The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-07-31

Z, sumption His statement of th
; present volume of circaIation is inac
3 curate BY several hundred millions O
D dollars. He says: s
= THE amount of coin and currenc,
in circulation on the lst inst. was al
follows:
United States note $346 681 oil
fractional currency. -.... ID S42.6O
Certificates. 1880, 75t
, BANK notes. ......... ...... 3z9,69l,69
Total 49,. 2. s7lo o95 96S
|. Showing an aggregate of $l.O42,.
539 9l5. or $2l IL per inhabitent.'
+ We have shown from the statement
of tho Treasurer of the United States
that he is, boarding seveDty-fivc mil
lions of dollars of these United States
notes, every dollar of them contrary
to law, and the same official statement
shows that he has on hand in coin and
bullion $2SO,OOOOOO. His estimated
coin sn circulation will dwindlc to a
| very few millions. His claim that the
public debt has been reduced is void
OF accuracy. His party has increased
the public debt since the war probably
about 81 ,OOO, ,G0O,01o, much more than
that If we include the coin bill of 1869,
which added abent 5000, ,OOO, 900 to it in
one lump. What pays debts? At last
it is labor; and the Republican policy
since the war has added one-third TO
the labor necessary to pay the public
debt, probably more than this. Mr..
Sherman has made the dollars we owe
vastly harder to get, more valuable,
depressed the value of everything
else, and he calls this reducing the
debt. sss ~
In speaking of the silver question.
he does not fail to oppose the standard
dollar of the fathers, aud says that he
wants fifteen or twenty per cent,
moro or less, of silver put in the silver
dollar with which to pay the bond
holders than was named in the con-
tract; for that named specific num-
ber of grains of silver or a specific
number of grains Of gold in which the
bonds were to be, and are payable. He
alludes to the Columbus National
Convention as though it spoke the
voice of the Ohio Greenbackers, when
he knows that the Columbus platform
has been formally repudiated by the
Nationals of this State. He defends
the National Banks, but does not ex
plain why he is depositing more than
two hundred millions of dollars with |
a few of them, lending this vast sum
to them without interest. He pleads |
with the Democrats of Maine not to |
vote the Greenback ticket, as though |
he were really afraid the aGreenback-
crs might carry the State, notwith-
standing the brilliant success of his
resumption. a3 sff54s@s ss
His tribute to the Republican party,
which constitutes his peroration, is the
height of impudence. 1T never rob
bed the ballot box He himself went
down to Louisiana and stole a whole
State, robbing the ballot-box of about
ten thousand votes. 1T has always
taken sides with the poor and the fee
ble.' It has filled the land with poor
men, and made strong men feeble by
the hundred thousand. 1T has never
deprived any class of people, for any
cause, of the elective franchisel' Three
years ago it deprived the people of
three States of the elective franchise,
because they voted for Tllden Electors,
This, in effect, deprived the people in
thirty. eight States of elective franchise.
1t has done more than any party that
ever existed 10 provide lands for the
andless 1t has made more land
owners landless than any party that 4
aver existed, and has given more land
10 landless railroads as subsidies than
III other parties. 1t has developed
,ur commerce by driving our ships G
rom the high seas, and the great sec
ionalist and bloody -shirt waver
harges that the Democratic party
will keep up sectionalism He closes
-this antl-sectional man-with q plea
or solid North.-[ Enquirer. /,
THE OHIO ISSUES. af
Although the campaign in Ohio has
ardly opened as yet, it is becoming
lore and more apparent every day
hat money questions are to govern =
nd decide the contest. The Republi-
an papers detecting what must be the :,
oints of attack against their policy, :
re already raliying round the nation :
bank system and decrying the pro- : :
osed free coinage of silver rs set forth
!, the Warner bill as an Imitation and !"
scheme to defeat resumption-while =
,e Democrats are preparing to argue !"
/ favor of prohibiting the issue of a
otes by the national banka, the sub :, :,
tuition. of greenbacks for national -
ank notes and the free coinage Of sill =
er to be legal tender for all debts, y
ablic and private. These are to be the a.
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