The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-10-03

of the mlne DOunded'OE of the anvil, wrought
out in the factory and furnace. Labor is at the
bottom of it all, and the nation in which there
are the most laborers and in which labor is best
cherished and cared for must be the richest ana
most prosperous. Capital and labor are Datu-
raj allies; when they Work together both are
enriched; when they are hostile or separated
both suffer-
This all can sec; but what is there to prove that
money into the pockets of the people?
Tho bonds and the legal tender notes Nvere is
sued to save the nations life in an hour of dire
extremity; and now it is proposed, in violation
of the laws and of the faith OF the American |
! This when, at last, after infinite trial, every
! legal tender dollar in your pocket has become |
! to upToot our whole financial system when its |
| worst evils have been overpasSed, to overthrow
! ftfes, caucuses, and oalitions at the work of
printing paper promises, or 'fiat money as
much and as often as they please. Such action
would unsettle values, would initiate and de-
base the currency, would cheat labor of its just
speculation, would battle all calculations of
business, and make trade worse than rafi1e-a
capital, would be the heaviest, sorriest sufferer.
1t would defeat the very object in view, and
The holders and handlers OF money just at the
time when our greatest need is the confidence
and certainty which will induce capital to
come forth and set labor at work 1t would be
like man, recovering from a long sickness,
throwing himself back into a relapse.
The Republican party is against it, and one
il did not malze-a war in wifch every Rcpub-
lican in every State and on every spot was on
When every obligation has been sacredly per-
formed, when every promise to pay money has
been made and kept as good as coin, when
every tax which can be spared is gone, when
every burden which can be lifted from labor
has disappeared, when honest, lasting prosper
ity has been rooted too deep to be torn up by
folly or faction, then and not till then will the
financial mission of the Republican party be
ended. 1t is not yet ''like army whose term
OF enlistment has expired"
! h,
and see the position OF the Democratic party;
repeal Of the act to resume specie payments
next January. Then the assertion was that
our paper could not so soon be brought to par.
Now when gold and paper have come togeth-
er months beforehand, Senators Thurman and
r Pendleton in Ohio Senator Voorhees, and Gov.
Hendricks in Indiana, Gen. Johnston in Vir-
, ginia. the Western and Southern leaders of the
tons even in New England call aloud for huge
schemes of more paper money.
Let us see whether the Republican ship can
outIIde the fury of storm not more angry
than it may be brief. Lamartne said: II place
my bark on the highest promOntory of the
beach, and wait for the rising of the tide to
Let the Republican party be now and always
the champion of right and courage-never the
, Credit, currency, ana business are not the
only elements in the election this year.
staggering totals for claims and grievances and
projects which no man can number, are being
time when they can compel attention. When
| will that time be? When full sway in Congress
now rules a 'solid South'-a South made solid,
not by honest majorities, and free honest vot-
lnS, but by mlnorlties dominating through
crimes against God and man. That solid South
again. as of old, sends up a majority Of all the
Democratic votes in Congress; it rules the DEM
{ ocratic caucus, and must decide the party ac-
ton whenever it insists. In the House of Rep
resentatlVes there are forty committees, and
{ already the Chairman of twenty-three of them
are eX-Confederates from the South. After
next March the South will control the COM
> mittees of the Senate also. Yon need not be
reminded that committees are all powerful IN
, leg1siatlon-lnore than ever now, because OF the
overwhelming pressure of business, which
= tilahgs Iuli ana open discussion, especiaIy IN
tle Rouse, Impossible. You need not to be re-
I minded, either that one-third of all II ational
revenue ana expenditures comes from the
> State of New York. ask whether those who
: are TO pay 81 of every s. taken from the Treas
ury have not need, before we drift much FUR
tHer to to inquire, "Watchman, what of the
! | am for Cancellation and reconciliation and
concord and peace all around; but my belief is
G that the men and the communities who stood
by the flag and prayed for il and fought for it,
. II they behave themselves, are just as good as
I | those who drenched the land with blood and
r believe, too, that those who strove to save the
| country are as safe Legislators and chairmen OF
q Magnanimity, generosity, and forgiveness, un-
paralleled IN human annals, have been the pol
e icy Of the nation toward those who sought its
> but it may be carried too far.
