Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-03-31

holders money, and our irredeemabie paper
peoples money! whose value I'M the peopie's
hands IS apt to vanish into nothing, and "a sure to
vanish into nothing u much more OF IL is issnedi
OF another KIND. No, it e not right that the peo-
pie should have money Of less value than the
bondholder. 1t should be edualized. But howl
| You can not take from the bondholder his gold,
unless you repudiate our National obligations,
have the honor of the country at heart YOU will
not do Neither can you bring the bondholder's
long as that paper money remains what IL now is,
or is made even worse. But what you can
the level Of the bondhoders gold so that you can
get gold in exchange for It. That can be done
will indeed be the peoples money, and the bona.
! holders will have no better. IL will be true peO-
main q real dollar, no longer lying piece OF pa
per, whose value depends upon the tricks of
demaRoGles, and about which you have TO In.
quire every morning what 1t Is worth.
GOLD THE TRUE MONEY OF THE PEOPLE.
But would go farther to make the peoples
money secure. II, after the restoration OF specie
payments my opinion could be made to prevail,
no bank in the United states, nor the Government
Itself, should be permitted to issue note of de-
hear the infatonists exclaim, you would take
the convenience Of small notes from the peoplei'
They should handle gold and silver. It is the
small currency that most eireulates among the
tance to them, that that small currency be most
secure IN lts value. II is wise policy, in puT-
issue note under five pounds. The effect Is not
only that Icore gold and silver circulate and re-
England may break, and yet every shilling In the
pockets OF the people is safe. That Ia the true
of America 10 have.
Does not your good sense tell you that thus your
interests would he Infinitely better secured than
| by currency which, by its treacherous fiuctua-
ti9ns, makes you the helpless victim Of chancel
no6ney be are you ever to have that true peoples
! lutely work toward specie resumption. Then in
few years But surely not for a long while, If
the schemes of the intatiOnists prevail. In that
case you will get IL only, when after years of
struggle and suffering, by an excessive Increase
! system Will have broken down, when every pa
per dollar will have become worthless, when all
/ you now possess will have been swept away, and
| when you are then called upon to begin again
with nothing, and earn once more your first dol
lar DO you like that prOspectl
TNFLATIoNIsTs THE LABoRER's WORST ENEsurs.
Indeed, while can understand how the gam
bling speculator, who fuds it profitable to FISH in
troubled waters, and who makes his gains from
other peoples LOSSES should be IN favor of infa-
tion, 1t Is utterly amazing to me how the working
man, al whose material interest are bound up in
honest money, could ever be prevailed UPON to
! listen single moment to the treacherous doc
trines that would deliver him bound hand aud
very nature is robbery itself Let me tell the
laborinG men that they have no more heartless
enemies than those pretended friends, who with
arIfni catch-words playing upon their
efifedulity; fiaGl ~ seek i6 to make them be,
alchemy with which to create wealth out Of moth.
| ing, and with that nothing to make those happy
! who serve their purposes. II their schemes IN
fortunately, should prevail, then the time will
surely come Tor their poor victims TO curse
erous counsel and curse the men who admins
tered it.
WORD As TO THE TWO PARTIES.
word, now, to those Democrats who I'm their
hearts, still adhere to their old, good creed and
would spurn the false doctrines OF their present
by supposed party interest Bound t0 sTb
NIT DO not speak to you as a parti-
that all desire for this country and myself Is
constitutional, honest, just and wise government
and am. little does 1t matter to me at the hands of
what party the country receives il, provided it be
IN truth constitutional, honest, just and wise.
Neither do / conceal from you my opinion that
the old parties as now constituted, ilI-tted to
solve that problem, and that active union of
the best elements OF the two would better serve
continue to divide the field then, for the sake of
the public interest, want each of them to be as
good, and not as bad as possible; for IL is certain
that in the derelictions and vices of one the
bad elements In the other will find q license for
their chance of success. might appeal TO Won as
patriots, TO whom the best interests OF the Repub-
lie should stand above all other oonstderations
But since you seem to believe that the interests
OF the Republic are to be served by your party
alone, speak to you as partisans who desire to
promote the efficiency Of their organization for
good ends.
THE NATIONAL PERIL OF DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS.
Have you considered what consequences the
success of the imitation Democracy of Ohio will
bring onf Imagine that its candidates be elected
ana its policy be indorsed by the people of this
State; imagine the movement spreading and i'm
posing its doctrines upon the Democratic National
Convention next year. What thenl All OF YOU
hard money Democrats, viii be remorseIessiy sent
to the rear; your influence will be utterly crushed
out, for the men who will then rule your party
wan want IN none Of YOU Why do say thisi Not TO ap
and sincerely regret it. for deem 1t most desir-
aole Tor the public good that each party be guided
But more than that. Suppose the imitation
Democracy, having taken possession OF the Nation
rush for the National power. and, having one OF
their own in the Presidential chair, and a majori
Gramme. What theni Then Unlimited 'hT imitation, R0
and as an inevitable consequence, universal bank
ruptcY ana ruin more destructive than ever. And
theni Remember, the attitude of your party on
| tne slavery issue, and questions connected with
me- sno otSli ' WAT nus cost you sixteen years exile
from power. Let your party become responsible
now for the disasters which Initiation will bring
with It, and 1t viii be looked upon as the common
enemy, and any organization that in four years
may rise up against il, VIII be able to wipe IL out
OF existence, however rotten in morals that or
ganlzauon may be itself What is, then, the true
dictate OF your party allegiance in its nobler
sensel To preserve In your party the power of
dolng GOOD service py defeating those who seek to
make it only engine of mischief and of suicide
And how are yon TO defeat themi I remember
the time when l received high compliments at
your hands for having shown independent spirit
enough to oppose my own party by voting against
great emergency, in which a signal service is to
| be done for tha best interests of the country;
aud you, hardmoney Democrats of Ohio, can
find no better opportunity to enable me to return
your compliments for the patriotic spirit Of nde-
| pendent action.
| GREAT EMERGENCY.
| Indeed, it ia a great emergency. 1 solemnIy ap-
peal to every good citizen of this State to be mind
tul Of his responsibility Upon your action on the
I2th OF October hangs a great decision.
| II the people of Ohio strike down
| the imitation movement In their midst that
will be its final overthrow. 1t NAV linRer
on, but the power Ct its onset will be broken. II
Ohio fail and the advocates OF barbarism and ruin
rush Vletorousy into the field of mex years great
er contest then who knows2 Future generations
may have to look back upon the one hundredth
anniversary of American independence-the year
which, before all others, should I'LL the National
heart with the nOblest aspratiOns-as one of the
blackest years in the history of the Republic. To
meet the danger here is, therefore, the first thing
neadful. Upon the honest men of all parties call
! 70 unite in common effort Let no one fear that
tho dereat OF an opposition party which uses the
adVan tages OF its position 70 promote such uefa-
| rious schemes, will be interpreted as an approval
! OF wrongs ON the other side, for, l assure you
when this great danger which threatens to engulf
| us all in whirlpool of corruption, ruin and dis
honor, is successfully averted you will find the
men who combaJted the wrongs OF either side as
true as ever TO their principles,
! CITIZENS CHARGED WITH A GREAT OFFICE.
Citizens of Ohio, you are charged with a great