Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — A Republican Paradox. [ARTICLE]

A Republican Paradox.

Republicans claim that their pet articles of faith are protection and a dollar which will pass current throughout the world, says the Kansas City Times. As gold is the chief standard among the nations their statement may be fairly interpreted to mean a gold dollar. Democrats on the other hand believe that silver can be used as a medium of exchange throughout the world without loss. Did Democrats believe that silver money would depreciate they would oppose it because their plan of commerce includes other nations. Protectionists favor in theory the home market. They approve of high tariff walls which shall shut out foreign trade. Curiously enough they would confine commerce within continental boundaries, and yet their currency views are made to depend upon the action of Europeaq powers. There is a seeming paradox in these two claims of the Republicans. They believe that a legal tender act would maintain silver coins at par in the western hemisphere, yet they fear depredation in Europe while deprecating any efforts to trade there. Speaking of monopolies it is said that a certain man has secured the bootblacking privilege at the world’s fair far $33,000.