Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 December 1898 — Page 5

POLICY OF DEMO RATS. Must Be an Aggress m. One, Says John P. Alt* »1<L TOR JUSTICE AND EQUA1 RIGHTS.

P»rtjr Moat SUMWcnlM Maw ^oodJtioM wd Sail With the New Curreuta of Dm-tUgr-hlc tjM Nicaragua Canal and Build a Might}- Navy—Cuba and !f*orto Bieo Mast Be Onra—Coaling Harbor* la the Philippine*—Rehabilitate Ogr Merchant In an article in Hie Democratic MagAziae ex-Governor John P. Altgeld of Illinois outlines the attitude of the Democratic party and the policies it should ooutinue throughout the war. Hie governor soys in part: f Commercial advantage rather than political is now the aim of the powerful nations. Africa has been divided up by the nations of Europe in order to monopolize trade, England alone purgoing the policy of opening her harbors to the world. The same nations arc now forcibly dividing up China for th^ purpose of monopolizing trade. By rvusou of our position and ability we should get the benefit of most of this commerce, but in order to do so we must be able to offer reciprocal advantages and most have a force on the eeas that will make us respected. We must pat ourselves iu a position to demand the privileges tha; are enjoyed by “the most favored nations,” and it will^aiways be easy to- secure justice if we can say, "Hera is our navy to argue this question. ” 7 Therefore, While w^ do n< need au array at home and the maintenance of one would simply be a menace to our own people^ we do need a navy on the foreign waters of the earth. The war has forced npou oar attention tjia--^$treme absurdity of being oblig'd to sail clear around Sooth America when we want to tak< onr vessels from one part of our own country to another part of our owto country and the great danger it ltjavt/^ us a if we should sudtuuly^be attached by a power! uJ enemy on the sea. It is manifestly the duty erf the American government to absolutely own and control this canal, not to aarist a private company dig it, but to dig and own the canal itself. The shipping erf- our ow n vessels would soon pay for it. Further, our commerce on the Pacific will soon bo great, aiul jf wo do not have .this canal it will be necessary to maintain almost twice as large* a navy as would be ueeded if vessels could be speedily taken from New York to San Francisco. The slimy hands of the Pacific railroad.- should not be permitted to longer control the situation. f Cuba.—The war has again brought 4c our attention the fact that if Cuba were held by a great hostile power having a strong navy we would be constantly nervous and feel 'a sense of insecurity which we now do not feeL We dare nut allow a foreign or a hostile power to have this inland. In j fact, when viewed from a geographical, ; * political, a commercial or a military standpoint Culm belongs tothis republic and is ueec.-.-ary to properly round off I our southeastern boundary. The people i of Cuba would gladly join us now. but : if it is not ripe for annexation or if the - assurances we gave the motions in de-j daring war fbrl&d our taking it uow then let the Cuban republic be placed under our protection. This done the island will soon be overrun ’with American people and j American enterprises, and in a short ; time it will ripen and knock at onr door to become a member of the Union. This would not be u conquest, because it would not be forcible, and it would gtbe founding a colonial system, but Id be simply following the law of our j development and increasing our aaf rto Rico.—This island is situated »t in the center of the Atlantic ocean and is only a few days’ sail from any point on either side of this ocean. Consequently it would be invaluable as a naval station. Especially would this be so if we build the Nica hugua canal. Viewed from any standpoint, we should have Porto Rico as n uav 1 station, and as it is small it would not involve the establishment of a colonial policy

