Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-09-13

ever again see in this country that kind
OF currency which the trainers. of the
Constitution intended should be the cur
rency of the Union; which every sound
writer on political economy the world
over says is the only currency that de-
frauds no man. II means that SO long
as live, and possibly long after shall
be laid in the grave, this people shall
have nothing but an irredeemable cur
rency with which to transact business,
that currency which has been well de-
scribed as the most effective invention
that ever the wit of man devised 10 fer
tilize the rich mans field by the sweat
of the poor mans brow" He ex-
claimed: "I will have nothing to do
with itr'
And if, as Thurman now urges, the
decentralization of silver by the act of
1873, was fraud or wrong, was not he
a party to the fraudP He was in the
Senate when that act passed. WHY did
he not assail and denounce it on its
passagep For three years it was before
that body; for three years it was de-
bated in his presence; but in all that
time he did not utter one word in rep
rotation. 1t passed the Senate without
serious
opposition from any quarter: and if n
fraud or wrong Thurman and every
Democrat in the Senate acquiesced in
the fraud, as did every Democratic
member of the House. The only Dem
ocratic member (Mr. McNeely) of the
committee which reported to the House
sustained it on its passage. He said:
:" AS member of the Committee on
Egin nfu 70 nd loo I,
cdrefully eGdmined eUery section and
line of the bill, and generally we'll un-
derstanding the bill before u.s. am satis-
fled the bill ought to pass"
Indeed, as matter of fact, the de-
monetization of silver was one of the
ancient dogmas of the Democracy-a
favorite measure of Andrew Jackson
and his supporters. Gold was their
favorite metal. "Old Bullion
Thomas Hart Benton, of Missouri--the
Ajax of the Jackson Democracy in the
United States Senate-describes silver
'as too cumbrous for a national cur
rency;" and the Washington Globe,
President Jackson's mouthpiece, and
the national organ of the Democracy,
in its issue of Sept. l, 1884, urges:
Now there is short way to compel
this (the United States Bank) and all
other bank monopolies which array
themselves against a gold currency to
shell out their half-eagles. Let IL be de-
cldred by lar that silUer shall not be q
legal tender tor any sun, oCer ten dollars,
and that gold shall"
That was the cardinal doctrine of
jackson and his supporters. Gold was
their only metal for q national currency.
With paper money-even with "rag
money" redeemable in gold-they
would have nothing to do. 1t was un-
constitutional. 1t was an invention of
the money monopolists;" an invention
for the robbery of the people; &c it made
the rich richer and the poor poorer"
Hence, under the slogan of " DiUorce
of Bank and Stdte,' and as means to
the earliest resumption of specie, Pres
ident jackson, sustained by the DemOc-
racy, sustained by Allen G. Thurman,
removed the Government deposits from
the bank of the United States, compelled
it to contract its issues in the midst of
great financial crisis, and finally de.
stroyed it. He followed that with the
celebrated "EXperiment''-t famous
"Specie Circular which cserced all
payments for public lands in specie,
and that again with the "gold bill''
and kindred measures, all looking to
establishment of gold as the currency of
the Government-as the only money
recognized or contemplated by the Con-
stitution.
In all these measures of the Democ-
racy for the abolition of paper as cur
rency the elder Ewing" Tommy"
Ewing, as the Democracy called him
the father of the present Democratic
leader of Ohio, was leading opponent.
He was banker, great Rag Baron"
and was denounced by Thurman and
the Democracy as the enemy and OPP
pressor of labor and the people. At a
Democratic meeting, held at Columbus,
Ohio, in August, 1912, and at which
Thurman was the ruling spirit, the reso-
lutions denounced the elder Ewing in the
severest language-as having amasseda a
fortune in the tears and blood of the wild
ow and orphan. The younger Ewing,
the present Democratic leader of Ohio,
inherited that fortune and the financial
heresics of his father. Why does Thur
man now strike hands with the son of
his old enemy? Why does he apostatize
from the creed of his early days-that
of the Jackson Democracy-an en-
brace the mischievous heresies of his
ancient Federalist foesP Is not the case
plain oneP
Well did Oliver p. Morton denounce
the present Democracy as the ''devilish
Democracym Fully as well does Allen
g. Thurman realize their "devilish'
character; but, demoralized as an as
pirant for Presidential honors at the
hands of the Democracy, with the Con-
federates constituting its ''gross bat
talions," he, as his only means of sue
sess, indorses and adopts its every dia-
bolism! An unlimited issue of green
backs-a thousand millions-is the
price of a "Solid South;n and their
issue the means of liquidating the null
titude of fraudulent rebel claims de-
manded by the Southern Democracy;
of coercing the loyal States to indem-
Nifty the Confederacy for its losses
through the rebellion; of enriching the
| South through the ruin and beggary of
the North!-Republic.
Mr.. VIM. Sanders, Superintendent
of the Agricultural Grounds at Wash
| ington, says he has been experiment.
ing a long time to try to prevent blight,
and whether or not he has any infal-
lible remedy he is unable to determine;
he only knows that for ten years he
has painted or washed apple and pear
trees once or twice year with lime
whitewash strongly impregnated with
sulphur, and such trees have thus far
escaped the blight, though it has ap-
peared in the adjacent orchards.
A BREAD.FRUIT tree is now accli-
mated and in bearing condition at Sacra-
mento, Cal. The fruit is shaped like a
pear, four inches long and three in dl-
ameter, and has cantaloupe flavor.
The milky juice of the tree makes the
toughest meat tender if stepped ini t
for ten minutes. The same effect is
nrndncnd if mani Is hmm, in the tree