The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-06-21
THE SILVER DOLLAR AND The
GREENBAC OK DOLLAR.

An important issue in the next polit
ical campaign in Ohio will be the restor
alton of the silver dollar-the "Dollar o
the Fathers"-as legal tender for al
debts. The Wall street pirates and plum
derers who have ruled the Administra
ton at Washington for the last fifteen
years, have managed to depreCiate the
silver dollar and the greenback dollar
solely for the purpose of enriching them
selves at the expense of the farmer, the
merchant, the mechanic, the laborer and
all the industries of the country-their
only occupation being to buy and sell
gold, and rob honest labor. THIS BUsI-
NESS MUST BE STOPPED, and the way to
stop it is for the Democratic Congress to
pass a law declaring that the silver dol
lar as well is the greenbaCk dollar shall
be a legal tender for ALL debts, public and
priUGte. When that is done, the ocCupa-
tion of the Wall street thieves is ended;
gold will do longer be at a premium, as
one kind of none will be as good as an
other, and specie payments becomes an
established fact at once, without any leg.
islation on the subject.
When the Government determined to
issue the GreenbaCk currency, it was the
intention to make it a legal tender for
ALL debts, but it is well known fact that
a delegation of Wall street shyloCks visi-
tied Washington, and through their in
fuence with radical Secretary of the
Treasury and a radical Congress, they
succeeded in having disabling clause
printed upon the back OF every Green
back note, viz:
"This note is a Legal Tender
at its face value, for all
debts, public and private,
ercept duties on imports
and interest on the public
debt"
With this stamp of Cain upon the
Greenback it was sent out into the world
as an outcast and vagabond. The Gov.
ernment paid it out to it's creditors, but
refused to take it back to pay debts due
by its citizens. The triumph of Wall
street was complete, as every man who
owed the Government for duties on i'm.
ports was compelled to go to Wall street
and buy gold at any price the unscrupu-
lous and unconscionable robber might
dictate.
This monster swindle, this gross inius-
tice, this downright robbery of the PEI
pie, is the principal cause of all the evl
under which the country has labored fo,
many years past, and it never will be
remedied until the silver dollar and the |
greenback dollar are made of equal value
and perform all the functions of the gold |
dollar"
Secretary Sherman, who speaks and
acts for the Radical leaders and the Wall |
street sharks, is preparing the country
for specie payments in 1879" and his
method of bringing this about is to deStrOy
he money Of the people, or reduce it in vol
1me to such an extent that the Green
oack circulation will be equal to the
amount of gold in the countryl Yes, we
gOuld have specie payments then, with a
but the industrial interests of
he country would be reduced to bank
'uptcy and ruinl The downright insan-
ty of this Wall street Sherman method
of bringing about resumption of specie
payments is shocking as it is criminal.
Who cares about specie payments when
he becomes pauper?
What the country wants is money suf-
icient to do its business-a sound cur
'ency and plenty Of it. To bring about
his state of affairs is the mission of the
Democratic party; and the first step in
he right direction will be for the Demo
ratio Congress to declare that the gold
md silver dollar coined by the Govern
nent and the Greenback paper dollar, is.
ued by the Government, shall be of
,qual value, and perform the same off.
.es. Then we will have real prosperity
throughout the land. Wall street may
lowl. but the people will rejoice.-Mount
Vernon Banner.