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be upheld and strengthened. If suffi
cient revenues are provided for the
support of the government there viii
be no necessity for borrowing money
and increasing the public debt.
ENDLESS CHAIN BROKEN.
"Three and one-half years Of legisla.
ton and administration have been
concluded since those words were
spoken. Have those to whom was con-
fided the direction of the government
kept their pledges? The record is
made up. The people are not unfa-
miliar with what has been accomplish
ed. The gold standard has been
reatfirmed and strengthened. The
endless chain has been broken and the
drain upon our gold reserve no longer
frets US.
1.-THE credit of the country has been
advanced to the highest place among
all nations. We are refunding our
bonded debt bearing three and four
and five per cent, lower rate than
that of any other country and already
more than $500, ,0O0,0 have been SO
funded with gain TO the government
of many millions of dollars. Instead
of 16 to !, for which our opponents
contended four years ago, legislation
has been enacted which while utiliz-
ing all forms of our money, secures
one fixed value for every dollar, and
that the best known to the civilized
world.
"a tariff which protects American
labor and industry and provides
ample revenues has been written in
public law. We have lower interest
and higher wages, more money and
fewer mortgages. The worlds mar
kets have been opened to Am erican
products, which 60 now where they
have never gone before.
1--WE have passed from q bond 1ssu-
i; to a bond paying nation from q
IN of borrows to nation lenders !;
from deficiency in the revenue to
surplus; from fear to confidence;
from enforced idleness to profitable
employment. The public faith has
been upheld, public order Pas been
maintained. We have prosperity at
home and prestige abroad.
THREAT RENEWED.
Unfortunately the threat of 1895
has just been renewed by the allied
parties without abatement or modifi.
cation. The gold bill has been
denounced and its repeal demanded.
The menace of l6 to l, therefore, still
hangs over US with all its dire con-
sequences to credit and confidence, to
business and industry. The enemies
of sound currency 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.
IA congress which will sustain and,
If need be, strengthen the present law,
can prevent q financial catastrophe
which every lover of the republic is
interested to avert.
mot satisfied with assaulting the
currency and credit of the govern
ment, our political adversaries con-
denim the tariff law enacted at the
extra session of the congress In 1897,
known as the Dingley act, passed in
obedience to the will of the people
at the election in the pre-
ceding November, law which at
once stimulated our industries, opened
the idle factories and mines and gave
to the laborer and to the farmer fair
returns for their toll and investment.
Shall we 20 back to tariff which
brings deficiency in our revenues and
destruction to our industrial enter
prises? Faithful to its pledges in
these internal affairs, how has the
government discharged its internal
duties?
QUOTES FROM PLATFORM.
"Our platform of 1896 declared:
"'Tbe Hawaiian islands should be
controlled by the United States, and
no foreign power should be permitted
to interfere with Them
"This purpose has been fully accom-
plished by annexation, and delegates
from those beautiful islands participat-
ed in the convention for which you
speak today. In the great conference
of nations at The Hague we reaffirmed
before the world the Monroe doctrine
and our adherence to it and our de-
termination not to participate in the
complications of Europe. We have
happily ended the European alliance
In Samoa, securing to ourselves one of
the most valuable harbors in the Paci-
fic ocean, while the open door in
China gives to us fair and equal COM
petition in the vast trade of the Orient.
Some things have happened which
were not promised, nor even foreseen,
and our purposes in relation to them
must not be left in doubt. A just war
has been waged for humanity and
with it has come new problems and
Spain has been eject
ed from the western hemisphere, and
our flag floats over her former terri
tory. Cuba has been liberated and
our guarantee to her people will be
sacredly executed. A beneficent gov
ernment has been provided for Porto
Rico.
1.-THE PHILIPPINES are ours and Amer
lean authority must be supreme
throughout the archipelago. There
will be amnesty, broad and liberal, but
no abatement of our rights, no aban-
donment of our duty. There must be
no scuttle policy. We will fulfill in
the Philippines the obligations i'm
posed by the triumphs of our arms
and by the treaty of peace by inter.
national law by the nations sense of
honor and, MORE than all, by the
rights, interests and conditions of the
Filipino people themselves.
mo outside interference blocks the
way to peace and stable government.
The obstructionists are here, not else-