The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-16
A TELLING SPEECH.


ADDRf.SS Bl bEN. lDM ENlNt'
The following is an extract from Gen.
Ewing's late speech in opening the cam
paign in Ohio:
"Our country is shaking with political
and social disturbances which impcratiycly
demand recognition and remedy. No love
or hate, no pride or prejudice, born of Old
conflicts over obsolete issues, should control
the vote of a citizen in presence Of the cri-
sis Of to-day.
The great questions we must now meet
are purely financial The South is restored
to self-goycrnment, and bayonet rule Is
ended. The scheme Of the Republican
party to perpctrate its power by sectional
hatreI, race feud and standing
army, was utterly defeated at the bal
lot-b)X in 1876. The weakness of certain
Democratic leaders, and the frauds and
braggart threats Of Republican managers
gave the office Of President to the defeated
candidate He was declared elected under
the forms of law and usage, and there is no
method known 70 the Constitution to con-
test his title. But he sits in his high Office
without the moral power which clothes Il
peoples President. The base perpetrators
of the fraud, though whitewashcd with Off
cal station, are damned to lasting iniamy,
and the Republican parry itself is paralyzed
by its immoral triumph. The details of
the deed are being exposed and recorded,
to be read and abhorred as long as free
government lasts. The army
made an instrument in the crime has,
by the determined action OF the Demo
cratic house of representatives, been con
fined tots appropriate duties Hcncciorth
congress alone will determine who has been
chosen President, and he will he inaugu-
rated by force ofapublic will, before which
all the Grants, Bradlcys and Chambers will
quail and succumb.
What is the money question! II is not
whether we shall have coin or paper There
is no such issue, and never has been. Paper
has long been, and must hereafter be the
great money factor in new and highly pro-
gressive countries Gold and silver accu-
mulate in countries which have approached
or reached their zenith, where gathered
wealth takes control OF the productive
forces and wage people toll for bare exist
ence. There concentrated capital, low in
tcrest and cheap labor combine to make
cheap products. and gold flows there to
buy them. But in the United States, with
our heretofore swift development, distrihut
ed wealth and well paid labor, we have
never been able to get or keep enough gold
or silver to be the chief currency, and have
always relied and must hereafter rely on
paper money as the agent Of industrial de-
vclopmcnt The practical money question
in the United States is, therefore, moi
whether our currency shall be coin or paper
but who shall ISSUE the paper money, and
how shall its volume he determined! And
on the settlement OF this question depends
the solution of the chief political and social
problem which now agiia;cs the American
people.
What is the cause, and what is the cure
OF the intolemblc paralysis OF business,
destruction of values, and degradation OF
labor, which now Cypress and alarm oui
| people!
The cause, fcllow-ci,iz,ns still insist is
the impracticnblc attempt 20 force specie
payments. twas perfectly apparent from
the outset, to every we'll informed and rca-
soning man, that the scheme involved this
distress, Gs inevitably AS the amputa,ion @,
n leg involves y serious shock to the ncr'
vous system. We have too little coin, and
too little power 10 keep il, tomakr per
manent resumption probable. without an
enormous contraction of our paplr cGrrcn.
cy, We have experienced a contraction ct
about SihODo,0W Ny cancellation, and
much ms than thar IS harding tyoas!.