THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE THURSDAY ' MORNING, JULY 23, 1896. ZfeUyu Weekly. tnrAilahea at Benaton. P. hr T llablng ConBan. -Ire York 0Oce: Tribune Bullo'tag, Cray, Manager, . . KiNaaaunv, pn. awt Mm. I. M. SUPPLC, Th UVV . RICHARD, Cerre. W. W. 0WI. Imnm Mmmss. W. W. VOUMOS), Am. Dump UTMM TBI POSTOrTICI AT SCftAltTJM. ,. MOOHD-OUS MU UATT1B, Fiwten In" the rcornlr1 Journal tor minr llsen, rates Thk Scsamton Thhuku u the beat overusing nitnium in ."loniHuwa rwim bib. -molrn' lu a now a TBI Waiklt TBisnNC, Isstwd Errr Saturday, Uauwa Twelve Hauditome ruts, wi" An aduii- Aim Vidian. aad Well-Edited MiSCOl- Iabt. Vm Thna who Uannot Take Tun Daily Tiibdha, the Weekly Is Racounnandeu as the MM HArtln uoiaf. oiy s 1 a cat, m Aifw turn Taiavaa It lot Mi Polly at tht C L an W. MaUoaaI Hobokea. SCRANTON, JULY 23. 1896. THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. NATIONAL. For President, WILLIAM MeklNLEV. of Ohio. I or Vice-President, GAKRET A. UOIMKT, of New Jersey. STATE. Congressmon-at-Large, CALISHA A. GROW, of Susguehsona. SAMUEL A. DAVENPOKT. of Erie. Election ln. Nov. 3. THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM 1. Tariff, not only to furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of :e government, but to protect American la bor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. 2. Reciprocal agreements for open markets and discriminating du ties In favor or the American mercnani marine. 3. Maintenance of the existing sold standard sml nmmxltlon to freo COl.l age of silver except by International ugreement with the leading commercial nutlons of the world. 4. pensions and preferences for veterans of the Union army. 6. A firm, vigorous and dlgnltled foreign policy "and all our Interests in the western hemisphere carefully watched and guarded." I. The Hawaiian Islands to be controlled by the United States; the Nicaraguan cinal to be built; a naval sta tion In the West Indies. 7. Protection of American cltliens and property in Turkey, I. Reassortlon of the Monroe doctrine. Eventual withdrawal of European powers from this hemisphere and union of all English-speaking people on this continent. . The United atates actively to use Influ ence to restore peace and give independ ence to Cuba. 10. Enlargement of the navy, defense of harbors and seacoasts. 11. Exclusion of Illiterate and Immoral Im. migrants. 12. Reapproval of the civil ser vice law. 13. A free ballot and an honest count. 14. Condemnation of lynching. 19. Approval of national arbitration. 16. Ap proval of a free homestead law. 17. Ad mission of the remaining territories, rep resentation for Alaska and abolition of carpet-bag federal officers. 18. Sympathy with legitimate efforts to lessen Intemper ance. 19. Sympathetic reference to "the rights and Interests of woman," Con densed by the Times-Herald. Honesty Is the beat policy In finance ns well as In other things. The Amtr kan dollar ought never to have less than 100 cents of value close behind It. In the Light of Facts. Under the gold standard, from 1870 to 18W, there was an Increase of the total material wealth of the United States from the gold value of $24,000, 000,000 ti the Bold value of $85,000,000,000. An increase of the number of em ployes In the manufacturing: establish ments of the United States from 2,053, 000 to 4,712,000, and of the total wages paid them, from the gold value of $020, 000,000 to $2,2j3,O00,0OO. an Increase of 135 cer cent, in number and over 250 per rent. In wages puld, with an In crease of 60 per cent. In the wages paid each employe. An Increase in the product of cereals from 1.239,000,000 to 3,518,000.000 bushels, and of cotton from 2,397,000,000 pounds to 3,564.000.000. An Increase In the total of improved acres from 163,000,000 to 357,000,000. An Increase or the total production of manufactured articles from $4,232,000, 000 to $9,372,000,000 In Value and several . times that In quantity. An increase In the total exports of breadstuffs and provisions from $116, 900.000 In 1872 to $43,OO,O0O in 1SU2. We never had any trouble with the gold gtandurd until the recent Demo cratic attempt to revolutionize the tar iff sent the business of thin country Into convulsions. The tariff, not the standard. Is at fault. Senator Faulkner says he thinks Mr. Bryan Is talking too much. There are others who have the same opinion. How the aermant Stand. The German-American 8ound Money league, of which William Stelnway is president, after a careful canvass of the situation, declares that 90 per cent, of the German-American voters of ths United States, without regard to past party affiliations, will this year vote for McKlnley electors. It reports that of the 581 Herman-American newspapers In this country 499 are In favor of the present Bold standard, and only 39 are for free silver coinage, the remainder being non-committal. The league Itself proclaims the following" pithy facts as "established by history, experience and science": 1. That commeice) and Industry require ne standard of ex4hanr. 2. That the goivemiinent stamp upon coin or paper does no import any Intrinsic value to them, -bin converts them merely Into an instrument of convenience. I. That thn value, of money consists la Its purchasing- power. 