Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 42, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 February 1897 — Page 5

MORE THAN A BILLION Reckless Extravagance of the Fifty-fourth Congress. 3PEOPLP8 MONEY AQUA] Pm Um FM Eight T« of Aflkln Bcmlcd. Congressman Dockery of Missouri, in an interview with a New York World representative, made the following alarming statement of the extravagance, which prevails in the national congress: * ‘The time is near at hand when the people will have to make the wholesale appropriations of public money a direct issue. They will have to do this for t their own protection. When this time comes, individuals may not be able to escape.’* | Representative Dockery of Missouri made this statement with the utmost earnestness. “At this session,” he said, “about $515,000,000 will be appropriated. This, added to the appropriations of the last session, will bring the total amount of direct appropriations by , this congress to the enormous aggregate of at least 11,080,000,000.” Mr. Dockery said that this was bad enough in itself, but the people could not realize the whole evil of this riotous expenditure until they began to realize that there seemed to be no way of check

ing it “There is no organization in the bouse, ” be said “to curb extravagance. The committee on appropriationB is not directed by any rale to look after this matter. No other committee is interested. If anybody stands in the way of a raid on the treasury, he is considered ungracious, and unexpected antagonisms confront his bill*, no matter what their character. "The people themselves will have to look after this. Hark this prediction: Two years from now the house will be Democratic by 150 majority, and in three years the senate will have a Democratic majority. ” Mr. Dockery added that the committee on ways and means was just now wrestling with the problem of inadequate revenue and excessive expenditures. “It is seeking new sources of income,’’ he said, “to meet the difficulty. In my judgment, the time is not far off when the public conscience will be so aroused that the representatives of the people will be forced to reduce expendituras rather thsin to increase taxation. It it obvious that the revenues are inadequate to meet the present scale of national expenditures, but if the present ever increasing ratioof expenditures is to be maintained it will be but a abort time when it will become necessary to revise the tariff again or seel some other additional source of income for the government This increase oi public expenditures is almost wholly abnormal and out of proportion to the increase of population, to the requirements of business and to the necessities of an honest and frugal administration. *' \ Mr. Dockery, asked to give figures showing the increase in the cost of running the government, said: * ‘The average annual actual expenditures for each fiscal year from 1875 to 1688, inclusive, for the ordinary expenses of tiie-government, not counting payments on the public debt and payments out of postal re venues, were only $252,868,714. The average for the same purposes from 1889 to 1896, inclusive, was $848.43',,499—that is, the average annual increase of expenditures in the last eight years bus been $90,573,785, c 1 an aggregate increase of the stupendous ! sum if $724,59it,280 in eight years as compared with the preceding 14 y< ap* ” The*? expenditures, counting inl/the j postal outlays and the requireilneuts of j the public debt, call fer about $500,600,000 each year—one-third of tin' whole volume of our money in actual circuh* j lion.

MR. GAGE’S PLAN Bow McKialr}** SrfrrUrjr of the Trv««nry 1 Would lU-Iorui the Currency. Mr. Gage is tht* pmsidt ufc of theJ American Bankers’ association. He has been the president of tht Millionaires* club and of the Bouki rs' club of Chicago. He is today the president of the First National bank of that city. He has j published long ago his plan of a rational . currency for the people (f^brttiited ; ^tatis—we should rut lief say. lor th» kankt rs of the United Malias. It is very simple. Cali in, says Banker Gage, the greenbacks, to the extent of |&50,b0U,l>GO. : issue that amount of interest h aring j bonds and tax tine people to pay them to as to redeem these greenbacks which bear no interest. Allow national banka 1 to issue their promises to pay, up to the ' lull value of the government bonds they hold. That is his panacea.—-Exchange. Mil Tliry Don't Opca A few years ago they told us that the factories were all closed because no one knew what the Democrats were going to do with the tariff. There is no doubt now about whan the Republicans will do with the tariff. They will crack it up as high as they can reach.' Now, what’s the matter with tlie mills that closed on an uncertainty opening up on A dead certainty";—Omaha World-Her-ald. A Costly Kip»Homt It is said that some of the silver senators will vote for McKinley protection because they an; satisfied that it will not improve our condition and that the people will then all see the necessity of bimetallism. This is rather a costly experiment, but it may prove effective. Fatting Away. There has been a great diminution of civil service enthusiasm in the Republican party since November.

