The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

ury and in banks, awaiting the approach of
the day fixed by law for resumption. Asa
result of this system of fnanciering the
working people of the country have been
thrown cut of employment, and are unable
TO obtain the "par dollar which radical
stump speakers and organs continually boast
are flooding the country. General Harrison,
being the kid glove aristocratic Shylock
candidate for the United States senate, takes
no thought of the laboring man except 20
taunt him with glittering platitudes about
real money" We hold that to be real mon
ey which will purchase barrel of -four, a
cask OF bacon, bolt of brown cotton" pay
rent, etc., throughout the entire list of
mans absolute necessities. Before the curse
OF radical Shylock contraction had
brought about the panic Of
1873 the working people OF the
United States were at work, and received
wages in money that purchased the necessi-
ties and comforts Of life. But when con-
traction had gone forward until more than
81, 900, 100000 of currency had been with
drawn, these industries ceased, working peo-
pie were thrown out of employment, and
found it impossible to obtain ''par dollars"
and hence are clothed in rags and starving
from Maine to California. To ease their
pangs, to reconcile them to their fate, to in
duce them to believe that wicked, cruel
curse is blessing, General Ben Harrison
crates as follows and Shylocks applaud:
I affirm it to be clear TO any man who will
think, that the money OF the laboring man
ought to be real tconey-not spook money-not
advocates of nat money has described il, but a
promise that il will on dema q materalze
Into shining gold and silver dollars. The dol,
lar he contracts for at the beginning of the
month when his wages are named ought to be
the dollar he receives at the end OF the month.
Money mus be very cheap before 1t, can be
picked up in the streets, so cheap that IL will
hardly be worth STOPPING for. Short OF that
you can only get It by giving something for it
Labor or property. Ifyou get in the exchange
full value in cheap money, you have more
nominal money, but are you any richer than
probability is that the next day you will be
poorer, for the tendency of cheap money is TO
tender quality and the quality of being recefv-
able for customs and internal taxes would give
some value TO anything, however worthless in
itself, but not certain or fixed value.
The pressing demands of the laboring man
is work, and wages in some sort of a dollar
that will drive back starvation, give those
dependent upon him food, clothes and shell
ter, home comforts, home enjoyments, bless
ings enjoyed before Shylocks demanded that
resumption should come speedily, no matter
at what cost of business prostration and
regardless of who or how many suffered. 1t
is estimated that there are 5000, 900 of will
ing workers now out of employment as the
direct result OF radical Shylock contraction
and it is safe TO say there are 2,0Ge, 600 more
at work for wages that barely suffice to keep
soul and body together. Food is abundant
and cheap. Bread and meat, tosupply the
deficiencies of other countries, await pur-
chasers in all the trade marts of the country,
but. strange to say, under the policy that
General Ben Harrison advocates, there are
millions of American laborers living upon
charity, out of work, out of money, the sum-
mer passing the rigors of winter coming, no
food now, no food then. What remedies
does General Ben Harrison propose? None
whatever. He knows the policy he advo-
Gates is a curse, but as the poor only suffer,
his cold cruel, Shylock heart is as unsympa-
thetic as a paving stone. Human life
is cheap in America. Let people
starve, or If they complain denounce them
as communists and hurry them out of the
way by the discharge of Calling guns manned
by federal troops. With millions of ldlers,
highways lined with tramps, peniteRtiaries
filled with conYicts, with jails over
flowing with those who are to add
to the number of convicted felons;
criminal courts at work night and day;
business men hurrying to the bankrupt
ff,os oh ham hao
the funeral march of estates, unable to stand
further sbrinkage, are knocked down to the
fortunate possessor of a mortgage. With
such panoramic views passing before his
eyes, what does General Ben Harrison pro.
pose? Nothing at all. He simply rehearses
the stale ShylOck clap-trap about returning
to prosperous times by the postponement of
resumption. Hear him:
The question is, having arrived at home
shall we go in and rest, or shall we spitefully
retrace our steps and come in more weary still
over the rough, but less rough, way that our
guide should have chosen in the first place.
Out of the storm and the tempest our ship has
come into the harbor; she almost touches the
dock; the rope is eoiled for the throw. Shall
we make fast or let her drift out again into the
night and storm because the pilot bumped her
to offer no room for debate, at least among
those who regard coin basis as the necessary
cOnultlon Oh staoie currency: mink III
course of legislation upon this subject. Re-
publicans may well be proud of the achieve
ment of their party in lifting so high and set
thing firmly the national credit. AS said
in the canvass of 1876, this green back boy is of
republican parentage. Democrats sneeTed at
his birth aud reviled his youth, but he won
ms way with the people We have led him up,
till he stands to-day crowned on the golden
summit of resumption. We may now say TO
all questioners, as did the parents of him who
was born blind, Ale is of age, let him speak
for himself" Mr.. Pendleton's Yagabond cur
rency has found home-haS found all homes.
Mr.. Voorhees, has become its eulogist He
praises IL for its courage-in that IL went 10 war
while the coward gold re NAMED at home
What new thing is this that the democrats
who kept company with gold during the war
should now set their truant affections upon
the greenback?
There has never been a time when men who
understood the subject at oil did not admit
that by contracting the currency specie pay