Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-24
Current Opinions.

Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem): The
Southern Democrats do not want their
Northern brethren to think they have
a claim on them never to be satisfied.
They want it understood a divide has
to take place, or there will be kicking
clear out of the traces. A southern
railroad to the Pacific is demanded aod
the banks of muddy Mississippi must
be walled in with Parian marble. The
Southern man of 1850 and 1860 be-
gins to assert himself.
Boston Post (Dem.): Ben Butler
says he will not go to Congress again
unless somebody says he shan't. In
the name of peace, mercy, aud right
eousness will verybody keep still.
New York Express, (Dem.): There
is more virile force in one Of Andrew
Jackson's old oaths than in the whole
body of the Whispering mummy :of
Gramercy Park.
Cincinnati Gazette (Rep.): The bust
ness in hand now is to keep the Demo
cratic party out of power in Congress.
When this shall be done there will be
time to talk about the next President.
Inter Ocean: A few years ago
Democrats, North and South, were
eager to declare that the old issue of
states rights was dead, and the party
organs were quick to reppdiate the
sentiments expressed by some hot
headed Southerner, or to explain that
the opinions expressed were those of
an individual, and in no sense reflect
ed the sentiment of the party. This
is an age of progress. Feeling that
they are strong enough to meet oppos-
ition, the Southern Democrats throw
off the mask. Jeff Davis makes a
secession speech. and all the Southern
papers applaud and hasten to declare
that the patriot statesmen speaks the
sentiments Of the people. Six years
ago the same papers would have pro-
nounced such speech ruinous, and
would have referred to Davis as an in
discreet and impolitic busybody.
Chicago Journal: The Missouri
Democratic platform is the best sample
we yet have of the indispensable stu
pidity of those who are running the
"Greenback" hobby as a political issue
That platform declares in favor of the
tissue of absolute money in greenbacks
equal to gold and silver" Now what
in the name of all that is reasonable,
is "absolute money in Greenbacks?"
If the expression means anything, it
means irredeemable Government paper
currency. And how do these Missouri
blatberskites propose to make this
paper currency "absolute?" Green
backs are simply promises-to.pay. If
promise to-pay is never to be fulfilled
by its maker, what would it in time be
worth? And how can greenbacks be
made equal to gold and silver" unless
they shall be made payable or redeem
able somewhere or at some time in
god and silver? .a "a
Perhaps our new-light philosophers
in finance know what they are talking
about, but from a common-sense stand
point it looks very much as if they
didn't
Albany Journal: All through its
later history the Democratic party has
demonstrated that it cannot be trusted,
that just regard to the public we'll.
fare requires that it should be kept
out of power. The Republican party
admitting all that its most severe critic
can bring up against it, is entitled to
the confidence of the country whose
great interests it has served so faith
fully in trying times of war and peace
and between which and all revolution
airy schemes it will continue to stand
Ikea wall of triple brass.
Cincinnati Gazette: The green.
backs that paid the cost of fighting the
battles of the Union, and we're worth
at one time only IS cents on the dollar,
are now as good as gold. Right at
this time the rebel sympathizers who
denounced them originally, and did all
they could to deprcciate them, want to
send them on their downward course
again. :, The result would be what?
Gold for the bondholder and dep;ecia-
ted paper for the workingman.
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