Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1884-01-04
orp NATIONAL DEBT.

lGfsenback parry W ~
.e,tterei throughout the United
80. IN tho last eight years have
1 .sovn the people Of the country the
and means, whereby the payment
w j. National Debt would be easy,
.,.r, with the constitution, moral
. 7 NJ highest degree because legitimate,
"a advantageous beyond doubt to all
n ,l...e. If society, from the Atlantic to
i. Pacific Ocean.
Bat they hesitate because they do not
understand our position, nor com
'..Aepd i because of their old habit Of
,n;ng in one little grove, all the while,
Ian their fathers made centu-
:. aro. As their fathers did 50 do
Aev lis said, and | have no doubt OF
!. ,erfect truth, that bsar tied 70 a
81. and tanned there, when loosed will
.,inae 10 circle around the stake for
~. and if at any time he makes a tan
-, he will occasionally return 10 his
IA habit Of circling around tie stake as
4. most pleasing sport he can enjoy for
the time being.
There is nothing more painful to old
imbeeile foaics than to change thel-
mole If action, flr short time, even
chan .ilge Is money IL t." The diff
scuty Of teaching the american system
u Finance, legal tender paper money
i, only eqnalled by the difficulty
49, had in supPlanting the
old rotten unscieutfic theory of astrono-
nv as taught by Ptolomy that the sun,
moon and stars revolved around the
earth. Ignorance is always puzzled
over change Any theory it matters
not what, that has existed for years, and
taught by the would-be scientific, how
ever false, will be accepted by the igno-
rant masses and Rugged to their hosoms
asa precious heirloom to be handed
down to posterity as a legacy of invalua-
Bic moment.
We have offered time and again to
p,v the National Debt 81 900, 900 600,
# not in words yet that was the gist of
an our talk, by the expenditure of
800 600, in making legct tender pa
Der money. Which would be at the rate
ofoae-aiueteenth hoasandh part Of a
cent, to the dollar Of Indebtedness, still
there is foolish hesitation in accepting
The Offer
Tie people prefer like the senseless
bear, to circle little longer around the
stake; and greatly fear will still con-
tiuuc to circle until all is lost.
shall, however, continue as long as
| live 10 warn the people of danger from
whatever source it may come, even to
the detrimeut OF my own pocket and
popularity.
In every attempt at reform that we
have offered, we have been met by a
setr, from those whose ouly stock in
trade is sacer. Every sensible man
knows whence such things come it
comes Of the imbecility, the superficial
the stupidity, baseiess,
jiag-hcadedness of the
saserer. To show beyond cayil tie
stupidity Of the democratic voters, |
here quote three planks from the demo-
cratic platform of 1858.
81 Payment of the public debt as
apidly as possible. All moneys drawn
rom the people by taxation: except so
nuch as is requisite for the necessities
( the Government economically admin
stored. being applied to such payment,
nd when the obligations (bonls) of the
Government do not expressly state upon
heir face or the law under which they
gere issued does not provide til It they
hall be paid in coin, they ought in
light and justice to be paid in the law
III money (legat tenders of the United
;tates.
"4th. Equal tarotioe of every species
t property according to lis real value,
including Government bonds and other
ublic securities.
18th One currency for the Govern
nent and the people, the laborer and
be ofice-holder the prisoner and
oldiers, the producer and bond-holder >
Now reader look at the two pictures
esore you-the Greenback platform OF
$50 and the three planks above and
ay who it is that ought to sheer; and
tho it is that must If they have any
onesty about them, hang down their
eads for shame for the part they have
cen made to act for the last fifteen
ears in the political drama Of life.
The true philosopher never rests salts
ed with an Inference when it is possible
have the truth, cost what it may !;
apk and file of the democratic party,
onest but ignorant. rest satisfied with
IL ipse diret of the moncy-thieves of
Vail Street.
There are hundreds of men in this
oupty who are really anxious for the
uccess Of the American System of
nance; but who have not the moral
ourare to vote as they think.
have il from the higest authority
ID the noble editor of the Times is no
vcention TO the above statement. Such
nosition is paralleled in two eases, to
: knowledge, in Washington City.
Wbv then does he not run the Times
he interest of soft-money." "Why
T. BRYAN he is ranniag a democratic
nper." pn
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