The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-07

prits face even so much as a Congress | sional investigations: when compared with the absolute and constant refusal
 of the Republican Speaker to recognize anybody for the purpose of making a motion even of that character? If | there ever was a determination fully | entertained and finally carried out, 1t
 was the determination of the Republi- | can administration and the Republican | legislative body to see to 1t that mo- | body should investigate the alleged cul- l prits in the Postoffice Department ex- | ccpt their colleagues in the executive l branch of the government
 Claims of Republicans.
 There follows something, however, ! which will he taken serious. The sec | retary boasts that the per capita of | circulation of money among the people | in the United States increased from | $23.14 In March 1897 to $S1.02 in May last, and that the credit for that and 1 the consequent prosperity following 1t l was due to the Republican party. What
 a curious boast this is for those lately denying so strenuously that the quan- tity of money had anything to do with the value of money. of the price of other things as measured in money, or that of ar ascending scale of prices or with national prosperity! This was all denied. but yesterday. Now it Is as- certained that the volume of metallic
 money has been immensely increased. | that it has brought prosperity, and that it has all been due to Republican legislation. Dui Go what act of Con | gress passed by them? Was Repub- lican legislation operative in South Africa and the Klondike, and did it
 cause the discoveries of gold there? Did it cause the new inventions for
 the moro profitable extraction of gold from gold ore? Did Republican legis-
 Iation add two billions of gold to the
 worlds stock of money metals in the last eight years? Was it Republican legislation which made the immense
 crops of cotton. wheat, corn, etc, which enabled these United States to draw
 more than their pro rata share of the worlds stock of money metals thereby increa sing their own stock of gold by
 SI00 900. 900. What partnership is this
 between God, human industry and in-
 genuity and the Republican party of
 which the Republican party Is the self
 assertive senior member? What monu-
 mental effrontery is this, which enables
 them to boast of the benefits of the
 increased volume of standard metallic
 money and consequent prosperity by
 the operations of the cumulative 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 described, of the currency and certificate denomination made it so difficult to get gold out of the treasury in exchange for other forms of money, that practically it can not be done at all to any lartsS extent, and hence that all danger of an "end- less chain" thereby produced his ended If so. is this not keeping the gold re- demption promise "to the ear but breaking it to the hope?' The ex-Secre- tary then boasts that the Secretary of the Treasury can and does contract and expand the country's currency at his will. and Illustrates this by the occur rences which happened in 1902, which he quotes. Remember, he boasts that it Is a fact. If so, what a magnificent one power it is. It is almost as great as that wielded by the ex-Secretary himself, when he was ex -officio, em- peror of the Philippine archipelago when as he himself said in a public address. questions affecting the inter- ests and lives of millions of people had to be decided by him upon not much more than moments notice and en- tirely within his own discretion. What do the men who believe that the gov ernment ought to go out of the bank ing business and the men who believe that the banks ought to go out of the governing business. think of this re- markable, this boastful assertion that one man in the United States can. and does contract and expand the currency which furnishes the life blood of com merce, at his own sweet will?
 The Root of All Evil.
 The temporary chairman then told the country that the act to expedite hearings of the trust cases. namely, the act of February 11th, 1903. was Re publican legislation" He forgot to say that every Democrat voted for it, and yet that is my recollection. have never known moro ingenious mind than that of ex-Secretary Root His ingenuity is never so marvellous as when its power is illustrated by the things which he forgets to mention. Verify. he is the Root of all evil" when 1t comes to making the worse appear the better side of reason"
 The ex-Secretary then tells us, in a burst of eloquence. that the fatal 18th of September, 1901, marked no change of pdlicy," that wht= the kindly and fraternal soul of Mckinley wendei it's way from the earth he left behind him no break-his policy was continued in 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 adminIstra- tion with regard to reciprocity with foreign nations, with regard to local self government in the South, and in twenty respects which it would take i too much time to particularize, will | suggest themselves to your mind at once. |
 But to go on to the authoritative ut torrance of the ReDublicAa party in con