The daily gazette., 1877-12-05
DECEMBER s. 1877
"FooLsn AND "KNAvEs."


SIT is matter worthy of another
thanksgiving Day that the man who
.nllnciates the views expressed in this
Message has, in the veto power,the means
II, prevent them fom being overridden |
ld set at naught by the fools and kadres
;ho are busy devisIng schemes to cheat
,Iblic and private creditors, and to take |
away the one certain thing In value.
Now that it is knocked on the |
lead by this message all those who were |
ed into its support through ignorance or
oily, instead of rascally instincts and
desires, will in time to come look back
n it as a delusion of the devil, as they |
ow do on the old proposition to pay the |
yonds in greenbacks, which perished |
,ome years ago. There is no moral OBJ |
.ction to making dollars out Of silver if
he maker will put dollars worth of
silver in them, bnt as the value OF the
liver will change frequently they would
-Ion become very inconvenient sort OF
'Irrency."
One hundred and seventy members
# Congress voted for the passage of
Glands silver bill Most of these gentle
nen were Democrats, elected by Demo-
rats upon a Democratic platform, which
ecognized silver as one of the precious
metals from which, according to the con-
stitution, money was coined by order of
Congress. The people who elected the
members of the present Congress expect
I'd them to renonetize silver and make it
1 legal tender and yet EUery Euening
md Commercial calls these gentlemen
fools" and "kndues" for wishing to car
out the Democratic platform on which
hey were elected. Such language shows
weakness and ignorance on the part of
hose who use it.
When the war commenced the silver
ollar was equal to gold and weighed
tl24 grains. 1t formed part of the cur
ency OF the country and the pledge of
Congress was given to pay the bonds in
1t as we'll as in greenbacks and gold.-
seeing that silver could be got to help the
.'eople to commence specie payments and
reak up the operation of the gold gam
nlers, the brokers and their counsel,
.,mong whom John Sherman, the present
secretary OF the Treasury is included, got
congress in 1873, to demoretize silver
Ind destroy it as legal-tender. This
lct threw silver out of one of its chiel
,ses, that is for money, and of course il
old for less than it is worth when it is
,-amped as money. But the silver dollar
o-day is worth "a cents, Hot 81, as
some would make people believe.
Now the Democrats in Congress- pro-
pose to put silver just where it was be-
fore the war-make it a legal-tender when
coined into dollars of 412a grains. The
bondholders had it demonetized and thus
eheapened, and now clamor for dollar:
worth of silver before it is coined they
are willing to have silver as legal-tendel
II Congress will make the dollar of 42(
rains instead of 412a grains but they
are willing that Congress may coin, a
they are now doing, silver of 412a grains
if it is only used to pay wages and not t.
pay bonds or mortgages, or rent, or an!
bills above S., for which it is legal
tender. The Democratic CoDgressmel
say that the silver dollar was legal
tender before the war-that it forme
part of our constitutional currency, an
they mean to put it where it was. The
say further that when it is made legal
ender it Will go up to par. In fact the
are not willing to pay debt of $1,000
100000 in a dollar of APO grains when th
people only agreed to pay in dollars {
4l2a grains or in greenbacks. 1t is ft
voting to put silver where it was befoI
The war that Eoery Ece1aing and Con
merciaL calls the Democratic Congress
men fools and kndUeS. 1t is pity IL
hired tool that thus abuses the press an
the people has not sense enough to kno
that he has been made fool of by Il
ohylocks WIN are determined to rob Il
people of more than they agreed to pay