The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-15
Hon. T.. J. Maginnis,

III IHe 4ttn DlStrIcL SPOKE lo duIte
large audience on last Thursday night
in front of the court house in Somerset.
He referred to the hard times, to the
capital wasted in mining, manutacto-
ries and furnaces, to the labors out of
employ and traced the cause of the
present crisis and hard times to the
contraction of the currency. This has
been reduced from 81, 500, 900, 900 in
1866 to $3.50, 600. 900, and caused high |
interest on money approaching to
total inability to borrow at all. He
had more trouble to pay his taxes last
fall than he had to build his block in
GAINESVILLE in 1867. We have tax
for State. County, Township, City,
and school purposes, and his property
and that of every other mans was held
for payment, except the bond holder.
The bond holder has his roads made,
his school house built, his gass lamps
furnished all free of cost while the
poor laborer living in house on back
street worth $500 pays his share OF
those comforts for the benefit of the ia.
vored class, and if he gets out OF work
in his own and home goes elsewhere to
hunt labor or bread for his starving
family he is adjudged a vagrant and
condemned to prison and servile labor
as criminal and slave. To remedy
these evils the Republicans offer to in
crease them by aggravating the cause,
contaction-the sDemocratslf lfaintly re-
spond by stopping the destruction OF
greenbacks and with the Republicans
restoring silver to legal tender and
, limited coinage. The Democrats &c
still little farther in some States and
offer us currency adeqate to the de
|, mands of trade, but those words are
SO indefinite, so capable of double con
;, struction, that it is not safe to trust
such men as Sherman or Thurman
' with Interpretation of the meaning
i The people know they are suffering
d from want of an adequate volume o
r money, but they are told by all tn,
y Republican leaders they have an ade
quate quantity now, and by many o
e the controlling Democratic leaders
: that the greenback is unconstitution
: al, and that relief from silver coinag
and obstruction of the National bank
! is the utmost limit of relief they ca
q offer. We take issue with both, dis
trust both, and in the name of ibert
t. and equal rights, propose directrem
ol edy. We expand the greenback, NO
oil to the uncertain extent of meetin
er what some man like Allen G.. THU
se man may pronounce adequate for tn
public wants, nor>more than can foa
7, at par with gold and silver, but SUI
not less than 1, ,500,0 100000 in greer
= backs added to unlimited coinage {
=, the :precious metals. This will n
= store us to where we were when time
were good and nothing less will satist
the masses.
w We propose government aid to tt
ty settlers on the public lands to the e;
as tent of four hundred millions of greel
re backs loaned to them to get out to Il
land, build house, buy teams &c.
ng Taking the best security in the wor
re from them, mortgage on the lar
ut, and improvements. This will provi,
he for 100000 families $1,000 to eac
lu- relieve nearly one half of all who a
crushed by want, double the demal
m for labor from districts where the Ell
ID. igration takes place, add to the C,
,ry rency of the country, reduce intert
all on money, add population to Minne
i'm ia, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Ks
md sas, Missouri and other states and tt
rty ritories, while it is just as right a
nal constitutional and is the remedy tt
Md comes home to the hearth stone of
Ma toiler, dries the tears of his starvi
of family and converts him from beins
,od burden to blessing to himself a
on country.
nee We give the Indian aid, and don
md him money, why shall we cry Co
. he munism if we lend to the white def
der of the American flag? The g
ernment loaned us money heretofc
why shall it not not loan it hereaft
,,, The speech was powerful appeal 6
its effects on the audience exceed
49,, our most sanguine hopes. The day
deliverance has dawned in Pc
- county.
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