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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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is to weaken the position of banks and moneybrokers—than in the details of their modus operandi.This party is the only one of the four in the field thatis squarely committed to immediate free-silver coin-age at the 16 to 1 ratio. monetary questions, the tailff, immigration, alienland-holding, railroads, mob law, public money andsectarian schools, arbitration and a seventh day ofrest, and comparatively little to say on the prohibi-tion issue. There was a debate on silver, and thefree-coinage plank originally reported was finallyforced out of the platform. Our prohibition friendsare now the declared enemies of a protective tariff,are by implication in favor of free coinage, are com-mitted to the doctrine of the direct issue of treasurynotes for money, are -with the Peoples party in de-manding government control of railroads and tele-graphs, are against all alien land-holding, and are infavor of womans suffrage. The Peoples party, bythe way, does not mention this suffrage question, and
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GEN. JOHN BIDWELL, OF CALIFORNIA,Prohibitionist Candidate for Presidency. The Prohibition ^^® Prohibitionists are a doughty andParty unterrified folk, but this is not their in 7 /?09 year. Their convention at Cincinnatiundertook to widen the range of the Prohibitionistscreed so far as possible, and most of the delegateswould have been glad to fuse with the Peoples partyif that organization could have been induced to putin its platform a resolution favoring the total sup-pression of the liquor traffic. The Cincinnati meet-ing was large and full of militant ardor, and itadopted a ))latform that has a great deal to say about REV. J. B. CRANFILL, OF TEXAS,Prohibitionist Candidate for Vice-Presidency. the Prohibitionists are alone in their support of thereform. Questions like prohibition cannot be keptburning at white heat all the time, and the supportersof the Cincinnati convention must be content tooccupy fourth place in the publics attention throughthe pending campaign. General John Bi

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