The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-09-21
MIR. JOHNSON EXPLAINS.

and Wheeler Club of this town, In which
| he stated as facts what we believed to
! be the fancies of humorist. Nine of
those mistatements were quoted next
day September 18th, in the Silver
State, with the promise of q vote for
Senator if he could substantiate his
assertions. This morning he endeavors
to do so in an article in the Register.
To the first assertion. that the territory
acquired from Mexico by Democratic
administration cost sum equal to the
bonded debt of the United States, he
replies by saying that he thinks he
copied the figures of the amount Of the
bonded debt from the Silver State of
July 10. We have not the slightest
idea of what Mr.. Johnson thinks, and
doubt il the public will accept his
thoughts as facts. But we know that
he is mistaken. Nothing relative to the
bonded debt appears in the Silver State
of that date. That debt is over
81 800, 000,00G one billion eight hun.
bred millions, and it was so stated in
the Silver State of July Is. Probably
this formidable array of figures, how'll
dered the gentleman mind lit is almost
enough to affect any one.
2. The act of Congress of 1869 to
strengthen the credit of the United
States, left it optional with the United
States to pay the debt either in gold or
silver coin, aud so it remains.
Mr.. Johnson says in proof of this
statute books providing for the payment
of the nationel debt in gold.
While this is literally true. Mr.. john
son ought to know that by trick of
Congress in 1873 silver was demonetzed
and to-day it is not legal tender for
any amoant over five dollars, and since
that time the interest on the national
debt has been paid in gold coin only
3. The Democrats oppose a constitu
tional amendment prohibiting division
of the school fund for sectional pur-
poses.
The fact that on August 4, the House
Of Representatives by a vote of one
hundred aud sixty six to five, passed "a
proposed amendment to the Constltu
ton prohibiting appropriations Of
public moneys or lands to any
religious sect or denomination, or for
the support of sectarian schools, fully
refutes that assertion. This was what
was known AS the Blaine Amendment,
and every Republican in the House
voted for ia fact which proves that it
was acceptable to both parties The
tricksters in the Senate offered a
substitute for this Amendment, taking
from the States the right to enforce it,
and the Democrats refused to concur
with the majority. We ask Mr.. john
son wherein this proves that the DEM
ocrats are opposed to an amendment
prohibiting division of the schoo
fund fer se-tarian purposes.
4th. The Democrats retard educa-
ton, and would Danish the common
school system
In proof of this Mr.. Johnson offers
what he says are extracts from the San
Francisco Post and Waco (Texas) Reg
lister. We are surprised at his credu-
lily. Does he think that the public will
accept us facts what purports to have
been clipped from two notoriously I'M
reliable aud partisan newspapers?
Does not the indisputablc fact that the
public schools under Democratic rule
in States til and South, are cher.
ished and sustained at the public OK.
pense, as well IA in States under Re-
publican rule, prove tho ubsurdity of
this proposition? The public schools
in the Democratic Southern States are
to-day in a much better condition than
those in Louisiana, South Carolina
| and Florida. Mr.. johnson says u. ID.
Vance, International candidate of the
| Democratic party in North Carolina
said III recent speech that he was in
favor of re-enslaving the negro, and de-
| priying Lin of educational privileges.
| DOES Mr. johnson Imagine that an in