Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-13

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be far worse than none.
WELCOME to the Mennerchor's guests
They are the guests of the city.
If the Republican newspapers arc to be
bslieved, the last two presidents of their
party were elected to that Office, respect
lively, by thief and an assassin.
DORSEY may be perjurer, but the en-
phatic testimony borne by Grant, Beecher,
Arthur and their political kin prove that
he is the kind of perjurer they depend upon
at election time.
The barrel organ man who grinds out
"Wacht am der Rhein" in these palmy
Mennerchor days shows himself to be pos
sessed of an acuteness worthy Of better
cause.
and if there was it could not be reasonably
expected from man who was buried so
long ago-by the newspapers-as Charles
O'Conor. 1t has recently been related Of
him that, going into a barber shop at
Newport the other day to have his hair
cut he was asked by the artist: "How
will you have it cut?" ''In silence" said
the barrister. There is mistake some
where. Mr.. O'Conor has no hair. Bo.
sides, this question was asked of and the
answer given by Archelaus, of Macedonia,
some centuries before even Mr.. O'ConOr
was born.
SENSIBLE men when it is raining like to
get in out of the wet. General William
c. Wickham, a member of tho straight.
out" Republican state committee of
Virginia, on Saturday accepted the Demo
cratic nomination to the Senate of Virginia
from Hanover and Carolina counties. He
has always been looked upon as one of tho
best and most thoroughly consistent OF
Southern Republicans. Recognizing the
evils of Mahoneism, and the inability Of
the Republican party to cope with it, he
has come over horse, foot and dragons to
the Democratic party and proposes for
the future to wage constant warfare
against the common enemy. An apt in
scription on the tombstone of tho Repub-
lican party in Virginia would read :;
"Killed by too much Mahoneism."
So much has been said and written re.
Gently concerning the trade dollar that
further comment upon it seems work of
supererogation. Yet when the circum-
stances of its origin are considered it is
hardly fair that it should be termed a
bastard child, 1ightfully repudiated by the
nation that fathered it. That it was a
recognized coin of the United States ad-
mits of no question. Section 3,513 of titlo
xxxvii, revised statutes, United States,
second edition, published 1878, says {:
"The silver coins of tho United States
shall be trade dollar, half dollar, or
fifty. cent piece a quarter dollar, or
twenty five cent piece a dime, or ten
cent piece, and tho weight of the trade
dollar shall be 420 grains Troy" That it
was made legal tender, "for any amount
not exceeding IS in any one payment" is
equally certain. Having been thus made
coin of the United States, the legal ten
der of which in limited amounts was un
questioned, it is a grave question whether
its reputation by Congress on July %,
1876, Was not violation OF tho constitu
tional rights of the trade dollar holders at
the time. Congress has power simply to
regulate the currency and in 80 doing may
call in a portion of tho circulation, but in
tho exercise of this latter authority must
substitute for tho rejected coin in equiva-
lent in value The trade dollar is not all
that fancy painted it, but at the same
time it is not the incarnation of evil that
some would have us suppose. It is more
sinned against than SHINING.