Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-06
Mr.. FAIRBANKS ADDRESS
THE CAMPAIGN IN INDIANA OPENED
LAST NIGHT.
Speaker Dissects the Kansas City
Platform and Criticises Mr..
Bryan's Course.


street demonstration by the Marion Club
and a meeting at Eng.ish's Opera House.
The theater was crowded and the audience
enthusiastic. John l.. Griffiths, candidate
for the domination for governor before the
last state convention. presided George G.
Tanner. the first speaker, who was a gold
democrat In 1896. declared for Mckinley
At the conclusion of his address Mr.. Crit
flths introduced Senator Charles A. Fair
banks. who delivered the address Of the
evening.
Senator Fairbanks said in part:
We come before the people with no apol-
ogy upon our lips, but with luminous rec
ord of righteous deeds done, with promise
wrought into fulfllment. We are not
ashamed of our old issues, nor afraid to
frankly espouse our new ones. Our record
is before the people. and II is "a part OF the
enduring history of the republic. We could
not change ii if would and we wou d
not If we could
No one has shared more in the prosperity
stimulated by the Mckinley administration
than the farmers of the United States No
one suffered more than they during the last
administration Their gain in the enhanced
value of live stock ard the staple crops in
four years Is more that billion dollars
Add to this millions more in the increased
vane Of wool, butter, eggs, fruits, Negeta-
BILE lands and other property and we shall
gain some conception of the benefits of the
present administration to the farmers or the
country. The ranks of the employed have
been increa Sed by hundreds of thousands;
labor has had work. ii has not been ask
ing for bread at the hands of charity 1t
has been building homes, it has been edu-
eating children: ii has been increasing the
deposits in building and loan associations
and in savings banks Shall we reverse this
gratifying condition? Shall we again in
crease the ranks of the unemployed? Shall
work continue to seek labor or shall we
return to the days when labor was anxious
ly seeking work?
\ Menace to Progress.
The declarati of the Kansas City con-
vention and its candidate are menace to
the credit of the country and to our in
lustrial progress. The free coinage of silver
and gold as proposed would drive from
circulation every dollar of gold and reduce
to a silver basis the silver and paper cur
rency remaining. thus producing radical
contraction of our circulating medium.
1t has been said by some who have GER
tainly not given careful and serious thought
to this vital subject that If Mr.. Bryan
should be elected and carry the House OF
Representatives the gold standard would
be secure because of the republican Senate.
Is IL wise to take chances? Is it a part or
conservative policy to hazard our prosperity
for years To come on such an assumption?
Unfortunately his election would be accom-
panied by enough seats In the Senate before
the expiration of his term to place 1t alb
solutely in his power to accomplish the
great purpose of the campaign of 1896 and
the real and Overmastering purposes of the
pending campaign. free silver coinage OF
silver monometaliSm. But. assuming that
he should not secure immediate possession
of the Senate his election would be men
70 the integrity of our currency system.
The apprehension alone would cause hesi-
fancy, commercial atrophy.
The might of silver RECOMMENDATION.
The loss resulting from the free coinage
Of silver would fall not only upon the cap
rali Il Iii wifi
hut il LIQUID seriously inJure the 993.o0o
pensioners of the republic. We shall not
consent that they shall be paid in depreciat-
Cd or ascent dollars. Our soldiers and sail
ors rendered unseltish service in the tragic
hours OF the republic. and the government
should never consent to pay those who are
upon the pension roll in money less valua-
bic than the best.
Those who toll should not be defrauded of
the fruit of their labor. There is device
which so surely cheats labor as depreciat-
ed currency, and il is the part of good gov
eminent to provide for a circulating medium
which shall be as good in the hands of Ia
Dor as in the hands of capital. 1t must de-
fraud neither the one nor the other. There
IS something almost cruel it seems the very
irony of ate, for the owners of silver bull
lion To ttemnt to secure the support of
those VIC toll to the debasement of the
currency which they must receive for their
own labor.
Wages are none too high. The overthrow
of the gold standard and the establishment
immediate and inevitable reduction. A re-
duction in the value OF money in which
wages are paid Is, in effect, a reduction in
wages
IL is unnecessary to enumerate all who
would suffer from a deprecated currency.
The catalogue is too vast. No one scarcely
would escape injury. Even the great silver
bullion owners would have but temporary
advantage.
The Philippine Question.
IN the philppipeS he Senator