The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-12-22
BELFORD'S VIEWS.
He Thinks the People are En-
titled to Some Rights.
Cranky Notions for a Republican About
Political Hogs and Partisan Swill
Tubs.

WASHINGTON, December 16.-The Rep,
Tesentative in Congress from Colorado
. Is Hon. James B. BelfOrd-a frank
manly, eutspOken member, and Repub.
lican. He has served long enough to
know the devious duplicity of pOliti-
clans. Unlike them, he never cOnceals
his views. Talking to a newspaper
correspondent, he said:
"Charles Lamb divided the world into
two classes-thOse who borrow and
those who lend. As matters stand to-
day, we have two classes in American
politics who hold mortgages and
bonds, and those who labor to pay
them. Committees are formed in the
House and Senate to take care of the
rich and stifle the clamOTs of the poor.
Rather than allow the labor interests
of the country to reach supremacy in
the House, certain Democrats would
vote with the Republicans and certain
Republicans with the Democrats. These
gentlemen are looking after what they
call the material interests of their sec
tiOns, which mean corporate dominion.
Did you ever take a look at the make
up of the Committee on Pacific Rail-
roads in the Senate? There is Senator
SeWell, who, it is said, was elected by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Saunders, of Nebraska, who, it is said,
represents the Union Pacific; Pitt Kel-
lOgg, who properly presides over such a
Committee; then there are three or four
other railroad lawyers who receive fees
as practicing attorneys, and e in the
Senate as their corporation desire.
This is nice spectacle to be presented
to the country! One party is just as
bad as the other Take Brown, of
Georgia. He resigned the Presidency of a
railroad to come to the Senate, and
when he gets there he is at once placed
on the Committee ON Pacific Railroads.
Now, what chance have the people with
such an outfit as that? The condemned
might as well appeal to the devil to
amel1OTate the tOtuTes of hell as the
people to appeal to these railroad agents
and attorneys to redress their grievances.
There is ne remedy except in political
revolution, and it will come inside of
eight years."
"What do you think of the recommen-
dation of the Secretary of the Treasury
and the President to stop the silver GER
tifcates and stop the coinage of silver P'
''It is a mere brUtum fuImen," said
Mr.. BelfOrd. "It can't pass either branch
OF Congress and | am surprised at the
matchless stupidity that suggested it.
The President, if he desires Te-eleetion,
should not have antagOniZed the West
on this subject. The scheme is simply
one of contraction. Retire $66,00G, 900
In silver certificates, stop the coinage of
silver, retire the greenbacks or destroy
their legal tender quality, and hand the
people over to the national banksl That
is the whole thing in anut-sneIl. How
man Of President Arthurs good sense
could have fallen into this pit-hOle
passes my comprehension. All this talk
about swamping the country with
silver food is the most .arrant nonsense.
Suppose we do coin twenty-fOur millions
that amount to? We have fifty millions
of people. 1t is not fifty cent? per capita.
The truth is, New York wants to dOmi-