The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-09-19

or working half time and half pay, men
out of employment and families suffer-
inc. One instance tells the whole story.
An honorable, industrious, intelligent ca
reer for twenty years, marked by fore
sight, prudence, thrift, honesty, and con-
seouently sustained, unquestioned cred
1t, accumulated large fortune and large
business. To-day all have gone except
honesty and honor. Real estate has fal.
len one. half in value and cannot be sold
at that price; stock on hand has fallen
and must be sold at sacrifice Debtors
reasonably believed to be perfectly solv-
ent have failed from like causes and can
not pay their debts, Foryears-through
all the distress of these many years--the
house has maintained itself erect; but
this merciless policy, so long continued,
has at last done its proper work; all lts
resources thus cut of, the house strug-
giles, totters and finally falls. l will not
argue or comment. "He that runs may
read" "The wayfaring man, though
fool, need not err therein" And the
excuse, the apology, the justification for
this policy is that it aids resumption. |
do rot undervalue specie payments, If
by that is meant the equalization of pa
per and coin money l hope to see 1t es-
tablished and maintained; but, to be
beneficial it must be natural; it must be
brought about by the proper condition of
affairs; it must come as blessing, with
healing in it's wings, and not as a curse
over public misfortune and private ruin.
It must be real and permanent, not tenn
porary and a sham. The resumption
which consists in putting obstacles In
the way of presenting the currency for
redemption is deceit, it is neither ben
efcial or desirable, The ancient philos-
opher thought the world rested on the
shoulders of Atlas, and Atlas stood on
the back of an elephant, and the ele'
phant stood on a tortoise; but the tor
toise must hold itself up, or the theory
must be reconstructed. So Mr.. Sher'
mans policy is to have nothing to re-
deem in order to be able to redeem at
all; and if this is not redemption, his pol
icy must be changed.
Mr.. Garfield urges land the lesser men
follow resumption for the reason that
"the moment that greenbaCks are equal
to coin, there will be added to our effect
i've currency the whole volume of our
COIN" And yet, almost in the same
breath, he berates the Democrats for de-
nouncing "the policy which provides for
a coin reserve to maintain resumption,
the only means by which the coin shall
be supplied and the paper be kept at
par" And this is fair specimen of the
reasoning constantly employed. How
can the whole volume of coin be added
to the currency, if a coin reserve is to be
kept in the treasury to maintain resump-
tion2 And l agree with Mr.. Garfield
that there is no other way given under
heaven TO redeem paper in coin than by
having the coin on hand with which to
redeem. In our old age we must learn
again the lesson Of our earliest childhood
that I'VE cannot eat our cake and have
it too" The Democratic party proposes
the exact counterpart of this policy; it
demands the repeal of the resumption
act, the liberation of coin in the Treas
ury, the free and unlimited coinage Of
silver, the gradual substitution of green
backs for bank currency, the amount to
be 80 regulated as to give stability in vol.
ume and in value; no further increase in
the bonded debt, no further sale of bonds
for the purchase of coin for resumption
purposes, rigid economy, reduction Of
expenses, and tariff for revenue only.
And these it declares to be further acts
of Justice as we'll as measures of relief.
They are 30. They will bring relief-re.
lief to men who are anxious to work and
can find no employment. The want of
employment for willing workers is the
very limit of misery. 1t fills happy
homes with want and suffering; it hol
lows the cheek and fills with hectic fire
the eye of wife and mother; it fills hon
est hearts with a bitter sense of injus-
tiCe, and then with despair, and then
with thoughts of crime; it fills the land
with tramps, the streets with paupers
the jails with criminals, Abundant em-
ployment, with fair wages, for all who
are willing to work, is the foundation of
domestic happiness and of social prog
ress; it promotes every manly virtue, pa.
tienCe, courage, selfrespect, aspiration
for better things, and tends to repress
and weaken every vicious impulse. The
people ask but little when they ask this.
In Gods name let the government cease
to prevent them having that little. Once
it was said as the tidings of great joy:
"Old things have passed away, and all
things have become new" We are i'm
proving all things for the comfort of man
physical, mental, and even moral SCI
ence advances; all civilization is adVanC-
ing, and in political science alone, are
we told, that the human intellect is par.
alyzed, and already tends to decay. l
have detained you so long that shall
only add a word or two on the other is
sues of the canvass. They deserve full
consideration.
The Cincinnati Gazette is greatly. dis
turbed by fears of Southern war claims,
and men who can neither perceive it's
motives nor understand it's positions af
feet to be also greatly affrighted. There
has been the most monstrous exaggera-
ton both as to the number and extent of
these claims, and the most ludiCrous, If
not purely simulated scare. Mr. Sher.
man, Il apologize for introducing him so
often, but always, when possible, quote
authority to which my opponents can
take no exception) Mr.. Sherman said in
his Mayfeld speech, in 1876, that the
Republicans had "paid more than one
hundred millions after the war was over
to citizens of the South for losses sus.
tanned by the rebellion"-an average of
ten millions a year. The Democratic
Committee on War Claims of the forty
fourth Congress, which was Democratic,
at its first session reported favorably on
only ffty-one claims, aggregating $2l5-
361, and the claims paid at the session
just closed scarcely reach $4,000 need
go no further. The apprehension, if
real, indicates dangerous attack of the
simples,
The occupancy of the White House by
president" Hayes is in no danger. His
title will never be admitted The ques-
ton of the election was submitted by
| Congress to Commission on the grayest