Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-16

needs no aid. 1t is the poor man, standing
alone by his principles, who needs something
to appeal to that bids the invader of his rights
to pause in his course Then come the laws
for the exchange of property. Then comes
money as tl., Instrumentation exchange Men
cannot barter and exchange the raw produce
always. You have no doubt stores in the
country where every thing is exchanged in
kind, yet the value of everything that is ta-
ken in exchange by the largest to the
smallest 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,
NJ ust they deal in the language of truth. If
money is the language of exchange, then mon
ey 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 appica-
tion 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, des'
pite the plain mandate of the Constitution,
has said that Congress has the right to take
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 worthless piece
of paper shall become nothing or everything?
That farmer shall be paid for his farm by a
blade of grass that grows by the roadside,
and that the poor laborer. who works all the
week, may lie paid with a promise to pay that
is never paid. Don't you see that there was
never more cruel blow struck at the labor
ing man than by that party which
ESTABLISHED DISHONEST MONEY
in this country. And this, my fellow-ctizens,
was done by the Republican party, against
the vote of every Democrat in both houses of
Congress- They prove themselves false guar
dams, for they abandon their trust at the very
moment when they should have most careful
ly guarded it. They did invent the Green
back and they drove gold and silver, which
have value in every 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 be-
tween the people of all nations. 1t 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 we're cal led god.like, it
was the great Webster, had said that "an ir-
redeemable paper money was the most re-
markable invention to fertiize 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 in
vention of the Republican party, that men
must receive money that can be increased by
the vote of an accidental majority in Congress.
I 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 this Republican party done? l
could go a little further. After the bounty
of Providence had given to this land of ours
enormously ly productive acres, after the same
wise Providence had withheld His smile from
other nations, and with deluges of rain had
injured the crops all over Europe, so that the
snperAuity 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, agrlcul-
ture, 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 metals. 1t was
the industry of the American people, reward
ed by the American people, that enabled this
country 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 note when he has the money in his
pocket That is a plain matter of fact, and l
say that the evil was tits, not that the govern
ment in time Of trouble must borrow money.
Credits blessing, but don't attempt to turn
the convenience into curse and into the ar
bitrary rule that shall compel man to re-
ceive as cash that which is but one half cred
it. The abundant crops with our industry
brought US back into the condition to say,
bring US our money. The notes were brought
forward and the money was there to meet
them. But it didn't stop there. This same
disposition to
JUGG' WITH THE TRUTH.
and to deceive the people which has marked
the course of t Republican party for the
last fifteen years, marks today the course of
their secretary of the treasury, and has in
duced them, as fast as the note is paid, to
reissue it. What kind of redemption is this J?
If you know merchant who owed a great
many notes and mistrusted his financial stat
US because you thought he owed more than he
could pay, would it strengthen your conf
dence in him if he should announce his readi-
ness to meet his notes and at the same time
reissue new ones ?" He owes as much at the
end of six months as he owed when he began,
and this is what they call redemption. AS
said in the Senate once, it is like trying to bail
out boat with sieve. 1t flows back one
way as fast as you take it out the other.
What wanted to say was, not that we
should instruct our Government, not that
we should diminish the volume of our cir
culaton and restrict business; but I said
this, that would deny the right of the Gov
ernment to compel the honest man to take
dishonest money if he did not want to do it.
And l advocate that, from and after January
next, no note of paper shall be compulsorily
receivable, and to allow the people to take