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PARAMOUNT
QUESTIONS
Discussed Very Clearly by
Governor Roosevelt at
Grand Rapids.
Bryan's Financial Policy Ut
tt rly Ruinous.
An Appeal for the Honor and Interest
4
of the Country.
What the Success of the Aguinaldian
Bebels Would Mean.
ROOSEVELT ADDRESSED THREE
AUDIENCES YESTERDAY IN
MICHIGAN TOWNS PROSPERITY
OF THE COUNTRY DISCUSSED.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 7. Gov
ernor Roosevelt spoke here today, at
riving from Bay City, where he spoke
early this morning, and on his way here
making a brief address at Saginaw.
His speech in this city was in part as
follows:
"There are several great issues at
stake in this campaign, but of course
the greatest issue of all is the issue of
keeping the country on the plane of
material well being and honor to which
it lias been brought during the last four
years. I do not claim that President
McKinley's dmirable administration
and the wise legislation passed by con
gress whioh he has Sanctioned are sole
ly responsible for our present well be
ing, but I do claim that it is this ad
ministration and this legislation which
have rendered it possible for the Amer
ican .people to achieve such well being.
X insist furthermore that the one and
only way to insure widespread .(indus
trial and social ruin would be now to
reverse the policy under which we hav
so prospered and to try that policy of
financial -disgrace and economic disas-.
ter which we rejected In '96. Our op
ponents now advance the most extraor
dinary arguments that have ever been
advanced in a presidential campai'Ti
by any party on behalf of its presiden
tial nominee. .They have reaffirmed
specifically their entire '96 platform
and yet they insist vigorously that all
they considered of most vital import
ance in '96 shall now be relegated to a
subordinate place, and. more extraor
dinarily still, they actually ask that
Mr. Bryan and a democratic house be
elected, because the senate will remain
republican anyhow, so that the presi
dent and the house won't be able to do
much harm. Think of it, gentlemen!
This is the position taken actually by
not a few of our opponents and espe
cially by the men who know that Mr.
Bryan's financial policy is' utterly ruin
ous, but who- want to give tnemseives
some excuse .for voting against Presi
dent McKinley because, forsooth,
President McKinley has been to active
in upholding the honor of the flag. Mr.
Bryan himself is sufficiently strident
when he talks about these figments of
disordered brains, militarism and Im
perialism; yet he coos as mildly as a
sucking dove when he whispers his un
changed devotion to free sliver.
BRYAN'S DEVOTION TO FREE SIL
VER.
"Now dt is worth while remembering
that if the question of the unsettlement
of our currency is raised in any cam
paign it must be one of the paramount
issues. The other ay in accepting the
populist nomination Mr. Bryan was
careful to point out how little he and
they differed in essentials on the
greenback question. He Is quite right.
Both are believers in fiat money; what
particular kind of flat money is neces
sarily a minor detail. It mak5s no dif
ference whether free silver or fiat mon
ey is championed as the first or'second
issue so long as it is championed at all,
save that to subordinate it as an issue
removes the last Justification for rais
ing the issue at all. The one element
more essential than any other to the
prosperity of a great civilized nation is
a sound ancl stable currency. The only
possible excuse for jeopardizing the
prosperity of the whole nation by at
tacking its system of currency is a con-
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viction so intense that the Issue must
of necessity be a burning one. If our
opponent's do not regard the sliver is
sue' as a paramount Issue, then they
have been guilty of gross wrong to
their fellow countrymen in raising It
at all. As a matter of fact it s para
mount, and the attitude of the populist
1c democracy in trying to keep it out of
sight east of the Mississippi, while In
sisting on their adherence to it west of J
the Mississippi, is In itself enough to
discredit them in the eyes of all good
citizens, whether republicans or genu
ine democrats. Moreover the attitude
is entirely futile. The leaders among
our opponents are doubtless uneasily
conscious that their free silver policy
would be disastrous to the welfare of
our country; but having played the
part of demagogues they must now
reap the fruits of their action. If they
came into power their mere possession
of power would throw this country into
convulsions of disaster. They would be
obliged to make war upon the prin
ciples of sound finance. The victory of
Mr. Bryan would mean such a
strengthening of the foes of honest
money as to powerfully impress every
wavering mind in the senate, so that
free silver legislation could probably
pass both houses; and no secretary of
the treasury who would accept office
under Mr. Bryan could do anything
but follow a course of action which
would plunge our financial system into
ohaos. If the farmer, the business
man and the wage worker want pros
perity to continue they must make up
their minds that the incoming of Mr.
