The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-06-22
DANGER AHEAD.
[From Pomeroy's Democrat.

IRWIN 0AAOAOg . oCLnOSA" 4
People wonder why property goes
down and down day by day, nothing :
serving to check the depreciation in
prices. The specie resumption leg
islation is clearly one of the chief
causes. It creates hard times, hard
times lead to borrowing of money,
the borrowing of money gives rise to
high interest, high interest makes
money lenders rather than earnest
workers in the promotion of the in
dustries and the development of the
resources ofthe nation. Indifference
to these matters occasions a lack of
work, a lack of work produces com
petition for employment, competition
in that behalf lower wages, q lower
ing of wages renders the purchasing
power of labor less than common,
and this in turn causes a material
falling off in the prices of things.
All species of saleable property go
down and down in a ratio proper
~tionate to the scarcity of work and
the untowardness of the times.
This is what the money changers
and the gold gamblers and their paid
allies in the White House and Con-
gress have deliberately done and are
still doing. They are evidently de-
termined to pursue this tyrannical
oppressive, arbitrary and arrogant
policy until the people are entirely
in their power. They will not, un-
less opposed and beaten, desist from
their fiagitious course and atrocious
tyranny until the people are com
plctely ruined and forced to sell at
nominal rates the property purchas-
ed at high figures with hard earned
saving of years ago. Then the gold
mongers will step forward and con-
summate their unparalleled villainy
by buying up this property and max
ing beggars of the working classes.
That would place all the land and
all the wealth of the country in their
hands. 1t would reduce the people
to the condition of serfs. 1t would
build up a strong and defiant arts
: tocracy. It would be a proximate
cause Of destroying the Republic.
; Capital loves peace: 1.-THE Empire is
f peace" The people would have no
t recourse short of violence. The
spirit efthe French Revolution would
/. be the only lamp to signal their hope.
' But stop! Power has not entirely
departed from us yet. We are still
D numerous and strong enough to
| make the villains tremble five unite
!, and stand firm. The BALLOT box il
our 1t is the die upon
which the fate of the Republic is
saved; if we do notrit is lost and
n can have continued life only by being
born again. so to speak.
! The thieves plunged Is into ar
unnecessary war. They enriched
themselves and relatives and treated
n the nucleus Of dangerous aristocracy
when conflict ragged throughout tn,
land. They corrupted and ~vitiatet
every channel of public life. The,
secured their own election or that O
obsequious tools to the highest of
: fees. They. levied tribute upon tn,
!: industries. They passed laws SC
special, unjust and outrageous as I,
astound the world. They packed
a the Supreme Court with incompe
tent men committed to furtl er tn
If interests of capitalists. They still
q continue their nefarious practices
: Like vultures they are gathering TO
: the final repast. They hope in tn,
l. fell swoop for which they are pre-
S pairing to take everything from us
not excepting our liberties. We ar
already in their tolls. Things ar
becoming worse day by day. Price
, are falling slow but surely. 500
!. land may be down to rates which
g will not warrant the payment of tax
It es upon it. Before long, things con
& tinuing as they are, it may be posi-
BILE for the thieves to buy all tn
e property in the country. The cours
which they are now pursuing i
tending toward that consummation
it Let us be positive in the emergency
Let us meet the danger like men
Let us squelch it in its incipiency
i Let there be no compromise with TIN
thieves. Let us stand firm in sup
port of our rights, in the mainten
ance of honesty, in defense of TIN
Republic.