The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-12-13

Mr.. Schuckers, who, when Mr.. Chas,
was in the Treasury Department, was
his Private Secretary, addresses pub
lie letter to Hon. William d. Kelley
in which he criticises certain parts O.
General Garfield's recent speech in
Congress against Mr.. Ewing's Anti.
Resumption Bill. Mr.. Schuckers il
an able writer, understands better than
General Garfield the CURRENCY 0ues-
tion, and il more fair and just in its
presentation to the people. ft re
The distress, ruin, misery and bank
ruptcies throughout England, that fol-
lowed the Peel Resumption Bill OF
18l9, 10 slways referred tu as stand.
ing warning against forced resump.
ton In like friends of re.
sumption here feel its force, and en-
deavor to belittle its authority. Gen.
eral Garfield put some rhetorical
dynamite under it and tried to blow it
TO pieces. How signally he failed Mr..
Schuckers shows. We can not, for
want Of space, follow Mr.. Schuckers
In his mercilees exposure of the weak
ness Of what General Garfield consid-
cred impregnable positions. We can
not. however, refrain from presenting
specimen Of the way one OF them
was treated.
The celebrated historian Sir Archi-
bald Allison is one OF the authorities
most frequently quoted TO prove the
tremendous evils and distresses copse.
Quent upon the British Resumption
Act OF 1919 General Garfield EN-
pi0yed the tactics of the stump to get
rid OF go troublesome an authority he
called the historian an ultra Tory,
tsof
pridein quoting Sir Archibald Alison.
an ultra Tory, whose hatred o:Repub.
Ilcan lnefitutiOns was cOnspicuOusly
deep and strong. Mr.. Schuckers
shows that the Government which
originated the Peel Resumption Bill
was Tory, that the Parliament that
passed it was Tory, and that the resO
lutiOns OF the British House of Com.
mons declaring that the Peel Bill was
not the cause Of the distresses of the
country, and which resolutions Gen.
eral Garfield relied on to Prove this |
point. were voted for and adopted by
Tories, ultra Tories, who sustained
all the repressivc and restrictive meas
ures of an ultra Tory Ministry, such |
as muzziing The press, seizing private |
papers, making arbitrary arrests, sue
pending the hdbeas corpus in time of
peace, and inf1icting unusual punish.
ments. General Garfield relied on the
testimony Of such an ultra Tory Min
1stry, and such an altra Tory House OF
Commons to prove that history lied
when 1t assigned as the cause of the
terrible distress Of the resumption
period In Great Britain, the Peel Bill
OF 1873, and called upon the House OF
Congress to reject the recorded testi-
mony to the contrary of Sir Archibald
Alison, cecause he was an sultraTory 7"
The Tory partisans of the ToryMin-
lstry assigned about the same causes
or the then prevailing distresses
the Kingdom as do the
9artisans Of the builionists here al
lome now assign for our present dis
resses, to-wit: reaction consequent :
rom the close of the war, over pro
1uctiOn and extravaganza stimulated
~ an inflated currency. Sir Archi. c
,ald Alison, writing years after with /
he GOODNESS Of the historian, showed ,
hat the causes assigned by Tory par :
fsans of the Government for distress,
uin, misery and bankruptcies were
Iot the true causes. He showed the a
rue cause to have been forced resump- I
ion of specie payments. which Undue. /.
d contraction OF the volume of paper
and shortened the credit
forded the merchants by banks. II q
be Tory Alison had the independence =
nd honesty to expose aud transfer to =
be pages Of history the errors, blum
ers, not to say iniqulties. of a Tory y
and Tory Ho1se of Com a
IONS, he should be credited by an 7
Congress with impartiality r
nd devotion to truth, and not discre&
ed simply because OF the fact that he q
'as Of the Tory party. o
That is the way throughout that Mr., q
chuckers impales General Garfield. ..
e cites history,quotesa authority gives :,
'cts and figures 10 prove, and does 0
rove that General Garfield, in his Ia. d
bred effort in behalf of the money
asses against the people classes, treat
the question of the currency ignor:
Itly or unfairly. On reading Mr..
one can not but admire how cr
nth, skillfully handled, can over n
row such fabric as that erected by
sneral Garfield, which, on account III
Its supposed strength, was pronounc-
by the press in the interests of Re-
mption to be the ablest speech yet N,
Evered on the subject Of the cur. p"
ncy. 'Fling but . stone, the giant tn