THE SCR ANTON TRIBUNEMONDAY MORNING,-AUGUST 24, 1696. $0c cwnton CriBune tut uxi weekly. io aoaotr laiuoo. MlkM at Benwten, Pa, by Tfce TrfboM Pub. Uehlnf Cumpacy. S. P. RINOtaURV. tan. MB Oie'l Ma I. H. NIPPLE, See-v Tin. LIVV S. NICHAQD, Imm Vf. W. 0VI. Ihmoi MuutMi W. W. VOUNOS, Am. Mms's. .r York OOor Tribuse Building. Frank 8. any, abuse. OTUI AT TBI KSTOmol AT PHANTOM. PA., AS (KOMD-OLAat MAIL MATT IS. BCRANTON, AUGUST 24, 1896. THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. NATIONAL, Presldent-WILLIAM M'KINLEY. .Vtea Prestdent-QARRET A. HOliAJlT. STATE. Congressmen at - Largs OALUBHA A. GROW, SAMUEL A, DAVENPORT. COUKTY. Congress-WILLIAM CONNELL. Cpmmliwlonwrs-S. W. ROBDRTS, GILES ROBERTS. Attdltors-A. B. KIEFER, FRED L. WARD. LEGISLATIVE. Senate. Hit Dtitrict-COL. W. J. 8COTT. Representative, 2d liistrlct A. T. CON NELL: Id District DR. N. C. MACKEY. THE ItEPL'ULICAN PLATFORM. 1. Tariff, not only to furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the government, but to protect American la bor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. 8. Reciprocal agreements for open markets and discriminating du ties in favor of the American merchant marina. I. Maintenance of the existing gold standard and opposition to frea coin age of silver except by International atrreement with the leading commercial nations of the world. 4. Pensions and preferences for veterans of the Union army. i. A firm. vlBoroua and dlRnlded foreign policy. 6. The Hawaiian Islands to be controlled by the United States; the Nlcaraguan canal to be built; a naval sta. tlon tn the West Indies. 7. Protection of American cltlsens and property in Turkey. 8. Reassertlon of the Monroe doctrine. Eventual withdrawal of European powers from this hemisphere and union of nil English-speaking people on this continent, 9. The United States actively to use Inllu 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. 11 A free ballot and an honest count. 14. Condemnation of lynching. 15. Approval of national arbitration. 16. Ap proval of a tree homestead law. 17. Ad mission at the remaining territories, rep resentation for Alaska and abolition nf oni-pet-bag federal officers. 18. Sympathy with legitimate efforts to lessen intemper nce. 19. Sympathetic reference to "tho right and Interests of woman." Con densed by the Times-Herald. It doesn't take 16 of William McKln loy'a sentences to coin ono Idea. Tho Paramount Issue. We are glad to notice that In his ripe Mid well-phrased speeches to the dlp gations which from time to time visit him nt Canton, Major McKlnlcy is tak ing nothing back. He still asserts, up on appropriate occasions, that the fun damental dlffjculty before the Ameri can people Is a wrong adjustment of the tariff, and that until that wrong adjustment Is righted the country will not experience that measure of well diffused prosperity to which by every natural advantage It Is clearly entitled. The Republican press has met the enemy on the money question, point by point. Ilecause this question Is com paratively new to the majority of read ers It has responded with alacrity to the popular demand for Information. From this circumstance It may have been Inferred that the Republican line of battle was to be shifted from the tariff question to the currency issue. But the well-considered addresses of the Republican standard-bearer con clusively demonstrate that such an In ference) Is erroneous. Identified as William McKtnley is with the doctrine of Protection to American labor and American Industrie, it would be a piece of incredible self -stultification were he now to consent to a shelving of the tariff as a topic of economic de bate. Pour years ago he predicted what has come to pass and foretold the disaster which has resulted from an attempted obliteration of Protection. Today he owes his presidential nomi nation to the fulfillment of his prophe cy and to the popular consciousness that his style of tariff is the kind that keeps labor at work. The mistake of 1892 is being repented in 1S96, and it would be folly a thousand fold multi plied for Major McKinley to keep si lent on this vital aspect of the situa tion. It is true that the Democratic nomi nee favors free silver, which is a policy fraught with enormous, although as yet problematical hazards. But it la also true that he la Just as radical an ad. vocate of free trade, a policy whose dangers have within the past three years been seen and felt. He strives to keep this fact in the background, but he cannot remove it from view. He has said that he would not stop un til "the last vestige of Protection shall be eradicated." He Is an extremist among free traders; a revolutionist as well on the tariff as on the money Issue. The Republican party owes it to a country which a partial