The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-10
DEFENSE OF THE OHIO DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM.

| lou nave several Ilues, lately, aSSalleQ the
platform of the Ohio Democracy on account
of what you call its imitation feature. Has it
ever occurred to you to ask yourself what you
mean by initiation, or do you use the word as
Jay Gould's organ does, merely as hobgob-
lin to frighten those who have not the nerve
to scrutinize it closely and recognize the
pumpkin head and tallow candle eyes
with which the Spectator in human
| misery hopes to excite salutary terror?
If you have done SO and really have an idea
connected with the word, please tell US what
| it is, and point out where it can bs found in
the Ohio platform. Do not rely upon the
editor of the Tribune having something of the
kind and merely tune your fiddle by his, but
frame one for yourself and let us know what
it is. As you claim to be Democrat, when
you assail the Democrats of any portion OF
the country, it should be by definite assign
ment of their error, and not by borrowing
the empty and bald Misrepresentation OF
their antagonists.
Taking inf asion in its usual sense, it
means expansion or increase of bulk by
gases. Now, where in the Ohio platform is
it said that the bulk or quantity of the cur
rency should be increased? I have read and
re-read it with care and fail to find any such
idea. 1t opposes contraction, but nowhere
demands initiation. 1t advocates wise alb
stineoce from tampering by arbitrary legisla-
ton with matter which should be regulated
by the laws of trade rather than by the ignor-
ant quackery of so called statesmen. It no.
where contrad;cts itself by demanding such
tampering. 1t advocates the substitution of
greenbacks for national bank notes; but
surely there is no initiation in that. If you
mean to advocate the opposite policy, tell us
why twenty millions, wrung from the sweat
and toll of the people, should be annually
paid to certain moneyed corporations to do
that which the government should do wholly,
as it has done partially. 1t deprecates
duplicate currency, which is the chief
cause of the depreciation of the green
back, and suggests the partial application
which ever will prove effective. As
long as the Government issues two cur
rencies, the one of which is available in all |
transactions, and the other only in certain |
Ones the latter must have less value than |
the former. This is law of trade, which not |
even the omnipotence of Radical Congress |
can change. Whatever may be thought of
this, however, it is certainly not infation-it |
no increase of the volume of the
currency, whatever it may do as to its value.
The demand that "the 70 ume of currency be
made and kept equal to the wants of trade,
IS open to criticism only as vague generality.
would think of questioning. With it, how
sver, the "hard nut" which you present in
your paper of Saturday, might be cracked by
IN infant He would say that if it be trae
hat there is already an amount of currency
the wants of trade, it is proof de-
nonstrative that no increase is required, and
consequently, according to the Ohio platform,
here should be no initiation. The impu-
alton that Messrs. Allen and Pendleton pro-
,ose to open an unlimited bank credit for
very man in the country, is disgrace to the
Sew York Nation, and l challenge you to
Idne even the French or German socialist
Who has ever advocated such an idea. 1t is
silly specimen Of that extreme partisan
of which the South has for
o many years been made the victim-a des-
crate effort to sustain a cause through false 7
ppeal to passion and prejudice. u
This think, is fair statement of the con- 7
snts of the Ohio platform, and fail to see
nat it is justly amenable to the censure with
'hich the Radical press and few Democratic
'urnals have assailed it. I would further
1ggest that it is hardly polite for us to as
Ill those who, if they are not truly our
lends, come at least the nearest to being
lch of any portion of the people of that
,untry. We have sufficiently arduous
SIX before us-to loosen the grasp
the hghwayman from our throats
I'd his hand from our pockets
hat matters it to us whether gold or green
.cks be the currency while we have no Sc
lrity for life, liberty or property-while A
ch creatures as Wells and Anderson may tt
,prive us of our liberty, and Kellogg and y,
inton plumber US at their will. Besides the VI
orth is still jealous of the South taking any 81
rt in the political struggles of the country al
ID every principle of common sense sug in
SITS abstinence in that respect, except a,
lietly to cast our votes for that
rty which is willing to give some
lall measure of justice to ourselves. he
lis the Radical party never will do. In its Ia Il,
igin, its history, and its organization it is o
g bitter, malignant, sworn enemy of the vi
nth. How, then, can any true Southern
N utter any word that can by any POSSIBLE &C
strengthen such party? It's destruction fo
ould, with US, be the everything issue Of de
} day. B.
August 9, 1875.
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