The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-17

prosperity cNtlJ "uClS'
England the depression is serious
and in France and Germany the de-
preston is general. Is not this
won lerfuI? and yet Daniel is a KING
Cong es to do TO- the Uni ed st ties,
iust what he says has almost ruined
l;asland, France and Germany.
Listen sgain:
"SlIver has never been as low as this
year though the Treasury has bought and
stamped 500 coo. 900 of it i. the last
eight years. Prices Of all commodities
range lower than any previous year OF
the ninteenth century,
Well, this is 50, but not fer the
-easons given by Daniel. 1t is SO
because Dali and Grover CIeve-
land have both done all la their pow
er for the last tive years to dishonor.
disgrace and depreciate ohe value Of
silver and to enhance the value Of
gold. 1t is so because Daniel and
Grover Cleveland have both done all
in their power for the last two years
to prevent the $3.50, 100000 Of s;l>
yer dollars coined from leaving the
Federal pliers and getting in the
hands Of the people. 1t is 50 be-
cause Daniel and Grover Cleveland
refuse to pay the S250,00O,OOo of
expenses yearly in silver dollars,a and
because they refuse to pay eff the
matured bonds in silver dollars.
These are some of tue reasons why
silver dollars are worth less than
geld dollars. Tie reasons why all
kind Of commodities are lower than
any previous years are many and
complicated so many and so com
Dlcated that We can not in an edit
orial undertake to enumcrate them.
But will mention a few. Over-prc-
iuction is one cause. Scarcity of
money and general poverty is ancth-
sr cause The child has been nursed
and pro ected until it is about dead.
Friccy heretofore because Of protec-
ton were SO greatly Inflated Out OF
all reason and proportions that when
they began 20 swlnk. like Vance's cat
fish they knew not when to stop sWink
ing. This we think another cause
Tie inventive and discovering genius
of man. in devising labor saving
ma chimes and in expeditlng tie pre- .
ductive and creative powers OF man
) and machines are another cause OF
tie low prices Of the commodities in
which we aea; and upon which We
I've. But listen to til, Ocicle Of wis
dom aud filance:
$40 stop the purchase of silver 0
/ course will cause new fail IN the Lon
1 don market. Speeiler and more assured
viii then be the day Of its final restor-
alton to its former place III the money o
, the world"
Be Sill
TO stop the purchase Of silver vii
, thus arrest that standing shame in on
!, finance, the Treasury surplus"
, The very object the Democrat
, party has in view Is to raise tn
standard value of silver in The CON
merciai world, yet this Democrat,
oracle says it Will lower ii. Fe upe1
,, Us, ~ hat logic! Daniel goes GA tt
i. show hat wheat and all other al
: tieles arc reduced Is per cent. i
f prices, because Of the purchase an
-, ceinage Of silver. and reaches til
CLIMAX and flushing touch Of hi
9 argument by saying
g. 80 that the monetary disIocatlo ha
" already cost our fsrml' 2 population, VIII
!, mum Der nearly one half the total pOpui
~ alton 0 { the United States, an almost in
computable sum, q loss upon millions. III
on mil hons Of dollars every year. To-
J., which they will continue to suffer so Ion
as Congress delays to stop the silver pul
IS chase and by that act to compel an intel
= national redress OF the none tary dlsloc;
ton
Tbs last quotation is as true 8
the gospel. The farmers have los
is millions upon millions of dollars
10 the reduction of the prices of VIII:
,e they had to sell and in the ilf1 1t 10
Of the prices of what they had
Il buy. But t. charge it to the ru
re chase ard coinage of silver, IS
20 crime so enormous and neiariou
'e and bespesks such supreme igno
&c ance of cause and effect, that we al
Is sorry that the naml-sake ef Dani
e OF old should have lost his head ali
'e fallen in the pit-fall dug for tn;
~ purpose by the enemy. No Reput
Ct, lican secretary since the su1rends
80 Of Lee, has ever dared to go as f:
d, away from the people and so ne:
10 to the hearts of the moneyea king
&c as Daniel the second and Grew,
sc Cleveland. If they are right, tt
o Repub lean PARTY has been rig
oG axor S;p,,o 70 war asH tins no,n