CAUSE OF POVERTY. in an editorial commenting on Mr. McKinley’s expressed wish' that the 1 950,000 which the inauguration committee purposes to spend on the ceremonies should be set aside for charity, the Kansas City Times says: Just now the millions of dollars contributed by the slush funders, whose money was the main factor in McKinj ley’s election, would remove all the press- ! ing want and dire distress of the destitute and unemployed people in the 5 United States during the continuance of the rigorous weather and leave enough surplus to pay for a dozen inaugural balls such as the impending one. Major McKinley and such of his humane friends as have grown rich out of the class legislation and protective policy qf the Republican party would do well while this fit of charity is on them to reflect on the long chain of causes which have made gaunt poverty, coinpanioned by sickness, destitution, idleness and hunger, stalk through the cities of the land, bringing death to many, suffering to thousands and causing the humiliation of receiving alms to make bitter the bread of other thousands of honest men nd women, all too willing to work if the door of opportunity were not locked and barred against them. The policy of protection, w hich enriches those who have much and impoverishes those who have little, upheld by Major McKinley and the cormorant trusts, monopolies and money grabbers who elected him, are responsible almost entirely for the conflagration of misesr which he has expressed a wish to extinguish with the inconsiderable sum to be spent on Maik Hanna's inaugural ball A REPUBLICAN TRICK. The International Conference Finn Is Simply to Deceive the Public. The manner in which the Republicans will try to stave off action indefi nitely on the financial question and give them further opportunities to fool th* people is indicated in the bill passed by the senate authorizing the president t appoint delegates to any international money pouference that may be called, cto call one himself if he thinks it judicious to do so. This means, of course, the expenditure of another 'nice sum for salaries for a number of eminent and ^igh priced lawyers and financiers for doing over again what has been done thrice before without seer ring any practical results. The last of these conferences was held in Brussels only four years ugo. If the Republicans were sincere in their prqfessed faith of international bimetallism, even they would not put forward this old wornout scheme of talking the matter all over again from the beg uning. They would instead formulate some positive

plan mid act on it. Tin* Republicans in this congress, and those who will be iu the next as well as those who will compose the McKinley administration, have no idea of acconn plishiug anything through another such conference us that which was called 4n the last mouths of Benjamin Harrison’s occupancy of the White House, They have resolved on a do nothing policy, but they want to deceive the public if , possible into the belief that they are really trying to help silver by sending junketing delegates abroad once more to take part in useless palavers.—New York Times. HISTORY'S VERDICT. It Will Render to Mr. Cleveland the Merit Be Deserve*. Mr. Cleveland is very unpopular in Washington. At the close of bis adrnim ist ration it is no longer possible to conceal the fact. People who have studied Cleveland know that be was far from popular in Buffalo. It can-easily Le demonstrated that in that city his policies, as a public officer, were never indorse d by his reelection and that his party was made to suffer vicariously for bis incapacity and uncongenial *ty. He was also unpopular at Albany during his terra as governor. It is amusing to rend in Republican journals and in other journals that still lay claim to the Democratic name after desertion of the party that history will do the name of Cleveland justice. There can be no doubt of it. History, sooner or later, d<xs every man justice. Ia the ease of Cleveland there* will be no long delay. He will be thoroughly understecd before the close of this century, and history’s verdict upon him is foreshadowed by the ‘'stimate in which he* is now held by the great party which heaped upon him unexampled honors and which be betrayed to the money changers for the same inducement that movt l Judas Iscariot.—St. Louis PostDispatch.

“BryM Wm Elected.* A prominent Republican cf this county remarked to a Democrat Saturday: “Well, Bryrn was elected.” “How’s that?'* remarked the Democrat. “Why. haven't you. seen it iu the newspaper* that Bryan is elected?” “Xo, I don’, believe I noticed that.” replied the Democrat “Wasn’t it predicted that if Bryan was elected there would be failures and business disasters all over the country? It’s come, and Bryan must have been elected.”—Carrni (I1L) Coc tier. Pwhlac m Good Thlaf. It is reported from Washington that the work of preparing the new tariff bill is not confined to the house ways and means committee. Senators are interesting themselves. The bounty grabbers are also to be added to the combination which is pushing it along. Kctcr Pmb Kaplatae*. It has never been explained why the Wilson tariff decreased the number of sheep in Australia instead of ruining the Americans, nor, for that matter, why it increased the exports of American manufacture* to an unprecedented

