Show I THE AUDACITY OF DELAY President Me t Kinley is not a bold boh boldman d man He shrinks from litis It required no boldness f fo for or him to o champion a 3 high tariff meas mea s ure That Tha was was- e expected of him I It would have required boldness fo for him to have done don anything less His is very name is the synonym synonym for a n high tariff He was wac not elected o othe on a the tariff question any more than a Presbyterian clergyman is chosen chose n because of his adherence to Cal Cal- The rhe Republican party i ithe is s the party of protection and he is the cheif priest of the church Buthe But Buthe Buthe he was was was' elected expressly on the money question It was claimed for him that he knew knew all ail I about financial affairs He was supported by Gold Democrats who were better gold standard men than tan Democrats and he was supported Silver Republicans Republic who were better Republicans than they were silver men He was chosen as the exponent exponent exponent expo expo- nent of the British system of money He was bound hand and foot to the chariot of the gold goM kings He is locked up in the cave where the worlds world's great Shylocks ls confine their captives and the key of its door is in inthe inthe inthe the possession of the British Gover Gover- ment which alone has the power to let him out into the free air breathed breath breath- ed by bimetallists Mr McKinley assigned assign d his Administration in ad advance advance ad ad- vance to the great bankers of Wallstreet Wall Wallstreet Wallstreet street and they conveyed an equal share of the property to the bankers of London and Frankfort It is now demanded of him hint by his taskmasters that he shall procure legislation in in accordance with the terms of the assignment The greenbacks green backs must be retired the legal tender tender ten ten- der quality of the silver dollars must I be destroyed and they must ally aljy be Le sold in the market as silver bullion Mushroom banks must I j I spring everywhere enriched with ai a aI thousand millions of bank notes i I costing them nothing their redemption 1 tion lion to be secured by nothing unless by the Government itself and that I w without consideration n This Thi bank paper is not notto t to be a legal tender Nothing r coin coin is to be good i i r which t to par pay debts eb s iI K I J h r lJ f t 4 v 14 while the irredeemable irredeemable- bank n notes tes ar are good enough to lend to people for or the creation of such debts Whoever has has anything to pawn can borrow v orro bank rag money upon it but I when he be hepa pa pays s the loan he must pay it in ia gold gald This is tt the scheme which the banking power now demands de mands from fram the the- party which its money placed in in- power The President is is terrified at atthe the thought of its exposure He refuses for r the time ime being to redeem his pledge And no wonder It Ii is a villainous It is is- isas as dishonest t as ashe the he green goods g game me It proposes to o burn up good money and sub sub- sH ute rags in its place for the bone bene benefit fit of men who are willing ing to play a confidence game upon upon- the people under the false guise of banking It n is creditable to President McKinley McKinley McKinley Mc- Mc Kinley that he s should shrink and tremble on the brink of this dark river rJ river ver I But we say to the President t that the boldness of delay is greater than would be the boldness even of of bad action Capital and labor are both slowly miring down into morass in into in- in to which John and his worthy successor Grover Cleveland have led them They cry out aloud in in their distress There is more audacity in in keeping them in the dark as t tJ j what is comin coming hin hu tier would be in the wil wildcat cat scheme of the bankers and battling for it in Congress If the county country is to be plunged into lOtO still greater distress by making gold coin th the e only legal tender and then ing it with a volume of rag move woney ten times ss as s great as the gold on which it must be based to be worth anything at all let the blow v fall fal now but ut let the countr country be spared torture threatened by the Secretary of the Treasury It is sheer impudence impudence dence Bence to tell the people that th the Congress they have chosen is by bythe the President deemed incompetent to legislate and that a President who confesses confess s his own inability to make a r. r recommendation shall be empowered ered eyed by Congress to appoint an OH out sid side commission by guess work to perform the constitutional duty o of Congress The President cannot canno hi hide behind the commission even i if he could s secure cure the authority o n of f Congress to appoint one THe con constitution says say's he shall make recommendations to Congress and h he e cannot shirk the responsibility b by y putting nutting forward at some time in ir the far future the recommendations o of f som somebody body else without his own indorsement Let Jet the people say sav to the hide and seek Administration Administration as Hamlet said to the mock players Leave off thy shy damnable faces an and Cincinnati begin Cincinnati Enquirer inquirer |