The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-03-07
Reply to "Brutus" of Union
To,

Your correspondent, Mr.. "Brutus,"
recently gave me a kind lecture on
the silver dollar, which I received in
the same spirit. I think a person
need not be a philosopher to know
what the leaders of the silver dollar
agitation are driving at, viz; to help
those in debt to pay their debts
more easily, or to pay their contracts
with less means than was under
stood when they gave their obliga
tons.
A Senator in Congress said, it was
not dishonest, because a large ma
| jority in both Houses Of Congress
voted for it! The "salary grab"
stood on the same foundation. Did
the people think it was honest ?
Echo, did they ?"
Suppose I should buy a horse of B,
(',Brutus" if you please for 100
bushels of wheat, when wheat is
worth one dollar per bushel, to be
paid one year after date. And then
suppose A would do all he could
do to bring wheat down to IS cents
per bushel, so he could buy 100 bush |
els Of wheat for IS dollars, to pay B. !
Would that be honest? Think ''the !
laugh would be on the other side Of
mouth" about that time.
The silver dollar was dsD1onstized
in April, 1858, when Pierce was Pres
ident, and has not been g legal ten
der since more TINA of SIS. Gold
and greenbacks only have been le-
gal tender since then.
I think too large a volume of cur
rency is not good policy. It creates
too much speculation. It runs up
the price Of nearly all things very
quickly, except the wages of the day
laborer, which are too low now, and
when our agricultural and mechani
cal products get, very high foreign
countries will bring in their products,
take out our precious metals to pay
for them, and then comes q collapse
"A crash! Men break up, creditors
suffer loss, business is stopped, the
poor Iaborers are thrown out of en-
and suffering is the result.
What we want is gold for the
silver for change, ond
for what it is worth at the United
States mint, both to be legal ten
dsr, with good banks, well regulated,
so that the people viii have conf
dence in them.
We want a good firm government,
by good and wise men,
that can lay aside party interest and
act for the interest Of the whole na-
5ion. We are in favor of laws that
Will protect the laboring class against
the moneyed monopoly, to protect the
weak against the strong.
What "we, the people" do not
want is, HYpoeriteS. We want every
nan and woman to show their true
,OlOrs, unfurl them to the breeze and
light under them to death. At home
1r abroad, in the pulpit, or on the
Bench, in the Legislative halls, on the
arm, in our trading and business s
houses, in the mansion and in the
novel, honesty and integrity are the
great need.
I respect the firm, open and con
5istent course the HquOr-sellers have
aiken to repeal the Adair law. I
would that our Temperance people
lad as much frmness and nerve as
he real whiskyites have, and then
We would see intemperance, with all
is train of evils, swept from our sor
w-stricken land so quickly (tO use b
IN old adage) ''that it would make
)ur heads swim. FLORA.
Feb 26, 1873. Ii
P. s. The above remarks I do
lot wish to be understood as per
ional, but general IN their applica
ion, and intended only in kindness. !
F.