Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — "DOUBLEFACED” DEMOCRACY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

"DOUBLEFACED” DEMOCRACY.

Charge Republicans with Lack of Principle Which They Practice. The Democratic clamor for a gold standard is of suph recent date that we may well Inquire whence its origin. It was not the Democratic policy of 1892, when the platform of the Democratic party, adopted at Chicago on June 22, 1892, read as follows: We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted through international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary tor the protection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and a fluctuating currency. This is a strictly bimetallic platform. It was the choice of the Democratic convention of 1892. It calls for “both gold and silver as the standard.” It calls for “the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal.” The Democratic, party has never authorized any change from this desire for a bimetallic standard, upon which it elected a President and a majority of both branches of Congress. Yet the Democratic administration has entirely repudiated its party’ platform, and a handful of Eastern Democratic papers, also utterly regardless of the Democratic platform, clamor for a gold standard exclusively. What Is It that has caused this “double-faced” dealing on the part of the Democrats? Was the platform of 1892 a mere .“double-faced” affair Intended to catch the votes of the West, while secretly trucking to the gold standard ideas of Wall street? Certainly it was. Yet we hear the “dou-ble-faced” Democrats howling about the financial views of Republicans, who have never been such advocates of bimetallism as the “double-faced” Democrats were, and as a majority of them are at the present time. Trade for Farmers —HOPS

Loa* of Reciprocity. In 1895 we bought from Latin American countries $246,582,000 worth of goods, admitting nearly 92 per cent, of them to our markets free of duty. We sold to those countries only $148,101,000 worth, every pound or yard of which was taxed by those countries at rates from sto 100 per cent. The balance of tAde against us with those countries we paid In gold, to the amount of $103,000,000. Lea* Money About. *’■ In June, 1892, before the present administration assumed office, the per capita circulation of money in the United States was $24.44. A year later, after the present administration’s assumption of power, It had fallen to $23.87, a loss of 0.57 per capita. At the beginning of this month, It was only $21.65, a loss tn circulation of $2.22 since 1893, and a lofts of $2.79 per capita since the protection period of 1892. How Figure. Talks,with woolen manufacturers do not bring to light an encouraging situation. The consensus of opinion seems to be that It is not now a question of figuring profits, but of figuring losses.— Wool and Cotton Reporter. Foreign Home Market? This foreign market, for which every tariff idealist and every Democratic free trader longingly sighs, is only

mythical in the present condition of our country. We should capture the home market first, and get full control of It, before we seek the foreign market. Wo cannot command a foreign market until we can control our own.—Hon. Wm. McKinley. Capturing the Markets. The exports of wheat from the United States for the past week were the smallest of any week since wheat sold at $1 a bushel. Since the fall of 1893 there has been a. general trend downward in our shipments abroad, while those of "Russia and Argentine have been gradually increasing.—Wall Street Daily News. What Americans Want. Uncle Sam ought to charge enough for the privilege of coming into his markets to yield him enough to pay all the expenses of the Government, with a handsome surplus each year to apply to the extinguishment of the national debt. Less than this should satisfy no true American.—Times-Herald, Chicago. Consumption of Corn. Bushels Year. per capita. 1892, McKinley protection SOBS 1895, “Tariff Reform” 16.98 Democratic loss of corn market per Capita of population.... 13.35 The Poverty Party. The Democratic party is the party of the poor.—New York Herald, Nov. 10, 1892. So “poor” in fact that the Herald had to collect and distribute free clothes in the following year. A Good Beason Why. Mr. Cleveland’s election will mean an end of squandering.—New York World, June 20, 1892. Because his tariff for deficiency only has given him nothing to squander. Exports of Cheese. Year. r Pounds. -1892, McKinley protection... .82,100,221 1895, “Tariff Reform” 40,800,934 Democratic loss to farmers. .41,299,287 Democratic Prosperity. Manufacturing failures, during twen-ty-three days of April, amounted to $4,602,556 in liabilities against $3,614,736 last year and $2,687,220 in 1894. A Strops Cambine. Work and wages is the workingman’s issue in this campaign.- San Francisco Call.

One Pound of Hops,Would Buy How much Sugar?