adoption of Bryan's free trade views has all but bankrupted; to the workingmen whose work It has sacrificed and whose Vages it has reduced; to the business Interests generally upon which It has Inflicted wanton loss to bring this fact out clearly before the people .and .let them make up their ballots with it In mind. V . . "The thing to do," says the- gun; In peaking of the approaching Indian' apolls sound money convention, "is to beat the forces of repudiation and an archy, to maintain the national credit, to reject the gospel of riot. The way to do It Is to vote for William McKin ley. It will not pay to take any chances." Nothing can be added to this advice. The man who is not for Mc Kinley Is necessarily against sound money. That is how the situation has shaped itself and it will do no good to try to pretend otherwise. "I do not know what yon think about it, bat 1 believe that it is a good deal better to open the mills of the United States to the labor of America than to open op the mints or the United Slates to the silver of the world." WILLIAM M'KIXLEY. By what special right does Mr. Bryan assume to speak for the "common peo ple?" Before he usurps this preroga tive let him show his credentials. Religion la the Campaign. It Is a circumstance of noteworthy In terest that the religious press of the country, although ordinarily silent in matters of purely partisan discussion, has in this campaign taken high and strong ground for the election of Mc Kinley and Hobart, and the preserva tion unsullied of the nation's financial honor. We know Of no conspicuous ex ception to this statement among the re ligious Journals of Protestant affilia tions, and few of our Catholic contemp oraries openly advocate the free coin age of silver. Tho Independent In a recent issue tells why It has declared for sound money, and incidentally disposes of the plea that the clergy should keep still about live moral Issues. "If religion," it says, "means going to church and kneeling down before God and saying, 'Our Fa ther,' and nothing' more, then religion may have nothing to do with the Is sues of the coming presidential cam paign. But If whatever things are hon est, pure, and of good report are a part of rellgon, then this campaign is not without Its religious side. Three years ago the Independent signed a lease promising to pay $10,000 a year, more or less, for the rent of the premises It occupies. That gave the owner of the building a fair Income from, the amount of money which had been Invested in it. That $10,000 which we promised to pay was the money of the country, which has been kept equal with gold ever since the resumption of specie pay ments. It was perfectly understood that those dollars would be dollars equal to gold, as the government had kept them equal to gold. The $10,000, more or less, we paid last year and tho year before, was of the value of 10,000 gold dollars In London or Berlin or Paris, as well as in New York. The proprietor of the building could take the money to Europe and exchange It for 2,000 English pounds, or 40,000 German marks, or 60,- 000 French francs. "Now the Democrat and Populist platforms propose that we shall pay that rent next year not in $10,000 In New York, such as are worth 2,000 In Lon don, 40,000 marks In Berlin, and EO.OOO francs In Paris, but in stiver dollars, which shnll not be kept up to the value of gold, and which the owner of this building can exchange for but a little more than 1,000 in London, 20,000 marks in Berlin, and 25,000 francs In Paris. What they propose that we shall pay is about $5,300 value In gold, but they pur pose calling It $10,000 In silver. They ask us to vote that we may be allowed to rob tho owner of our premises to the extent of say, $4,700 a year. "Now, as we understand It, they are asking us to steal; and stealing we con sider Irreligious, and we do not pro pone to do It. We shall do our best to have our rent continue payable In gold dollars; worth $10,000 anywhere in the world, worth the same in London, Ber lin and Paris, as it was when we made our contract, three years ago; and we decline the temptation to pay a sum of money which would be worth in the markets of the world only $5,300. We are told that there Is no religion In this. It Is a part of our religion." If there were more of this religion of honesty In everyday business affairs there would be less of the present so cialistic and agrarian agitation for the spoliation of the rich. Mr. Bryan calls this a "thinking cam paign." That Is what It Is and that is why Mr. Bryan will sustain defeat. The thinking voters will have none of him. Fair Play for Cameron. On one point we must admit that we are skeptical; and that Is that Senator Cameron contemplates making a cam paign for re-election. It Is true that several