Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — Plain English At St. Louis! [ARTICLE]

Plain English At St. Louis!

All the diversified arts and industries are represented in the endorsement the people give reciprocity. It is clear the repeal of the reciprocity treaties was not a response to a popular demand. The revoking of the treaties that meant so much to American enterprise was consistent with the Democratic course of opposition to everything of Republican origination. It was inconsistent, however, with the talk of opening foreign markets to Americans, with which Democratic speakers rounded out stump speeches. The system inaugurated by Republicans, is the only one by which foreign markets may be secured for home producers, without sacrificing home industries. One loss that results from the revoking of the treaties of the McKinley law, is the flour export trade to countries South of us, amounting to $16,000,000 yearly.

On the gold standard, universal among fiirst-class and progressive nations, the people of the United States, notwithstanding the disaster of a civil war, have written the most glorious chapter in the history of human progress. On the gold standard, which has been their standard since 1834, the people of tfae United States have cleared the forests, opened up the mines, bridged the rivers, planted the grain belts, established the cattle industry and founded the great communities of the northwest On the gold standard the south recovered with phenomenjd qdick-

mess from the ravages of War and added to a single staple paanifold industries inaugurating a new era, making if a manufacturing as well as an agricultural region. But for the gold standard and the honor of the United States babking paper and silver with gold neither the northwest nor the southawOuld be known jn civilization as they are to-day. " 1 On the gold standard the east and the midland have been Able not only to do their own share in -making the United States first of manufacturing countries but also to assist the west and the south with surplus capifai without which the national growth would have been seriously retarded. On the gold standard American credit has commanded the money centers of Europe and procured the wealth which, turned ifito energy in the United States, has brought together American labor and American natural resources in an unprecedented combination of power, materials and skill, making the country foremost in every moral and material attribute. The gold standard is indispensable to the future of the United States as it has been invaluable to its past. The platform at St. Louis must reassert the present gold standard of the United States in positive and unequivocal terms. Plain English at St. Louis!— Times-Herald.