Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-03-07

tricky platform and engaged in a con-
tidence game to betray the people into
the hands of the money and credit mon
gers, note shavers and pawn brokers,
who, carrion like, were fattening off the
disasters of business and who favored
legislation to promote the contraction of
real money and promote the expansion
Of bank notes.
In the memorable campaign that fol.
lowed the democratic party stood as the
fearless defender of the peoples interests
against corruption and dishonesty. 1t
courageously defed the power OF Mann
mon, and in spite OF the brutal use of
practically unlimited corruption fund to
bride voters and corrupt election officers
the democratic party increased it's vote
million and undoubtedly cast majority
of the votes that was honestly cast.
The designs of the money changers
and contractionists has been thwarted by
kind Providence, and now Hanna and
Mckinley irreverently and impudently
claim the credit. When the annual gold
supply Of the world was at low ebb,
with no prospect of an increase, McKin-
ley and Hanna favored policy OF none
tary contraction insisting that the guam
tity OF money was unimportant so long
as its quality was the best-meaning
that its purchasing power be maintained
at the highest attainable point, and that
the price OF all things computed to
money remain low. Through the ter
rorism of the banks and money lenders
Mckinley was elected, in return for which
his administration was mortgaged to the
gold contractionists and monopolies.
The design of the gold contractionists
has been defeated by higher power
than man. Providence directed sturdy
prospectors into new fields and revealed
to them hidden treasures of gold. Science
revealed new and cheaper methods OF
extricating the metal, so that the annual
output OF gold has advanced by leaps and
bounds until in the present year it is
fully three times as great as when Nc
Kinley was elected. The increased
money supply from gold alone is now
greater than it would have been from
both gold and silver combined in 1896
The increased money supply gave prices
an upward tendency throughout the
world and looscned the whitening grip o
| shysuck upon industry, and vindicateI
the contention of the democrats in 1896
in insisting upon the necessity Of more
money and demanding the restoration o.
the monetary function to silver.
In 1896 the Hannaites denied the
quantitative theory OF money and insist.
ed that we had money enough. But now
since Providence has interposed and de.
feated their policy of contraction, is il
less than blasphemy for the party that
lends itself to the wicked designs of the
gold contractionists to claim credit for
the prosperity that has come to the
country through the interposition OF
Providence which stayed the hand OF
the despoiler?
Did the republican platform of 1896
promise that more gold would be discov-
cred if Mckinley were elected? No, but
the Hannaite spellbinders insisted that
more money was not necessary, that all
that was necessary was to have money
''good" by which they meant dear
money.
Ii an increase OF money supply had not
come to relieve the falling prices and
hard times that enveloped the world
through sources that the Hannaites knew
not of, and were powerless to prevent
the silver issue would have been con.
tinued an important one, but even under
the blight and curse of monetary con.
traction, falling prices and hard times
the issue OF defending the American re.
pubic and constitutional government
would still be paramount, because nc
temporary fiscal condition can be OF suili.
cient Importance to weigh against the
preservation OF the integrity OF the re.
public as founded by the fathers.