Litchfield enquirer., 1877-08-09
MuddIed Politics.

OA tno 0niO RWpuDllcaH COuycui1Ous They expected little. and are notsdisap- pointed. As far as their endorsement of the Presidents Southern policy is con- cerned, the Ohio Republicans have come up squarely to the support of the admin istration of which Ohio has the lions share. There was no attempt 10 soothe the '.irreconcilables," party that was so powerful in the recent Iowa convention; but. as regards finance. and as regards the labor question, the positions taken by this representative gathering of Re- publicans are as unsound as the venerable William Allen, or s. F. Cary. or any oth. CT of the demagogues who plague the West, could have desired. We give the s.silver" resolution in full;
 Resolved, That we are in favor of both silver and gold as money; that both shall be a legal tender for the payment of all debts, except those specifically provided for bv law, with coinage and valuation so regulated that our people shall not be placed at disadvantage in our trade with foreign nations; and that both metals shall be kept in circulation as the money of the nation, as contemplated by the Constitution; and we therefore demand the remonetization of silver.
 Eastern papers attempt to extract com fort from this plain program of imitation. because it does not specifically demand the repeal of the Resumption Act. What does the Infationist care for the Resump- ton Act if he can get silver declared a le- gal tender2 The paper dollar is worth considerably more than the silver dollar to-day, and the moment silver is made legal tender flor the payment of all debts" we shall have Specie Resump. tion, that will be worse than any possi- ble non-resumption. It is Idle to deny that thls resolution is complete surren- der to the Infationists. There is but one honest way to make silver @ legal tender, and that is to increase the weight of the silver dollar till it's value is equal that of the gold dollar. We should then start fair; but. with the demonatization of silver going on abroad there would be danger of further decline in the value of that met al that would throw our double standard out of accord again.
 On the labor issue the Ohio Republican platform is worse piece of demagoguism than that recently promulgated by the Democracy. The latter simply attributed the strikes to the Republican maladmlnis' tration of national affairs, a very absurd view, but such transparent bit of parti' sanship as to deceive no one. The Re publicans talk "buncombe" more adroit' ly as follows: r..s. "a, sn~ ResoIved, That we view with alarm the present disturbed condition of the coun. try as evinced by the extensive strikes oi workingmen, and followed by the de- struction of life and property in different parts of the country; and while we depre' cate each and every resort to violence ol disorder, and cordially approve the action of our National and State authorities ln their efforts to enforce the supremacy oi the law, yet we do most heartily sympa. thize with the condition of the honest and industrious laborers who are willing to work, but remain unemployed, or are em. ployed at wages inadequate to comfort and independence; and as an earnest oi our desire to find remedy for their con- dition, we recommend, first, that Congress establish National Bureau of Industry second, that Congress exert it's authority ever all national highways of trade, by prescribing and enforcing such reasona 1 ble regulations as will tend to promote | safety of travel, secure fair returns fol capital invested, and fair wages to em ployes, preventing mismanagement, i'm proper discriminations, and the aggrand 1 izement of officials at the expense O stockholders and shippers and employees third, that provision be made for statuto | " arbitrations between employers ane employees to adjust controversies, recon cile interests, and establish justice art equity between them.
 The Enquirer has been thought some
 what extreme in maintaining the dut. of our legislatures to regulate fares an' freights, in cases waere there is no compe tition to afford relief, or whore competi tion has given place to combination ant consolidation; but the interference of thu
 national government not only in favor o passengers and freighters but between employers and employees is step whicl
 we cannot believe a wise even if lega one. While, too, state department tha
 should be empowered to advise railroa'
 managers and their laborers, in case o
 difference, might be harmless. even
 useless, a regular Bureau of Interference
 such as is proposed in the foregoing res olution, might become in the hands o such demagogues as framed that resolu tion a very dangerous and demoralizint piece of political machinery.
 The New York Tribune favors an in crease of the regular army, in view of tn collapse of the local militia and tn | kln 11no1 ,o1l;na ;,> kl,