American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-09-25
The Role That Fits John Sherman.

According to Shakespeare, lone man
in his time plays many parts" on the
world-stage. Mr.. John Sherman is
hired and paid by the United States
Government to act the part of Secretary
of the Treasury. But Mr.. John Sher-
man is possessed with mania for act
ing, and insists on appearing in many
characters besides the one in which he
is cast in spite of the civil service or
ders of the troupe to which he belongs.
Last night he performed at Cincinnati,
in Pixies Opera House, as Demagogue,
and with remarkable success. The
character=fifs=h him exactly. He had
only to be himself all over and all the
time to fill the bill. His performance
was ostensibly speech for Garfield; it
was really an assault on majority of
the American people and the credit of
the American Government, in the inter-
ests OF the Republican party in gen.
eral and Mr.. John Sherman in partlcu-
lar. Mr.. Sherman began by claiming
that the present prosperity Of the
country is owing to resumption, which
is owing to Republican legislation. car
ried into effect by his own amazing
sagacity and administrative force,
against the persistent opposition of the
Democratic party at every stage; and
also that if the Democratic party gets
control of the Government it will undo
all that has been done, confuse the
finances, bankrupt the Treasury by
paying bogus rebel claims. and para
lyze industry and beggar everybody.
OF course, Mr.. John Sherman knows
better. He knows that such representa-
tions insult the intelligence of the people
to whom they are addressed. He knows
that they are false. He knows,
and every other intelligent Amer
lean knows, that the present pros
perity is not owing to Republican legis-
lation, but to the industry, thrift, and
enterprise of the American people, and
the bounty of Heaven in unparalleled
yields of cotton and corn and wheat,
which have found a market in the
famine-stricken countries of Europe and
have turned the balance of trade in our
favor. The Republican party is solely
responsible for the commercial and
financial crash of 1873, whose depress-
ing effects lasted five years. That
party passed the Resumption act in
1874, to satisfy the demands of the peo-
pie, but had no faith that its terms
could be complied with. Resumption
would not have been reached at all but
for the returning prosperity of the
country in consequence of the extraor-
binary demand for our great products
abroad. and the reconciliation of silver
by Democratic Congress over the veto
of President Hayes. And so on to the
end of the chapter. Mr.. John Sher-
mans claim that he and the Republican
party have created the prosperity of the
country in opposition to the Democrats
is only paralleled by the preposterous
representation that the continuance of
this prosperity depends upon keeping
him and the Republican party in power.
According to his remarkable statement,
the value of every bond depends on
Garfield's election. AS there is no
likelihood of Garfield's election, what,
then, are American securities worth?
And what does Mr.. John Sherman,
Demagogue, expect that Mr.. John
Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury,
will gain by such stab at the credit of
the Nation? 1t would be easy enough
TO follow him through the mazes of his
harangue and expose the INSCRIPTIONS
audacity of his Misrepresentation. But
it would be lost labor, as no one will
believe what Mr.. John Sherman, DEM
agogue, says.-M. Y. Express.