The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-08-28

worth a moments thought has been
the cost. Following are the ways and
reasons why this benefcent action can
be put in force without cost, and fill
the full measure of great public
need, and remove for a number Of
years from the arena of political con.
tention one Of the subjects of the most
angry disputes.
THE REASONS AND THE MEASURE.
BY the payment of the National
Bonds the notes of the National bank.
ing system are being rapidly reduced
and will soon be extiuguished. We
must have an ample volume of paper
money, and the dominant power of the
Pacific coast aud the west have de
creed the payment Of the bonds and
rejected every effort to make a new
basis for the National bank currency.
The people will have no other paper
currency except United States legal
tender paper money, and here is the
opportunity to issue it for value re
ceived and the means to distribute it
at once among the people, by provid-
ing for the payment of the service
pensions in new additions to our paper
currency. This would avoid any kind
of taxation, and would in addition to
our silver coinage keep the increase Of
currency somewhere near the needs of
increasing population and business
The business of the country needs this
stimulus now, and if an ample volume
of currency could thus be applied to
our business the cry for reduction of
the tariff would not be heard. With
the payment of the national bonded
debt forty millions per year Of annual
interest tax would be lifted from the
shoulders of production, and the
trouble of surplus revenues could be
met by judicious additions to the free
list and by cutting it down by raising
the tariff on things we can produce
and thus securing more work at home,
and the lower prices which have al
ways resulted from home competition
and the saving of freights, as in iron,
steel, silks, pottery, ETC., and in fact
on every article on which this policy
has been tried.
Here, then, is the way to do justit
to the soldiers without additional tax.
alton; to provide the country with an
ample volume of paper money, and to
distribute it; and to set and keep
going the wheels of industry.
THE LAW IN THE CASE.
The Supreme Court of the United
States in the case of Greepman VS..
Juillard, March 4, 1884, covered the
whole legal ground on this subject
1t affirmed the right of Congress to
issue as much of any kind of money
as it saw proper and to provide such
means as it saw proper and to provide
such means as it saw proper to put il
in circulation. Hence this great
measure of "justice to our soldiers,
business benefcence and currency set
tlement has no legal obstruction anC
no plea for increased taxation to in
terfere with its adoption.
TO MY SOLDIER COMRADES.
In the days of our youth anC
strength we heard the bugle call O
patriotism as it rang up the valleys Il
the corn fields, the sugar camps anC
the lumber jobs; as it drowned tn,
noisy clangOr of the factory and forg'
and sought US even in the depths o
the mines. 1t found us with springinI
steps and stout hearts, and we answered
: again and again to the call for "thre
, hundred thousand more" until, 'misd
| the Kissing Of the minnie, the hurtlinl
/ of shot and shell, when the heaven
: were obscured and dying screams an
> prayers of men unheard in the smok
e and roar of artillery, We drank tn
| death draught that "liberty and un
D ion" might bless the world forever
t We are old, broken and dying now
g but we can by our votes at this Fall
y election ask and compel our Congress:
j men to do US justice. We drank tn
= wine Of death, disease and wounds o
o the battlefield let us from the sam
!. eanteen drink the wine of justice 6
o the ballot box.