4. That the issue by the government of money which 'in the market of the world to not accepfletf for K face' value. Is a robbery committed by the 'government nam si everybody who is for red1 to accept said money at Its faoo valu unless the government is ready and abas to redeem It at is pretended v.-tlue. ' ' ' ' 5. That fmn oolnajre of sltvft-r would be such a, rohbecy, because tixtern grains of silver are worth only fifty-one sent In Cold, the coin metal of the civilised world. I That tka prevailing low prices of com- modities are not due to the demonetisa tion of silver, but to Inventions and im proved processes, which have cheapened and quickened production in all branches of agriculture and Industry, silver min ing not excepted. 7. That gold has not appreciated, but has merely remained stable. 8. That free coinage of silver would not Increase the value of silver, because the greater demand for It Will continue and expand Its over-production. 9. That the ruinous consequences of free coinage would fail most disastrously upon the workingmen and the farmers, whose earnings would certainly be decreased, unless thy could exact from their labor and products two dollars, where they now receive one dollar. They also would fall severely upon persons wholly or partly dependent upon fixed Incomes from pen sions, savings banks, loan societies, etc. 10. That free coinage of sliver would be contrary to the teachings of Thomas Jef ferson, the founder of the Democratic party, and, being principally demanded for the benefit of the silver miners, it would also be contrary to the tenet of the Dfmot-iatle party, that the governme.it has no right to use the taxing power of tht country for the betierit of special classes. 11. Thut free coinage of silver would cause u business panic In this country, more disastrous in its couseo.uenccs. than any the world hus ever seen before. There does not seem to be any uncer tainty or evasion about these declara tions. They will have appreciable weight ere the campaign ends. The arguments of the silverltes and Populists at St. Louis are all for bi metallism; but the practical effect of the plan which they advocate would be to establish the rankest kind of silver monometallism, Inevitably supplement ed by fiat paper. "The motley of the t utted States, and every kind or form of it, whether of paper, silver or gold, must be as good as the best in the world. It must not ouly lis current at its lull lace talus at home, but it must be counted at par in any and every commercial center of the glob. The dollar paid to the farmer, the wage-earuer and the pensioner must continue forever equal in purchasing und debt-paying pow er to the dollur paid to nuy gov erunient t-reditor."--.IcKlnley in His Speech of Acceptance. Ilulf u column of space Is devoted In the New York Journal to a chronicle of how Bryan cuts a watermelon. Now let some enterprising rival proceed to ullay the public's feverish anxiety as to how the Democratic candidate putts his hair. Reckless Western Guessing. As a specimen of the audacity of the free silver claims we quote below the Salt Lake Tribune's estimate or the vote In the next electoiul college: .States. McKlnley. Bryan. California Connecticut u Delaware 3 Iowa is Kentucky is Maryland s Massachusetts )j New Hampshire 4 New Jersey Hi New Vork 'M Oregon 4 IVrnisylvania a:! Rhode island 4 Tennessee. 12 Vermont 4 Washington 4 Alabama 11 Arkunsas Colorado 4 Klonua 4 Georgia 13 Iduho - H Louisiana II .Mississippi Moiitanu 3 Nevada i North Carolina 11 South Carolina 9 Utah 3 Kansas 10 Texas )i Virginia 12 Missouri , 17 Nebraska 8 South Dakota 4 Total .', 122 210 Doubtful States Illinois 24" Indiana 15 Maine 6 .Michigan 14 Minnesota West Virginia 6 Wyoming 3 North Dakota 3 Ohio 23 Wisconsin 12 Total 115 The following table shows how these states went In the four national elec tions of 1880, 1884, 1888 and 1892, and also In the state elections two years ago: State election 1880. lbSI. 1SS0. ISitt. 