Harbors.—With our prospective increase oi commerce and of shipping and the necessary increase in the navy it is manifest (hat we need harbor* iu every quarter of the globe as coaling statioua and a* a convenience—yea, a necessity— for oar trade ami for our navy, no harbors floating the flag of some otlr r nation and granting ns some privilege bat harbors ow ned by as and fioatii g oar flag, where our vessels can Ue as k . :.ig as they choose. We must have, if possible, a nv nber of the best harbors of the Philij lines and any other good harbors we ca get. This will not be oocajnest, nor will it be establishing a colonial policy. 1 will aim ply be making provisions fu the more complete development of on: own country. Jobbery.—It is objected that it even fluid the Nicaraguan canal won 1 involve so much jobbery and roue ness that it should not be undertaken. Unquestionably it will involve great jobbery, but so has every great move a out In this country. The Revolution was full of jobbery, the war of 1811 was fall of jobbery, and the war of tl a rebellion staggered with eorrnptiot yet the country moved forward -in tsa h of these wars, and the world w£s lade This canal will be filled with jobbery. yet necessity will compel nst dig it. Honest and progressive hum alty cannot fold its arms or stop the on ard march simply because there are ampins that sngk human blood by i ght

---- and vnltr'es that devour human flesh by day. It was during Democratic control that our navy was respected by all the nations, and it was during Democratic control that our flag floated on all the teas, and, although onr country was young, our shipping surpassed that ol all countries except England, and under genuine Democratic control these conditions will come again. Daring all these years the Democratic party an aggressive party. It recognised new needs and new conditions and met them. It was this fact that kept it in power and enabled it to shape the early career of the nation. , If the Democratic party is to perform its mission, it must assume the aggressive. It must recognize uew conditions and must sail with the new currents of destiny and she to it that the great principles of justice and liberty and of equal rights are not destroyed, as they will be if the Mark Hannas of the age are permitted to control. Let it be remembered that the acquisition of vast territory at home under Jefferson, under Monroe and under Pieroe did not weaken the principles of the republic nor change the doctrines of Democracy. Those policies which have destroyed omr" shipping, paralyzed our people, "ItMwk d them down with burdens and created an oligarchial our land are of Republican parentage. Diverting Attention. — Some good people fear that the enlargement of foreign policy will divert attention from home affairs and enable the corruptionists to continue their criimnal work. Bnt if the Democrats while lighting plutocracy at home take the lead in broadening our foreign policy they can get the benefit of the government, and in that way carry out great reforms and put an end to the corrupt regime that is now destroying us, while if we assume a negative position the great criminals may be kept in power, solely because of this irresistible movement John P. Altgkld.

THE GOLD ALLIANCE. British Influence Dominate* the Republican Party. It raffast be evident to nil that tb© Repablicau party is wholly responsible for all that has so far been done in the way of au Anglo-American alliance, so distasteful to the people of the country. As this same question is inseparable from the great financial issue it is not strange to ace the gold standard advocates willing to seal tbo culmination of their infamous policy by an alliance with the nation responsible for the whole monometallic system that is now enrsiug all mankind. In the campaign of 1896 we tried to make it plain that the Republican party was being aided by British money and that if the Republi can candidates were elected Great Britain would be prompt in collecting the indebtedness. We all know that ever since the day'that Mo» Kinky took up* seat British influences have been dominant at Washington. So the Republican party hastily brought to favor an alliance with our traditional foe. This is a glorious day for Democracy. The people more clearly understand tin* position of the Republican party. It has succumbed to the influ-' enee of British gold. Its candidates of 1900 will have to face the American people on the record now being made. Fata) to Prosperity. The issue of bonds is fatal to prosperity because it takes money out of business enterprises. One can imagine how much greater business would be if instead of taking C50.V-000.000 out el circulation $500,000,000 was added.— Silver Knight Watchman. Not a Bond Buyer. Not one among the New York bond <j alee has V'ilunttetid his services to the country.—Fresno Kxposit or, POINTS TO CONSIDER. For .more than a twelvemonth Australia, India and other important cotm trie*, generally com pen tors with our wheat and other food products, have been bidding them up against the%o pressing r- effects of the gold standard. When they raise full crops, they will no lunger do Uds. Then whatever .puts gold up wiM put wheat down. Look out for the full effects of the gold standard as Boon as the famine in the southern hemisphere is no longer a factor in prices.