1t is not wise for the North, for the South
itself, to hand the Government over bodily to
n those who were lately in arms against it, and
|
n gress gained by sitting elections, by terrorism
= and bloodshed. 1t is not wise or just thus tC
e tempt human nature. 1t is not safe for the
| habitatiOns of the North or of the South.
When pestilence smites Southern homes LET
= the North pour out as she now does, money
" and sympathy, never holding back a farthng
S because it is southern, not Northern woe. This
IS right But when taking political action, lei
?. US be just to all, not only to ourselves but tC
those, whether, black or white to whose pro
Il lection we are bound by ties that would not be
e forgotten by an Algerine pirate or a Barbary
= corsGr
sssT
cans, black and white, are in great majoIities
n and i'll which voting places have been reduced
in number till those nearest each other are
q sometimes twenty-five miles apart, making il
impossible Tor the poor to reach the balInt-boN
= Look at Democratic counties, where the voting
places have been increased to thirty, with az
o area not greater than Republican counties il
. which, by the same act of legislation, the fol
o lowing places have been reduced to nine
T. In the county in which Charleston S. c.. is
there Is Republican majority OF 5000; yet at al
S election, not long ago, for members OF the Leg
iSlature no Republican candidates were nomi
S nated-no Republican votes We're cast! The
, fact tells its own story.
Look at Mississippi, with great and con
fessed Republican majority, ruled by Demo
Gratis. the Republican Organizations compelled
to dlSband, and the last Republican newspaper
given up. Assassination strikes down blame
less men and helpless women-families perist
j. cials who connive at murder are reelected anC
rewarded for being accomplices in shedding in
: reused pagan Rome 10 vengeance; but Ameri
u cans are very patient when the blood of the
% Justice lays no hand on such frightful butchery
Y The officials of the United States are shot down
for performing their duty, and the whole power
OF the nation is openly defed.
, In the Gulf States majorities are pOwerles!
IL and PROSTATE, their committees extinct, anC
Il they are trampled under foot by the men they
V faced in battle, As in slave days, the coloreC
d people are counted to swell the number o
Southern Representatives in Congress, but fol
any other purpose they hardly appear now i'll
the political count
: Turn from this picture to the free amend
4 ments of the Constitution. There they
- stand, and they declare that such wrongs shall
d never be. Yet this is the great republic-the
u zens-they stood by it and fought for it, and
e prosecuted for its sake-and this is the last
% quarter of the nineteenth century!
" The mission Of the Republican party is MOI
r ended. Il has done much; 1t has put down 6
. Constitution, united the fragments OF shat
. tered EN- pire, managed war and finances to the
anaZernent OF mankind; II has carried r:tlI ways
over deserts ana mountains TO the Paclhc sea
O ii has made harborS, built breakWaterS anC
, light houses, and established Hte-saving stat
It tionS perilOus coasts; it has stretched out
=, network of signal service to give warning O
u storms on land and on sea; it has cheapeneC
~ foreign and domestic postage, founded pOsta
- mOney-Order system, put post Offices on wheels
n and donbled the cheapness and swiftness o
transmitting intelligence; it has secured to ev
cry man who Will have ii Il homestead of one
hundred and sixty acres of fertile land; ii ha!
stood for free speech, free labor, and free mer
always; 1t has upheld the public credit, and ii!
aims have been those of humanity and right
Like every human agency, it has, no doubt
e sometimes fallen into error but its record i
4 | filled with great and useful achievement.
u Not only do urgent works and duties remain
II for the future, but work and duty which sum
mon us all to concord, harmony, and earnest
t. ness
Putting away side issues and all pickering
- and strife, the plain duty of every sincere Re
= publican is to stand for the republic.
~ There are matters about which Republican,
c difer-difer widely and earnestly. These diff
| feTenceS do not concern the issues which de
h serve attention now. 1t is not the right of any
lt,.t ON iat