The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1896, Page 1

VOLUME LXXX.—NO. 156. THESE RINGING WORDS - APPEAL TO PATRIOTS :","Open Mills, Not Mints,” - the True Cry of the o Campalgn. FOOD FOR THOUGHTFUL 4' VOTERS. Protection and Reciprocity Are | Championed by Major MecKinley. REAL REVIEW OF ISSUES TO BE DECIDED TO-DAY. Let All Who Have the Welfare of the Country " at Heart Read What the Standard-Bearer of Prosperity Says Before Cast- ing Their Ballots. THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER. For the first time since 1868, if ever before, there is presented to the American people this year a clear and direct issue as to our monetary system, of vastimportance - in its effects and upon the right settlement of which rests largely the financial honor -and -prosperity of the country. It is proposed by one wing of the Democratic party and its allies, the People’s and Silver parties, to inaugurate the free and unlimitec cqinage of silver by independent action on the part of the United States at a ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to ome of gold, The mere di on of this purpces is a . menace to our financial and industrial interests, and bas already created universal alarm. It involves great peril to the credit and business of the country—a peril so - grave that conservaiive men everywhere are breaking away from tHeir old party asso- ‘ciations and uniting with other patriotic citizens in emphatic protest against the platform of the Democratic National Convention as an assault upon the faith and . #onor of the Government and the welfare of the people. We have had few questions - in'the lifetime of the Republic more serious than the one which is thus presented. DON'T BE MISLED. The cnaracter of the money which shall measure our values and exchanges and settle our balances with one another and with the nations of the world is of such primary importance and so far reaching in its consequences as to cali for the most painstaking investigation, and, in the end, a sober, unprejudiced judgment at the pofls. We must not be misled by phrases nor deluded by false theories. Free silver would not mean that silver doilars were to be freely had without cost or labor. It would mean the iree use of the mints of the United States for the few who are owners of silver bullion, but would make silver coin no freer to the many who are engaged in ofher enterprises. It would not make labor easier, the hours of labor shorter or the pey better.” It would not make farming less laborious or more profitable. It would .not start a factory or make s demand for an additional day’s labor. It would create no new occupations; it would add nothing to the comfort of the masses, the capital of : the people or the wealth of the Nation. It seeks to introduce a new measure of %alue, but would add no value to the thing measured. It would not conserve values; on the contrary, it would derange all existing values. It would not restore business confe " dence, but its direct effect would be to destroy the little which yet remains, s MEANS A PANIC. If the free and uniimited coinage of silver at a ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold would, as some of itsadvocates assert, make 53 cents in silver worth 100 cents, and the silver doliar equal to the gold dollar, then we would have no cheaper money than now, and it would be no easier to get, but that such would be the result is against reason and is contradicted by experience in all lands. It means the debasement of our currency to the amount of the difference between the commer- cial and coin value of the silver dollar, which isever changing, and the effect would be to reduce property values, entail untold financial loss, destroy confidence, impair the obligations of existing contracts, furtker impoverish the laborers and producers of the country, create a panic of unparalleled severity and inflict upon trade and com- merce a deadly blow. Against any « ch policy I am unalterably vpposed. THE FRIFND OF SILVER. The Republican party has not been and is not now opposed to the use of silver money, as its record abundantly shows. It hasdone all that could be done for its in- creased use, With safety and honor, by the United States acting apart from other Gov- ernments. There are those who think thatit has already gone bevond the limit of financial prudence. Surely we can go no farther, and we must not permit false lights to lure us across the danger line. INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM. 3 ‘We have more silver in use than any conntry in the world except India and China ~—$500,000,000 more than Great Britain, $150,000,000 more than France, $400,000,000 more than Germany, $325,000,000 less than India and $125,000,000 less than China. The Republican party nas declared in favor of any international agreement, and if elected President it will be my duty to employ all proper means to promote