Show mckinley AS A LETTER WRITER THE 1 H E long delayed letter of candidate mckinley accepting the for the high office of president has made its appearance ind aud doubtless has been read and studied by all those who were interested I 1 in in the key note of the gold jandard tan dard republican party I 1 I 1 the document is lengthy and in I 1 I 1 a short article like this we cannot review it as fully as we would like but we will notice a few points aud and call attention to the weakness of part of his sophistry notwithstanding mckinley stands as the C greatest greatest apostle of protection and his name is the synonym of hl high gh tariff yet he discards the chronological order of the st louis platform and treats the moneal money question as the paramount issue of this campaign za in all 0 his labored argument on the silver question he has not adva advanced a single new idea or answered lo logically icalla a single objection to the present gold standard the gentleman says the republican party is not opposed to the use of silver money but he says bays 1 bimetallism cannot be secured cu red by independent action on our part he is like the man who called upon upon hercules to lift him out of the mire hercules told him to finst try and help himself which he did and to his surprise extricated himself with wilh ease As long as it is tu the interest of foreign countries tu to keep us where we are how long will it be ere we shall get their aid tu to establish bimetallism will answer while this would be president confesses our wea weakness kneis as a nation to fix our own financial policy in the same letter lie he assert our ability to regulate our commerce and trade through a high tariff which in some instances would amount to a prohibition in trade and yet all this is to be done without an international agreement in other words england a gold monarchy can dictate our money laws on account of our weakness but england as a free trade country cannot force us to imitate her 0 ou a account of our commercial i strength the narrow narrowness mess of the man is is shown in his remarks about the bullion and mine owner he says the rhe owner of bullion would get et a dollar for 53 cents worth of silver that it fit would belong to him and nobody else that other people would get it by labor or by al 6 giving ving something for it he then goes 0 on to show that these same dollars could not be kept on a par W th ith i gold and that they would at last become only 53 cenec dollars if this be true trae then will he please explain where the profit or benefit would come to the bullion on the other hand he says if the silver dollar could be kept equal to the gold dollar then we ve would have no cheats cheaper money anerth than now and be no easier ea to ta get ja after such a ludd lucia of if logic c the lackeye napo Napole qa must have feli feh weak the lin him is he like ano allo 5 r of no stam standard Aara gold with him gold is his god his only test of value the end of the law why is the silver in a silver dollar only worth 50 cents it is because the gold in a gold dollar is worth cents what we want to do is to reduce the unnatural I 1 value of gold by bringing it to the value of silver by giving silver an even start in the race statesman mckinley makes the absurd statement that no matter I 1 how plenty money money is it is just as ahard hard to get as if it was scarce the law of supply and demand hass has I 1 nothing to do with it according to his idea if they be true then why not abolish money altogether and end this vexed question 9 he admits that we have now more silver in circulation than gold thus conceding that we are now doing business on a silver basis with a gold standard but without the gold if this is not about as dishonest a kind of a dollar as can be imagined then we dont understand the ten commandments it is a dollar of false pretenses the claim to be on a gold basis when we have not two per cent of gold with which to pay our indebtedness he attempts to give respectability ity to the old lie that there was less than nine nine millions of silver dollars coined prior i or to 1873 he neglects to state that there was of silver coined prior to that date according to the official reports of the U S mint the object of his using the word dollars instead of the word silver was to mislead and deceive which is is unworthy hy a trul truly 7 great man of such high ambition he asserts we have now in circulation cu lation more silver than a number of other foreign counties in this statement he again goes astray as he says we have more silver money than france we have just more than france therefore he lacked just jt 12 per cent to telling the truth but what of W it does not mr mckinley know that we have almost double the population of france that the republic of france is but little larger in in area than the state of california he did not in inform form the country that while france is far behind us in commercial rank she is the most prosperous nation in all europe and that she is a bimetallic nation and has bas 1294 per capita in silver while we have only per capi 1 ta by implication he attempts to degrade the silver cause by reference to india china and mexico yet he does not tell the whole truth by saying that india only has per capita of all kinds of money china only and mexico another ridiculous position is assumed by the ex governor namely ac according cordius to his own figures the volume of money has bw decreased over in the last three Y years ears in this country aud and yet he gives it out that clahe the per capita f for or the nation too has been practically the same for the whole period perio dlf with a population increasing at the rate of two million mallion per year of dee reas and the vo volume lame money iv ing at the rate of twenty six mil year how the per lion hen dollars per can remain redwin the capita pita of money is ow one of the emblem the ordinary same game mind mina cannot unda understand goldbong candidate alone ahw cabi can lena M z N N he talks about op opening enin up the mills we need no more money but factories and mill the river has run dry the ferry feriv boat iq i stranded upon a sand ba bar r and is cracking and warping in in the un the owner i is despondent and lias has nothing to do mr fr McKin mckinley lev comes along and says says my friend friend why dont wu vou build more ferry boats if you ou had more boats and confidence vou you could make more money money this may mav sound all right but the owner onner on ner would undoubtedly sav say if there was plenty of water i in n the river river I 1 coull could do i very well with the boat I 1 now have when money is scarce the river river of trade is low everybody begins to economize they eat less wear less take less pleasure and buy less of the producer the producer in in turn produces less and cuts down his force of help and thus the laborer is out of employment and all suffer mr mckinley McKin lev has absolutely b sol failed to grasp the situation of his countrymen he sho shows ws himself to be the willing tool of the money money power and ready to carry carry out their demands he is is not a fr free ee man himself having been bought r and paid for by the hanna j syn syndicate dacate and he stands ready to deliver the goods but the people of af this country are not yet ready to turn our financial policy over to the n gold barons of england V and new 1 Y york ork after a careful reading t of this longwinded long winded effort it is clearly apparent to any any one that the author I 1 of this letter was trying to write to please his bosses and discharge a legal obligation rather than exar express es s the sentiments that hOne honestly StIV sug themselves to his mind the poor man had to perform a contract arid and he done the best he could with the material on hand |