Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — Republican And Inter Ocean [ARTICLE]

Republican And Inter Ocean

Omaha has now a fine opportunity to obtain a presidential nominating convention. That room at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition which is to be papered with cancelled farm mortgages would be an extremely interesting place for a free-silver convention in 1900. Some curious student of political history has dug out the fact that fourteen men who occupied the presidential chair have favored annexation of Hawaii and an equal number of men holding the position of Secretary of State. President McKinley and the Republican party seem to be in pretty good company in their efforts in behalf .of this important step.

If anybody had any doubt about the views of the Republican party upon the proposition to pay the obligations of the nation in anything but the best money the world affords, President McKinley and the House of Representatives have put that doubt at rest. But why discuss such a question? The record of the Republican party for loyalty and good faith makes it unnecessary.

The free-silver orators who insisted in 1896 that farm products could not advance without the free coinage of silver would do well to look up the prices at which wheat sold in Chicago last week before they attempt to use their old manuscript in the campaign of 1898. Wheat at sl.lO in a country which has rejected the free coinage of silver as this one did in 1896 is not a very strong argument in favor of the theory which the) attempted to force upon the farmers in the last Presidential campaign.

The January customs receipts under (lie Dingley law were more than 25 per cent, in excess of the customs receipts in January of last year under the Wilson law. Mr. Dingley and his associates have good reason to be satisfied with the new revenue measure which they placed upon the statute book six months ago. It has since that time produced far more revenue than did the Wilson law in the first six months of its operations, and there is every reasou to believe that it will supply from this time forward sufficient receipts to meet the running expenses of the Government. "Nothing should ever tempt us —nothing will ever tempt us —to scale down the sacred the nation through a legal technicality. Whatever may be the language of the contract, the United States will discharge all of its obligations in the currency recognized as the best throughout the civilized world at the times of payment. Nor will we over consent that the wages of labor or its fugal savings shall be scaled down by permitting payment in dollars of lobs value thnn the dollars accepted as the very best in every enlightened nation of the earth. * * * It will not suffice for citizens nowdays to say simply that they are in favor of spurn! money. That is not enough. The people's purpose must be given the vitality of publio law. Better an honest effort, with failuro than the avoiding of so plain and commanding a duty.”—From President MoKinley’s speech at Now York, January 28, 1898. McFarland & Henkle pays the highest market price for produce.

We have again completed arrangements to club with the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean. The Semi-Weekly Republican, $1.50 per year and the Weekly Inter Ocean, $1 per year, .will both be sent for $1.85 per year. The arlangement with the Inter Ocean is good only until May Ist, 1898. A man with * family wants a steady job on a farm, with a house to live in. Applicant is sober, industrious and an experienced and farmer. Fof\ further information, apply at this office. w 3.

I have private funds to loan on real estuto at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and tliero is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east —absolutely no red tape. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand.

W. B. AUSTIN.