The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-03-23


nies. This would be a good chance for
fseme of your moneyed men to speculate.
ahd ntforget it. Nat H. EDDY.
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b THE CURRENCY QUESTION.
Eas .5.-;G&l4 ,tsi:s -. a
Making asPaper Lively and Agrees
| sive--A Faithful Tale.
Billy.Nye, in Boston Globe.
II would seem st this time that while
o., little II. being said on the currency
Qaes,ion, and especially by the men who
really control the currency, that word
from me would not be out of place. i'.
Il Too much talking has been done by
thos q only who have theors ticsl knowl-
edge of money and it, eccentric habits
People With mere smatteIiag of knowl-
edge regarding national currency have
heen loauacious, while, those who have
made the matter study have been KEEP.
in the background ~ ssasf
Atthis period 10 the history of our
country there seems TO he a general
stringency. and many are 10 the strin-
gency business who we're never that way
before. EyerYtbing seems &, be dc.
mon. .ized. .The demonstration of gro-
Fceries ts doing as mucn toward the wigly
palsy of trade as anything / knoS Of,
But may say, 10 abiding briefly &,
the silver dollar, that there are worse
cslamities thsn the silver dollar. Other
tqipgs NAV occur in onr lives which, in
the way of sadness and three. .cornered
gloom, make tse.darge, robust dollar
look like an old fashioned balf-dime.
j l. met o man the other daY who two
wears ago Was running aIsmall paper ~
Larrable's Slough. He was then ins his
MERRIAM as q Journalist. aud. his paper
was frequently quoted bv such widely.
read publications as the Journal OF F,-
nance, . hnmorous sem. m;.mantaly family
journal. i 'He boldly assailed the silver
dollar, and with bis ,trenchsnt pen be
wrote such burning words OF denuncis
ton that tse prir4tar had tousetthems ON
ice before he could use the copyas0 81
Last week met him Qua Milwaukee
and st Paul train. He wss very thin
in flesh. and the ERE oil defiance was no
longer in his eye. asked him how he
came on With the paper at Larrable's
Slough. He said it was no more. VI {,
"It tstlrted out" said be, .in fearless
vav. but it Was not sustained" 81 3
He then paused 10 allow tone Of voice,
pulped and proceeded: =
"Folks told me when ! began that /
ought ~ attack almost every thing.
Make the paper non partisan but aggres-
sives that was their idea. Sail into ey-
erything, and the paper would soon be
a power in the land. So aggressed.
~ Friends came in very kindly and told
me. ~hat to attack. They wodld neg
! Iett their own business 10 order to tell
me of corruption IN somebody else. ]
vent on that way for some time in de-
iant mood, a't,ckiug any thing that hap
pened to suggest itself. I ,oi
Finally i thought would attack the
silver dollar. did go. 4 thought taat
inends would come TO me and praise me
for my manly words, and that l could
sfford to lose the friendship of the dollar
providedl could vim friends. .n
In SIX mJnths took an unexpired
annual pass over our Larrable Slough
Narrow .Gsuge, or Orphan road, and
with nothing elsa but the clothes wore,
| told the plaintiff how to jerk the old
Washington press that had more than
once sqaatted my burning words into
the pure white page. The dear old
Et,wel On wh: ch l had wiped my soiled
han is for years till it bad almost become
q part of lmyselt, the dark-blue Gordon
press, with its large fly wheel aud inter-
mittent schsttel mortgage.aa press 20
which bad contributed the first joint
of my trout finger; the EDITORS chair !;
the samples oflsrge business cards print
! ed in green with an in6amed red border,
which shove that we could do coIored
work st L,rrabel's Slough just as well
Eas they could in the large cities; the
files of our paper the large wilsed po-
Iaato that Mr.. Alonzo 6 Pinkman. OF
Erin Caners, kindly laid on our table
all, all bad to CO.. - ' --.ssn l'si
IL fed out into the great, hollow,
mocking world Of people who had re-
ques,sd me 10 sggress They we're peo-
Ispie who had called my attention to var.
ious things which ! ought TO alt ,ck. l
Had attacked these things. / had alec
saackad the Larrable Slough Narrow-
Gauge Railroad. but the manager did
dot see the attack, and go my pass was
good. - "a d.s
zoe ..Whst could I do?
P7gAI had attacked everything, and more
I the silver dollar, and now /
was homeless, Fer fourteen. weeks i
rode up the narrow gauge road one day
and back the uext, subsisting solely on
the. sample nice pecan meat that the
|newsboy pu's in each passengers lapaae
! s"You look increduious, ! see, bat it is
tsue- sHia. r s,t n .er sinlessls
II feel differently toward the currency
no v, and Irwish could undo what l
hare done. Were j called upon again
to jerk the Archimedean lever i would
moi be 90 aggressive. especially a. re-
CARDS the currency, Whether. it. is ip-
ffated or net, silver dollars, paper acertif.
icates Of deposit or silver ballious it
does not matter to me.ns ai h,.a 81
II yearn. for TWO or three adult dough.
nuts, and one OF those thick, dappled
slabs of gingerbread, or slat Of pie
With eoosebefiies ia It. I presume |
could write seating editorial on the
abuses OF our currency yet, but ] am not
so much in the scathe business as fused
70 he. s1 st 'ea ,g3cm- II
II wish you would state, If you will,
Through some great metropolitan jour-
nsl that my views 10 relation t5 the
silver coinage and the currency question
have undergone a radical change, and
that any plan wha ever by which to make
the American dollar less skittish will
meet VITA my hearty approval.
"If have dune anything at all
/ through my paper'so TO in ure or repress
the flow Of our cnrrency, and l fear
have, now tike this occasion 10 cheer