The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-11-26
ception. We have only to persevere,

and succeed. That labor ia starving,
and capital fattening everybody knows.
That this is an unnatural and abnormal
arrangement every body also knows: and
that this condition of thing, If perpetu-
ated, must end in the hopeless RUIN and
debaSemeDt of labor. is equally we'll and
universally known. Is there no remedy?
Must our working classes steadily and
inevitably gravitate to ruin and the
devil, of pure and remediless necessity?
And is this system of radical wrong, that
implies starvation and degradation to
the race and superHuity and overgorg-
ing to the indiviual, changsless and fix
ed in the order of nature, and the PRIV
idence of God? Is there an evil 10 which
no good corresponds, and is this the
evil? Mol no, Such has been the fortune,
but is not the changeIess destiny Of the
men of labor. The wrong can be right
ed.
The policy Of the Democratic party
of Ohio, in the late canvass, was the
nearest approach ever made to solution
of the problem. The Treasury note
convertible into bonds and back again
into notes would have broken the sceptre
Of the gold demon forever. All the
triekery and jugglery of banks and
bankers, brokers ani GOLD gamblers,
would have been smashed, and pressureS
and panics. and financial earthquakes.
hnrling hundreds and thousands into
bankruptcy. and all into sufrrng. would
have been almost. il not qrite impo~si
BILE. And for that precise reason, the
noneyed classes male war up m u-, and
spent millions to compass our defeat
If it hadn't hurt their pct schemes for
plnndering the people, think you they
would have gone into the fight in such
terrible earnest, AMI spent 80 many hnn
dred- of thonsan T.? Not a bit of it,
And YET they persuaded the very men
who were to he most benefited by our
policv. Ia vote il down. They were told
ii would ruin them Ia issne more Treas
ury notes, but advised them to have ont
more Bank Notesl IL the greenback-
were worthless, and more ofthem wouId
ruin the laboring man. how would bank
paper. itself redeemable only in these
same greenbacks, be any better. And
how shoufd more greenbacks hurt the
interest Of the working classes. If you
are out Of'wOrk, and can't get any, and
have no money, how the devil can yon
be worse off? Can yon be ruined beyond
that? II is am lzinz that the folly Of the
opposition was not seen and exposed at
once by the working men.
Bnt we must fight it over, on that
platform. The financial policy proclaim
ed by the Democratic party of Ohio.
and endorsed by Pennsylvania. IL the
policy of the entire party Of the West
and South. Upon that policy the result
will turn next year. The West and
Sonth can and will carry it through tie
National Convention, in spite of the
gold rings and sham Democrats Of New
York and Yankee land generally. An
other year of discussion and Of renec
tion by the laboring classes, aided by
the painful experiences Of the coming
winter, will reveal the truth to very ma
ny who conId not see IL before. and re.
lieve many others from the delnsiOns
imposed upon them by apostate Demo
Gratis and hireIings of the money rings
in New York.
The truest, bravest, faith fullest and
ablest champion Of this policy in the
West, il Gen. Thomas Ewing, Of Ohio.
Fairly and unconditiOnally he entered
the fight in Ohio, for the right and for
the people. and made il splendidIy. He
is now. the representative man Of the ac-
cep,ed policy of the Democracy Of the
West and South. policy which is now
the proposed, and will soon become the
established policy Of the country. And
as it is fnregone conclusion. that the
nominee of the next National Demo
cratic Convention will be a Western
man, we insist thai no man, in all the
WeHt iH Hort ue~erFinS, OF I'D any reFpect
better worthy Of that nomination.
This may not suit the egotism and
high strung conceit of the sham Demo-
cracy Of New York. But they are down,
and the temper of the western men is
and onght to be, to keep them down.
They are shorn of power: nothing re-
mains Of them bat th~ir eVotism, conceit
and impudrhce: only enough to provoke
the contempt and stir the Indignation of
the western men into Wholesome activi-
ty. By their treachery they have inyit-
ed punishment. and it only remains 30
them to snb~id~ quietly into the place
assigned to othem by the governing clan:
the men OF The West and SOnth.