Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-02

GUILDHALL, Va, Oct. =. 1878.
Perhaps the only objection to 4 Re
publican form Of Government is the
evils OF thc ort-recuuing elections.
We may possibly grow so good in
days TO come that the ambition and
aspirations of men may be tempered
by wisdom and precedence, but there
is no immediate prospects of those
long-looked-for millcnial days dawn.
ing upon US. The political fever is
raging in many States with moro
than its wonted venom and heat.
The Republicans are in sort of
comatose state, inclined to let princi-
pies slip away, needless of duty, will
ling TO "let the thing slide" The
Democrats are desperately in earnest
to get control OF the Government.
No stone is left unturned, no corner
is overlooked, Anything to win.
The great question in the immediate
forefront of the battle is-hard or soft
money; gold or paper. The Repub-
licans are firm and united on a gold
basis and no imitation. These are
planks in every State platform. The
Democrats are divided ,but,as a party,
arc for 3nfation, as in many of the
Western States, and particularly
Ohio and Pennsylvania, the Democrat
ic cry is more paper money. And the
great orators of the party lay the
present hard times at the door of the
Republicans because Congress would
not authorize the Issue of more prom
lses to pay, regardless of the day of
redemption, Or the day Of reckoning.
And the Democrats are winning, and
as we read "every one that is in dis
tress, and every one that is in debt,
and every one that is discontinued,
gather themselves unto them, THE
Democrats-but they ''know not what
they do" These men can go down
South, and find abundance of cheap
money which their brother Democrats
issued from 1861 to 1865. A thou
sand dollars of 1t can be bought for a
Republican greenbaclI marked ono
dollar. Go back to Continental mon
cy; when there was an abundance OF
it, did it afford relief? A few years
ago, in France, it took twelve hun.
drcd dollars to buy farmers dinner
Double the money Of the United
States to-day and it will take just
twice as many dollars to buy barre
OF flour or anything else. Reduce the
money one half AID it will take but
half as much to purchase with.
When any commodity is plenty il
is cheaper; so of money; the more
there is the cheaper it is. There arc
business laws as fixed and positive as
those Of creation, and the country il
now suffering or paying the penalty
Of violated business laws. When thu
the war closed there was too mucl
money. Vast business enterprise!
were founded on the dollar value, sup
posing il to he real, and hence thu
great depreciation from this point be
cause we are near the real. CheaI
money laid the foundation to thu
vast speculations that have been ant
are bursting almost every day. Cheal
money, like cankcr, has set away TIN
morals, integrity, and uprightness o
the nation, producing untold extrava
gance and vanity. Men that we hav
honored have betrayed us and de
stroyed themselves and our confdenc
because Of cheap money, and now tn
Democrats wish to sink the nation in
to the nethermost hell Of dishonor b
reputation. There are many othe
questions thai enter the various Stat
campaigns, Of which we will spea
hereafter.