Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-09-09

1868 contained the following language
Equal taxation of every species of pro-
perty according to its real value, including
Government bonds and other public Sc
curitles. One currency for the Govern
ment and the people, the laborer and the
office holder the pensioner and the sol
dior, producer and bondholder;" and
adds: Now, my dear sir, this platform is
Greenback all over, and you supported
that platform, then why not advocate it
now p With these facts we are perfectly
familiar, The language quoted is identi-
cal with the 4th and 9th planks of the
Democratic platform of 1868, we are
equally sure that no word in contraven-
ton of the principles then set forth has
appeared in any subsequent Democratic
platform, and that those principles, to the
utmost extent that they are applicable
to the present state of the affairs of the
country, are still firmly held and prac-
ticed by the Democratic party. This but
goes to fortity what We said, that the
| Democratic is and has been the uncom-
promising foe of monopo'ies, and the UNI
swerving friend of the producer and la
boring man. 1t is we'll known that the
Democratic party almost solilly opposed
that villainous piece of class Legislation
whel eby the Government bonds, payable
in currency by the contract of their issue
were made payable in coin. And it was
this at which the language of lone cur
rency for producer and bondholder, &c. :
was aimed. But when the Democratic
party obtained the control of Congress i'll
1874, found that nearly or quite all of the
outstanding bonded debt had been issued
or negotiated under the contract Of re-
demp ion in coin, and hence it was that a
repeal of the obnoxious laws referred to
would have involved grave violation
of the national faith, and have furnished a
Just cause for hostile action on the part OF
our foreign creditors. and was therefore,
practically impossible. These thing' al
well informed men ought to know.
Mr. Bryan refers again to the six
decisions of the Supreme Court, by which
the legal tender quality of the Greenback
has been sustained, and says there are
four more decisions yet to come, which l
have kept back Intentionally" We are
truly glad and thankful that he did not
turn them all loose on US at once. as we
mighe have been entirely demolished.
Why so many decisions should have been
necessary to decide one plain point is one
of those things that mo fellow Except a
Grcenbacker) can tini nut =
With considerable grand o4uence our
friend gravely discourscs as fol ows :
''Ihe records ha' have been given, and
those not given, are tie perpetual records
of Il nations faith, the unllterablc yer
dict of nations judgment which. being
as II is, not without a paral el in al civil
lized nations, must lie accep'ed 10y every
truly patriotic man" 70 which we an
swcr in the language of the immortal
Burnsby, IF 50, why So, and if not so.
why So ais I?
The only power givea to Congress by
the constitution for the regulation Of f.
nancial mat ers is found in section $, of
Article /. and is as follows: Congress
shall have power to coin money regulate
the value thereof and Of foreign coin, and
fix tie st ndard of Weighs and meas
urcs." Tie only possible jus itication
upon which any sane man, who under
stands the limited nature Of our Federal
Government, and af6rf:ore a justice Of, the
Supreme Bench, crud at empt to support
the assumption by Congress OF the power
to make paper bills a Leg tender for
debts, would he what has been termed the
higher law or the implied power OF
self preservation in great emergencies like
the late civil war. That emergency hav-
ing passed away with the irrevocable past,
and the money market having again re-
gained normal and easy condition; and
trade being thoroughly revived and pros
porous in every branch, no lawyer with
any particle of reputation, would attemp'
justify present exercise of such power
by Congress. Hence it is, that no one
doubts that the Supreme Court will now
deny such right in Congress.
What significance has the fact tina, the
"Sanscrit people OF $500 years ago, and
the Argans before them, used token (fiat)
money ?" So did that ancient and refined
nation who preceded Us in the occupancy
of the territory of our blessed Republic.
known as the Indians" use token (fiat)
money" Surely statesmen of the present
enlightened age do not need to learn les
sons of political economy from the rude
customs of the barbarous ages
We can recall from our limited histori-
cal reading no parallel to Mr.. Bryan's
present extraordiny position in making
an earnest crusade in behalf of the absurd
doctrines of that dead little faction known
as the 'Greenback party, in a county
where he once polled the heavy aggre-
cation of II votes, but which was re-
tion furnishes an apt one Mr.. Bryan's
crusade in behalf of the principle that
the Government should flood the country
with an unlimited quantity of irredeem-
able legal tender bills, at time when
money may be easily borrowed at 81 and