According to Russell Sage, the Unit ed State*, are governed from within bait a mile of hi* office. If he means there is a cable office connecting Wall street with London within half a mile of hi* establishment, he is undoubtedly right. ' Remember the McKinley administration, which is now taking t-ld0.000.000 out of bmoness for bofuK has another $200,000,000 io ked up in the treasury to make the bonds uecessary. Culm must be freed—first from Spanish robbers and then from the thieves of the Sugar trust, who wish to subvert the Cuban republic and set up a carpet bagging government of their own. When the bond grubbing banks take snuff, the Hanna administration will sueesse. And thereupon the army and navy will be allowed to take Havana and end the war." The people who are getting gold standard prices for cotton are not competing very strongly against the Rothschilds syndicate for Mr. McKinley’s gold basis bonds. The mere gold there is in the treasury under the McKinley policy the move mohey we have to borrow at interest to keep treasury gold out of circulation. _____ We might have whipped Spain in six weeks if Hanna had been permitted by J. Ptepost Morgan, »

FINANCIAL SYSTEM. Power of the United States to Make Its Own.

On May 26, 1898, Hon. John F. Shaf. roth of Colorado delivered a speech in the house of representatives in Wash* ington which will more than pay the friends of free coinage to read. Mr. Shaf roth gives a freshuess to a subject which has been discussed from the be* ginning of the government, but with supreme energy since 1878, when by fraudulent legislation it was discon* tinned. Since that date arguments, logic, statistics, statesmanship of the highest order have been continuously arrayed against the legislative fraud m the hope of reinstating silver in its constitutional rights at the miuts, and the battle is still on and the friends of silver are as defiant and as aggressive as ever. The free coinage issue, at the ratio of 16 to 1, is perennial, undying and unceasing, and wilt continue to challenge the best thought of the nation. While, through the perpetration of a fraud, error is on the throne and truth on the soaffold. it will require time, ratienoe, loyalty to the right and the indomitable courage of couvictiou to make troth and error change places; but as certain as the eternal years of God are pledged to the triumph of truth, so certainly will victoiy at last bad and bloom on the "thorny stem of time.” The speech of Mr. Shaf roth is well calculated to inspire the friends of free coinage with courage. The facts he groups and presents may not be new, and the arguments by which he enforces them may be along old hues of thought, bat, nevertheless, their presentation is vigorous and the reasoning cogent, and, as a campaign , document, the speech is worthy of ‘recognition in campaign literature. » A Flood of Silver. The gold standard advocates have sought to frighten the American people with all sorts of bogies, scarecrows, goblins, etc.. to conviuce them that free coinage would prompt all the nations oi / the earth to unload their silver bullion. coin, silver spoons, ladles, teapots, buttons and trinkets of every description upon the United States to have it coined into dollars. The speaker quotes Mr/ Secretary Gage as saying there is now in the country gold coin to the amount of $696,000,000, and that free coinage of silver would banish it from circulation. This is one »f the gold staudard goblins, but supposing it to be true, rather than a baseless fabrication, it would as Mr. Shafroth points out create a demand for $696,009,000 of silver coin, or $9.94 per capita. Now, suppose that each inhabitant of the United States had $9.94 in bis or her possession constitutional money of the government, would it be a source of danger? Would it be in the uaturo of a home wreektug factor— would it shut up mines, close down factory and forge and prove an industrial calamity? Grouping the population into families cf five, each family would | have $49.70. Wonld that make the | home gloomy? Would that amount of i silver coin create despondency and de* i spair? Mr. Shafroth effectually disposes of the silver flood bogy. He shows that there is not more than $25,000,000 silver bullion in the world outside of the ! United States, and that, since 1873, no I one has sought to hoard silver bullion. because prices at the article have steadily | declined since that date. He then proceeds to show that the country cannot be Hooded with silver from the arts, that is, from mauui'ae1 tured silver, and in support of the | proposition points oat that the cost of workmanship, in molding, polishing, ! gilding and carving and other ornamentations makes such silver now more valuable than coin or ballion, and that a man would be an idiot who would com into dollars something that was I worth more m the shape of a work of | art. The speaker is equally strong in ! showing that Enrope would uot damp i its silver coin upon the United States. "There is,” he says, "a great quantity ! of silver in the form of coius existing in Enrope. It is said that they are of j ihe value in our money of $1,500,000,000, bat the man who says that these coins will come to this country in the event that we open our miuts to the free coinage of silver is cither ignorant of or ignores one important fact—that is. that .'the coins of Europe are in circulation upon a gold valuation, just like onr sil- [ ver dollars in this country are now in circulation noon a gold valuation. What would yon think of the man who would take a United States silver dollar to our mint as soon 'as it was open to free coinage and have It coined into another dollar?”

