The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-06-30

known. II Is now a great empire, rich
prosperous and happy. and the money o
the people which made the highway pos
sible has been returned to them In over
flowing measure.
Whenever republican administrators
Is In power there Is constant talk o.
trusts. The reason isn't far to seek. Ag
gregations and combinations OF capita
find their only encouragement In pros
porous days and widening commerce
Democratic administration in this coun.
try has universally meant industrial
stagnation and commercial depression
when capital seeks a hiding place instead
OF investment. The republican party has
always maintained that any combination
having for Its purpose the cornering of a
market or the raising or controlling OF
| the price of the necessaries of life was
unlawful and should be punished, and a
| commission appointed by the president
under act OF congress has made careful
| Investigation and will soon present full
! report of the best method OF dealing with
| this intricate question. We shall meet II
| in some efficient way and, as party,
| shall have the courage to protect every
| class of our citizens There was never
| n better time to deal with II than now.
| when there isn't In this broad land a
| man willing to work who doesn't ind
| employment at fair wages. and when the
clamor of the agitator who seeks confisca-
|
ears and finds no response from the
| artisans In our busy workshops.
THE campaign four years ago was
fought on the currency question. The
populistic democracy insisted that the
United States alone should embark on
the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
sixteen to one. without waiting the con-
currence of any other nation. The re-
publican party insisted that the question
of bmetallism was international, and
that until II should be settled under
agreement with the leading commercial
nations of the world, gold should con-
tinue to be the standard of value in these
United States. Upon that Issue we tri-
umphed. In accordance with the pledge
of the party an honest effort was made
to reach some International solution of
the question The effort failed of ac-
complishment The minis of the coun-
tries of Europe were open for the coin
age of gold alone. The vast discoveries
of Alaska, South Africa, and the states
of our own country, have furnished
steadily increasing volume of gold, and,
with the recent European action, have
demonstrated that the question Is one
calling for international action by all the
great countries of the world, and. II ever
entered into, must be by such concurrent
action of the leading commercial nations
as shall secure permanence of relative
value to the two metals. Meanwhile we
follow the path of safety. AS we grow
year by year more firmly established as
a creditor nation, the question concerns
us less and other countries more. No
impairment of national credit can be con-
templated by an honorable nation. We
have made advances enough: this coun-
try can better afford than any other to
enter upon the contest for commercial
supremacy with gold as its standard, and
for us the time has come to give fair
notice to the world that we. too, make
gold our standard and redeem our obliga-
tons in that metal. For II years the
platforms of the party have declared In
favor of the use of gold and silver as
money. The logic of recent events, to-
gether with the attempt of the democ-
racy to drag down the question from It's
international character, to associate IL
with every vagary of populism and So
cialism, and to drive this country to an
alliance with Mexico and China, as an
exclusively silver using country, has I'M
PEELED our people to this settlement OF
this problem. and the recent action OF
congress has eliminated the danger
which it's further agitation menaced.
THE provisions of the bill secure to the
people n needed Increase In the volume OF
the currency, prevent the future deple-
ton OF the gold in the treasury, and en-
courage n more extended use of our bonds
by the national banks OF the country.
But, above all, the success attending It's
passage has demonstrated that our own
people and the nations of Europe have
faith In tho permanence of our institu-
lions and our financial integrity. Our
debt Is funded at two per cent. per an
mum, and millions of our interest charge
saved annually. The world has never
witnessed so triumphant financial sue
cess as has followed the passage OF the
currency law. and our two per cent.
bonds, held the world over, already COM
mand substantial premium. Through
the policy of the republican party and
the wisdom of republican administra-
ton, we have not only made stable and
permanent our financial credit at home
and abroad, are utilizing more silver as
money than ever before In our history.
but we have left the populistic democra-
cy q dead issue they can never again
galyanize into life, and compelled them
to seek to create new issues growing out
OF a war which they were most eager to
precipitate.
May l. n western man, add another
word? The passage of this bill, whlch
received the vote of every western re-
publican In congress, marked the termina-
ton, forever final of any sort OF differ
ence between republicans of the east and
of the west, growing out of currency
problems. Even If the stern logic of
events had not convinced us, our deep
and abiding loyalty to the principles of
the party, our belief that the judgment
of It's majority should govern, would
lead us to abandon further contention.
And the thousands of republicans in the
west who left us four years ago are re-
turning home. The men of the far west
are bone of your bone. and flesh of your
flesh. The sun that shines on you blesses
them also, and the shadow before your
door darkens their homes as well. They
are naturally expansionists In the west
crn plains and mountains, and when they
see a great political party attacking the
integrity of the nation. and lending en-
enlargement to insurrectionlsts who are
shooting down our soldiers and resisting
the authority of the government of the
United States, all other questions fade
and are forgotten. and they find them
selves standing shoulder to shoulder In
the ranks of the republican party, keep
ing step, always, TO the music of the
union
There Is more to follow this summary
Of few of the leading measures passed
by republican congress and approved
by n republican president. Before the
expiration of Mr.. McKinley's first term
we shall have passed a law relieving GER
tain articles from a portion at least of
the burdens they now carry because OF
the war revenue act, and meanwhile we
have, out of surplus revenues. already
paid and called In for cancellation S43,-
900, 900 of outstanding bonds. The coming
u,intar will aaa anactad into law lpgisla-