23 US 1380.13 HARVARD COLLEGE NOV 15, 1906 LIBRARY US 1380. 14.7 EDITOR'S NOTICE. The subjects treated in this volume are classified in alphabetical order, each article being introduced in BLACK-FACED LETTERS, and numbered through. Example: Advancement-American, No. 6, page 6, is one of a series of short articles on Advancement. It is also indicated in the index under Advancement-American and American Advancement. Use the Index, as many cross-references will aid you. Articles relating to SILVER will also be found under Coin, Coinage, Gold and Money, as all can not appear under one head. The tables and figures used have been taken from the official reports of the Government. THOS. H. MCKEE, Editor A. D. 1896. 28TH ELECTION PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES द ISSUES. American Honor and American Interest. Coin, whether of Gold or Silver, must be Equal to the Best. Financial Integrity, and Money Enough to Pay All Bills. Gold and Silver, Equal Dollars, for All Business. Home Markets for American Products. Imports must Always be Kept Below the Exports. Judiciary of the U. S. Must not be Tampered With. Keep in he Middle of the Road. Labor Employed Means Elevation, Dignity, and Education for the the Home. McKinley and Hobart Elected, Means Business and Employment. Nation's Honor Must be Maintained. Ownership of Railroads by National Government Opposed by Republican Party. Pensions for the Veterans of the War Equal to the Pledge of the Quorum-counting by Speaker Reed Justified now by Democrats. Tariff to Protect American Labor and Encourage Home Industry. Voters Have an Opportunity: Vote for McKinley and Business. X-roads-Republicanism or Populism-Which Way? Your Opportunity to Restore Business; Vote It. All matter in this volume is arranged in alphabetical order by sections, the BLACK FACE LETTERS indicating the subjects. ABANDONED—Bryan and the Chicago Platform. No. 1. The gathering at Chicago is far from being a representative convention of the great Democratic party of the country. Its majority is simply a howling mob of Populists, free-silverites and Anarchists, dominated by Altgeld and swayed by Tillman. The leaven of good sense and honest purpose supplied in the persons of the gold-standard minority fails to have any appreciable effect. The convention has been swung away from true Democratic principles, and is moving in a course that promises to absolve all honest Democrats from allegiance to its declarations or fealty to the candidates it may place before the people. It is idle to expect that honest, sincere, self-respecting Democrats throughout the country will sustain the farce now being enacted at Chicago in the name of Democracy. ABASEMENT of the Democratic Party Confessed. No. 2. Dominated by men who are strangers to the Democracy and by ideas even more grotesque in their novelty, the Chicago Convention has named leaders who are not Democrats and adopted a platform which is not Democratic. By its revolutionary and sectional fury, by its shameful indorsement of the Republican and Populistic heresies of cheap silver and greenbackism, by its cowardly abandonment of tariff reform, and by its amazing demand for the restoration of the barbarous spoils system, no less than by the nomination of men wholly unfit, the Chicago Convention absolves all Democrats from allegiance to its candidates and its pr iples. * ** * Democracy has been humiliated, but it has not been destroyed. It still lives, a prodigious force for good, a terror to evil. Rising again in all the majesty of the power of the ever-living truth, it will smite with mailed hand the traitors and mercenaries who, in its honored name, have raised the somber flag of financial shame and the blocker fag of disunion and hate. ABDICATE—Democrats Won't Support Revolution. [New York Staats Zeitung (Dem.).] No. 3. Thus has the convention challenged to combat against its tenets every spark of conservatism and civic virtue and intelligence. It is wholly immaterial whom the convention may choose to place upon such a platform. The candidate of a party with such a policy must be defeated and the party itself annihilated. The very existence of the Union depends upon it. The abominable gang which has adopted this platform has forfeited the right to co-operate in the management of the affairs of the Union. It would be idle to argue with the party which this convention pretends to represent upon the basis on which the Chicago Convention enters into the campaign of 1896. Unless the minority defeated in Chicago proceed to form a new political organization, there is in this campaign only one party for which an elector who does not want to support revolution can consistently vote, and this is the Republican party. If that party should, for a long time to come, be once more enthroned in power, it has nobody to thank but that same wretched and infamous crowd. ABRAHAM LINCOLN—Advice to Voters. No. 4. In 1864 Mr. Lincoln said: "That some may be rich shows that others may become rich. and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one for himself; thus, by example, assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built." No, 5. ADVANCE—Civilization and Money Material, Looking over the whole field of monetary history the one fact which stands out clear and indisputable in this: As civilization advances and commercial transactions become more numerous and complicated, there has been an advance in the money material of the world. The advance is from the more to the less perishable, from the more uncertain to the more definite, from the coarser to the finer material. In cruder times we are told that cowry shells, cattle, tobacco, and the skins of animals have been the standard money. There have been used iron, copper, brass, silver, and gold. That copper is a better material for money than cattle, silver better than ADVANCE-Continued. copper, and gold better than silver is not an accident of history, nor an incident of modern politics. It is but the outgrowth of the fundamental law of progress, the law of the survival of the fittest. The qualities of each, combined with the accessible quantities, determine which is the most desirable to man, and therefore which is the most valuable, and neither civil law nor party necessity can reverse the law of human nature. In the present political struggle theorists and extremists are attempting to reverse the verdict of history as shown by experience. The Republican party, with its established reputation for espousing the cause of the oppressed, is once more found holding up the cause of debased money, guaranteeing to silver its full use as standard money by pledging the national faith and national honor to keep all our silver coin equal to the best coin of the most enlightened nations. No. 6. ADVANCEMENT-American. In 1892, after the census statistics of 1890 had exhibited the progress of the United States between 1880 and 1890, Mr. Mulhall, the celebrated English statistician, in his work entitled The Balance Sheet of the World, stated in a single paragraph his conclusion as to the wonderful prosperity of this country. This was just before the election of 1892, an election that decreed that the Democratic party should be given the complete control of this country. Mr. Mulhall said: "It would be impossible to find in history a parallel to the progress of the United States in the last ten years. Every day that the sun rises upon the American people it sees the addition of two and one-half millions of dollars to the accumulation of wealth in the Republic, which is one-third of the daily accumulation of all mankind outside of the United States." For thirty years this unparalleled prosperity in this land under Republican rule and protective policy had been going on, and in the ten years from 1880 to 1890, according to Mr. Mulhall, this prosperity had reached a magnitude unparalleled in the history of the world. And yet there are those who are trying to make the people believe that some legislation respecting the unlimited coinage of silver in 1873-legislation which operated from 1879 to 1892, during this period of unparalleled prosperity, precisely as it has since 1892-is the cause of the woes of the past three years. |