The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-12
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subscribe to the doctrines of the Demo-
cratic party. Home rule for what pur-
pose? To capture all G. the departments
of the National Government, By the
greater power of solid South opposed
to divided North. That is why the un-
paralleled election outrages have been
committed in those States. x
These home-rule Democrats work with
a will, and persistently. The demoraliz-
alton, of which I have spoken, domi-
mates their politics without limitation or
restraint. It required vicious political
system to support human slavery. That
system has survived the war, and occa-
sions all of the unrest and injustice
which plague the South t,-day. It has
no element of good faith In it. The men
who work by it, and through it, deem all
things fair which tend to assure their
political purposes. They make politi-
cal bargain but to violate it, if that course
will serve their purpose best. They
profess loyalty, as they took the oath of
allegiance during the war, merely to es-
cape restraint. They participate in cleo
tons with no thought of abiding by the
result, if it be against them. They
promise protection to all, to gain power
with which to Cypress those who oppose
them. ALI of these elements are apparent
in the South Carolina and Louisiana
cases. Defeated in the elections in
those States, Notwithstanding the
atrocities resorted to to overcome
the universally known large majority
OF Republican votes, they defed the law
and the Government, and demanded
possession of the States. They made all
manner of good promises to induce a
compliance with their demand. The
promises were accepted and the States
turned over to them. With what re-
suit Not stipulation has been OBJ
served by them; not promise kept.
They are minority governments, and as
oppressive to the majority as hate and
wrong can make them. They are exem-
plars of home-rule, granting unbridled
indulgence to Democrats, and applying
the iron hand to all political opponents.
To conciliate them the Government sur
rendered it's sovereignty and withdrew
it's troops, not only from those States,
but from almost the entire South. These
Southern Democratic politicians followed
up this advantage to Washington, and
insisted that the President, as Com
mander-in- Chief. and the army, should
be SO crippled and stripped Of power
that they could no longer interfere with
the lawless doings of the votaries of
home-rule. Upon this they planted
themselves to deny army appropriations
unless their demands were conceded to
them. It was done, and now we see
more of their deviltry. The great
whisky ring of the present day is in the
Southern States. In the mountain fast
nesses and out-of-the-way places Of
those States illicit distillation is carried
on to an enormous extent.
We don't want to march to good times
through another war. How, then, shall
we get there? Not by initiating our
currency. Not by denouncing capital.
Not by talking Communism. Not by
sitting down and bewailing our hard lot.
Not by appealing to the Government to
help us out of all our personal follies.
Not by asking Congress to enact laws to
take charge Of or supervise the private
business of the country. This course
will only tend to make things worse.
Nor will we reach it by accepting that
widest of all delusions, the "fiat
money" scheme which the Democrats
and Greenbackers of Iowa favor. They
float this scheme by force of false pre-
lenses. They pretend that they want
an increased issue Of greenbacks. They
are openly and defantly opposed to real
greenbacks. The thing they call a
greenback is not that at all. It is a
fraud, and it's acceptance by the country
would bring upon us irretrievable dis
aster. The man who labors
needs the best dollar, for it gives
him the most in return for his labor.
Every man in the community ought to
feel an interest in the men who labor.
They prepare the foundations for every
thing, from the smallest gain to the col
ossaI fortune. And all should remem-
Der that under our system of equality
the prudent, industrious laborer who
makes the smallest gain to-day has be-
fore him the possibility of large fortune
in the future. OF all men in the country,
the workingmen are most directly in
terested in the utter destruction of the
{" fiat-money" madness. It is an insult
to their intelligence to ask them to favor
an unlimited issue of worthless tokens.
which in no sense represent labor, and
can result only to the advantage of gam
blers and reckless spectators. It is a
proposition tending to the degradation
of labor. The man who tolls for the
support of himself and family should
demand the best money for his services.
He needs money that don't shrink, and
should cooperate with the Republican
party in it's efforts to bring all it's cur
rency to a uniform standard of value and
that of the highest character. x
This organized raid has already pre-
sented over $3.50, OOO,0 900 of Southern
claims against your national treasury.
Against their payment the Republican
party stands with solid front. the
Southern Democracy is pushing them
with an unbroken line. The Democratic
party as a national organization has no
hope of success except through the
maintenance of a solid Democratic
South. The SOnth ia in a majority in