Influential persons have recently in public manner put forward the as sertion that his letter of withdrawal was not genuine; that it was really part of a studied plot to deceive and confuse the people, divide the field with a num ber of decoy candidates and finally en able these spurious candidates to throw their following to Cameron and re-elect him. But in nearly every in stance when this assertion has been traced to its 'original source, it has been found to emanate from the mer cenary syndicate of professional poli ticians which, with Frank Willing Leach at their head, has recently been employed by John Wanamaker to set up the next legislature In his Inter est In other words, the godly Fhlladol phlan who on Sunday expounds morals to a Sunday school, does not scruple, on week days, to Impute to Senator Cameron motives that would be grossly dishonorable, In order to play upon a popular prejudice against Mr. Cameron and trick the publlo IntA a tali belief as to the necessity of his own election to Cameron's place. There Is a commandment in Holy Writ which says: "Thou shalt not bear false witness." But to all appearances this has been eliminated from the Wan amaker decalogue, or else has been ground to pieces In the ex-postmaster general's boasted mixing of politics and religion. Instead we have an unblushing display of the ethics of the bargain counter, in which cheating Is apparent ly placed at the top of the list of vir tues, and "every thing goes." For our own part, while we have noth ing in common with Senator Cameron, yet we have every reason to suspect that his written word Is as much to be relied upon as is the defamatory whis per of the ambitious merchant who aches to fill Cameron's shoes. The party, at all events, proposes to act upon the supposition that Cameron In his letter to Senator McCarrell told the truth and meant to retire. But It does not necessarily follow that because Cameron will not be elected next win ter, his defamer will. There are better senatorial possibilities within view than John Wanamaker and at tho proper time they will doubtless be made known. "I would say to a voter. You are either In favor of a silver dollar pos sessing the same purchasing; and debt paying power as the gold dollar, or you must be In favor of a dollar which will buy less and pay less than a gold dol lar. If you favor the latter you must advocate a law compelling the Ameri can farmer and the American laborer to accept for their products and toll dollars which will pay less debts and buy less of those things which they need than the dollar which now circu lates In this eountry. If you propose to compel our farmers and mechanics to accept dollars with one-half the pur chasing and debt-paying powers of our present dollars, they will both be rob bed of one-half tho Just fruits of their toll; or you must be prepared to guar antee them a double price and a double wage In the new silver dollar. Your promise to this effect la based upon nothing but the vaguest kind of theor izing. You could not borrow a dollar, no! not a Mexican dollar on a written promise of that kind without collateral security; nnd yet you ask the toller of this country to accept your word ns their only guarantee." Senator Thurston in. the Rochester Post-Express. An interesting object-lesson may be seen In the window of The Tribune's business office. On a card are two sil ver dollars. One a Mexican dollar Is larger and finer than the other and con tains more silver, yet Is worth only a fraction more than El cents; while the other a gold-backed American silver dollar Is good the world over (or was until the free silver movement cast doubt upon our maintenance of the gold standard-) for 100 cents. The Mexican dollar la a freo coinage dollar; tho American, a gold-standard dollar. Which one would the American work Ingman prefer to Tecelve In payment of his wages? Senator Thurston puts it in these words: "If Rothschild were to sail Into New York harbor with a great ship loaded with foreign silver bullion which had cost him ono hundred millions of dollars, and should ask this government to pass a law compelling our people to accept that silver bullion in exchange for their products and their labor at just twice the price paid for it by Roths child, the members of congress whp would vote for such a measure would be hung to the nearest lamp-post; and ytt that is what the free and unlimited coinage of the world's product of sil ver means." When the local free silver organs en counter an argument they cannot an swer, they at once begin to becloud the atmosphere by calling names. A case In point is the Times' abuse of Edward Atkinson, who is known the world over as one of the greatest of living statisticians. And now the Bryanltes charge Bourke Cockran with getting paid