The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-08-28
WENDELL PHILLIPS ON JOHN
sHERMAN-THE PECKsNIFFS ON
POLITICS,
Continued neTt aUeeE.

In recent letter to q Maine Green
backer, Wendell Phillips says of John
Sherman: ut is as impossible to answer
John Sherman as to fad fault with a
weathercock. That can always claim
that it points the way the wind blows,
and 30 can he. There is no doctrine in f..
nance that he has notadvocated, and none
thst he has not denied; no principle on
either side that he has not asserted, +,
none that he has not secuted. His
record will be equally good whether hard
money carries the day or we Green.
hackers succeed" AS to Sherman's as
sertion of resumption accomplished, Mr..
Phillips says:
"In TIE sense which Congress ordered
resumption and hard money men threat
ened and what they are fully resolved to
finally make resumption. 1t has never
come, and no government would have
dared to attempt it. The Greenbackers
claimed and proved that at any time
during the last five years, government
might have resumed If 1t would let the
greenback live and be receivable at the
Custom House. The hS money men
secuted both condition., and proudly
proclaimed that they would resume on
the grave of the greenback. When the
time came they submitted gladly, like
coy maidens, only too glad to be COZ :
ouered, to reissuing the greenback, and
sherman 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 oppon.
ents, and also by violating their own alb
surd, and wicked legislation, are they
able to-day to play the farce OF resnmp-
ton. Hypocrisy has been well defined
as t'the homage vice pays to virtue"
So this cunning trick Of the bankrupt
Republicans is stealing the livery Of
heaven to serve the devil in. lido not
ask men to believe in this strange theft
on my assertion. The Philadelphia
Ledger, whose money articles are known
to be- inspired by one of the strongest,
ablest and most successful OF our bank
ing. houses, roundly and distinctly tells
Sherman that be has not resumed"
And so do the New York Times, EUen.
ing Post, aud the leading financial papers
of the country. AT any time within the
last ten years, by receiving greenbaCks
for customs duties, the value of paper
money and coin would have been equal
lied. ..,.s.l ..srir.
Phillips concludes with this raking
indictment Of the Republican party:
Burke said recognizing that there is
faith due to the people as well as to the
holders ofpublic seCurities): ut is to the
property of the citizen, and not to the
demands of the creditor of the State that
the original faith of society is pledged;
the claim of the citizen is prior in time,
paramount in title, superior in euuity."
Forgetting this the Republican party
broke the pledge which made green
backs exchaDgeable with bonds, cheat.
iug the people out of millions, which
LhOJ BaFo buO ouJlOChos OOCOuu1 bu6y
ordered the bonds, which Sherman said,
in the Senate, 1869, were payable in pa,
per, to be paid in coin. Sgindle No. 2,
of tome $500 100000 Third, they de-
monitized silver, and left the bonds pay
able in gold alone. Svindle No 3, 3,ofwhich
robbed the people Of hundreds Of mill
lions more to Gil the pockets of the
ROthschilds. Measure If you can, the
impndenee of such party--the Peck.
cuffs Of polidcs--with their hands i'm
their neighbor' pockets, boring their
victims all the while with everlasting
chatter, about "pubic honesty" ao'lG
,c'Peck0niffs Of politics" is q good hit
sudlwell applissto the Republican man
ayers Holding power by fraud, they
pirate about Democrats being guilty oi
fraud. The corruption Of public NOR,
alsand politics. they impudently assume
to be 1irtuous, and clamor for honest
elections while insisting on paid army
ofDeputy Marshals, as agents of fraud
and intimidation. Mr.. Phillips is pecu.
liaily happy In showing up one Peck
sniff in politics" fol,-5
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