1831. Alabama D D D D D Arkansas U D D D D California D K K D D Colorado K R R P I' Connecticut R D D D R Delaware D D D D H Fluridu D D I) D iJ Ueorgia t) it 1) D 11 Idoha PR Illinois R R R D R Indiana R D R D It Iowa R R H R It Kansas R R R 1' K Kentucky D D l D R Louisiana D D D D D Maine- R It It R H Maryland D II D D It Massachusetts ..R R It it H Michigan R R R K R Minnesota R it R R R Mississippi D D D D II Missouri ..l D D D It Montana R R Nebraska R R R R D Nevada' D R R V S New Hampshire.! R R H H New Jersey V D D D R New York D R D R North Carolina ..ii D D D U North Dakota .. It Ohio R R R R K Oregon R R It V R Pennsylvania ...R K K Rhode Island R H R K It South Carolina. .D O D D U South Dakota .. H Tennessee D ID D 'LI It Texas ft ft D D D Utah - - - It Vermont .R R K K R Virginia D U D D D Washington R H West Virginia.. D D D D It Wisconsin R R R D R Wyoming R H It will be seen that the Salt Lake pa per puts In the Bryan column four states which have always rone Repub lican Iowa, Montana. South Dakota and Washington besides tour others Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada And Oregon which have gone Republican a ma jority of times and are therefore at least "doubtful." Subtract from Bryan and give to McKlnley the elec toral vote of the first four states ex cept Nevada, and take from Bryan, as hot certain, the electorat votes of the other four except Montana, and the Bait Lake table will stand: McKlnley. . 143; Bryan, 167. Then give McKlnley Illinois, Indiana, Maine. Minnesota. North Dakota. Ohio and Wisconsin, states which are as surely his as an In the list, and the table, as thus cor rected, will stand: McKlnley. ' 231: Bryan. 167; doubtful, 37. This analysis overrates Bryan's strength, because It gives him Kentucky, Virginia, Tennes see, Nebraska and California, which are In the balance, with the chances strongly favoring McKlnley In Ken tucky and Tennessee; but It serves to show how thoroughly the Salt Lake paper's table is based on mere audacity of the kind that "claims everything." regardless of facts. The New York Journal Is doing Its level best to work u! a case agultist McKlnley. "His election," it says, "would put the resources of the gov ernment at the disposal of the Hamm syndicate. It would mean a return to Chinese protection and the spoliation of the people by a rapacious ring of rnundarlns. It would mean in the end a popular revolt before which utlirlght ed conservatism might pray for a lead er with the moderate Instincts of Bryan." But somehow the people of New York don't seem to scare worth a cent. Let us, for argument's sake, con cede that the free coinage of silver would raise the price of wheat. How, then, would thut benefit the fanner when, at the same time, his cost of liv ing; the cost of all the articles that he buys would Increase proportion ally? When General Harrison was a candi date he delivered sometimes as many as six speeches a day and never once repeated. Mr. Bryan In these days tries to do a good deal of miscellaneous talking, but he says nothing deep or new. Bishop McUovern, ' of Harrisbuig-, predicts that the Democrats will carry the solid South und every Northern state west of Pennsylvania, except Cal ifornia. Time will show how good a prophet the bishop is. The Populists want a per capita cir culation of $50. On their paper basis they might just as well demand $500. The job printers could accomplish the one quite as easily us the other. The kick of the disaffected Populist leaders Is not so much against Bryan personally as it Is to letting another fellow share their thunder. Those Missouri sound money Demo crats who are talking In favor of a separate gold ticket must want to give the state to Bryan. BASIC FACTS. It Is always well, In political dlens slon.. to get down to solid facts. These are facts, for the wording of which we are indebted to the Pittsburg Dispatch: 1 That the act of 1873 did not demonet ize a single silver coin then in monetary use by the people of the United States. 2 That the real act of demonetizing sliver took place In 1&3, when the frac tlonul silver colli, which, up to that time, had been a legal tender, and constituted 97 !ier cent, of all the silver coined In the country, up to 185u, was restricted in leual tender and denied free coinage. 3 That as declared on the floor of con gress In 1853, and shown by memorials, the country was then on a gold stand ard, and the purpose of the act of 1353 was to kep it on a gold standard, re taining frjuclonul sliver as subsidiary coin, and leaving the silver dollar, of which tt.ltiU.0U0 were then coined, in the words used at that time, "as an article of merchandise." 