Mexico Missouri message., 1900-01-25


is about to vanish as a dream? 1t
must be so, for he gives this reason for
his urgency"
While there Is now no commercial fright
which withdraws gold from the Government
but, on the contrary, such widespread conh-
dence that gold seeks the Treasury demanding
paper money IN exchange yet the very situation
points to the present as the most nttIng time to
make adequate provision to insure the continu-
ance OF the gold standard.
No question that the fear is there and
that if the gold standard is not estab-
lished by law now it can never be so
established. Hence this hot haste.
Can such things be,
And overcome US like a summers cloud
Without our special wonder
Particularly when we have been led
TO believe that this administration
caused the rains to fall, the sun to
shine, and the crops to grow in
America; produced famine abroad,
and scattered the golden nuggets in
Alaska.
But stranger still, the President
says:
Happily ut the present time we are not com
PEELED to resort to loans to supply gold 1t has
been done In the past, and
"If ye. have tears, prepare to shed
them now!"-
may have to be done In the futr-.
So that, Notwithstanding we are
daily and hourly assured that we are
now enjoying the greatest prosperity
in our history, the President is actu-
ally contemplating recurrence to
bond Issues, for another place, in ask
ing for more power to the Secretary of
the Treasury, he says:
| The authority should include she power 30
sell bonds on long and short time, as cond-
tions may arise.
Wonders will never cease. A great
many persons believe that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury has now too much
power touching the sale of bonds.
Nevertheless, the President asks for
more, and, sad to say, he will get it.
National banks get what they ask from
this Administration. The people get
| nothing but orders to pay more taxes;
but a day of reckoning will come as
certain as just God reigns on high.
10 TO /.
Certain Representatives from the
East, rated as Democrats in the Direc.
| tory and newspapers, avow their pur-
pose to vote for this bill. In SO doing
! they are out of touch with the great
body of the party. The vast ma jority
of Democrats are as much in favor Of
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
as they ever were. Not as a matter OF
expediency, but as a matter of princi-
pie they and l believe in the Second
Declaration of Independence with our
whole hearts. The true situation
might as we'll be clearly understood
first as last, and it is this: We intend
to readopt-not simply reaffirm, but
readopt-the financial plank of the
| Chicago platform, word for word, syl-
liable by syllable, abating neither jot
nor little of that great confession OF
Democratic faith.
| The free and unlimited coinage OF
gold and silver at the historical ratio
of 10 to /, without waiting for the con-
sent of any other nation on earth, will
be the supreme Issue in 1900, as it was
bin 1896. Upon that platform we will
place Bryan and elect him. Self-seck
| ing politicians, timorous souls, may
fall away from us, but the paramount,
issue and the peerless candidate will
remain. Politicians do not make
issues. The people make them. And
they make something else. They make
politicians, and when politicians dc
not do to suit them they unmake the
politicians and make a new set who
will do to suit them. The plain Demo
crats-those who seek no Office and who
expect none-kuow exactly what they
want. They want Bryan and the free
and unlimited coinage of gold ant
silver at To to l, and these they inteut
to have. We would stultify ourselves
by changing position in front of the
enemy. Even as a matter of expe
diency we would lose by such move
for every time we gained one vote in the
the East we would lose two or three or a
half dozen in the South and West. Il,
abandon the Chicago platform woult
not only be wrong. 1t would be suici
| dial.
| OF course other issues will be pre-
scented, but they will be subsidiary t.
that of the free and unlimited coinagt
of gold and silver at 10 to /. We will
have strong antitrust and anti-imper
ialistic planks-strong as lauguag,
can make them. Also a plank in favoi
of an income tax, and another in favo
of economy in the public service, tina