The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-06

the refusal of a Republican house of
representatives to make culprits face
even so much as a congressional in
vestigation, when compared with the
absolute and constant refusal of the
Republican speaker to recognize any
body for the purpose of making a mo-
ton even of that character? If there
ever was determination fully enter
tanned and finally carried out, it was
| the determination of the Republican
administration and the Republican
| legislative body to see to it that no
body should investigate the alleged
culprits in the postoffice department
except their colleagues in the execu-
! tive branch of the government.
Something Serious.
/ There follows something, however,
which will be taken seriously. The
secretary boasts that the per capita of
| circulation of money among the peo-
pie in the United States increased
/ from $23.14 in March, 1897, to $31.O2
| in May last, and that the credit for
that and the consequent prosperity
following 1t was due to the Republican
| party What curious boast this is
for those lately denying so strenuously
that the quantity of money had any
thing to do with the value of money
or the price OF other things as meas
ured in money, or with an ascending
scale of prices. or with national pros
perity. This was all denied but yes
terday Now it is asserted that the
volume of metallic money has been
l
brought prosperity. and that it has
all been due to Republican legisia-
ton. Due to what act of congress
passed by them? Was Republican
ana the klondike, and did it cause the
discovery of gold there? Did it cause
the new inventions for the more
prontable extraction of gold from
gold ore? Did Republican legislation
add two billions of gold to the worlds
stock of money metals in the last
eight years?
Was it that made the immense crops
OF cotton. wheat, corn, ETC. which en-
apIed these United States to draw more
than their pro rata share of the worlds
stock of money metals. thereby increas-
ing their own stock of gold by 500 600 !
900? What partnership is this. between
God, human industry and ingenuity and
the Republican party of which the Re
publican party is the self assertive
senior member? What monumental
effrontery is this which enables them
TO boast of the benefits of the increased
volume of standard metallic money and
consequent prosperity by the operation
or the quantitive theory of money"
which theory they found no language
strong enough to deny and ridicule, but
yesterday.
The temporary chairman next boast
ed that the Republican party had by a
manipulation, which he describes, of
the currency and certificate denomina-
ton made it so difficult to get gold out
other
forms of money that practically it can
not be done at all to any large extent,
and hence that all danger of an END
less chain" thereby produced has ended
II so, Is this not keeping the gold re-
demption promise to the ear, but break
ing it to the hope? The ex-secretary
then boasts that the secretary of the
treasury can and does contract and
expand the country's currency at his
will. and l will illustrate this by the
occurrence which happened in 1902
which he quotes. Remember he boasts
that this is a fact If so. what a mag
nificent one-man power it is. 1t is al
most rs great as that lately welded by
the ex-secretary of war himself, when
he was ex-officio emperor of the Phil
i2nines archipelago wnen as he himself
subsequently, said in a public address.
questions affecting the interests and
lives of millions of people had to be
decided by him upon not much more
than a moments notice and entirely
within his own discretion. What do the
men who believe that the government |
ought to go out of the banking bust
ness and the men who believe that the
banks ought to go out of the govern |
ment business think of this remarkable, |
this boastful assertion. that one man in |
the United States can and does con- |
tract and expand the currency which |
furnishes blood and life of so many at |
his sweet will.
The Antitrust Law.
The temporary chairman told the |
country that the act to expedite hear |
ings of the trust cases, namely, the act |
of February IL, 1908, was Republican |
legislation" He forgot to say that ev- |
cry Democrat voted for it, and that |
is my recollection. have never known /
a more ingenious mind that that of ex- |
Secretary Root. His ingenuity is never |
so marvellous as when its power is illus |
trated by the things which he forgot to |
mention. Verify he Is the Root of all /
evil'' when it comes to making the |
worse appear the better side of reason. |
The ex-secretary tells us, in a burst |
of eloquence, that the fatal 14th of
September, 1901, marked no change |
of policy" that when the kindly fra |
ternal soul of Mckinley wendell its
way from the earth he left behind him
spirit by his successor. Who is there
in America of common sense who does
not know better? The changed spirit
of the policy of the administration
eign nations. with regard to local self
government in the south and in TWEEN
ty respects which it would take too
much time to particularize will sug
gest themselves to your mind at once.
But to go on to the authoritative
of the Republican party in
convention assembled. The platform,
like the temporary chairman's speech,
deals deity in the boast that the Re
publican party is responsible for
everything good which has happened.
1t also deals much in ancient history.
1t did we'll to go back to fifty years
ago. The present Republican party
needs a running start of fully fifty
years to enable the imagination of the
people to jump over it's present OBJ
and it's evasion of live
issues which lie in its pathway to sue
cess in this year of 1904 The plat
form in speaking of the access of
the Republican party to power when
Mr.. Cleveland's second administration
had expired, uses this language: I'VE
then found the country, after four
years of Democratic rule, in evil
plight. oppressed with miSfortunes
and doubtful of the future. Public
credit had been lowered, revenues