Carl Schurz

“ In short, the Republicans, controlling both the legislative and the executive branches of the Government, will, next Winter, have ample power and opportunity to do what they ought to have done at the last session — to put the currency law in such a shape that the gold standard cannot possibly be shaken by executive action, no matter who may occupy the Presidential Chair — and thus remove, to that extent at least, the basis of our monetary system from the changeful game of party politics. ”

“ Secretary, that the danger set forth by you in your interviews really exists, and that any President will be able to do what you say might be done, unless the Republican Party, in control of the Government in both its legislative and executive branches, prove itself utterly dishonest in its professed purpose to maintain the gold standard. ”

“ Do you see any reason for doubting that Congress at its next session will do this? It is quite evident that, if there is any substance at all in your predictions of disaster, the Republicans in Congress cannot refuse to do it without proving that the professed solicitude of the Republican Party for the maintenance of the gold standard is arrant hypocrisy. ”