The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-01

believe the assertion OF certain lunatics that,
even with paper BILLS
"Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
In Vallambrosa,
laws might be enacted that would, by threat
ened penalties, keep the bills at par with
gold and silver; but it has resisted contrac-
ton of the currency, forced resumption,
the issuance OF longtime gold bonds
and other iniquitous propositions made by
Republicansm. and has endeavored by re-
monetizing silver and seeking to stop a.
tempted forced resumption of specie pay
ment to give relief to our paralyzed indus
tries and start again the spindle and the
plane. 1t will not do to say that certain
prominent Democrats have been in alliance
with the enemies ofthe people. Among the
disciples was one who denied Christ and an
other who betrayed Him, but the faults OF
these did not condemn them all The party
has generally been wise in Its actions, not
wthstanding the folly ofsome of its leaders.
And it has always been the party of the
people. Ever since its foundation it has
been opposed to monopolies and to class
legislation. 1t is SO to-day, and by its sue
cess and in no other way can the interests
of the people be made secure. 1t has NOR
than one idea. 1t is not only sound on the
financial question, but upon every other
question in which the people are interested.
1t seeks to make the blessings of govern
ment fall upon all alike, and to lift the
burdens of government from the shoulders
of the masses where it has been placed by
class legislation. In Illinois it has de-
clared that the employees Of railroad COM
panies and other corporate monopoles
should have a first lien upon the property
and franchises of such corporations
for their wages. 1t denounces
the laws that drag the widow and
the poor man, in the interest of monopolies
located in other States, hundreds of miles
away from home-away from the conve-
nient State Courts to the United States
Courts in which Justice inclines her scale
with partial hand TO the side of the legal
lied robbers that call themselves corpora
tons. It denounces the Receiver System,
by which the United States Courts have
become the pals of foreign bondholders in
their worse than highway robbcries; and in
every one of its utterances it speaks with
the voice of champion of the people. Why
then should Democrats, influenced by the
false cries Of men like Brick Pomeroy, leave
their own to seek relief in another
party because it advocates policy that his
own party also defends and TO which it alone
can give Vitality We ask Democrats, who
have an impulse to get into the National
paper balloon, inflated by impure gas, to
pause. We advise them to--don't. AT
present it may appear to them that it would
be pleasant to sail away into the clouds OF
of promise pictured by National orators, but
they would learn 10 their sorrow the great
ness of the illusion. For awhile they might
20 sailing round the moon, singing
up In balloon boys,
Up In u balloon.
Bless me, amt it pleasant,
Sailing round the noon
but the collapse would surely come and
let them down to earth again with a
suddenness and violence that would astound
them. Be cool. Don't give yourselves
away to lunacy upon an impulse. Stand
fast to the old colors and all will be well.