Bryan would mean terrible and wide
spread disaster.
AS TO TRUSTS.
"A word as to trusts. Beyond a ques
tion the great industrial combinations,
which we group in popular parlance
under the name of trusts, have pro
duced great and serious evils. There is
every reason why we should try to
abate these evils and to make men, of
wealth, whether they act individually
or collectively bear their full share of
the country's burdens, and keep as
scrupulously withinCthe bounds of
equity and morality efe any of their
neighbors. But wild and frantic de
nunciations does not do them the least
harm and simply postpones the day
when we can make them amenable to
proper laws. Immoderate attack al
ways invites reaction and often defe-t.
Moderation combined with resolut'on
can alone secure results worth having.
Let me point out tg you that within the
last two years we have in New York
established a franchise tax under
which the corporations which owe most,
to the state, but which had hitherto
largely escaped taxation, have been re
quired to pay their just share of taxa
tion. This law has resulted in putting
on the assessment books nearly $200,
000,000 of property which had heretofore
escaped taxation. It represents ten
times over more than our opponents
ever in that state, or so far as I know
in any other state, have done to remedy
the inequalities which can justly be
complained of; and yet we did it with
out any demagogic outcry, and we did
it in no anarchic spirit, but simply as
the friends of order ard liberty, of
property and individual rights, who in
tended temperately but firmly insist
upon justice for all. In other worS"
we made our performance square wit1
our promise. We find a particnla-l-flagrant
trust, the Ice trust, the leader
of the democratic party in my state
and the man who ran against me or
governor stands foremost among the
stockholders, the same 'stockholders in
cluding a number of New York city offi
cials, and this in spite of the fact that
the city itself has dealings with the
trust. Such a condition of affairs calls
but for scant comment from me. You
can hope but for little from men who in
other words play the demagogue about
trusts, but you can hope for infinitely
less when these very men join to public
denunciation of trusts private owner
ship of them.
FOR COUNTRY'S HONOR AND IN-
TEREST.
In many points there is a curious
similarity between this campaign of
1900 and the campaign of 1S64, when
President Lincoln was re-elected. Not
since' the close of the civil war have we
ever had an administration Which did
so muoh to uphold the honor and in
terests of America as President Mc
Kinley's, and not since the close of the
civil war not een in 1868 or 1896 has it
been of such vital consequences to over
whelm a political party as It now is,
for the success of our opponents would
mean to the country a disaster fnught
with the gravest consequence. There
is a close similarity between the argu
ments used by the populistic democ
racy at this moment and by their ana
logues, the copperheads of 1864; and
exactly as in 1864 so now we appeal for
the support of all good citizens. We
have a right to ask that the old line
democrats will stand with us, f r the
old line democrats always . champoned
hard money and expansion . Moreover,
more fortunate than in 1864, we can
now appeal to all good men north and
south, east and west, to the sons of the
men who wore the blue and 'the .sans of
the men who wore the gay altk.e. Not
only wlas the Spanish war the most
righteous foreign war trndertaken by
any nation during the . lifetime of the
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OUR REPLY
: ' TO FRANCE
Not Ready for a Triple Alli
ance With France and
Russia.
Will ThisSReply Cause Bus
sia to Recede?
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With-
drawn Fn m City.
Li Askg if United States Will Furnhh
HimEscor toPekin.
