The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-09-14

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the success Of the Republican party ? Is
this party q sincere one? Does the past
tell theAmerican people that it will be wise
and right to continue the governmental
power in their hands Have they brought
business to the American people, or have
they injured them First, let me say one
thing-the proper care Of property is es-
sential to every good citizen. 1t is one,
perhaps the greatest, object for which
government was designed The law, with
its calm spirit of benefcence, was in
tended to take
THE PLACE OF BRUTE FORCE.
The poor, weak and dependent, all find in
the law their best protector. Constitutions
are the fundamental laws to protect the
weak, to protect minorities not maiorities
The strong man with an army at his back
needs no aid. 1t is the poor man, stand
ing alone by his principles, who needs
something to appeal to that bids the In
vader of his rights to pause in his course
Then come the laws for the exchange of
property. Then comes money as the in
strument for exchange. Men cannot bar
ter and exchange the raw produce always.
You have no doubt stores in the country
where everything is exchanged in kind,
yet the value Of everything that is taken
in exchange by the humblest to the small
est country store must be expressed in
money. Money must be the language of
all contracts in this country, and that
MONEY MUST BE HONEST,
so men, when they deal fairly with each
other, must they deal in the language of
truth. If money is the language of ex-
change, then the money must be honest
and true, or else some one is bound to be
cheated. We to-day owe the invention of
dishonest money and its application to
the dealings Of the people, whereby both
creditor and debtor are deceived, to the
Vaccinations of the Republican party. 1t
was that party which, in defiance Of all
our history of the past, repeated once
and over again, in the days of the first
revolution, despite the plain mandate of
of the Constitution, has said that Con-
gress has the right to take a worthless
piece of paper and say that an American
citizen must receive it as the fruits of his
labor. If any man or set of men were
ever to be entrusted with unlimited power,
what greater exhibition of unlimited
power could there be than this which
places in their hands the right to say that
a worthless piece of paper shall become
nothing or everything ? That farmer
shall be paid for his farm by blade of
grass that grows on the roadside, and
that the poor laborer who works all the
week may be paid with a promise. to pay
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there was never a more cruel blow struck
at the laboring man than by that party
which
ESTABLISHED DISHONEST MONEY
in this country. And this, my fellow-cit-
liens, was done by the Republican party,
against the vote of every Democrat in
both houses of Congress. They prove
themselves false guardians, for they aban-
don their trust at the very moment when
they should have most carefully guarded
it. They did invent the greenback and
they drove gold and silver, which have
value in ever nation of the world, out of
this country. Gold and silver have value
in every country of the world and gold
and silver is stamped by every nation in
the world, not to give it value, because
God gave it value. 1t was he who told
men In every age to value these metals,
and since the sun shone they have been
the medium Of exchange between the peo-
pie of all nations It was this party of
moral ideas, which claims itself to be the
great party of finance in this country, to
which we owe
THE AccuRsED PRESENCE OF DISHONEST
MONEY.
One of the great men of this country,
he who had faculties which were called
god-like, it was the great Webster, had
said that can irredeemable paper money
was the most remarkable invention to fer
tilize the rich mans field by the sweat of
the poor mans brow that had ever been
evolved from the fertile brain of man."
and it is to-day from this invention of the
Republican party that men must receive
money that can be increased by the vote
of an accidental majority in Congress. /
ask you to carry home the fact that down
in the bottom Of the human heart lies the
value of truth, and he who pays another
by force for value that which has no value
cannot be called an honest man.
What has the Republican party done ?
could go . little further. After the
bounty Of Providence had given to this
land of ours enormously productive acres,
after the same wise Providence had with
held His smile from other nations, and
with deluges of rain had injured the crops
all over Europe, so that the super1uity of
our production afforded bread to those
who needed it and were compelled to pay
almost any. price you asked-in view of
these facts, the American industry, Agri-
culture, the very foundation stone Of the
nations prosperity, was encouraged, and
by these means and by the labor Of such
men as see before me the great balance
of trade was carried in favor Of the United
States and the products Of America were
paid for in Europe and brought back in
precious meals. 1t was the industry of
the American people, rewarded by the
American people. that enabled this coun-
try to commence the redemption Of its
money. The proof that there was no
money was the issue Of new notes. A
man does not issue q note when he has
the money in his pocket. That is plain
matter Of fact, and ! say that the evil was
this, not that the government In the time
Of trouble must borrow money credits
. blessing, but don't attempt to turn the
convenience into curse, and into the ar
bitrery rule that shall compel man TO
receive as cash that which is but one.h&if
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