The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-07-26
Republican Practice and It's Results

NSphuhSuH ANStibS "ho Az NsS"AsS'
This year the financial question is
the mair question. AS the campaign
for 1875 opens in Ohio and other
States, wc hear and read n great deal
in glorification of the financial policy
Of the Republican par!y,a policy which
has steadily contracted the currency for
the past ten years, and convcrtcdit into
non.intcrcst bearing bonds. From
Republican papers, and from such
Democratic papers as arc run in tho
interest Of the money! ongcrs, there
comes great cry against the demand
Of the Democrats of Ohio for sufli.
cicnt volume Of currency 10 meet the
wants of business They NIL tell US
that the country is doing well enough
under the present process Of depletion !;
our ncighbor the Journal, with an air
Of placid satisfaction, says: "Thc Re.
publican practice is before the voters"
Since a judgment upon actual results
has been invoked, let judgment upon
actual results be had. The Repu5li-
cans, for fourteen years, have had pc.
li,ical and financial matters all their
own way. 1t was the Republican party
that flooded the country with legal
tender notes, established a bonded
arisiocracy as convenient adjunct
thereto; packed the Supreme Court of
the United States to have the issue Of
such notes declared constitutional and
valid. When the East and the North
had received full benefit Of an inflated
currency, it was the Republican party
that began to drive it out Of existence,
to contract it out Of the pockets Of the
many and TO give favored few the
control of what was left. Under its
later policy, which directly reversed
its earlier methods, the Republican
party began to discrcllt the very money
il had issued to carry Oh the war.
Grccnbacks were tiCrccly denounced as
n dirty rag" and cabbage leaf cur.
rcncy, and their licrccst enemies were
thosa who 4 dozen years ago would
have sent to Camp Chase every citizen
who wouldn't declare upon oath his
preference for the grccnback over gold
and silver. That far, certainly. "thc
Republican practice is before the 70.
tcrs."
But violent and unjust financial leg
islation procured in the interest Of the
few must operate disas.rously upon the
many. 1t has SO operated. For
nearly two years the country has been
suffering from financial distress unc.
qualcd in its history. From all the
producing and manufacturing sections
comes the sad, sad story Of cmbarruss.
mcut, stngnation, suffering. 'Ruiu
rides triumphant" Tho debtor class,
or fivc.sixths of the community, arc
called 10 meet their obligations in n
medium worth double that in Which
they were contracted, and the volume
Of money with which payment has 10
he made has been decreased nearly two
thirds. Labor, the first to suffer when
legislation in the interest Of capital, as
Fails all other interests, brings no adC-
quatc return. Thousands Of idle men
would gladly accept. il they could find,
employment Oh the farm, ut the wages
which prevailed before the war, while
the nccessarics Of family life, which
those wages Slust go to buy, have been
doubled III cost We but record what
We sec around US daily, AMI what all
our readers know to be true, and cs-
pccinlly true Of this immediate section.
1.-The Republican practice is before the
voters"
The advertising columns Of this
mornings Courier speak with Ian
guage which cannot be misunderstood.
The long line Of bankrupt notices, com.
missioncr's notices, advertisements Of
forced sales, and all that Kind Of mat
ter are but the voice Of a commuuiiy'S
agony; the clOqacnce Of u community's
woe. And US in this Kanawha re-
giou, GO throughout the State. The
story is the same from Jefferson to
Grcrubricr, aud from Wood to Wayuci
the wholesale sacriic, Of valuable
rroprry, 10 obedience TO tho policy of
driving money out Of existence. 1.-The
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