RUSSIA'S ATTITUDE THOUGHT TO
MEAN THAT SHE WILL NOT GO
FAR FROM THE FORMER CHI
NESE CAPITAL POWERS LIKE
LY TO TURN DOWN HER PRO
POSAL. Washington, Sept. 7. France,
through her charge d'affaires, Thie
balt, yesterday sounded the United
States as to the intention of this gov
ernment in the event of France and
Russia standing together for withdraw
al from Pekin. Almost simultaneously
the American ambassador, Porter, was
informed by the French government
that its answer to Russia would be in
favor of withdrawing. This answer,
however, was held awaiting a reply by
the United States to Thiebalt's ques
tion, which was promptly made by the
United States to the effect hhat this
government does not deem it expedient
to act precipitate!yor to elaborate on
its declaration promulgated in its cir
cular of August 29 replying to Russia's
proposition.
It is the belief of officials that now as
France has received this government's
reply she may in her answer to Rus
sia make it easy for Russia to recede
from her position.
LI ASKS FOR AN ESCORT.
Washington, Sept. 7. The Chinese
minister, who returned from Cape May
today, called on Acting Secretary of
State Hill and conferred for an hour.
It is understood that one object of his
call was to find out whether the Unit
ed States would furnish an escort of
American troops to accompany Li
Hung Chang to Pekin. It is believed
the government would be willing to
provide an escort if the powers agree to
have Li proceed to Pekin.
POWERS WILL REJECT PROPOSAL
London, Sept. 8. Tt is now regarded
as certain that a majority of powers
will reject the Russian preposition
looking to the evacuation of Pekin by
the allies. It ;s thought tl-at Russia is
willing to rescind the orders ;.-r the
withdrawal of her troops since the at
titude of the powers show a difference'
from her opinion. It is believed 1he
final declaration of policy of the pwm-s
will not be made until Salisbury re
turns to London.
The Telegraph prints a Canton de
spatch, dated September o, saying tHat
acting viceroy has recived an impe
rial edict in which the f-mperor accuses
himself of having been the cause of al
lowing matters to rea-c'.i the present
desperate crisis. He orders the vice
roys and governors to maintain peace-
everywhere, to punish turbulence and
protect the foreigners snd Christian,
converts. The despatch adds that the
emperor has notified ,Li Hung Chang to
negotiate peace with the powers .
WALDERSBE AT COLOMBO.
Colombo, Sept. 7. Count Von Wal
dersee, commander in chief of the al
lied troops in China, arrived here this
morning. After spending a few
hours ashore the cdunt resumed his
voyage.
MONEY FOR TROOPS IN CHINA.
San Francisco, Sept. 7. The steame-
China, which has sailed from Hong
Kong, carried nearly $1,600,000 in gold
and silver currency for United States
troops in China.
LUMBER FOR MILITARY POST AT
TAKU.
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the troops in the orient. She will come
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2,500,000 feet, taking also 600 doors and
800 windows and then will sail for
Taku, China. The war department is
to establish a cantonment or temporary
post at Taku.
CONGER APPROVES.
New York, Sept. 7. A despatch to
the Herald from Tien Tsin, August 28.
via Chefoo, September 3, and Shanghai,
September 5 says:
"It is reported that the American
minister approves of inviting Li Hung
Chang to lekin to negotiate on behalf
of China; Those who know this viceroy
best regard him as insincere, incapable
and unreliable. In Pekin the govern
ment is dead. It means the paruuon
or the maintaining of an independent
provincial government."
TALKING COMPROMISE.
Paris, Septt. 7. Active negotiations
are in progress "(looking to some com
promise arrangement with Russia re
garding the position she has assumed
towards Pekin. The communications
exchanged between the powers now
have bettter promises of success. The
compromise suggested, it is asserted.
the withdrawal of the forces of all
the powers from Pekin, leaving an in
ternational guard to protect the lega
tions, which, it is furl: her asserted In
Paris, will be allowed to remain at the
Chinese capital pending a peace settle
ment. The main bodv of troons. it i
also said, will retire to the neighbor
hood of Tien Tsin, leaving sufficient
orces along !the road to keeD oDen the
route and railroad between Pekin and
Tien Tsin. Russias attitude is inter
preted as meaning that she will' with
draw her troops outside Ithe walls of
Pekin, but not necessarily a great dis
tance from that city.
LA9YBR4ND FMCUATED.