Again, says Mr. Shafroth, in his ar1 gurueut relating to the flood of silver which causes the how hugs of the gold standard advocates. The ratio at which come are in circulation ,ia Europe is 15i* to 1. which makes the coinage value of silver in Europe $1.33 an ounce, whereas in this oouutry the ratio is 16 to 1. which makes the coinage value of silver $1.39 an ounce. The man holding European coius would lose not only the freight and insurance in bringing those coins to this country, but also would lose 4 oents on each onnoe of silver coins that he brings. Those Europeans may not be so intelligent and bright as are the Americans, but they know enough not to lose 4 cents ou each ounce of coins they import to us. Thus it is clear that silver cuius iu circulation iu Europe would uot be brought to our mints. But the gold standard advocates see another goblin, or a dozen of them representing free silver countries, such as China, Mexico. Siam, strait* settlements, Central and South American states. Persia. Tripoli and Japan. Omitting Persia. Siam, the straits settlements, an Asiatic country, and Tripoli, we have Mexico with silver amounting I to $55,000,000 or $4-54 per capita; Geu- , ural American states with $12,090,000 of silver, or $3 14 per capita: South American states with $30,000,000 of silver, or .£3 per capita, and China with $750.*

000.000 of silver, or $2.08 peroapita, and Japan with $84,000,000 of silver, or $2.06 per capita of population. Iu the countries named it is estimated there is $931,000,000 of silver in circulation, on an average of $8.69 per capita. ' one of the political divisions named having bat 88 cents per capita. This being the condition, does anyone not engaged in the scarecrow business apprehend a flood of silver from auy one of theoonntries named.

