The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-02

Every intelligent man knows that the
war to-day is really between the banks
and the people--the National Bank Note
and the Greenback. In that war there
can be no compromise-th banks will
kill the Greenback unless the Green
back strangles the bank. And the banks
only allow such speeches as Sherman
made at Portland on the condition an6
with the understanding that the election
over, they are to be treated as waste pa
per As Seward told the Richmond mer
in 1851, when they found fault with his
anti slavery talk oh, it's very wei
and in fact necessary to talk 80 up in
New York, for the benefit of the voters
but gentlemen, we ought to be able tt
understand each other batter over the
dinner table,
SHAVE WE RESUMED ?"
Another bold faced Munchausenisna il
Sherman's assertion that we have re-
sumed. He knows very we'll that in this
matter the Administration has kept itG
promise to the ear and broken it to the
hope He knows that in the sense in
which Congress ordered Resumption,
and hard money men threatened and
expected resumption, and as what they
are fully resolved to finally make re-
sumption, it has never come, and that no
government would have dared to at.
tempt it. The Greenbackers claimed and
proved that at any time during the last
five years, Government might have re.
sumed if it would let the Greenback live
and be receivable at the Custom House.
The hard money men secuted both con
ditions, and proudly proclaimed they
would resume on the grave of the Green
back When the time came they sub
mitted gladly like coy maidens, only too
glad to be conquered, to reissuing the
greenback, and Shelma himself violates
the law every day, in ordering them to
be received for duties. He knows that
he is obliged to do this, that without it
resumption would be failure. Only by
submitting to the superior wisdom OF
their opponents, and by violating their
own absurd and wicked legislation, are
they able to-day to play this farce of re.
sumption. Hypocrisy has been we'll de.
fined as the homage vice pays to virtue.
So this cunning trick of bankrupt Re.
publicans stealing the livery of heaven
to serve the devil in. / do not ask men
to believe in this strange theft on my as
sertion. The Philadelphia Ledger,
whose Money articles are known to be
inspired by one of the strongest, ablest
and most successful of our Banking
houses, roundly and distinctly tells John
Sherman that he has not resumed.
THESE SELFISH AND MERCrLEss
POLITICIANS HAVE VERY MUCH 10 AN.
sWER FOR.
In thus running the business of gen.
GRAFTON, in order to play, like children,
at tbe farce of pretending to carry out
heir onsense-nonsens which Eng
and's experience between 1917 and 1926
efficiently marked as worse than folly
"a crime. Mr.. Sherman, sim ply poll.
ician, who went to Congress poor, and
eft rich; never guilty of an idea, or
tanding stoutly responsible for plan
n principle. His somersaults are of
title consequence, and of less signif-
ance. But 1T is noteworthy fact, that
ONE Of our strongest men, and most
Estimate, have suspiciously changed
ides on this question of Greenbacks.
rant ate his own honest word at the
idding of the banks. Every man can
punt more like him than ten fingers
ill suffice to number.
OPPRESSION OF LABOR.
This tyranny of the money power that
reaks down our stoutest men, and bank
lpts our strongest merchants, is some-
ling to be feared. The slave power we
efed, and perhaps we haYe killed it,
hough some things look as if we had
scotched the snake, not killed it," but
nis tyranny Of money has always been
he death warrant OF Republicans,
'hurlow Weed says-"The Labor party
ives its existence to the provocations
{ the Government and the capitalists.
t is the result of a concerted policy to
rotect capital at the expense of labor.
)uring the last fifteen years labor has
een GENEROUSLY taxed, while capital was
xempt. In i.ll these years Congress has
hown no sympathy with labor; and,
Vhen legislatiDg at all, has uniformly |
egislated in favor of capital. A blind
'oliey, and at the same time a more un-
1stly oppressive one, was never pursued
q free country; and the only wonder
} that the issue has not come sooner"
Mr.. Sherman talks of the "depreciat-
d and dishonored paper money" If
was ever "dishonored," J" 1t was only by
lis own party.
IT WAS NEVER "DEPRECIATED."
When time serves, stand ready to
rove that the greenback dollar was al
rays able to purchase a dollars worth.
lnavish spectators, deSirous to tie ev-
rything to gold, as absurd an attempt as
one should make a yardstick of water
Z anchor on q whale, have asserted that
he Greenback deprecated. But wheat
ron, horses, labor or real estate, they
iever fell. Gold rose 40 scoundrels kick
d 1t up and down las.their football, to
meat the masses, But even when the
clouds were lowest and darkest, Green
acksvaried hardly q whit. OF course,
~af 'troubles all prices. But allowing
lor thst. the Greenback was as staple as