fair and equitable
terms for our surplus agricultural and
manufacturing products.
Public confidence must be resumed
and the skill, energy and the capital OF
our country find ample employment at
home. The government of the United
1 States must raise money enough to
meet both its current expenses and in
creasing needs. Its revenues should be,
so raised as to protect the material in
terests of our people with the lightest
\ possible drain upon their resources and
maintaining that high standard OF
cviilization which mas distinguished our
country for more than century OF Its
existence.
The national credit which has thus
far fortunately resisted every assault
upon it must and will be upheld
and strengthened. If sufficient revenues
are provided for the support Of ths gov
ernment there will be no necessity for
borrowing money and increasing the
public debt
Three and one half years of legisla-
\ tlon and administration have been
concluded since these words We're
4 spoken. Have those to whom was con-
fided the direction Of the government
kept their pledges ? The record is made
up. The people are not unfamiliar with
what has been accomplished, The gold
1 standard has been re-affirmed and
strengthened. The endless chain has
been broken and the drain upon our.
gold reserve no longer frets us. The
credit OF the country has been adj
vanced to the highest place among all
nations. We are refunding our bonded
4 debt bearing 3 and 4 and 5 per cent in
i terest at per cent. q lower rate than
that OF any other country, and already
more than $500. 600, 900 have been SO re-
funded with a gain to the government
OF many millions of dollars. Instead Of
16 to l, for which our opponents con-
tended four years ago, legisIatlon mas
been enacted which, while utilizing all
forms of money, secures one fixed
value for every dollar. and that the
best known to the civilized world
"a tariff which protects American
labor and industry and provides ample
Il revenues has been written in public
law. We have lower interest and
higher wages: more money and fewer
4 mortgages. The worlds markets have
4 been opened to American products.
4 which now go where they have never
4 gone before. We have passed from a
bond issuing to bond paying nation;
4 from a nstion Of borrowers to a nation
4 OF lenders; from deficiency in revenue
to8a surplus: from fear to confidence: |:
4 from enforced idleness to profitable en-
n ployment The public faith has been
q upheld; public order has been main
|Btained. We have prosperity at home
and prestige abroad.
Unfortunately the threat of 1896 has
lust been renewed by the allied parties
without abatemento or modification. The
gold bill has been denounced and its
lrepeal demanded The menace Of l6 TO
i !. therefore, still hangs over US with all
A Its dire consequences to credit and con-
fdence, to business and industry. The
Iienemies OF sound currency are rallying
theirscattered forces. The people must
4 once more unite and overcome the ad-
vocates of reputation and must not re-
lax their energy until the battle for
public honor and honest money shall
again triumph.
A congress which will sustain, and II
need be. strengthen, the present law.
can prevent financial catastrophe
every lover of the republic is interested
to avert.
Not satisfied with assaultlng the
currency and credit of the government.
& our political adversaries condemn the
tariff law enacted at the extra session
OF congress in 1897. known as the Dinp-
ley act. passed in obedience to the will
OF the people at the election of the
previous November, law which at
once stimulated our industries, opened
the idle factories and mines and gave
to the laborer and to the farmer fair
returns for their toll and investment.
Shall we so back to tariff which
brings deficiency in our revenues and
destruction to our Industrial enter
prises?
Faithful pledges in these internal
affairs SO far has the government dis
charged its international duties?
Our platform Of 1896 declared THE
Hawaiian islands should be controlled
by the United States and no foreign
power should be permitted to interfere
with them
This purpose has been fully accom-
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