NEW CURRENCY PUN. Stupendous “Gall” of the Na- % tional Ranif<t. WAFT HTTEBEST OH IDLE XOHEY. j *-....- Wowld Hare the Government Do P**n- ; trokiat For Their Benefit—A Financial Scheme That Beatt Anything Tet Evolved—Profit* All on One Side. The national bankers, who were al-: most a unit for McKinley in the last j presidential election, says the New York ; News, have a new scheme for supplying j the country with a * ‘sound currency, ” ; or, rather, it is an old scheme picked ; out of the cellar of financial rubbish and j given a dusting and cleaning. Its cen-: tral idea is the familiar one that the government shall “go ont of the back-! ing business'’hy undertaking to print I all the currency the banks may wantj and giving it to them in exchange for | interest bearing bonds whenever they j can loan it to the people at a profit and | taking it back when business is dull, j and then paying tbem the interest on the bonds.

The scheme in this iorm has advan- ! tages, from the national bankers’ stand-; point, over the other one—that the notes of the banks shall replace the greenbacks entirely. In the first place it would put the government in the position of a sort of pawnbroker for the exclusive benefit of the banks. It would have to keep an indefinite amount of paper money always on hand to give to the banks whenever they want it on the bonds. Thcv would only want it, as a matter of course, when they can loan it to others at much more than the interest that the bonds bear. Then, when the demand for it at high rates has passed, they wish to enjoy the privilege of returning it and getting the bonds back j and collecting the interest on them. The national bankers are a privileged class already, but the adoption of this “sound currency” scheme would make them the envy of all the other monopolists that the country has to support. They would simply shoulder all their present risks of loss from dull business on the government. Starting out with so much capital, they would have to i take no chances whatever on profits. The government—that is, the people— would have to pay them interest whenever they could not get more elsewhere. And when1 they could, why, it would have to stand behind them and give ! them all the notes in exchange for the bonds that they may ask for. What wou’d be thought of a proposal to pay the clothing manufacturers, for ini stance, interest on the capital they have put into coats which they cannot sell until next season? This is exactly the proposal of the national bankers. They want the people to pay them interest on their idle money until such time as they shall find employment for it The banks ought to be confined to their legitimate business of receiving and paying deposits and discounting notes and let the government attend to the issuing of paper currency as well as of gold and silver coins. THE EXTRA SESSION. Indication* Arc That the Tariff Barons Will Not Get All the Swag. The Recd-Dingley programme for the extra session of congress is to pass a revenue law and adjourn. Nothing more should be expected. The Republican party stands for high protection. That is its historic party and public policy. While the late campaign was fought >n the financial question, it was the Democratic party which stood for a change of policy, and the Republican which stood for maintaining the gold standard. The election of Mr. McKinley can be interpreted in no other way, so far as the public financier are concerned,

than to let the finance.s alone. But Mr. McKinley’s candidacy was distinctly a demand for a new tariff. His public personality and the platform on which he ran alike demanded a change in that regard. His election was a mandate from the people to revise the tariff schedules. If Mr. McKinley believes sincerely, as we belie-** he does, that his tariff nostrum is a sure cure for all the ills we are heir to,' hen he cannot object to the Retd-Dingley programme. Bat be will have the national bankers demanding ; the power to issue their notes as money, ■ the railroads demanding the repeal of the anti pooling law and other eonsoli- ■ dated money interests which supported ! him to deal with. These will insist that i the tariff barons shall not have all the ] swag. There will be halcyon and historic • times in the Republican congress.—St ! Louis Post-Dispatch. Alwara For Sbermu. There is no man in public life in this country who has squini^d his way into and out of more difficult places than John Sherman. He has managed to be on both sides of pretty nearly every public question in the last 20 years and is ; able to contradict himself at any time j within 4S hours if it appears necessary ; for personal or party advantage. This is why the American people have never trusted the man car willed his advancement to a higher post of honor.—\ Paul Globe. The new McKinley tariff will accomplish the unprecedented feat of increasing the imj orts to provide additional revenue and at the same time decreasing imports so us to protect the manufacturers. Or, at least, that is what the advance agents promise. It Far* to Bolt—Someth—o. The Washington Feet, looking over oar broad domain, and parcelling so many gold Democrats acting as receivers for collapsed bonks, concludes that bol tiqg^oniptimes pay*

