The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-10-09
SCHURZ ANSWERED.
ThT TTtCk6FH Of the .4rfflEI
DOdSeT Exposed.
The Deception of the Bullion Theory
Shown Up
A Workingman's Reply to
the HireIing.
The Real Facts Of the Coming Issue
By COL A. J. FINCH

Carl Schurz has been recalled from
Germany, by the money power, ana sent
into Ohio to defend the robbers, because Of
his known ability as fanatic Pagan !;
a slight Of hand performer, who can play
every clever trick of bullion deception
with cousmumste skill and unequalled
adrltuess When We witness the per
formance Of a professional magician and
are deceived completely BY his skill. We
relish his delusions with keen delight, but
II this same performer came before the
foot lights and attempted To convince us
that his performance was reality, and
that there was no delusion IN it, We would
become disgusted at his harangue, and
brand him as a deceitful mounterbank
Such Is the character ut Carl Schurz's
speech. Several friendly papers have
taken th- liz rrickstrrs
o- -urial performance was beneath notice
We think they are mistaken. II j. true
there j. nothing new IN this speech, but it
presents the bullion cause in its strongest
light.
The speech itself Is as perfect and as
brilliant a. a soap bubble, aud equally I'M
substantial While it is mere tissue of
falsehoods from beginning to end, a general
denial i far from being an answer to il.
Mr. Schurz L. the chosen representative
of the bullion cause, and as such, this
speech is declared to be unanswerable by
all bullion newspapers; and as 1t embodies
every argument produced by any and every
hulhonist, am etiectual reply to Schurz is
a complete answer 70 every other bullion
writer Or speaker. For this reason we
deem il unwise for the assumed greenback
and Democratic leaders To refuse u all
sver it, or attempt to belittle it Or depre
clate its real strength We, therefore,
propose to answer the speech some what at
length.
Mr.. Schurz devotes near.y three columns
to an attempt to prove that the fathers Of
the Democratic party were hard money
men. that the control of the currency
was a dangerous power; that the cardinal
doctrine Of the Democratic party was to
restrict the powers If the government,
whereas this currency control would en-
large the powers of the government and
further, that he was more Of a Democrat
thar. a Republican, although he IS stump
ing for Republican candidates. We will
not waste space il showing that Mr..
Schurz Is really ignorant uf the opinions
of the founders " the government, nor
will we quote the opinions Of others on
the banks and anti-bank question, because
here is no parallel whatever between the
bank contest Of forty years ago, and the
currency contest Of the present Besides
the opinions Of the eminent men about the
facts as they then existed are Of far less
consequence than the facts themselves as
they now exist In this art Of his speech
! Mr.. Schurz shows himself to be a thorough
going demagogue, who is both bigoted and
| ignorant, and is therefore unworthy of
labored argument to refute his position
THE sPECULAToR's MONEY.
The real contest is the vital merits 81
the currency question. In one place anC
another throughout his speech, Mr.. Schur;
commits himself to every fundamental er
ror Of the bullion theory. He claims, |, tha
gold is a fixed standard Of value. 2. tba
greenbacks huctuate in value. 3. that il
consequence of these fluctuations in tn,
value of greenbacks, they are the ''specu
lator's money, the bloodsucker's money
the devils money" 4, the volume Of ire
} deemable paper determines its value. T,
issue more is to reduce its value. hence
new issue would benefit no one but th
Spectators, the sharpers, the large bust
ness operators, and would be curse t.
the working people.
We will consider this last proposition
first. Mr. Schurz distinctly states tina
greenbackssre the ''speculatOr' money, tn
bloodsucksr's money, the devils money
. This language, if it has any meaning a
} all, means that every speculator in tn
: country favors greenbacks, or they are s
self sacrificing that they will suppress ever
selfish impulse and work against thei
r own interest, because, as q matter of fact
, all boards of trades and trade organizs