The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-20
FISHING.

Democratic advocacy of an inflated,
irredeem able currency, makes haste to
crawfisb. on the subject. 1t says:
The Democrats do not ask for nor
want il lfiation. What they do want is
that tfle volume of currency shall be
commensurate with the wants Of trade.
The Republicans are opposed to this.
The people will probably vote for their
owE Interests,
Vow II is only necessary TO examine
the files of that paper 1otthin the last
month to prove one Of two propositions,
viz: either the Democracy and Gov
ernor Allen do want imitation or else the
Courier has been guilty Of endeavoring
to deceive its readers in regard to their
position on the question. In its issue OF
July Is, Just four weeks previous TO the
one in which the above declaration was
made, it discusses the question after the
following manner. The italics are ours:
The more money there is in circula-
ton the better it is for the farmer, me
chanic, and laboring man. The less
money there is in circulation the better
it is for the bankers and boEdholders.
Allen Is q farmer, and in JdDor Of the
GoUeTnment issuing more money for the
people. Hayes is banker and a bond
holder, and is opposed 10 the people
having money enough to do business
on. You can take your choice between
the two men.
Again, in its issue of July 22d, only
three weeks ago, it says:
= The hundreds of thousands of work
ing men, who have been thrown out of
employment by the ruinous contraction
policy of the Republican party, are not
enthusiastically in favor of further con-
traction of the currency. and in Ohio
they will vote for Allen, the Farmer
Governor, more 9TeenbGcks, and better
times.
Now, the question arises, did the
Courier misrepresent Gov. Allen when
it said he was ''in favor of the Govern
ment issuing more money" and again,
when it said that in voting for Governor
Allen the people were voting for ''more
Rreenbacks," or are we TO understand
that Gov. Allen and ''the Democrats are
not in accord on this important ques-
tion2 If 'the Democrats" are not in
favor of imitation, Is the Courier not act
ing in bad faith in urging the people to
vote for Allen on the express ground
that he sis in favor of the Government
issuing more money!
But it is entirely susceptible of proof
that the Democracy ARE in favor of in
flation, and it is only a well grounded
fear that the people are opposed TO this
initiation heresy that has caused the
Courier to eat its own words uttered less
than q month ago. The eighth plank of
the Democratic platform reads thus:
Eighth-That the contraction of the
currency heretofore made by the Repub-
lican party and the further contraction
proposed by IL with view to the forced
resumption of specie payment, has al
ready brought disaster to the business
of the country and thTeRtensit it with gen.
eral bankruptcy and ruin. We demand
that this policy be abandoned and that
the volume of the currency be made and
kept equal to the wants of trade, leav-
ing the restoration Of legal tenders to par
with gold to be brought about by promo
ting the industries OF the people and not
by destroying them.
Mark now that the declaration of the
above plank is that ''the contraction of
the currency heretofore made by the Re
publican party has already brought
disaster TO the business interests of the
country" If this be true, then, as a
necessary consequence, the volume of
the currency has been too much con-
tracted, and is now too small for the
wants of trade. Else why should it bring
disaster to the business interests OF the
countryg" And having thus specifically
declared that the volume of the curren-
cy is now too small, they 80 on to de-
mand that the volume of the currency
be made and kept equal to the wants of
trade" Why made equal, If it is now
equal; and if it is not equal, will the
Courier tell us wherein the inequality
consists. Is it too small or too large?
The Democratic platform quoted above
says it is too small, for it declares that
it has been so contracted that sit has
brought disaster to the business inter
ests of the country And if it is too
small, will it not have to be "infiated" to
make it 'eGual to the wants of trader
And amt this what the Courier meant
when it said that Allen was Gin favor of
more money for the peopler
Come, gentlemen, acknowledge the
paternity of your initiation offspring, and
don't claim that you are not in favor of
imitation, and at the same time promise
the people more money as an induce
ment to vote for Allen.