The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-12-09
The Indiana Farmer is an infia.


The Indiana Farmer is an infia-
Jon paper. The editor cannot see
that whoever may reap an incidental
and temporary benefit from that wild
scheme, the farmer must
certainly lose. The speculator and
general man of business m glft find
times %livelier and opportunities for
their trade greater; the man
might raise the price ofhis
wares to correspond with the price
of other things, and Che cost of pro-
duction, but the farmer cannot do
the same. The price of his products
is regulated by the eternal laws of
supply and demand, and cannot be
tempered with, or artificially raised.
Some farmers can remember that dur
ing the war when calico was sixty
cents a yard, sugar thirty cents a
pound, and many other things in pro-
portion, wheat sold for 1928, and
corn at forty-fve cents. There were
lively times in those days, but far
mers do not want to e them again.
The above we clip from the Day
ton Democrat, n among the very
few democratic journals in Ohio that
is working in the interest of the New
York Wall street bullionists, and
against that of the industries and
prosperity of the West. These pa
pers all misrepresent the Democratic
party upon this currency question,
or what is equally as bad, withhold
the facts from their readers. The
Democrats are not inf1ationists in the
sense in which the bondholders, bull
lionists and their subsidized journals
represent them-they are not for
flooding the country with irredeema-
BILE paper money, but under the pres
ent condition of our finances, they
are for having a paper circulation
which provides for the public a suffi-
cient guarantee to animate the trade
and business of the country, issued
directly by Congress, without the in
%tervention of a monopoly of Bankers.
They are for legal-tenders, bearing
no interest, convertible into national
bonds bearing a small rate of inter
est and reco-trorertable at the will
of the peoplc-the repeal of the Ma
tional Bank Charter, and retiring OF
that currency and supplying its place
by legal-tenders, and thus stimulat-
ing the industrial pursuits of the
country and advancing the price Of
labor, until in process of time the
purchasing capacity of a legal-tender
dollar shall be equal to that of a gold
dollar. True, as the Democrat says
the "price ofproducts is regulated by
the eternal laws of supply and de
mand," but back of this is demanded
a healthy circulating medium, OF
terms within the reach of the people
to stimulate labor and advance al
industrious pursuits. This is Dem
ocracy as we understand it. We al
can remember when greenbacks cir
culated freely, the farmer, mechanic
laborer and merchant prospered, tn,
! products of the country brought
| good price, real estate advanced ant
{ all industrious pursuits fiourishet
5 and prospered; but now, eyerythin!
t is on the decline, the value of Ian,
E deprecated fully one-half, hundred
f and thousands of laborers out of en-
/ ployment, and failures and susper
sions occurring all over the country
: What is the reason of this, if it b
< not that through the policy of Banl
e ers l~egal-tenders I being retire
and resumption staring us in til
n face in the nea future9 Who al
profted by these stringent times
Is this Democratic (?) paper?
4 the Farmer-is the Laborer-is I'll
Mechanic or the Merchant? No; bl
the bondholders, bankers and dealer
It in money, are the only persons real
ing the harvest ofthis specie resumI
ton. This is plain to every man
V common sense. Let the editor oftl
V Dayton Democrat ask any farme
whose mind is not warped and pr
It JUDGED by reading such stuff as r
d tailed by radical stump orators al
N subsidized specie advocating jou
s. nails, if during the war, when molt
was more plenty and he received S.
If per hundred for his pork; sevent
d five and a dollar for corn; oats, ry
barley and all his farm products
proportion, and his land worth $1t
n per acre when it will not now brir
$50, if ''times were not more lively
and if he does not want to see the
again? Nine out of every ten W
= answer in the affirmative, and it
Of all bosh and nonsense to undertal
/ to argue otherwise under the pressu
% of the present hard times.
&c ~--
E A society of Germans is organize
e in Sidney for the purpose of raisir
1t a fund to defray expenses on a TT
l. to the old country. They have
a constitution, bylaws, &c, and pt