Aii Ahuml&oe* of Wlwr. The gold standard advocates, (and in using the term "gold standard advocates” reference is made to the leaders ( and managers of the Republican party), snch, for instant, as Senator Fairbanks and the lesser lights of the part; in Indiana, who would have the people believe that in an abundance of silver dollars the count% would suffer the direst calamities. But common sense comes to the rescue of all reflecting men and the goldbugs are .asked to name a nation that became bankrupt with an abundance of silver, bullion or <xtiu. The; are asked to name au individual, or Arm, or corporation whose affair ever went into the hands of a receiver because of an abundance, of silver assets. When did a farmer forfeit his farm owing to the faot that ue had a surplus of silver com? ‘\No nation,” sa;s Mr. Shafroth, "was ever injured by its peo pie having an abuudance of Uie precious metals, and instead of being a detriment, if. would. proa ace the greatest era of pr spent; m the history of this country.” Nevertheless, the enemies of free coinage have for years sought to fngoteu tne people witn the bugbear that no greater‘disaster could befall the country and the people than to have au abundanoe of silver dollars. But the people have discovered that the flood of silver predicted by goldbugs has not arrived—and they are anxious to welcome it to their business houses, factories and shops and to their homes. They demand tne free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, aud are net to be stampeded by any of the bugaboos upon which the goldbugs have relied to obscure their schemes. How million* of Silver Dollar* Coaid B« I’miI. Mr. Shafroth points out how millions more of silver collar# could be used by the people in promoting their interests. He says; "There are in existence $313,000,000 of credit money, called United States notes, the existence of every dollar of wliicu is due to the fact that we have not enough circulating medium without those notes. Every dollar of those notes could be retired by the substitution of the silver dollar or the silver certificate, aud tbus there would be a demand which the government could create for $.140,000,000 more of silver. "But the*e are not ail the powers id our government. There ure m existence $'.’31,441,666 of nutiuuai bank notes, i The only excuse for their existence is the fact that they are absolutely ueecleu as a circulating medium. Every dollar of that credit money conld be retired and silver or silver certificates substituted in place.” Here we have it clearly demonstrated that should the government coin 7*7. 441,666 additional dollars, aud issue silver certificates to that amount, we should simply retire the greenoack and nutioual bank notes, aud substitute silver certiticatev based upon that number of coined dollars held for their redemption. But where such eminently wise and statesmanlike propositions are made, - the goldbugs display another hobgoblin aud repeat their platitudes about a flow of silver, etc., aud with ..pectai emphasis assert that the United State* does not possess the power and resources required to establish bimetallism. Referring to the - Power *)b<t Wealth of the I'uitetl Stale*, Mr. Shafroth epitomizes the facts by sayiug our population of 75.0u0.000 is equal to 700.000,000 of the average of the balance of the world—that our wealth in 1690 was $62,000,000,000. ! against $291,560,000,000, or 67 percent j of the wealth of all the nations of tne earth. Th& United Stateso]>erates about onehalf of the raiirouwwili jge of the world and the freight tWiusjjorted by them was in 1692 645,000,000 tons, against 1,- ] 34S.000.000 tons carried by all the railroads of the world, oi more that 59 per cent. The steam power of tne United l States is 14.400,000 horse power, or more thau one-third of the world’s steam j power, ’i he carrying power of vessels i used in lake and river tradlo in the ; U lilted States is 9,300,COO tons, or oue- > fifth of the carrying p»w«r of the world i ou the high seae. Of tlto- world's total j production of cottqmj^i 330,000 ini 400 pounds each, ui 1696, the United | State* produced 10.285,000 hales, or teu • thirteenth*, and in 1627, three-fourths of the world’s crop. The United States I produces more than one-third of all the grain products of the world, the prod-" t uct for 1696 being 3,533,160,000 bushels. { against 9,900.000,(XX) bushels of other countries. We produce more thau onefourth of the pigiroii ol? the world, onethird of the steel, more thau one-half of the oopper of the world, while in coal we produced iu 1692 ..98,000,000 tons, against 600,(XX/,000 tons of ail other j countries. Mr. Shafrof^coatiune* the | comparison iu which the United States ‘ steadily rises in overmastering wealth, power' and resources, uud stauds confessedly in the Tan of the natious of the

Why Parade Sneta Factaf But why make these astounding disclosures of wealth resources aud power of the United States if they do not deepen and rivit the convictions, that we are capable of determining for ourselves, all measure* whatsoever relating to the welfare of the nation, and the free coinage of silver is a measure of such vital importance that it is scarcely les> than tleasou to consult any other nation upon the face of the earth as to the policy we should persue in financial affair*. In all other matters the United States u proud of its prestige, defiant and independent. but when it oomee to shaping oar financial poliev the goldbog managers of the Republican party are ready and willing to surrender the.r country and all of its vast interests „o the dtotaMou of foreign powers aud acquiesce in such humiliations as they choose to impose.But the purpose cf the goldbugs to reduce silver to redeemable money in gold coin, is preposterous teyoud measure, and is not likeiy to succeed in the United S'ate*, and tb* batik for Out sight will prot end. ■

j Clothing and $ Furnishing Goods

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