to argue for sound money. The charge Is authoritatively denied, bat it wouldn't make any difference if It were true. Bryan, too, gets paid, when he speaks; and he doesn't say much, either. Wo wonder why the editor of The Trib une thinks it necessary to keep writing on the currency question, which he has conclusively settled so often in his four or six lino editorial notes. Seranton Times. For one reason, because the Times Is a daily demonstration that there is still much misinformation to dispel. The Election of Bryan Would Mean a Silver Standard Prom the Philadelphia Times. It is a popular error that If Mr. Bryan were elected pcesldent it would require legislation to faring this country to the silver standard of value; and many be lieve that when the Issue has to be faced by the senate and house, no such vicious legislation could succeed. The plain truth Is that the election of Mr. Bryan to the presidency would bring the silver stand ard with his inauguration; and the fact that the degradation nf our currency would be Inevitable on March 4 next, would precipitate a .national convulsion and would put a high premium upon gold after Mr. Bryan's election was assured. II II II Of all the many government bonds, notes, etc., which are to be redeemed In money, only $40.tB7,lW) sre redeemable in gold. That Is the amount of gold cer tiilcatea outstanding on the first of the present month. All the other obligations of the government. Including bonds, sil ver certificates, treasury notes and United States notes, are redeemable tn coin, and as silver is today Invested with all the legal recognition as coin that Is accord ed to gold, the president and secretary of the treasury could pay any or all of these obligations In sliver. There are In round numbers $344,000,000 of silver certificates, $128,300,000 of treasury notes, and 3346.700. 000 of United States notes now Issued by the government and In elrcjlatlon. There are thus $811,000,000 of paper money Issued by, the United 9tates that, is redeemable in coin. Ia addition to the money thus In circulation and redeemable by the gov ernment, there are government tionds outstanding Vu.3UI.GU0 of 4V per cent, bonds now due and continued at 2 per cent.; 1720,060,000 of 4 Iter cent, bonds, and J1IM.0M,0W of & per cent, bonds. Thus we have in round numbers gco.0vi0.uuu of gov ernment paper rrdeemuble In coin on demand, and fcSII.OUI.oKI of government bonds outstanding payable In coin, all ot which could bo placed upon the silver standard of value by the ui'tlou of the president and the secretary of the treas ury In an hour. No legislation of any kind would bo necessary to enublo a freo silver president to precipitate a violent change from the gold to the stiver stand ard of value. He would simply huvu to direct It to be done and It would be ac complished. II II II Mr. Bryan must bo false to his own teachings and false to tho friends who have nominated him, und who expect to profit by his election. If he did not wield hla full power as president to make silver the standard money of the country and to reject gold aa the standard of value. That he would do bo no one can doubt. Ho has been teaching the doctrine for several years; he was instructed to do so by the several conventions that nominated him, and the evidence ! manifold and con clusive that, If Inverted with the power, he would at once sever this country from the money standard of the civilized world, and rank it side by side with tho semi civilized and pagan nations of the earth. With these facts undisputed, the mere election of Mr. Bryan to the presidency wduid at once Inaugurate the supremacy of silver and the establishment of the sil ver standard of value. Even If ho were disposed to attempt to sustain the silver dollar at a parity with gold, the credit of the government would be destroyed. It has already been greatly strained by at tempting to keep in circulation some 440, OTO.uoo of legal tender silver dollnra. France and the Latin Union were com pelled to suspend the coinage of silver, be cause the load became too heavy tor tnem to maintain it in circulation with gold. Mr. Bryan would not keep silver at tho gold standard of value If he could, and he certainly could not If he would. 