4 That the effect of this act was to increase the coinage of silver for subsid iary u.'e, t.88,uu0 being coined in the twenty-threeyears from 1850 to 1873, against $?.',4t1.0w in the titty-three years prior to 1&50; while the fact that the sliver dollar was not In monetary use prior to the sus pension of specie payments Is shown by the fact that only 11,723,770 were coined during the ten years, 1853 to 1st;.', inclu sive. 5 That when the act of 1873 was passed the country was using neither gold nor silver, except on the Pacific coast, where silver was only used for small change; and that the only change which that act made in the coinage in use was to sub stitute for the sliver dollar which, up to that date, had not been a one-hundredth part of the total coinage of the country, the trade dollur of greater weight, to make It more advantageous for excort, the only purpose for which silver dollars were then coined at all. 0 That the r.ct of 1873 had 'that effect, the silver coinage in the subsequet" five viars under Its provisions being $79,120, 0W, ttginst $8,287,000 for the five yean prior to Its enactment; that the acta of 1878 and subsequent legislation Immensely Increased the total silver colmuje, being $782.OiVO00lntwentyyears after 1873, against $142.O0O.iW0 In the eighty years prior to 1873; that of sliver dollars tho United States coined 422,000,000 since 1873 Slid 8.1)00,000 before 1S72; that of the coinage of the country greater than fractional silver prior to 1S73. gold coin constituted 99 per cent, and sliver dollarz less than 1 per cent.; that of the coinage since 1873 sil ver constituted nearly one-third and gold a little over two-thirds. These facts show conclusively that the allegation that the United States has by Its action In NC3 nnu since struts uown and discriminated against stiver la a monstrous fabrication. The act of 1878 did nothing but provide for the coinage that had been in actcal use prior to tha suspension of s'.iecte payments, and was then in actual use in California. It de monetized nothing but coin that was not and had never been In use, and It substi tuted for It a silver dollar that was coined In tho next few years, at an annual rats thirty-six times that of the sliver dollar before its ia-suK. of ail silver coinage in the United States since 1873 the annual rate has been seventeen times as great as before that year; and of the silver dollars which are the especial subject cf the free silver 'grievance the annual coinage has been 2f,7 tfFiTcS as great since 18?8 as before. In brief, silver was not used In the United S:ates except as subsidiary coinage prior to 1SJ73: since then Its use has been Im mensely increased. II II II With resard to the action or foreign governments it is worth while to note: 1 That by the Immense Increase In the production of gold, after 1848 the pur chuelnft power of gold declined. Gold be came the cheaper metal. 2 That by Ill's decline silver advanced to a premium of 4 to 7 per cent., the d vance in commodities being much greater. The force of a policy of International bi metallism was recognized in the faiit that while gold drove silver to a premi um and out of such bimetallic countries as Prance, sliver did not advance In gold values to the full degree that commodities did. 3 That after this, movement had In. duced Germany, Austria fciid some other countries to adopt the single silver stand ard, an International movement was rtarted to adopt tha single gold standard: that this movement was opposed, and was not generally adopted; but thut the silver standard countries were so Ulss.it lifted w in their money that they mads the change Independently. 4 Thai p.fler th:s movement had be gun aw'. Germain- had adopted the gold standard, the increased production of sil ver together with the Herman demono. tizstiun reduced the value of sliver so that In 1S74 It became cheaper, relatively than geld: and that the Latin Union, which undertook to sustain bimetallism. was 'orced to limit the coinage of silver in lilt, and in to suspend it altogeth er. II II II In these facts we have recognized that the action of European governments had Its influence concurrently with the Increased product of silver, in deprecia ting Its value; but we have shown the silliness of trie slander that this was a cctii'ilracy of the money kings us uis. played by the fact that the gold move' mint tin ore J the uiloiition of what wis at the time t'.ie cheaper und most abuu dant metal. The most Indisputable tact Is that the causes which have depreciated silver were entirely outside the legisla tion of the United States, unJ that our government has not