it. The free coinage of silver in this country would defer, if not defeat, international bimetal- lism, and until an international agreement can be had every interest reguires us to maintain our present standard. Independent free coinage of silver at a ratio of six- teen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold would insure the speedy contraction of our currency. It would drive at least five hundred millions of gold dollars, which we now have permanently, from the trade of the country and greatly deerease our per capita circulation. It is not proposed by the Republican party to take from the circulating medium of the country any of the silver we now have. On the contrary, it is proposed -to keep all of the silver money now in circulation on a parity with gold by maintain- ing the pledge of the Government that all of it shall be equal to gold. PROTECTION AND REVENUE. The *‘public exigencies’ demand prompt protective legislation which will avoid the accumulation of further debt by providing adequate revenues for the expenses of ° “the Government. This is manifestly the requirement of duty. If elecied President of the United States it will be my aim to vigorously promote this object and give - that ample encouragement of the occupations of the American people, which, above all else, is so imperatively demanded at this juncture of our National affairs. GOLD 'AND PROSPERITY. d it is a mere pretense to attribute the hard times to the fact that all our currency isona gold basis. Good money never n_mde times hard. Those who assert that our present industrial and financial depression is the result of the gold standard have not read American history aright or been careful students of the events or recent years, ‘We never had greater prosperity in this country in every field of employment and in. dustry than in the busy years from 1880 to 1892, during all of which time this country ‘was on a gold basis and employed more gold money in its financial and business operations than ever before. We had, too, a protective tariff, under which ample revenues were collected for the Government and an accumulating surplus which was constantly applied to the payment of the public debt. Let us hold fast 10 that which e know is good. It is not more money we want; what we want is to put the money e already have st work. When money is employed men are employed. Both have Iways been steadily and remuneratively engaged during the years of protective riff legislation. : PROTECTION AND WAGES. - Protection has lost none of its virtue and importance. The first duty of the Re- publican party, if restored to power in the couniry, wiil be the enactment of a tar:ff law which will raise all the money necessary to conduct the Government, economi- cally and honestly ad:ministered, and so adjusted as to vive preference to home manu- factures and adequate protection to home labor and the home market. Wa are not committed to any special schedulesor rates of duty. They are and k| R 1R AN EPITOME OF REPUBLICANISM. This generation has had its object lesson, and the doom of the Democratic party is already pronounced. administration ‘will mean: The supremacy of the constitution of the United States ; the maintenance of law and order ; the protection of every American citizen in his right to live, to labor and to vote; a vigorous foreign policy ; the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine ; the restoration of our merchant marine ; safety under the stars and stripes on every sea, in every port ; a revenue adequate for all governmental expenditures and the gradual extinguishment of the National debt; a currency *‘ as sound as the Government and as untarnished as its honor,” whose dollars, whether of gold, silver or paper, shall have equal purchasing and debt-paying power with the best dollars of the civilized world ; a protective tariff which protects, coupled with a reciprocity which reciprocates, thereby securing the best markets for American products and op:ning American factories to the free coinage of American muscle ; pension policy just and generous to our living heroes and to the widows and orphans of their dead comrades ; the governmental supervision and control of transportation lines and rates ; the protection of the people from all unlawful combinations and unjust exactions of aggregated capital and corporate power; an American welcome to every God-fearing, liberty-loving, constitutional-respecting, law-abiding, labor-seeking, decent man ; the exclusion of all whose birth, whose blood, whose teachings, whose practices would menace the perma- nency of free institutions, endanger the safety of American society or lessen the opportunities of American labor ; the abolition of sectionalism—every star in.the-American flag shining for the honor and welfare and happiness of every commonwealth and of all the people ; a deathless loyalty to all that is truly American and a patriotism eternal as the stars.