Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-02-05
TIE PLATFORMS.

we tnlS week present our readers with the
Platforms of both branches Of the professed
Democracy, adopted at their recent Conven
tons in Columbus. Their objects seem to he
10 destroy the banks, and 10 collect the taxes
in gold and silver. How is this TO be done
under free trade, which calls for all, and more
than all The specie we have, to foot the for
eign bill against us, is moie than we can tell
With more than four hundred and twenty
millions OF dollars against us now, and still to
advocate free trade, which would largely aug
ment that balance, is thing which cannot be
advocated by a we'll wisher Of the American
people. We have long seen the tendency of
the locofocos and ptotessed free democracy To
this point, and have warned our readers, from
lime to time, against them. All disguise is
now thrown oil, and they stand before the
country the real advocates of the British, and
the direct opponents of true American in.
tercsts
Let every reader carefully examine these
platforms. Ii is hard to tell which would, il
carried out, the soonest destroy our country.
True. both profess to be opposed to slavery,
yet both advocate measures which will con
tInue that curse upon the country, by striking
down free laJQr-thus making them tributary
to the slaveocracy. No true Whg no true
friend of the vital interests OF the country,
can support either of them. Let the Wing
party, then. more firmly than ever, adhere To
their principles and their party. 1t is the
only party in the nation which advocate mea-
sures that would make our country indepen-
dent.
We may be in the minority. and not be al
lowed to direct the policy of the Government
but that should not make us falter for a
moment. The attempt of the locofocos and
the little handful Of the protested free demo-
cracy to distract and divide the Wings must
be defeated. That il will be defeated, We
have no doubt.
Matters are now in very similar situation
to what they were in 1887, only on larger
scae-snd the explosion Of the blown up bub-
Bile is bound to come. sooner or later. When
that time comas-when the country is totally
prostrated-thea the Wings will be dalled
upon to take hold of the helm, and right the
great ship Of State. Such was the case be-
fore, and such will no doubt be the case
again. -n
What does it amountt to that We are getting
millions of gold from California; Our Eu-
ropean Indebtedness calls for more than we
are receiving, and that Indebtedness is rapid
y increasing. 1t matters not who owes the
money to Europe. When it is bought up by
those who do owe it there, and sent away,
how are the people to do business? Clearly
BY the issue of shin-plasters. They will be-
come commercial necessity--and "necessi-
ty knows no law" 5itA 5
These things we're pointed out in 1887
and those who did so were laughed to scorn
Yet in 1910, they became vertsble history
Like causes must ever produce like Effects
"Hard times" never came upon the country
without causes producing them. and, il the
people had taken warning, would never have
occurred Under all circumstances, ,let tn,
Wing party remain united and firm. Botl
the parties haveq placed an impassable gu
between them and us and it behooyes us t.
keep ourselves in position to save the coun
try, when the crisis comes = Belmont Chroa