British Forces Abandon the Orange
River Colony Town.
London, Sept. 7. The British have
evacuated Ladybrand, in the southeast
ern part of the Orange River colony.
London, Sept. 7. Lord Roberts re
ports from Belfast, Transvaal, under
date of Wednesday, September 5, as
follows :
"Ian Hamilton traversed Dulstroom
yesterday with slight opposition. Bul
ler engaged the enemy's left this morn
ing. Hamilton is endeavoring to turn
the enemy's right. Boers with two
guns and one pom-pom this morning
attacked 125 Qcraadian ..mounted infan
try guarding the railway between Pan
and Wondersfontein. Mahon oroceed-
ed to their assistance, but the little
garrison had beaten off the enemy be
fore he arrived. It was a very credit
able performance. The wounded were
Major Handers and Lieutenant Mood-
ie, slightly, and two men. Six men
are missing."
OVATION TO BADEN-POWELL.
Cape Town, Sept. 7. General Baden-
Powell arrived here this morning. In
spite of the early hour of his arrival a
great public ovation was given in his
honor. The crowd carried him on
their shoulders from the railway sta
tion to the government building, a dis
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STRIKE WILL
BE ORDERED
Jrl : ST '"'
Anthracite Miners Will Prob
ably be Called Out
Tonight. 1
149.000 Miuers WiJ! b- Af
fected. Operators Submit a Late Proposition
to Arbitrate.
Illinois Miners Have a Large Defense
Fund
THE NATIONAL BOARD OF MINE
WORKERS IN CLOSED SESSION
ALL DAY YESTERDAY AT INDI
ANAPOLIS. Indianapolis, Sept. 7. While the ex
ecutive board of the "United Mine
Workers of America refuse to make
any statement in respect to today's
proceedings it may be stated with posi
tiveness that a strike will be declared
upon tomorrow. President Mitchell
said tonight that a great number of tel
egrams had been received urging the
board to take offensive action and de
claring that the miners would support
the board to a man. He added that the
board felt confident if the strike was
ordered it would be responded to to a
man. Several members of the board
expressed the opinion tonight that a
strike would be ordered. They said
they didn't speak for the board but as
individuals.
President Mitchell said the strike
would effect 149,000 miners.
ORDER TO BE ISSUED TONIGHT.
Wilkesbarre, Sept. 7. The anthracite
miners have been assured that an or
der for strike will be issued Saturday
night to be effective Monday ..The lead
ers of the miners are doing all they can
to make the response as general as pos
sible. They claim 80 per cent will
sirtke. District officers of the United
Mine Workers today issue a statement
offering to submit the grievances to ar
bitration.
PREPARING FOR THE STRIKE.
Indianapolis, Sept. 7. The national
board of United 'Mine Workers of
America went into closed session at 10
o'clock this morning. "We will certain
ly issue the order for a general strike,
and the country may as well be satis
fied with this statement," said one of
the board members. "We care little
what the operators have to say as to
the impending distress in the Wyoming
and other valleys. We are running
things from Indianapolis now. The
satemerit that there will be great dis
tress does not ?vorry us; we will take
care of our me!n if they go on a strike
and will not aikthe operators for any
financial aid."?
It was announced today that Ithe
large defense fund held by the Illinois
miners cannot be used without the
consent of the loeal unions. One of
the features, of the conference is ' the
attendance of several prominent men
who are not board members. W. D.
Ryan, secretary and treasurer of the Il
linois miners, is on the ground. The
Illinois men have a defense fund of
nearly $200,000, and 8t is reported that
Ryan is here to pledge the Illinois or
ganization in behalf of financial sup
port in case a general anthracite
sltrike is ordered. The Illinois miners
ijove been contributing (largely to the
strikers of the northwest, but their de
fense fund is the largest ever accumu
lated by a state organization of coal
miners. J. M. Hunter, president of
the Illinois miners, is in England, at
tending the British labor congress. Mr.
Ryan's presence here lends color to the
reports that Ithe national board is
carefully preparing to "whip" the bitu
minous operators into a position where
no relief can be given the anthracite
operators after a strike is on.
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