—Senator Thurston. The American people will return the Republican party to power, because they know that its should be always subject to change, to meet new conditions, but the principles upon which rates of duty are imposed are almost the same. Our duties should always be high enough to measure the difference between the wages paid Iabof at home and in competing countries, and to adequately protect American investments and America: enterprises. WILL MAINTAIN LAW. ‘We avoid no issue. We meet the sudden, dangerous and revolutionary assaults upon law and order and upon those 10 whom is eonfided by the constitution and laws the authority to uphold and maintain them which our opponents have made with the same courage that we faced every emergency since our organization as a PATty more than forty years ago. Government by law must be assurea; everything eise can wait. The spirit of iawlessness must be «xiinguished by the fires of an unselfish and lofty patriotism. Every attack upon the public faith and even suggestion of the repudia- tion of debts, public or privaie, must be rebuked by all men who believe that honesty is the best policy, or who love their country and wouid preserve unsullied its National honor. RECIPROCITY WITH OTHER NATIONS. Another declaration of the Republican platform that has my most cordial support is that which favors reciprocity. The splendid results of the reciprocity arrangements that were made under the authority of the tariff law of 1890 are striking and sug- sesiive. The brief period they were in force—in most cases only three years—was not long enough to thoroughly test their great value, but sufficient was shown by the trial to conciusively demonstrate the importance and the wisdom ot their adoption. WRONG TO FARMERS. Never was a more grievous wrong done to the farmers of our country than that so unjustly inflicted during the past thres years upon the woo!sgrowers of America. Although among our most industrious and useful citizéns, their inte-ests have been practically destroyed and our woolen manufacturers involved in similar disaster. At no time within the past thirty-six years, and perhaps never during any previous pe- riod, have so many of our woolen factories been suspended as now. The Republican party can be relied upon to correct these great wrongs, if again intrusted with the control of Congress. [Extracts from Major McKinley's létter of acceptance.| T T T T ) . PN T T R e e T 75 S AR 3 PN G A0t S At SR it I S U NSO O St w)MERICAN INTERESTS AND AMERICAN HONOR" They Are Now in the Hands of the People, Says Major McKinley. i And the Safest Jury in the World Will Render a Verdict to Uphold Nationa! Honor._ CANTON, Ommo, Nov. 2.—Two delega- tions called on Major McKinley to-day. Tue first was composed of 350 ladies from Akron, Ohio; the other came from Mas- silon. Neither of these delegations was expected. The candicate, feeling that the work of the campaign had been practically closed, did not speak at length, but'only thanked the visitors for the call. He said: “I am very greatly obliged to the women of Akron for this neighborly and gracious call. Italways is a gzood omen to have the women interested 1n a public cause and one of the sources of strength in this now | m«morable campaign has been that we haye felt all the time that we had sup- porting us the American home, over which woman presides. I will not undertake to make a speech to you—only to express the pleasure that it gives me to have you make this cal!, and instead of indulging in any formal words 1 prefer, if it is pleas- ant and agreeable to you, to greet each of you personally and to thauk your speaker for her eloquent assurancesof good will and care.” Three cheers were then given for Mc- Kinley. + Aside from these delegations Major Mc- Kinley was kept busy greeting callers from early morning until long after dark. The campaign in Canton closed with a parade ol all the Republican marching clubs of the city and sn uncommonly large mass-meeting at the Tabernacle, which was addressed by Republicans of local reputation. Major McKinley was not present at this demenstration. Major McKinley is cheerful and confi- dent to-night. He deciined to make any statement other than to say that his ad- vices from every quarter were of a reassur- ing nature. After the meetings in the various wards to-night the marching clubs again formed in parade and marched to the residence of Major McKinley, where they tendered the candidate a serenade of huge proporitons. Major McKinley stepped out to the front of his yard, and in response to loua cails for a speech the candidate addressed his neighbors as follows: I appreciate very greatly the call of my Continued on Second Page. Colonel Charles L. Taylor will give the tax-ridden people of San Francisco an economical, conservative and honest adminisiration He will be more than a figurehead as Mayor NEW TO-DAY. A PERFECT RREAKRAST FOOD.