The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-18

est degree denunciatOry, dictatorial and
arrogant. They speak of our Western
writer's, statesmen, and financiers, who
advocate silver reconciliation, as sim-
petOns and swindlers. In their edito-
rials they pervert facts, or suppress
them. Their arguments, when they Of
fer any, consist OF little more than a
| scctf, and their proofs are confined to
sneer: and these scOfs and sueers are
otfeusIvely leveled at the "swindlers"
and the "repudiators" OF the West and
South.
The n. Y. Post, the Express, and the
World, and the Boston Globe, abound
| in these "slings and arrows" the n.
Y. Tribune goes even farther, and
| threatens the West that our people
shall have no more Of Eastern capital to
use, if they persist in their no.
tious OF national finance. Does
The Tribune mean to assume
that the West has neither capital nor
brains except what they borrow from
the East? We may admit that we OF
the West have had good use for their
capital, but we never have had any use
! tor their brains. For the use OF their
capital they OF the East have been
abuudantly paid: but the use OF their
brains has never commanded any appre-
ciable value in the West. The tribune
might therefore have well spared its
threats, as contributing nothing to al
gument and much to the engenderlDg OF
sectional antagonism.
And the intensity of bitterness enter
tanned by the New York Times can not
be better exhibited than by quoting its
own yenomous editorials. In Its issue
of December 10 we find this precious
morsel oil "malice and all uncharitable-
ness"
"Iu this connection it can not be amiss
to direct attention again to the solla
front presented by the Southern Demo
Gratis in polh branches OF Congress III
favor OF the measures whlch"are lhtend-
ed to break down the National credit.
Ihe South has not the same motive
for helping reputation that the West
has. il is not SO heavily in debt,
, and il is not SO hopeiessly infatuated
with the delusion oil paper money, be-
cause il has very recently had the most
convincing experience OF the eYll anu
danger OF thai kind OF false currency.
But there is in that section a feeling, ol
+ which it would De folly to deny the
strength--a feeling of deep-seated preJu-
dice against the National Government
a and an underlined longing to see lii
| AZ nf
| fell upon The Confederate Government
o rhe South would nave a good deal o
intense salts action in seeing the mel
) who lent money TO crush the Rebellion
Il fail III getting their pay. Ihls sehtl'
. ment is not, in some regards, us Dau a
Inc insane desire Tor reputation Which
u a portion of the West entertains, but II
S is a very formidable one, with which the
e nation must make It's account"
All these insinuations as to the sWind
ling propensities of the South and thu
d repudiating pr0cIivities OF the West ar
e predicated Of the demand for the remon
o etization of silver. Could anything b.
I more specially adapted to the creation
= OF sectional parties i'll finance than suoI
9 arrogant TRADES as thisP Those editor
!, more unmistakable evidence OF weak
I ness than such scoldlng reveals.
But, say what they may, silver lr[W b
rem0nettzed. An indignant people, b
they West or South, justly incensed a
:, finding one-half of their means Of col
payment of heavy debt surreptitiousl
tlched away from them by Congression
= al legerdemain, will demand the restora
- ton Of silver as q legal tender coin i
order that full payment may be made
y their public debt in manner and form a
- it is nominated in the bond"
-, The bitterness and uniformity wit
- which The Eastern press and polltlclan
have arrayed themselves in oppositio
to this measure, an opposition confne
to no party, but common to both, goe
far to confirm the charge that this ST
y cret demonetization OF silver was ef1ec
=. cd in the interest of Eastern bond-holt
70 ers, whose investments would be el
n hanced thereby,
,e Under such circumstances, the crei
!. ton of sectional issues in fnanc
j., becomes inevitable. The West an
6 South being thus put under the ban
abuse and denunciation, anathematize
,+ as regulators and swindlers, are M
,o likely to remain aloof from each othe
When the time for action comes, the
= will be found conjoined on these issue
- thus rudely forced upon them. Nor wi
NJ tuese be the only questions upon wh!c
- they will affiliate and cooperate. The
=, where will be the political power OF II
~ East to Withstand the force of these tW
- great sectional interests, which the m
- leyolence and maladroitnGss of the Ea
: nave themselves created?
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/, CHARITH.