The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-12-19
4 DEMOC RATIO Wall.
The Wages of Political SiH,

The wages uf sin i death .u Tie
! political not less than IN the moral
| world, AMI the working Of this inev-
liable law i - mysterious sometimes
IN the one JS ia the other. The rrSUl;
uf the political forces pUy in operation
I last autumn exhibited This tu the CONF
! pleteneSS of a demonstration. IL may
be briefly made manifest The Demor-
/ r'tcy Of Maine. up Jn last June hrIyely
/ followed the initiative uf New York
/ on the financial question. In $50 they
/ declared in their Platform that they
/ called for IL SOUND CURRENCY. coin or
I Its equivalent. is essential tn stability
in business ami a restoration ui pruS-
I peTlty. steps toward specie PAYMENTS.
and no steps backwards.
In February. I>7~. the National par
ty was organized IN Toledo. o.. and for
Inulated ~the ideJ uf Ohiu~ in these
words:
"FiiSf-lt Is the exclusive function
of the general government Ia coin and
create money and regulate it, value.
All hank ISSUES designed To- rirculatr
aS money should he Suppressed. The
circulating medium. " neither of metal
or piprr. NLGU b. ixSVld bg fhr GDrpTa-
NtT ft' dAAit lliNlf - ANlll lT-tl lFfttlf-i lttl
all dehrS. duties and taxes in the Unit
~ States al lis stunned value.
-S~eDHd-Therr shall ht- no priyi.t-g-
ri rl.t>s of creditors. Official salaries
pensions. bOHdS and ail utherdehtS aud
obligations. public and private. shall
be discharged in the legal-tender mon
~ of the United states. strictly ac-
cOrimg t1 the StipulatiOnS of the laws
This was q defiant demand for Ell
forced government paper. resting
neither on capital nor on coin. - Il
basis of the money system nf the
whole nation. Ii called for the infu-
sion into our circulation of more of the
poison which has made the rich rich
eT. and the poor poorer for So many
successive wears. IL called for more
GreenlackS- never 10 be redeemed hy
payment, and the volume Of which can
never he reduced. Ii called for more
OF a sort ni currency which. when is
sued iH large quantities. no nation
ever las redeemed 0T ever will redeem
in coin and eNtingUish. Instead of in
SiStng that the lUmhermen. tie qU r:y-
men and the fishermen Of Maine should
be paid in gold dollars worth their face
the world over. il put them of with
shinplaSteTs, SiIre Ia increase the price.
of everything those lOilerS need ln bHv.
The Democracy OF Maine IN Il fatal
moment unfOTtunately yielded tn The
Ohio temper, and in June. ISIS. thus
spake in their platform:
We are opposed to an irredepmable
currency. hut believe i'll currency for
the government and the people the
labOrer and Ofiice-hOldeT, the penSinnpr
and soldier. the producer and the bond
nOlder. We are opposed To the present
national banking system and in favor
of the gradual substitution of green
backs for national hank bills.
All nf which. - Il comparison Of the
two platforms will show al once. WAS
simply "a seIvile plagiarism nf the
dTrary driyel of Ohio about the idea Of
Ohio. Mr. Sherman does not propose
To redeem and destroy the grpenhacE~
now outstanding. and who will deny
that another issue would be ~iTTelreIn-
able: What was the result? The elrf-I
tiOn in Maine, like 4 iire-beli at mid
night, aroused throughout the nation
the forces which are OppOSeI 10 So
cidliSm and communism IN money
matters. The admirable discipline of
the Republican party enabled the willy
and alert leaders of that organization.
who under Grant had promoted inha-
ton, to bring their voters over to that
very Democratic platform which the
Maine Democracy had stupidity ahan-
dOned. The Democracy in other
States, bewildered 10y the Maine cleo
ton, lost their cue, and with il lost
their ascendancy III many Northern
legislatures. Let the Democracy now
reSOlutely retrace their backward steps
to the Maine platform i'll 1879, and the
wages of virtue, which are life, and not
those of sin, which are death. will be
their sweet rewlrd.-N. y. WOrld.