The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-01
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The English Papers Of This Morning.

Inc Engllsh fapcrs OF 1nls morning.
The Enquirer calls attention to the fact
that for thirty years the State of Maine has
been the political barometer In 1860 she
gave the Republicans 10000 majority and
from 10000 to ZOO was the ordinary ma
jority for several years, but in 1876 this fell
to,l1 695. In 1878 the people of that State
began looking into the financial question,
when the vote was divided as follows: Re-
publicans, Sc, 4l9; Democrats, 27,S72; Green
hackers, Al ,404, showing loss to the Re-
publican party of II, 20S votes in two years
A corresponding loss to the Republican
party in Ohio this year, the Enquirer esti-
mates, would amount to 10000 and would
elect Tom Ewing by a majority of over
$4,000.
The Commercial seems to be largely taken
up this morning with the silver dollar pol
icy, which it epitomizes as for the present
best should be to do nothing" 1t claims
to have advocated the resumption of sill
yer as an act of justice to the people, re-
quired in order to comply exactly with the
contracts defined by the laws of March 18th,
1869, and July 14th, 1870" Having done
this it claims that the people have done
themselves justice, secured their rights un-
der the contracts and protected themselves
against exorbitant demands. 1t adds: "But
we were in favor of the unlimited coinage
of the silver dollar and are not so now. Why
not? Because unlimited silver coinage
would have powerful tendency to reduce
lis to the single silver standard. 1t is our
part beyond question to keep up the
double standard. We produce both gold
and silver We are between golden England
and silver China. We look upon the two
great oceans and see both sides of the
shield of gold and silver" 1t goes on
to observe that the double standard
is no myth, but the great diff
fculty now as in the days of Hamilton is
to adjust the ratio so that the mint valu-
alton of the market price of the two metals
may correspond. Heretofore the changes
have been made in the gold dollar, and the
time may come to change the silver dollar,
or to change the gold dollar again. The
silver men say: The time has come to cut
down the gold dollar The gold men say:
Put in silver enough to make the silver
dollar the equal of gold. The Commercial
thinks the present ratioof silver to
gold is artificial. AS compared with the
Latin Union we undervalue silver
in its relation to gold three per cent, while
the market value of gold is more than ten
per cent. greater than silver in the respect
i've coins. This demands adjustment. but
not now. But why not unlimited coin
age of silver right awayW Because
says the Commercial this is rather an inter-
national than national matter. If we
throw open our mints to silver while those
of other nations are closed We disturb our
own business without correcting the world
wide alteration. This the Commercial
admits has not been its opinion formerly,
but has been arrived at by studying
problem greater than first supposed.
The Gazette, in answer to a communca-
ton which it publishes from correspond
ent advising that the Southern exodus be
discouraged, says that the Gazette has here
tofore maintained that the colored people
of the South, while legally free are actu.
ally in worse bondage than slavery that
if they were white men they would
fight for their rights, but have
no leaders nor discipline, and
are generally indisposed to fight white
men, that they know themselves to be
wronged and the only escape appears to
them to emigrate to State where their po-
litcal rights will be assured. The Gazette
is unwilling to advise against this or re.
commend them to turn and destroy their
opposers. The South, it adds, has gained
30 Representatives in Congress by includ-
ing the coloredspeople in the basis of rep
resentation and now refuse to permit
them to exercise the right of suf-
frage. There are members of Congress
from the South, who were elected by the
mob, who have no moral or legal right
there. Throw these ontand the House would
be controlled by those who would oppose
notification and provide for the enforce
ment Of the laws Has not the time come,
adds the Gazette, to elect Congress that
will refuse seats to members elected from
districts where citizens are not free to
vote? Unless we can secure such a Con-
gress the war was fought in vain and the
Fifteenth Amendment is not worth the
white paper upon which it was originally
written.
The Gazette prints what it assumes to be
a chapter from the records of the Toronto
Courts, which it declares prove beyond
doubt that DR.. Luke P. Blackburn did, in
the year 1865, plot to destroy the principal
cities of the North by spreading among the
inhabitants the infection of yellow fever
and heads the article "Will Blackburn
Deny"