pffected the matter In any wuy exceM (I) to resume specie payments In the coin that was In use at the date of suspension: and (21 beginning n-i'h the same date to increase its coin age of silver to an amount unheal d of in its previous history. II II II The -historical basis of the free silver movement having been shown to be wild' ly, :ierslstenlly and In one respect men daciously erroneous, the questions as to what the result of free coinage would be naturally come up. The first In legiti mate order is whether free coinage by the United St-.tts alone will raise the value of silver bullion to our present standard, or would lower the standard to the monetary value of the bullion In a silver dollar. The assertion of the all Ver advocates that the government and monetary demand for silver money would raise the nrlee of silver bullion all over the world from 6 cents to $i.28 per ounce is mr-t by the following points of fact: 1 The coinace demand of the United States for the past twenty years has been seventeen times as great as it was for the entire period of alleged bimetallism, and the price of sliver has fallen. 2 The monetary demar.d of all the South American countries, und of the vast popu lations of ludla and China, making u total many times that of the population of the United States, has not been able to prevent silver from falling. 3 The monetary demand of the whole world for gold could not prevent W from declining after the Immense Increase In production, from IMS and during subse quent years, to a proportion Indicated at about ij per cent, in purchasing value. 4 The unanswerable nature of this point is tacitly admitted by the free sTTTer con troversiallsts in the fact that they de. clare they wish to raise prices, and the only way In which prices can be raised through coinage is the nominal one of making a cheaper dollar, by having It de cllne to the value of silver bullion. They declare that they want a cheaper dollar so as to make It easier to pay debts; and if free coinage made sliver rise to a parity with gold, it woulJ be just as hard to pay debts as It r ow Is. II II II In this practical admission that they want the dollar reduced to the purchasing power of silver bullion, the free silver advocates entirely wipe out of existence their claim for the need of more money and put themselves out of the rank of bl. metalllsts. This makes the proposition mean: 1 The sending of gold to a premium and demonetizing It by exactly the same Influence that demonetized silver from 1948 to INTO. 2 This would take away over $GOO.00U.iO of our basic money, and leave us with less than WW.OOO.Oijo of slUer dollars, of reduced purchasing power, and conse quently able to conduct a less total cf commercial transactions. Thus it does not mean more money, but necessitates contraction. 3 This also means that the United States would not go to a bimetallic basis but to the single silver basis. It presents the issue plainly, so far as the Lnited States Is concerned, whether we shall retain the present gold basis or descend to silver monometallism. AN EFFECTIVE ILLUSTRATION. Tho Steuben Courier of Bath, N. Y., says: "VV. P. Sedgwick has placed in his store window the most practical lllustta tlon of the silver question which has yet been devised. On one side are ten silver dollars, good the world over for their face value, by reason of the credit of ov.r gov ernment. Underneath these he has a block of silver which is the melted pro duct of ten silver dollars, and which In that form Is worth Just $524. On the other side Is a ten-dollar gold piece, and underneath a piece of gold obtained Ly melting ten gold dolars. Both pieces of gold hnve the same value whether they bear the government stamp or are a shape, less lump. On the silver melting, how ever. Mr. Sedgwick will have to lose $4.75, us he can never get that block of silver which Is worth only $o.24&; back Into the shape where it was worth $lu, thanks to the commou-ser.e of Republican legisla tion." TOLD BY THE STARS. Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchns Tho Tribune Astrologer. Astrolabe cast: 3.M a. in., for Thursday, July 23, ti. ssf $ & T.) a child born on this day there will seuin no reusun why Editor Lynett should longer continue to deprive himself of the natural chin adornment that proclaims the weaver a member of the National Whiskers party. . The Wayne county statesman who says that free silver will cause the profits of the farmer to double without exira ex pense for merchandise must be the fellow who can lift himself from the ground by his boot straps. 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