The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-09-18

to protect this minority in establish
ing a government, and to this end
repress all opposition of the ma
iority. We are required to set up a
stable government in the interest of
those who have assaulted our sover-
eighty and fired upon our soldiers,
and then maintain it at any cost or
sacrifice against it's enemies within
and against those having ambitious
designs without"
OTHER ISSUES.
The silver question is that first
treated in the letter of acceptance,
although, as we have said, in amount
of space the question of expansion or
Imperialism overshadows everything
else. President Mckinley naturally
and properly calls attention to the
fact that the platforms Of the Demo
Gratis, the Populists, and the Silver
Republicans all reafirm the demand
for free coinage of silver, and that,
therefore, this question is distinctly
re-opened in the coming campaign;
or, rs he phrases it, his antagonists
compel us to a second battle upon
the same lines upon which the first
was fought and won" Withoutdis-
cussing the principles of bimetallism
as opposed to a single standard, the
President points to the prosperity of
the past four years and asks if the
American people will, Through in
difference or fancied security, haz-
ard the overthrow of the wise fnan-
cial legislation of the past year and
revive the danger of the silver stand
ard, with all of the inevitable evils
Of shattered confidence and general
disaster which justly alarmed and
aroused them in 1882" The prin-
ciple of protection combined with
reciprocity is re-affirmed the salts
factory condition of the Treasury is
pointed out and it is asserted that
the volume of currency per
capita is greater than it ever has
been-namely, on September 1, 1900,
$26.85, as compared with $21.1O in
1896. The industrial and agricul-
tural conditions are recapitulated,
and particular stress is laid upon the
fact that in the three years 1898,
1899, and 1900, up to date, we have
sold abroad goods to the amount of
81, $50, 779, 100 more than we have
bought from abroad in the same
time, while $436, 600, 900 in gold have
been added to the gold stock of the
United States since July 1, 1896. The
decrease in expense during the past
year over the previous year (Which
was, of course, on account of the
war a year of extreme expense) is
pointed out, and the President
recommends that, unless something
unforeseen occurs, Congress at it's
next session should reduce taxation
very materially. Other points
touched upon are the desirability of
in some way increasing Our ship
carrying trade that of at once COM
pleting a canal between the Atlantic
and the Pacific, and that of enacting
prohlbitory or penal legislation
''such combinations of cap
Ital as control the market in COM
.odities necessary to the general
use of the people by s~uppressing nat
ural and easy competition" Com
bi~nations of this kind are declared
by the President to be obnoxious to
the common law and public welfare,
and dangerous conspiracies, and
publicity is suggested as one of the
remedies, and uniformity of legisla-
ton by the States is also suggested.
New York Outlook.
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