The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-03-16

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that no one class Of our people shall
be sacrificed to another, and that all
shall bear the burthens Of govern
ment in just proportions.
Although speak Of minimum tax
alton, do not mean a niggardly sys-
TEN, that will sacrifice greatinterests,
whether connected with material
prosperity or our intellectual and
moral standing among our sister
commonwealth.
AS the subject Of the currency en-
tered somewhat into the late canvass,
! may be pardoned for referring to it
here.
MONEY AND TARIFF.
In the National Constitution pro.
vision was made fora solid and sub.
stantial money. Currency comes from
ingenious devices to evade and so far
nullify the Constitution and sup
plant money by paper, which can be
contracted and expended in volume
to suit the designs and purposes Of
capitalists, who have their own ends
of amassing wealth in view, or to
suit the more dangerous designs of
an ambitious and unscrupulous ad.
ministration, by contraction, with
holding bread from the laborer and
teaching him subseryience, and by
expansion teaching him venality; by
contraction sacrificing all men who
have incurred debts to capital and
and who in a depleted currency are
not able TO pay; and by expansion or
initiation (hlling with wind) again
increasing prices and enabling the
same capitalists to sell at high prices,
what they had taken from their mis-
cradle victims by the contraction
So this contraction and imitation af.
fects the tariff, untilit is n very grave
question mhether Nth this and other
causes, protection does protect.
II u tariff is laid when there is a
contraction of the currency, and the
price Of materials down, and labor is
cheap, and an initiation of the paper
currency is made or takes place,
new tariff becomes absolutely neces-
sary.
We can so see that those who have
control of paper currency, have the
whole issues Of life and death as it
were not only to the industries Of
the country, but Of the contractions
which place the property Of millions
of our fellow citizens at the mercy Of
these men. We can so see that with
u greenback currency there never
can be u protective tariff any six
months together, and that all these
other evils will be intensely aggra
va:ed by such power over the cur.
rency. The Constitution provides
for money, not currency. Money,
like the waters of the ocean, seeks a
common level over the whole world,
and to the extent that any nation
furnishes currency as a substitute
for money, the money so displaced
from circulation will seek its level in
some other country where it is need
ed, and where there is no currency
to exclude it. The country with the
largest amount of enterprise and in
dustries of all kinds, with the least
proportional amount of currency
will have the largest amount of solid
money, the least fuctuation in bust
ness, and the most permanent pros
perity. And this is inthe very spirit
Of the Constitution, and comes the
nearest to representing the Demo-
cratic idea ola Republican Govern
ment. With the Democratic party
money-,noaey as the solid and per-
manent basis Of all of our great oper
atoms lie a principle. With the Re-
publican party it is measure only,
but it is a measure by which they
can move all those springs of actions
and make whom it will and destroy
whom it pleases Of those who commit
their business and their lives 10 its
and limitations.
NECESSITY OF EDUCATION.
Republics are only safe with an
educated people. Instruction as dis
tinguished from education, which is
so largely given by some Of the Euro
pean Empires make but machine
men for the uses Of the government.
In such governments they will be
mere instruments of its power, or in
the contrast and opposition which
will sooner or later come to the hu.
man mind placed in such conditions,
they will be those agents Of destruc
tion which we know are now uader-
the whole fabric Of society in
Europe. The education of the peo-
pie should be left to the jurisdiction
of the States; and if there were no
other reasons for preserving their
identities and maintaining their con.
stitutional fullness of power, this one
alone would be sufficient to control
our judgments and command our
sympathies. In the variety Of sys.
TENS OF education which each State
will institute for itself, and each
striving to have the best, in the d.
versities Of their interests aud pur.
suits there will he an Fducation of |