Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-02-14
The East versus the west.

The volume of indiscriminate abuse
that is be poured upon the people of the
Interior and of the West by the refine
ment, culture and deceney of the East,
through their representative newspapers,
is quite wonderful, and leads us to ex-
claim, in something akin to the language
of Bret Harte's Jim Nye-''Is our Amer
lean civilization played ?" If the high,
pure university atmosphere of New Eng
land and New York does not lead news
paper men to be courteous if not decent,
where are we to look for the refinement
of Alpine culture?
The people who live west of the Ale
ghanies, simply because they wish the
time-honored silver dollar restored to a
position from which it was suddenly and
surreptitiously snatched, bald headed, as
it were, are gang of regulators, scoun-
drels and thieves! In the most respecta-
bic of the Eastern metropolitan journals
language of this sorti is thrown out, broad
cast, and applied to the masses of people
of the Mississippi valley, and this battery
of Gatling guns is now opened upon us
suddenly, for the first time, as if our
financial enormity were something new,
which it isn't, by any manner of means.
Last Fall's political campaigns were
fought on this issue, and men of all par
ties demanded the restoration of the sill
yer dollar; hence their representatives in
Congress are proceeding with prompt
ness, neatness and dispatch, to restore it.
They do not, as charged, restore a debased
dollar, but the actual dollar of our faith
ers and our grandfathers-a dollar that
was good enough for them, and when
made an actual legal dollar, will proba-
bly, be good enough for us.
Indeed, the silver dollar has been bad
ly treated, in the absence of the benign
influence of a Society to Prevent Cruelty
to Silver Coins. When it was at the very
pincacle Of its fame and pride--not only as
good as gold but actually better-the cruel
conspirators said, slyly, to themselves
Let us proceed to take this dollar down a
little. Let US take the marrow out of its
bones! Let us even emasculate it, so to
speak. Then we shall see how it will
feel.
AAS NSNN " ho IOI4O anu IuC DOOE, us
graced, forlorn dollar of the daddies
crawled into its hole and quietly pulled
the hole in after it. By and by the peo-
pie of the great Interior of the country,
in the grand valley which lies between
the Allegheny and the Rocky Mountains.
began to feel homesick. They had caught
the seven years itch, smallpox and other
cutaDaOuS 01aa DtTiar froY,, +J,o ,,o,+o1
currency of the period, and suffered from
them to such an extent that they began
to long to see the simmer and hear the
chink of silver coin!
Finally this longing found a place in
all the party platforms, and the plat
forms were approved unanimously and
heartily by the people. Consequently,
there is nothing left for Congress to do
but to restore the dollar to the position
from which it was wrongfulIy deposed
We fail to see that there is any repudi-
alton, or scoundrelism, or thievery in
this-Or in paying the interest or princi-
pal of United States bonds, according to
the letter and spirit of the bonds, in coin,
or what was coin at the time they were
issued.
The people are not at all unhappy be-
cause of this volume of slop-water that
is thrown at them from over the Eastern
slope of the mountains. They are even
cheerful if not happy. The sIop doesn't
stick. Conscious of their integrity and
honesty, they make due allowance for
their Eastern neighbors, and patiently
await the time when they will be of bet
ter mind. The New York papers are in
the immediate vicinity of Wall street,and
their conductors breathe the atmosphere
of that locality. We do not blame them
for seeing through Wall street spectacIes.
if they have no other. But we say. very
distinctly, that Wall street does not hold
the conscience of Nations, if indeed it
has any of its own, and Wall street NOR
ality is not the morality that we wish at
the West! We can do better.-Sprinafeld
Republic.