Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-12
PRESIDENT MKINLEY
FORMALLY NOTIFIED.
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commercial prosperity, our labor and
its rewards. our national credit and
currency. Our pride, financial honor
and our splendid free citizenship,
the birthright of every American. are !
all involved in the pending campaign
and thus in every home in the land Z
is directly and intimately connected
with their proper settlement. !.
Our domestic trade must be won
back and our idle working people en-
plOyed in gainful occupations at
American wages. Our home market
must be restored to it's proud rank of
first in the world and our foreign
trade so precipitately cut off by adj
verse national legislation, re-opened
on fair and equitable terms for u
surplus agricultural and manufacture
ing products. I
Public confidence must be resumed
and the skill, energy and capital of
our country find ample employment
al home. The government OF the
United States must raise money en-
ough to meet both its current ex-
penses and increasing needs. Its rev.
enues should be SO raised as to pro-
tect the material interests of u
people, with the lightest possible
drain upon their resources and main
tanning that high standard OF c1vlll-
cation which has distinguished u
country for more than a century OF
it's existence.
The national credit which has thus
far fortunately resisted every assault
upon it, must and will be upheld and
strengthened.
"If sufficient revenues are provid-
ed for the support of the government
there will be no necessity for n
rowing money and increasing the
public debt"
Three and one half years of legis-
lation and administration nave been
concluded since these words were
spoken. Have those to whom was
confined the direction of the govern
ment kept their pledges? The record
is made up. The people are not un-
familiar with what has been accom-
plished. The gold standard has been
reaff1rmed and strengthened. The
endless chain has broken and the
drain upon our gold reserve no long
er frets us. The credit of the cOun-
try has been advanced to the high
est place among all nations. We are
r%efunding our bonded debt bearing
three and four and five per cent at
two per cent interest at two per cent,
a lower rate than that of any other
country, and already more than three
hundred millions have been funded
with a gain of many millions of dol
lars.
Instead of 16 to 1, for which our
opponents commended four years ago,
legislation has been enacted, which,
while utilizing all forms of u money
secures one fixed value for every dol
lar and that the best known to the
civilized world.
A tariff which protects American
labor and industry provides ample
has been written in public
law. W. have lower interest and
higher wages, more money and fewer
mortgages.
The worlds markets have been
opened to American products. which
go now where where they have never
bond issuing to a bond paying ma
ton; 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 employment. The public
faith has been upheld; public order
has been maintained. We have pros
perity at the home and prestige
abroad.
Unfortunately the threat of 1896
has Just been renewed by the allied
parties without abatement or modi-
fcation. The gold bill has been de-
nounced, it's repeal demanded. The
menace of 16 to / still hangs over us
whit all it's dire consequences to cred
it and confidence, to business and in
dustry. The enemies of sound cur
rency are rallying their scattered
forces. The people must once more
unite and overcome the advocates of
reputation and must not relax their
energy until the battle for public
honor and honest money shall again
triumph.
A congress which will sustain. and.
il need be, strengthen the present
law, can prevent a financial catastro-
phe which every lover of the repub-
lie is interested to avert.
Not satisfied with assaulting the
currency and credit of the govern
ment, our political adversaries cor
denim the tariff law enacted at the
extra session Of congress in 1897,
known as the Dingley act, passed in
obedience to the will of the people,
0ApIeSScu dI Iuc cIcCl1oA III lAC plo-
ceding November, a law which at
once stimulated u industries, open
ed the idle factories and mines and
gave to the laborer and to the far
mer their return for their toll and
investment. Shall we go back to the
tariff which brings deficiency in our
and destruction to the in
dustrial enterprises? Il
Faithful to its pledges in these in
ternal affairs. how has the govern.
ment discharged its international dut-
les? Our platform Of 1896 declared
the Hawaiian Islands should be con.
trolled by. the. United States and no