The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-08-12

IN last weeks Portage County Re-
pu5lic01 Remocrdt( p Old "COnsisten-
cy" hil1Self utters his lamentations
long and pver what he regards
as the wohQ0lfpl,. if not crimina', in-
consistency q Democratic party
upon the currehl Ptien. 1t is
sad to contemplated the Radical
mind is torn up on this subject. But
to an uusophistocsted mind it is lit
tie difficult to understand how it is
that the Democracy have been per-
forming such astonishing gymnastic
feats while their political opponents
have all the time preserved their per-
pendicularity. In, 1876, the times to
which this writer takes our minds
back, the two parties occupied diamet-
rically opposite positions upon this
subject, and their views seem to be
equally antagonistic to day. If the
Democracy have made such great
change as Inconsistency" pretesds,
how happens it that the two parties
dc net occupy the same identical
ground? The fact is, there is no in
consistency in the matter. The two
parties occupy substantially the same
relation to each other they did i'm 1916.
Then, as now, the Democracy were
contending against the government
comforting upon bankers and monoPo-
lists the power to control all the finan-
cial affairs of the nation then, as now.
We were contendipg that the Govern
ment itself sheuld furnish the currcn-
cy of the country and not farm out
the business to others. Then. as now,
'Cspsistency1 and his .Organ'' were
advocating the interests OF the bankers
and monopolists, and then as new the
Democracy were advocating the inter-
ests and rights of the people against
the pets of the Radical party. Since
that time-nearIy thirty years ago
SEINE slight change has taken place in
the condition of affairs both public
and private, in this country, and the
Democracy have felt it their duty TO
accommodate themselves to that
changed condition Then the country
had not passed through terrible de-
vastating civil war which left US with
a crushing national debt of asout two
and half thousand millions of dol
lars then the people were not weigh
ed down as now with a ruinous bur-
den OF taxation then the Government
had never issued hundreds ofimiliions-
of legal-tender, or greenback. notes
and forced them upon the people un-
der the pledge that they should be re-
ceivable for all dues public and pri.,
vate except duties on imports and
interest on the public debt thus
driving out all ether currency and
spirit of speculation, in-
duciHg people to create debts with q
cheap currency which they now seek
to csmpel them TO- pay with . dear
one then a specie currency, was pos.
SAUkC1 INV ~ SStAsSOU ~ oSSOsAANA
plished without the total ruin fiali
the industrial, interests Of the country.
The object of tfCOnsistency and his
party is not 60 nuch to secure specie
as it is to secure to the banks
the power to. create and control the
entire finances and policy of the. gov.
ernment. It is the same fight over
agsin-a fight between the msnopo-
lists and the people, jfsi.l 4hi AIS
? AS to the forms for printing the
opinions of Jefferson, jackson and
others upon the backs of the notes oil
the State Bank of Ohio, we eau only
inform Consistency" that, if they
were left standing, they went into the
possession Of the sorgan," offthe lat-
ter day .shard-msney" men, who, it 4
sincere in their professions should
resume" the work of ornamentlng the
bills Of National Banks with the Opin-
ons Aforesaid. fSnI