HOW CHICAGO WAS CARRIED. Ihm Can lie UttI* Doubt That the Result b'u Obtained by Fraud. The Chicago Tribune insists that Altgeld insults the Democratic registration judges and clerks of the Chicago precincts in charging that most of the increase of 118,274 in the registered vote of that city was fraudulent. perhaps. But figures are cruel things, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As soon as the unparalleled registration increase in Chicago was announced The Post-Dispatch declared it unaccountable in view of the fact that the last preceding Chicago echoed census, in spite of desperate padding, had revealed a stationary population. The Tribune says that the increase in the heavy Democratic wards and precincts was as marked as in the Republican ones. In fact, it was more so. When the registration was complete, the Democratic managers pointed to these increases as evidence of coming victory. They claimed to have registered most cf the new vote in these wards and precincts. The election returns did not bear ont their boasts. It weald be an •♦insult” to question their integrity, but, from the Chicago point of view, would it not be a greater * ‘insult” to say they were deceived? Mark Hanna established himself at Chicago with the premeditated purpose of corrupting the election in that city and in adjacent states. The Australian ballot law made successful corruption in blocks of five impossible. The work had to be done at the registration booths, and that is where it was done, and not at the polls. The Tribune is right in the assumption that united Democratic resistance to false registration would have made it impossible. There is no escape from that conclusion. Insult or no insult, the truth must be told. It must be told not only to prove that Mr. McKinley is not the righteously elected president, but to arouse the country to the menace of a money power which is sapping the foundations of free institutions.

LYMAN J. GAGE. Bis Financial Theories Accord With Those of the t'ltn Gold Men. The selection of Lyman J. Gage to be secretary of the treasury embraces nothing to encourage the people that something is going to be done for their relief. Government is not instituted for the purpose of taking care of its citizens, but legislation and executive policy can be directed so as to be helpful or hurtful. Mr. Gage is a banker. That fact, standing alone, implies no special qualification for the treasury portfolio. A very good banker may be an ignorant or indifferent man as to the general principles of finance. But Mr. Gage is said to he a reader and thinker on finance, besides being a dealer in money. He agrees with the financial theories of the ultra gold men. Nice things aro said of him. The direct announcement that he is to be in the cabinet has started the organs to gashing over him. A good deal of space has been occupied to say that he is a great man and will make an admirable secretary of the treasury, but no bill of particulars is given. Mr. Gage will no doubt be found carrying out whatever agreement Mr. Hanna may have made with New York gold men, expressed or implied. He may be, in accordance with the St. Louis platform, in favor of an international monetary conference when it is sure that one cannot be had. Mr. Gage is agreeable to the eastern gold men or he would not be appointed.—Cincinnati Enquirer. THE ISSUE NOT SETTLED. Be publican Party Cannot Remove the Money Question From Polities. The people made the money question the issue, says the Kansas City Times, and the politicians were forced to take it up. That issue is not settled. The 6,500,000 people who voted for Eryan do not feel that the verdict obtained by fhe combined influences of greed, corruption and fraud is a fair or a decisive one. They believe that a battle so nearly drawn as that fought last November has more of hope in it for bimetallism than discouragement.

The action of the Hanna committee in deciding to close its headquarters and not to agitate. the currency question rather indorses this view of the situation than otherwise. It shows this continuous campaign threat of the Republicans robe a bluff. The action of Hannah committee is powerless to remove the currency issue from politics. Whether it grinds out and distributes gold literature or not is of slight consequence to the final determination of the question. The Republican party is on trial If its single standard currency proves inoperative in bringing about the promised return to the prosperous conditions which obtained in the country when gold and silver shared equally the money functions of the country, the voters will make short work of them and their unsound currency views the first time they get a chance to go to the polls. There is just as much money in the country as there ever was, and the gold stam ^u has been preserved. And never before in the history of the country were there so many starving and freezing people. There seems to be a financial missing link somewhere, and the restoration of confidence has not been able to ideate it. Diplomas from the school of experience are earned by studying bitter lessons, but a great many American voters are about to receive them.—Detroit Tribune. The People Make the lane*. Mr. Hanna and his lieutenants ought to have become convinced by experience that it is beyond the power of politicians or political cliques to raise issues or »o remove or dispose of them at will when once they have been raised. The making of public issues is done by The people. A Link Miming.

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