11 II " The people of the nation mut look the fact squarely In the face that the election of Mr. Brynn Involves an Immediate and revolutionary change of our financial standard of value from the sound money maintained by every nntion with which we have Important commercial and finan cial relations, to the stnndnrd of the poverty-stricken, semi-clvlllsed nations which are struggling with free sliver and pov erty. Tho issue can be clearly stated as Involving the maintenance of the sound flnunclnl system that this government has maintained since Its foundation, or a departure to cheap money Inflation that would strip tho republic of Its IntegrHy and proclaim dishonor as a virtue In tho daily transactions between citizens. Next to the Issue of secession that confronted us In 1S60, the Issue of national honor and integrity nnd of honest money for Hll classes and conditions of tho people, is the mos Important ever presented to the sovereign power of tho republic for Its final arbitrament. SOME OFFICIAL FIGURES. From the Washington Post. In his speech ot Madison Square Oar den, Mr. llryun said that "while tho gold standard raises the purchasing power or the dollar, It mnkea It more dilllcult to obtain possession of tho lollut" Jf this were true it would not Inevitably he a good argument against the gold dollar or a strong plea for a cheaper dollar. The value of the latter, measured by its pur chasing power nnd the lnbor required to obtain it, as compared with the former, might make It a bad bargain, llut Mr. Bryan's statement is not in hurmony with accepted facts. It is his misfortune to have collided with the census table, and either he or they must give way. During tho decado between ISM) and 1800 this country was, as It Is now, under the gold stumlard. The census nhows that, in that period, tho average yearly wages of workers in nil kinds of factories In creased from $324 to $IS8. Tho number tf such employes increased in thnt time near ly 100 per cent., rising from 2,732,51(5 to 4,7i2,t)22. The total amount of their wages more than doubled. In 1HS0 tho wage earners In our manufacturing Industries received ! 17,053, 73. In 1890 they received $2,283,216,52!!. All these dollurs were aa good as gold, nnd their purchasing power was stoatKly Increased by tho decreased cost of production, due to the progress of Invention nnd tho opening up of vast areas of farming lands. Between 1SS0 and 1890, ami for two years thereafter, the wane-earners got dollars, with less difficulty, and got more for each dollar, than at any previous time in our national history. 11 11 Mr. Bryan on tho same occasion said that "railroad rates have not been re duced to keep paco with falling prices. The farmer had thus found it more and more difficult to live." Tho official sta tistics, as published by tho general gov ernment, show that In 1872 to ship a bush el of wheat from Chicago to tho sea board by rail cost 33 50 cents. In 181)5 it cost 12.17 cents, lly lake and rail routes it cost 2S cents In 1872, and 6.95 cents in 1895. By lnke and canal routes it cost 24.47 cents In 1872, and 4.11 cents In 1895. AJJ HONEST DOLLAR- From the Times-Herald. There Is too cents' worth of gold In tho gold dollar of the United States. If the advocates of free sliver dollars wish to give the country a free sliver dollar why do they not propose to put Into It 100 cents' worth of silver? Then it also would be an honest dollar. There are two reasons why they will not do this. The rflst Is that they know people would requlro handcarts and express-wagons to carry the big things around, end therefore, would refuse to carry the present silver dollar in any con siderable number at a time, on account of Its Inconvenient weight and size. The second reason is that If 100 cents' worth of sliver were put Into a silver dol lar the owners of uncoined silver would not be accomplishing their real purpose. That real purpose Is not to make tho sil ver dollar still more obnoxious by Increas ing its size, but to compel the people of the United States to accept 63 cents worth of silver as a dollar worth 100 cents. The owners of uncoined silver have not the slightest Intention of giving the coun. try an honest dollar, and nobody knowd this better than they themselves. BRIGHT POINTS. Baltimore Herald: The ' definition of cheap money is dear prices, any way you twist it. Chicago Tribune: Any fool can make a convincing argument If be doesn't feel compelled to pay any attention to the facts. Iowa State Register: If the United States has sufficient power to establish a ratio of 16 to 1. why not equal power to establish a ratio of 1 to 17 Iowa Capitol: The free sllverites nro promising the farmer a dollar a bushel for wheat, the laboring man cheaper flour. It takes nerve to make these conflicting promises. Kansas City Journal: The trouble about doubling the prices of living with free silver, so far as the worklngman is con cerned, is the fact that no guarantee of doubling wages goes with it. NEITHER FACT NOR FANCY. From the New York Sun.' It was once said of, Disraeli that his politics was a romance, while he himself was a fiction founded on fact. The epi gram Is not an unfair definition of the pop ocrat candidate who came out of the west and now wishes that he had stayed there. WARMING VP. 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