The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-10-07
This is the shape in which q Rad
cal.contraction.spe .specie-resumption Ol

THIS is the shape in which q Radi-
cal-contraction-specie-resumption or
gan puts it:
"At the New York Gold Exchange
on Saturday, greenbacks were worth
at the opening 851s on the dollar, the
closing price being S514."
Now,wouldn't it be a good and hon
est thing to compel the man whose
necessities forced him to borrow these
greenback dollars. worth but S54
cents on the dollar in gold, besides
paying an usurious and ruinous rate
of interest, to repay the amount in
money worth from IA to Is per cent.
more ON each dollar than that which
was originally loaned? And don't the
ballionists expect business men to
borrow these dollars and be forced at
no distant day to pay in dollars which
cost them more labor to obtain?
Or the 700 iron furnaces and rolling
mills in Ohio, 500 have stopped or
s'contracted' their business. One of
the results Of the Radical policy.
THERE were fifteen assignments in
bankruptcy in Cincinnati last month.
Still the Radicals persist in claiming
that money is abundant.
The whole number of failures in the
United States this year, SO far, is 3,377.
Amount of liabilities, $74,94O,869.
FIFTEEN thousand houses and lots
were advertised for sale for taxes on
Tuesday, in Brooklyn, and yet the
Radical politicians tell US there 10
abundance Of money aud the road to
prosperity is through contraction.
"NATIoNAL lies" were regarded as
good enough with which to pay the
soldiers for defending the Union, but
are not good enough to pay those VII o
come to make up q crowd at q Radi-
cal party fair.
"WHY don't you go to work and earn
a living?" said Radical to an impe-
cuneous tramp the other day. Aud in
less than AN hour our patriotic Radi-
cal friend was accounting for the
cause of all our financial troubles by
attributing them to "over-production." +"
THE Eastern capitalists are pouring
their money into Ohio without stint
Tor the purpose of defeating the DEM
ocracy. They think their only hope
Of retaining their power over the
finances and thereby over the people
is by defeating honest William Allen.
If the people are true to themselves
and the country on Tuesday next the
days of their corrupt rule is ended.
Hon. ANDREW G. CURTIN, Pennsyl-
vania's brilliant "war Governor is
engaged in stumping Ohio for Gov
ernor Allen and the Democratic plat
form and ticket. Can't the organ sug-
gest that he 'sonce held Office at the
hands of the Republican party"
WHEN such men as William D.
Kelley, Matt. Carpenter, Wendell
Phillips. E. w. Davis, Peter Cooper,
Nose. W. Field, Henry Cary Baird,
Andrew G. Curtin, Henry Blandy ,and
a score of other leading lights of the
Republican party desert that party and
come out openly and boldly arains,
its destructive financial policy, it is
pretty certain there is something rotten
in the Radical camp.
THE Radicals are quoting largely
from the New York World and hop
ing for great aid from that organ OF
the Wall street gold gamblers. But
they are doomed to sore disappsint.
ment. There are $ seventy copies oI
that sheet taken in this town, and we
have yet 10 find one of it's readers who
will be Influenced bv its advice aud
who does not most heartily despise
its base treachcry.
lr is telegrsphed to a portion of the
country that in the opinion Of the Of
ficers of the Treasury it will even b.
impossible to carry into effoct that
portion of the Resumption Bill which
provides ior the substitution of silver
for fractional currency. But the frac-
tional currency only amounts to about
SIS, 100000. lift is impossible TO sub
stitntc silver change for that, what
about the possibility OF substituting
gold change for 1915, ,OOO, 600 of green
backsf
The Radicals Of this county are
holding a grand political fair here as
we go to press. In order TO draw a
crowd they advertised gold premiums
to the townships sending the largest
delegations to their show. They seem
to think that it has been SO long since
the people have seen any of the shin
ing metal that The same number OF
pie les received by Judas will induce
them to soil out to Wall street,.
The Radicals densunce the legal