Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-07-19

hSr, ana the p~ensioner
mus. continue forever equal In pur.
chasing N debt-pnying poyy., o.
the dollar paid to any royernmon,
creditor.
our Industrial supremacy, our produo.
ti'e capacity our business and CONNIE
ciai prosperity. our labor and it's rewards
cur national credit and currency. our
proud financial honor and our spIendid
Tree citizenship, the birthright Of every
American, are all involved in the nandino
campaign and thus every home in tba
land Is directly n intimately connected
with their proper settlement. Our do
nestle trade must be won back and our
iule working people employed in gainful
occupations
At American Wages
our home market must be restored TO
Its proud rank of first in the world. and
our foreign trade, SD rrecipitately cut off
by adverse national legislation. reopened
on fair and equitable terms for our
surplus agricultural and MANUFACTURING
products.
Public confidence must be resumed
n the skill, energy and the capital of our
country ind ample employment at home.
The government of the United States
must raise money enough to meet both
Its current expenses and increasing needs.
Its revenues should be so raised as 10
protect the material interests of our peo-
pie with the lightest possible drain upon
their resources and maintaining that high
standard of civilization which has distin-
guished our country for more than a CEN
tury of It's existence. The national cred
ii, which has thus far fortunately re-
sisted every assault upon it, must and
will be upheld and strengthened. If sufti-
cient revenues are provided for the sup
port of the government there will be no
necessity for borrowing money and in
creasing the public debt
Promises FuIHIIed.
"Three and one-half years OF legislation
and administration have been concluded
since these words were spoken. Have
those to whom was confdpd the dlrec-
ton OF the government kept their pledges?
The record is made up. The people are
not unfamiliar with what has been ac-
complished. The gold standard has been
reaffirmed 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 advanced
TO the highest place among all nations.
We are refunding our blended debt bear
ing 3 and 4 and ) per cent at 2 per cent
a 10 Yer rate than that of any other coun-
try, and already more thar three hundred
millions have been so refunded, with a
gain to the government of many millions
OF dollars.
HInsteLd of IG to /. for which our
opponents contended four years ago,
legislation has been enacted which,
While utilizing all forms of our
money. cur 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 revenues
has been written in public law. We have
lower interest and higher wages; more
money and fewer mortgages. The worlds
markets have been opened to American
products, which go now where they nave
never gone before. We have passed from
q bond-issuing to a b~ond-paying nation;
from a nation of borrowers to a nation of
lenders; from a deficiency in revenue to
a surplus; from fear to confidence; from
enforced idleness to profitable employ
ment. The public faith has been upheld;
public order has been maintained. we
have property at home and prestige
abroad.
unfortunately the threat OF lsoo
has lust been renewed by the aiiied
parties without abatement or moai-
fycafion. The gold bill has been de-
unce and Its reDeat
The menace of 10 to 1, therefore,
still hangs over Us, with al its oire
TO credit ana cum
dence. to business and industry. Inc
enemies of sound currency are rhi-
living their scattered forces. Inc
people must Oace more unite -"
oyercom the advocates of epudi
lion and must not relax their energy
snutiI the battle for public honor ana
honest money shall again triumph
"a congress which will sustain, and, II
need be, strengthen the present law. can
preyent a financial catastrophe, which
every lover of the republic Is Interested 10
avert. Not satisfied with assaulting the
currency and credit of the government'our
political adversaries condemn the tarln
law enacted at the extra session OF con-
gress in 1897, known as the Dingle act'
passed In obedience to the Will OF the peo-
ME EXPRESSED at the election in the pre-
cedinp November-a law which at once
stimulated our industries, opened the idle
factories and mines and gave to the Ia
borer and TO the farmer fair returns LOT
their toll and investment. Shall we go
hack TO a tariff which brings deficiency
in our revenues and destruction to our IN
dustriaI enterpriseS?
No Foreign Alliance.
"Faithful TO its pledges in these IN
ternal affairs n in these international
affairs. how has the government us
char red its international duties?
..our platform of 1896 declared the
Hawaiian islands should be controlled oy
The limited States, and no foreign power
shouId be permitted to interfere WIN
chem, This purpose has been fully ac-
compIished by annexation, and delegates
fror, those beautiful islands participated
:. The convention for which you speak
to-day.
ain she great conference
,,on. ant The Hague we re"''
n.sore tbe world the Monroe uo.
- ,nd our adherence 10 III -"
-. denomination not TO par'ie
- a., tn, complications OF E"r"p.'
eve have itly ended the European al
,,onca IN Samoa, securing to Ourselves
one of the most valuable haroors -