Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

III Il recent speech nj lhllaueiphld. Stcre
iary Sherman referred 20 The Complete sue
cess the resumption OF specie payments,
and, speaking vs the croakers who few
months since maintained that our currency
never could be maintained equal to coin with
a demand ON US equal to eighty or ninety
million dollars year, said Il can say now
that we have the means. SO rarely do 'le
people care for gold or silver for moDsy that
only 5000. 900 has been draw Tor notes
and grccnhacks. Now that S''ld Is SO easy
TO get. nobody cares TO .ake the trouble of
CARVING il II il a ract that in every month
last wear and ,ne year before and the year be-
fore tha., there was more gold paid from the
fr..sury than has now been demanded from
the LIST of January this year TO the present
time for all purposes. And our notes, in
stead OF being at ten or fifteen per cent be-
low par, now that we have gold and silver to
pay them on demand are actually now at a
premium. The treasury department at San
Francisco wanted notes instead OF gold, and
We refused TO give them greenbacks In New
York and Philadelphia, no one wants gold
Resumption is now fixed fact but we
have got 10 stand by and not LET demagugues
and tricksters cheat us out of What We have
accomplished"
II Is to the closing sentence that We would
particularly refer We are not So sangune
as some Of our exchanges seem to be- of the
practical extirpation of the soft money here
sy. Ignorance never dies; and the theory
that error wounded, dies among her wor-
shippers is poetic fancy and not practical
fact. And, writing in intelligent New Eng
land, in district where the people by
large plurality sent to Congress
Il man whose only alleged principle WAS all
almost unlimited expansion of the currency,
we may well call upon all honest men to
Stand 10y and moi let demagogues and trick
sicrs cheat the country out of what has
been accomplished. Not only is the District
msreprcscntcd by an inilationist (for we
believe that the vast majority OF its voters
are harl-money mem, but at this very time
steps are being taken for the establishment
of "A Grcenhack paper in each of the Con |
grcssional Districts of this State and there
are other Indications of an active campaign |
10y the inilaionists. Not that We think that /
all this will have any immediate or important !
practical results but it is at least u signiii- |
tokens which justify Secretary Shcrmans !
warning. That II financial theory 50 utter
ly untenahe. so ilntly disprnvcd 10y the facts
Of history and the logic of common sense,
should possess such Il hold on the
people OF at least large fraction OF
them seems absolutely incredible and that
n party, the result of the triumph of whose
principles would he IL veto ON the revival of
business which is now bearing its fruits in
our own State and throughout the Nation,
should have So great following il most dis
courasins But such are nevertheless the
facts. As 10 the remedy, We would like To
see the line drawn little more sharply on
This question. We would like 10 see
he Republican party, the historic champion
If National honor and morality (and the
financial question involves the honor and
morality Of the country not less than It's ma
erial prosperity, and the Republican Press
always ndevcrywhcrc the advocates of hon
st money. We would like To see the qucs-
ion in every platform and every paper We
would like To see an abandonment Of some
II the odd and scnsclrss party watchwnrds
nd union Of honest intelligent, educated
men on this issue
The country was startled last year nj the
wholly unexpected strength Of the Green
'ack party in Maine. II Is within the posi-
'ilitics TINT new surprises are in store for it.
When an out and out inilationist like
ewing is put forward in Ohio, with
fighting chance of carrying the cleo
ion, andtle list Of potential Presidential can :
idates includes Janus faced politician like
hendricks, and an avowcd Grecnbackrr like I
'endleton, and with the the solid South solid /
or initiation every Grcenbacker is not IA 1
ankrupt, hut nearly every bankrupt is II i
in other States besides Yer ,
lont), who can tell what may happen. The c
'sue, then, should be constantly kept before c
he people the battle inccsSantly kept up of \
ruth against falsehOod prosperity against 4
delusive show of wealth, national moral v
' aud honor against the immortality aud