Show I KR GAGES SOOTHING SYRUP SPEECH Secretary Gages Boston speech has elicited much commendation from the 1 McKinley and gold papers generally I but it receives none from that most I thorough of all the gold papersthe New York Evening Post It says the speech was rather in the nature of a 1 I dose of soothing syrup than of a thoroughgoing thor-oughgoing remedy of our financial situation sit-uation In this respect it thinks that it was far less encouraging than his speech at Cincinnati a few weeks ago as the latter had a tone which betokened betok-ened that the administration knew what It wanted intended to go for it and expected to get it It says the Cincinnati speech did much good in I the way of reviving confidence at home and abroad In his speech the secretary said On the financial side there is really non no-n > d for pressing haste There is certainly cer-tainly no immediate occasion for anxiety anx-iety With ample reserves in the treasury with financial centers in a I iuli supply of loanable funds with interest invitingly low with crop prospects pros-pects most promising and a good market mar-ket favorably assured with new mineral min-eral resources coming into view with a territorial area sufficient to carry Its present population many times multiplied multi-plied with a people advancing in the elements of intelligence and character who dare indulge in doleful forecasts I Onthis the Post comments in these I words This is exactly what the donothings I in congress tell us and now they will strengthen their own position by quoting quot-ing the secretary All that he says now will be usedagalnst his own plan I of currency reform next winter no i I matter what that plan may be The donothings will sayWhy not let well I enough alone If there is no pressing press-ing need for haste and no immediate occasion for anxiety the average congressman con-gressman will conclude that It will be time enough to meet the danger when it comes It will be hard for anybody to meet that argument who has once used something like it himself Secretary Gage must be considered the officialspokesman of the administration adminis-tration on the financial question so that what he says is entitled to the weight of authority If there is no pressing need for haste immediatc occasion for anxiety why was there such haste to send the Wolcott commission com-mission to Europe Why such anxiety anx-iety to have congress authorize the appointment ap-pointment of a currency commission this anxiety forcing the president to send a currency message to congress on the afternoon of the very day that congress adjourned The fact of that message and I the statement of Secretary Secre-tary Gage are in direct conflict I The financial question is a Slough of I Despond to the McKinley administration administra-tion Let it flounder there |