The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-10-08
Address of the Dem Ocratic State Committee
The Fin nancial Issues. Evils Of bad
Government

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of specie payments nor has the time come to
dr u time for that purpose. No voice has
proceeded from the mills or manufactures ;
from the mines or furnaces nor from the
farmers or working men demanding either
Governments are established for the benefit
of the governed and until the people who
represent the industrial pursuits of the State
ask for a change it Is worse than folly to
agitate the question. The people, therefore,
OF this Commonwealth, who are engaged i'm
mining and manufacturing; in agriculture
and the other branches of industry, and es-
pecally labor, which is at the foundation of
the prosperity of the State, should be con-
suited upon u question of so momontous
character, rs a change in the currency, or in
the enlargement or contraction of its vol
ume.
How forcib!y does this question present
itself, at n time when the industrial pursuits
of the people of the State are so icarlulv
depressed She is rich in her mines and her
manufactures and in the products of her
soil. Her great stables have been made avail
able in liberal allowance to labor, but
causes have arisen which have retarded the
march of her prosperity. What has produced
this is not the subject of inquiry now, but
such is undeniably the fact.
The country has now and has had for the
last twelve years, n paper currency, irredecm-
able in gold and silver. This has been al
opted as the basis of values The system
was not the offspring of Democratic lcgisla-
tiun. 1t is claimed, by those who introduced
it, as one of those necessities caused by the
Robollion Richt or wrong the conntrv nc-
rcntoJ il and since thc close of fine war to
tLn nrosnnt monent nil nur husinoss trans
octians have been regulated Inv il
Jrnon thc lepal-tcnder basis the G,rmnr
has nurchosed his land. tho monuC,rturnr
nut In motion his machinery. and the WORT.
inr man cought the lot upon which he erect
oil his home 10 chnnpe this dosis ofvoluo,
snddenIv Inv the substitution ofgold and siI-
YER would deprcciate the price Of land and
coliso alarm and distress in all the avenues
ortrade. The change will be n work of time
and cannot be effected until the country is
| in a better condition to receive if And
| however much the politicians of the countrv
may interfere. the solid sense and rood iudG.
ment of the masses will, by the force and
| mower of the ballot. prevent hnsty and IN
| dirosted LEGISLATION on the question of suecic
| resnmntion
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contraction OF the currency and 1t may not
be inappropriate to ADD here that in nothing
has the confidence OF the people IN Their
goEGSrh,,.G;nI peTn 10 s'[,nimsiy il'user'.Eu AZ Us
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Ia ~ 9 GIn,ation 10 of tho v,',
| az IGcuiesS n'c,""l'9'i9 Vi tnc currency