The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-10-31


feelings, the arguments and the impulse
of the Court. am aware, also, that
have quoted at great length, and, per
haps, have become tedious; but ! desired
TO prove to you, to rove beyond doub
to our antagonists, that there is not ont
word in that long opinion to sustain thu
statement, 30 often made, that the Su
preme Court has decided that "Wsl
Greenbacks," are constitutional, anC
Peace Greenbacks" are unconstitution
al. trust | have done 80.
THE POLICY THE DEMOCRATS PROPOSE.
This policy, we believe, will bring re-
lief to the people. 1t will resume the
fires of the factories and fOundIies, set Ia
motion again the wheels of machinery
revivify commerce. encourage enterprise
employ labor, reward industry. The
present policy has produced ruin. ltf
reversal will bring prosperity. And
when we seek to enforce this conclusion
by every argument drawn from reason
and observation. what answer do we
have? One eminent gentleman travels
q thousand miles to beg that we will not
use harsh words or be hard on the boud'
holders Indeed Who has proposed
to be hard on the bondholdersP On the
18th Of July, 1864 gold was at premium
of 2S5 per cent. The mOneyed man took
So 507, n and bought $4,000 in legal ten
der notes, and with these he bought a
ten Thousand dollar bond. He has re,
ceived So 900 in gold interest; 5000 per
year for ID years; and by Republican leg,
islation alone passed after his purchase,
he has $40 600 in coin still due him. And
while this is everywhere recognized as
the law, and nobody proposes to evade it,
the simple denunciation of the wrong
brings the wrong doors to their feet with
the prayer that we will not harm these
long suffering bondhoders Verify, the
wicked flee when no man pursueth."
The same eminent gentleman pleads
for astable uniform, non.hnCtuating cur
renCy; begs that we may not have the va.
riabIe yard sticR, the changing bushel,
the unequal pound weight. And this in
the very breath in which he te ls us that
constantly, during many years, they have
increased the value of the dollar, which
is the universal solvent of the yard stick,
the bushel measure, the pound weight
He cries aloud most piteously, "WouId
you do creditors the great injustice, after
they have contracted for yard of cloth,
or bushel of wheat, or pound of iron,
to reduce the yard to 30 inches, or the
bushe TO three pecks, or the pound to
ten ouncesP'
Well, now will ask another question.
"Would you do the debtors the great
wrong to increase the yard to 40 inches,
the pound to 20 ounces, and the bushel
to l2 pecks2 Would you make the Ia
borer's day 20 hours instead of l02 This
is exactly what they have done by in
creasing the value of the dollar, which,
in the payment of debts and the ex.
change Of property, is really the measure
and weight of commerce and Of trade.
NOBODY DESIRES UNLIMITED INFLATIoN.
Another eminent gentleman by way of
answer, beseeches us to uphold "the Gre
dit Of the nation" Who has attacked it2
Who proposes to attack itP If any per-
son or party attacks the credit of our gov.
er1ment, it is those who sap the founda-
tions of its strength; who weaken its pro.
ductive energies; who destroy it's enter.
prises; who make idlers of its people, and
paupers Of It's laborers, "Father, set me
up in business that l may honestly earn
my living" said the soul of the young
man to the Republican parent. What
business, my son2" II think, my father,
that clipping coupons would sufficiently
employ my activities and reward my in
dustries in these days of excessive pro-
duction. l have learned to labor and to
wait" And the old gentleman rubbed
his eyes and thought truly, "the children
of this world are wiser this generation
than the children of light"
And all these eminent gentlemen, aid
ed, of course, by every stump speaker,
and every newspaper in the country, in
entire harmony cry out unlimited intlI-
ton, "repndiation, dishonest money"
rag baby :" destruction of Values" and
this in the face of the declaration of your
Convention
"Gold and silver and United States le."
gal tender notes al par Herewith are'
"a just basis for a paper circulation"
And of the Ohio declaration, that the
paper currency should be of equal tender
with coin, and that stability of volume
should give assurance of stability Of
value,
Nobody desires unlimited initiation. =
No National, State, county, township
convention nor mass meeting nor public
speaker of the Democratic party has ever
demanded it. These gentlemen who 80
aippantly attribute it to US can point to
no such instance. On the contrary, we
have all, everywhere, said that we desire
q full, abundant currency, so far fixed in
volume as to be stable in value, of coin
and paper, of equal tender, receivable for
all dues to the government. When the
Secretary OF the Treasury asserts that
$3.50, 100000 of legal tender notes consti
.tute an esser rtial and beneficial element
of the currency, he yields the whole ar
gument. Three hundred and fifty mil.
lions essential beneficial, honest Three
hundred and sixty millions initiation, ru.
inous, dishonest The old lady begged
the surveyors who were running the
UuuuudEy lluo DOGW0Ol virginia anu
North Carolina would not make her
house in Csrolins, for she always heard
it Was 30 unhealthy in that State.
We believe this policy will furnish
sound, good currency, and will relieve
the PROSTATE industries of the country.
II it will do only half that we hope,
WHY not adopt itP l can not do worse
II it will only aid in furnishing employ
ment to those who are willing to work,
it will be great blessing.
TERRoRs OF ENFORCED IDLENEss.
1t does seem to me that the want Of
employment by those who are willing to
labor and whose families depend upon
their daily wages, is the very depth of
misery and Wretchedness, People In tie