The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-22
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EX-JUDGE MORAN, A CHICAGO
JURIST, DECLARES FOR THE
NEBRASKA MAN
WAS FOR PALMER IN 1895
Declares That Silver Is No Longer
an Issue, and That Cages
Efforts to Alarm Are
Ride tSlous.

A. Moran, who, with eX-Mayor John F.
Hopkins, led the Gold Democratic move
ment in 1896, which eliminated in the In
dianapoHs convention and the nominal
mon Bolivar Buckner for president
and vice president, respectively, has de-
clared his intention to support William
J. Bryan and the Democratic ticket The
national Democratic party was conceived
in Chicago, and ex-Judge Moran was it's
recognized leader and promoter. He was
active in the councils Of the Gold Demo-
cratic national committee and his voice
was frequently heard from the platform
in the campaign of 1896.
Ex-Judge Moran sets forth his views in
the following statement to a morning
paper:
CANNOT REVIVE FREE SILVER.
THE Gold Democrats in 1896 ignored the
high tariff issue, and such of them as
voted for Mckinley, while they abhorred
high protection as vicious economic
principle, nevertheless regarded the then
threatened free coinage of silver at 16
to l as being more dangerous than high
protection. The people of this country
are In the habit of settling one issue at
time in their presidential elections
and the election of 1856 settled the free
silver issue and placed the country on a
gold standard. 1t is utterly impossible
to revive the free silver issue In this cam
palgh' no matter what place it may be
given in any platform
Platforms do not make issues. There
is no genuine free silver issue In this
campaign. Although the Kansas CITY
platform reiterates the resolution Of the
Chicago platform of 1896 still the free
silver issue is like a last years bird nest
there is nothing in It, The currency
Dill passed by the last congress makes
gold the standard, and the standard can
not be changed until that law Is repealed
by congress and the assent of the presi-
dent; therefore there can be no free
coinage of silver until the CURRENCY law
passed by congress is repealed and a law
authorizing the free coinage at 16 to / is
enacted. 90
1.-THE attempt Of the Republicans 10
make free silver an issue in this cam
pa1gn Is absurd, and the attempt of Re-
publican leaders, including Mr.. Gage.
10 ala1m the business interests of the
country, is ridiculous. Even if Mr.. BRYAN
when elected should direct his secretary
of the treasury to pay the coin ohliga-
tons of the government in silver that
would not put the country on a silver
basis.
PARITY OF SILVER AND GOLD.
1.-THE country cannot be nut unon .
silver basis without the enactment of a
law which permits silver to be coined
as freely as gold. Paying the coin obi
! cations of the government in silver dol
! lars today would not1aut the government
upon silver basis, for the silver dollar
is itself upon gold basis. The govern
ment is obliged to- maintain the parity
hetWeen the silver dollars now coined
and gold, consequently when a S. coin
opf Is diro
/ ed by the payment by the secretary of
thS treasury of five silver dollars it is
precisely the same as if he discharged
the obligation with a So gold piece. for
the silver dollar. is maintained at 100
cents in gold by the obligation Of the
government. SSilver dollars paid by the
secretary of the treasury in the discharge
OF any obligations of the government mass
| today everywhere at 100 cents ON the
dollar in gold. 1t was because silver
was being so rapidly coined under the
John Sherman act that it was feared
that so much silver would be put in cir
culation that it would he impossible for
the government to maintain its parity.
The John Sherman act was repealed at
the behest of Mr.. Cleveland and the
country saved from being brought to a
free silver basis. The pretense there
fore, that the government could be
brought to silver basis and a business
panic caused by the payment of the ccin
obligations of the government in silver
is fraudulent pretense-false and, when
| made pretext for alarming the business
interests of the country, cowardly.
MKINLEY'S COLONIAL SYSTEM.
1.-THE attempt Of our syndicated presi-
| dent, as Mr.. Olney calls him, to enforce
his colonial system, is the issue >,e .st.a ,.
1t is fraught with more danger to Amer
lean institutions than the free coinage of
silver or high protection, or any other
financial or economic policy that could be
| proposed to the American people,
GU can no more maintain at the
same time free republic and a colonial
system of government than you can mix
OIL and water The two things are alb
solutely incompatible.
Mr. McKinley's assertion that 1t Is
MS intention to give the Filipinos q. good
system OF local government does not meet
Inc issue at all. Great Britain pronosae
10 do that in the TransvaaI. and ALWAYS
mas attempted to do it in all her colonies
but Great Britain leaves the Transvaal
without shred of independence, and that
is what Mr.. Mckinley proposes to do with
the philippines. They are to have lCcaI
seT-goVernment, but no national aItton-
ofny They are to obey laws passed bv
the congress of the United States without
having any voice in the passage Of those
laws or in the selection of those officers
Ihat is national slavery, and is incom-
patible with the idea Of a republican form
OF government which must be based Upor
the consent of the governed.
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