Excerpt from Shall We Debase Our Currency?

While the Democratic platform asserts on its face that Imperalism is the paramount issue of the present Presidential Campaign, yet one needs but read a little between the lines of the instrument in order to be satisfied that the cry of Imperalism is not sincere, and that the party itself does not apprehend the dangers so glaringly depicted in the platform. If they had faith in their assertions, a simple declaration of the principle maintained would have been sufficient. It was not necessary to inject a stump speech into their platform. The thing is so manifestly overdone that one is forced to the conclusion that there was some ulterior purpose in resorting to declamation and strong phrases upon a subject, which they could not help but know could not, in the very nature of things, be of any serious consequence to the people or their liberties. Undoubtedly, this ulterior purpose is to divert the attention of the people from the real issue of the campaign. That issue is the financial question.

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