The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-07-29

to relax his grip on any of his acres, mol
to stop his accumulation. He diagnoses
the situation as one of distress for the
laborers, and he tries to excite their hate
against the property classes, and then he
proposes to relieve them by emitting ir
redeemable and deprecated paper mon
! ey. He tells them they want bread, but
I in place of bread he offers them wind
He utters to them now, as a relief, that
which during all of his life he has de
nounced as a contrivance to make the
| rich richer, and the poor poorer. Until
he reached the age of three score and
ten he harangued to them that paper
money was a contrivance to fertilize the
rich mans land by the sweat of the poor
mans face; but now this bloated 1900
acre land owner turns back upon him
self, and tells that an unlimited issue oi
irredeemable paper money is the poor
man benefactor. Is this physiological
or moral change, or both
But this shaking demagogue has not
gotten his new part well learned; for
while advocating an unlimited emission
of greenbacks, with the abandonment of
all promise of redemption, he accuses the
Republican party of introducing green
backs. He charges on the Republican
party, as crime, the thing which the
Democratic party has adopted and pro-
poses to expand without limit as benef-
cence to the laborer. He thus makes
out that the Democratic party has moth
ing but policy which he blames the Re-
publican party for bringing in. This is a
confession for politician who in all of
his active life was of that partisan and
narrow mind which regarded the Demo
cratic party as the only religion, and any
thing not of the Democratic party as not
to be tolerated.
But when the Republican party had
recourse to the emission of U. S. notes as
currency, the finances of the government
had been prostrated by Democratic ad-
ministration, and its credit broken down
by that and Democratic secession. 1t
was as hard necessity, to save repub-
lie paralyzed and rent asunder by South
ern Democratic rebellion and Northern
Democratic treason. But when the issue
of greenbacks was made to save the
union, Allen could find no epithets bad
enough to revile and discredit them
And when the Republican emission of
greenbacks began it was with resolution
to limit their amount, and pledge that
as soon as the safety of the republic was
assured, they should be redeemed But
Allen, who charges this emission of
greenbacks in the nations agony as a
Republican crime, now asks the people
to elect the Democratic party in order
that it may emit them without limit and
may abandon the promise of redemption.
Is it physiological or moral change
which makes this man, who opposed the
restricted issue of redeemable greenbacks
when they were a necessity to save the
nation, ard who still denounces that as
Republican crime and calamity, now ad
vocate an unrestricted issue of irredeem-
able greenbacks in time of peace, as
public benefcence? Or lis it both physi-
illogical and moral change?
But if the people are in distress, and
the party which controls the government
is responsible when they are not prosper
len and the Democratic party, which has
had control of the government of Ohio
for two years? Why have they not
made the people of Ohio prosperous?
Why have they not improved their con-
dition?
Gov. Allen talks of taxes; but the tax
es levied by authority of the government
of Ohio are many times more than those
levied by the national government.
These are the taxes that grind the souls
of the laborers And wherever we find
Democratic government in State county,
or city, we find one whose first principle
is to steal We find it party which
knows no motive for getting possession
of any branch of government but to
plunder it. What has it done in the
State government to make the people
prosperous these last two years? Moth
ing, but to increase the number of Off
GERS and the expenses, and to bring
hungry lot of Democrats into every Office
when there was anything to debase or to
steal. It's false pretenses of economy by
a slight reduction of the State levy,
while it increased the expenses, means
deficiency and debt, to be concealed by
fnanciering.
If government is failure when it does
not make everybody prosperous and hap
py, as this 1900 acre champion of the
poor man says, how comes it that the
people of Ohio are in the distressed con-
dition he describes, after the Democratic
party has had possession of the govern
ment for two years? 1t has degraded the
high character of our General
Assembly, and wherever it has got its
hand in county or city government, or
even in that peculiarly sacred trust, the
school administration it seems to have
no other instinct or motive than plunder.
From what the people of Ohio have seen
of Democratic administration, they dis
like it. Does Gov. Allen think he can
cover up this bad character of his party
by turning back on all the political prin
ciples he ever advocated2 On the con-
trary, the people will see in this stultif-
cation proof that the age of three score
and ten has brought upon him pitiful
and moral change.