The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-19


any other nation. The. Republican party
insisted that the question of bimetallism
was International and that until it should
be settled under agreement with the Lead
ing commercial nations of the world, |
gold should continue to be the standard
OF value in these United States. Upon
that issue we triumphed In accordance /
with the pledge of the party, honest |
eHort was MADE TO reach some interna-
tional solution of the question. The effort
| failed of accomplishment The mints of
the countries OF europe were oPen Ior
the coinage of gold alone. The vast dis
coveries of Alaska South Africa, and our
own country, nave furnished a steadily
increasing volume of gold, and, with the
recent European action, have demon
Strated that the question is one calling
for international action by all the great
countries of the world and. if ever ep-
tered into, must be by such concurrent
action of the leading commercial nations
value to the two metals Meanwhile. we
follow the path of safety. As we grow
year by year more firmly established as a
creditor nation. the question concerns US
less and other countries more No i'm
pairment OF national credit can be con
templated by an honorable nation. we
have made advances enough; this country
can better afford than any other to enter
upon the contest for commercial suprem-
acy with gold as its standard, and for US
the time has come to give fair notice to
the world that we, too. make gold our
that metal. For twelve years the plat
forms of the party have declared in
favor of the use of gold and silver as
money. The logic OF recent events To-
gether with the attempt of the Democ-
/ racy to drag down the question from It's
! International character, TO associate II
with every vagary of Populism and So
cialism, and to drive this country to an
alliance with Mexico and China, as an ex-
/ elusive silver using country. has impelled
/ our people to this settlement of this prob
lem, and the recent action OF congress has
eliminated the danger which its fur
/ Their agitation menaced.
/ The provisions of the bill secure to the
/ people a needed increase in the volume of
/ the currency. prevent the future deple-
/ ton of the gold in the treasury, and en-
] a
/ by the national banks of the country
/ But, above all the success attending its
/ passage has demonstrated that our own
/ people and the nations of Europe have
] faith in the permanence of our institu-
/ tions and our financial integrity. Our
! debt is funded at two per cent per annum.
and millions of our interest charge saved
/ annually. The world has never witnessed
i 50 triumphant a financial success as has
/ followed the passage of the currency law.
/ over, already command substantial
premium Through the policy of the Re
/ publican party and the wisdom of a Re
publican administration, we have not only
1 made stable and permanent our nnancial
I credit, at home and abroad. are utilizing
| more silver as money than ever peIqre IN
/ our history, but We have left the Popu-
listic Democracy a dead issue they can
/ never again galVanlze INTO ne, ana COM
/ PEELED them to seek to create new issues
/ growing out of a war which they were
! most eager to precipitate-
May I. a western man, add another
! wOrd2 The passage of this bill, which
received the vote of every western Repub-
/ Hcan in congress, marked the termlna-
| ton. forever final, of any sort of differ
/ ence between Republicans of the east and
/ problems. Even if the stern logic of
I events had not convinced US. deep
I the party. our belief that the judgment
of its majority should govern, would lead
I US TO abandon 1urther contention. ana
| the thousands OF Republicans IN the
| west who left us four years ago are re-
turning home The men of the far west
are bone of your bone. and flesh OF your
I flesh The sun that shines on you blesses
/ them also, and the shadow before your
door Ndarkens their homes as we'll They
are naturally expansionists in the western
/ plains and mountains, and when they see
a great political party attacking the in
tegrity of the nation and lending encour-
agement to insurrectionists, who are
shooting down our soldiers and resisting
the authority of the government of the
United States, all other questions fade
and are forgotten, and they find them
selves standing shoulder to shoulder in
the ranks of the Republican party, keep
ing step, always, TO the music OF the
Union"
There is more to follow this summary
of a few of the leading measures passed
by a republican president before me
expiration of Mr.. McKinley's first term
we shall have passed a law relieving GER
tain articles from portion at least OF
the burdens they now carry, because OF
the war revenue act, and meanwhile we
have, out OF surplus revenues. aiready
paid and called in for cancellation AZ
millions of outstanding bonds The com
| ing winter will see enacted into law, leg
islation which shall reViYlfy and upbulld
our American ocean marine, and enable
US to compete on fair terms with the sub
| sidized ships of foreign nations, which
| now so largely monop0lize the carriage OF
| American goods And above all. we shall.
having then before us the report of the
| able commission now aScertainlng the
most favorable route, pass law under
which we shall build and own and operate
as property of the United States. under
| exclusive American dominion and control,
the Pacific. Through it in time of peace
the commerce of the world shall pass If
we shall be unhappily engaged in war, the
canal snail carry our WdIsIlps anu sii 3
| exclude those of the enemy, and under
! | conditions which shall violate no treaty
This is the brief account of our steward
ship for -four. years. during a portion
: that for a time paralyzed business and
| commerce. and would have taxed heavily
| the resources and credit of any other
| country than ours: and for the past year
J / or more we have been employing an army
| surrection against our authority 5000 miles
away. No Industry has felt the strain of
/ these extraordinary expenses, nor have
r they affected the general sum of our pros
| perity. More than that, the conditions re
2 sulting from the legislation of the past
fo11r Years have obliterated every issue
l that was raised during the last campaign.
{ The Democracy. having therefore 10 mo
some raIlying cry. seek it in the results
! of our late war with Spain, and upon that
t question, as upon all others. we stand
l ready to meet them in the open.
2 During the weeks and months preced-
Q ing the outbreak of hostilities with
e Whok bv experience on many battle
( field something of the horrors of war,
and who realized the expense and suffer
/ ing which war entailed, stood firmly upon
/ the ground that a peaceful solution could
r be found. And when that awful occur
/. renee took place in the harbor OF Havana
5 and a hot frenzy of indignation swept
n over our people, and a conflict seemed in
= evitable he faced popular clamor and
0 heated counsels, and still believed that the
t wrongs of Cuba could be remedied ano
e redressed without an appeal to the arbi-
:. 1 trament of war
: The folly of Spain. and the indignation
I of the American people forbade a peace
d full solution Then the president. seconded
e by a Republican congress, before CUR
0 was fred. declared to the world the lofty
/ and unselfish motives that alone actuated
n the nation. No man now, or in the cen
f turtles to come. when history, which alone