The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-09-27

does 1t seek to embarrass corporations
engaged In legitimate business, but 1t
does protest against corporations en-
tering politics, and attempting to as
sumo control of the instrumentalities
Of government A corporation is not
organized for political purposes, and
should be compelled to confine itself
to the business described in its char
ter. Honest corporations. engaged In
an honest business. will find 1t to
their advantage to aid In the enact
ment Of such legislation as will pro-
tect them from the undeserved odtum
which will be brought upon them by
those corporations which enter the po-
lttical arena.
Intesstats Comnaerce.
The Republican party has persist
emily refused to comply with the ur-
gent request Of the Interstate Com
merce commission, for such an en-
largement of the scope Of the inter-
state commerce Law a. viii enable the
commission to realize the hopes
aroused by its creation. The Demo
crauc party Is pledged 10 ieeisiation
which VIII empower the COMMISSION
to protect individuals and communal
ties from discrimination. and the pub
lie at large from unjust and unfair
transportation rates.
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1hs financial Flaak.
The platform reiterates the demand
contained In the Chicago platform tor
IN American financial system MADE
BY the American people rof them-
selves. The purpoee q euch . sUeem
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oe 1e 70 I, 1ndepen1enf y the action
eoe other nations. - Eepeated. In 1855
the Republican party recognized the
necessity for bimetallism by pledging
the party to an earnest effort to 80
cure IN international agreement for
the free coinage Of silver. and the
president. Immediately after his in
auguration, by authority Of congress.
appointed commission composed OF
distinguished citizens to visit Europe
and solicit foreign aid Secretary Hay,
in letter written to Lord Aldenham
in November, 1898, and afterwards pub
lished In England, declared that at
that time the president and majority
Of his cabinet still believed In the great
desirability of an international agree
ment for the restoration Of the double
standard, but that it did not seem
opportune to reopen the negotiations
Just then. The financial law enacated
less than a year ago contains a con-
cluding section declaring that the
measure was not intended 10 stand in
the way of the restoration of bimetal-
lism. whenever It could be done by
cooperation with other nations. The
platform submitted to the last Repub-
lican convention with the Endorsement
of the administration again sugeeyted
the possibility of securing foreign Aid
in restoring silver.
Now the Republican party. for the
first time. openly abandons its sd-
yocacy of the double standard. and in
dorses the monetary system which II
has SO often and SO emphatically con-
demned. The Democratic party. on the
contrary. remains the steadfast advo-
cate Of the gold and silver coinage of
tae constitution. and is not WILLING
that other nations shall determine for
US the time and manner of restoring
silver to its ancient place as a stand.
ard money. The ratio of 16 to / is
not only the ratio now existing be-
tween all the gold and silver dollars in
circulation in this country. a ratio
which even the Republican admins.
tration has not attempted to change
but it is the only ratio advocated bv
those who are seeking to reopen the
mints. Whether the senate. now hos
tile to bimetallism, can be changed
during this campaign or the campaign
of 1902 can only be determined after
the votes are counted. but neither the
present nor the future political COM
plexion of congress has prevented or
should prevent an announcement of