The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27


silver dollar (,be profit going TO the own.
er OF the silver as IL does under free coin
age), / believe we will lose New York,
Connecticut and New Jersey, and that II
will prevent us in carrying Massachusetts,,
New Hampshire and six or eight other
now doubtful states, all of which we can
carry IL we nominate n great party leader
and steer clear of this free silver craze.
The adoption of this wild idea will not
bring into the Democratic column soil.
tary state in the Union. II will be politi-
cal suicide, and we might as well make an
assignment az party and have receiver
appointed" What MIR. Harter believes so
unjust and unwise bas occurred. He uses
strong language and forcibly presents the
case OF one wing OF The Democratic party.
My competitor has said in his reported
interviews that in sentiment, upon this
subject. the Democrats of Ohio are very
much divided; that the vote in the con-
vention was a very close one. This close
vote only emphasizes the danger in the
mines OF large number OF the Demo-
Gratis OF the state of the free coinage dec
laration, and enjoins the Importance and
necessity of the friends of honest money
standing together, as in all the contests OF
the past they have been forced to stand
together for an honest currency.
GOV. CAMPBELL WILL "CHANcE IT."
Gov. Campbell declared that while he
had his doubts about IL, he was willing to
chance free and unlimited coinage of
silver, l am not willing to "chancen it.
Under present conditions, the country
cannot afford to chance il. lean imagine
nothing which would be more disturbing
to our credit, and more deranging TO our
commercial and financial affairs than TO
make this the dumping ground of the
worlds silver. The silver producer might
be benefited, but the silver user never.
IL there is TO be any profit in the coin.
age of silver, II should go to the Govern
ment. IL has gone to the Government
ever since the Bland-Allison act. This
new declaration would take IL from the
Government and give il to the silver
producer.
Now. the people know that II we had
two yardsticke, one three feet in length
and the other two and half feet in
length, the buyer would always have his
goods measured to him by the shorter
stick, and that tho longer stick would 20
into permanent disuse. II Is exactly so
with money. A 100 cent dollar will go out
of circulation alongside an so cent dollar,
which is legal tender by the fiat OF the
Government. And no class OF people will
suffer SO much as the wage-earner and
agriculiurist. II II is the farmer you
would beneft-there is one way to do II.
Make the bushel measure with which he
pecks instead of four.
HOW TO MAINTAIN FREE COTTAGE.
/ am in favor of the double standard,
but l am not in favor of the free and un-
limited coinage of silver in the United
States, until the nations of the world shall
Ioin us in guaranteeing to silver a status
which their laws now accord to gold. The
iouble standard implies equality at a
alto and that equality can only be estab.
ished by the concurrent law of nations.
i was the concurrent law OF nations that
made the double standard; il will require
he concurrent law of nations to reinstate
md sustain II. Until then for us to de-
rec the free and unlimited coinage of the |
worlds silver, would ortlain that our sill |
-er dollars would surely depreciate and |
old would go to premium.
No man knows what the future may he |
mt in our present condition and with our |
resent light every consideration of safety |
equires us 70 hold our present status, un- |
i the other great nations shall agree 10 |
n international ratio.
SILVER AND THE SOLDIER.
Besides being against depreciation of |
ur currency, on principle, and for the /
easons stated, / still have another roa-
On, which, If IL stood alone, would be con-
usive to my mind, and would place me
! opposition to the Democratic scheme Of
uttlHg III ClTCuldtlOn a BuOTt uOlIafs Inc
Ioney creditors OF the Government, |
bich include the bondholders, and those
no loaned their money to the Govern
ent in time of war, have been largely
aid oil, and in every instance paid off in |
10 best money of the country. The
'incipal creditors of the Government to-
W, are not the bondholders, nor the
en- OF capital and large means, but
e soldiers who fought the battles of 1
10 union in the most sacred and stainless
Iuse in which mankind has ever engag-
l. In 1867 the government owed TO ito
editors, whose evidence of indebtedness
as in the form of bonds, nearly SS OOO,.
0,000, upon which it annually paiu, in
terest, alone, Sl43, ,7Sl 900. The pension
ii of the country was then but so, ,935,-
o. When the attempt was made at that
me by the leaders of the party that now
ands in opposition to the Republican
lrty, to repudiate the debt to the bond
)lder, or pay 1t of in deprecated curren-
:, insisting that we never could pay 1t in
III, the soldiers stood with the party
hich represented good faith to its cred
ors, and honorable payment OF every
and swept back the tide of in
alton and repudiation. They said that
10 Union which they had saved from
med force should have no stain put
1on its financial honor, but every debt
had contracted to preserve the Union,
lould be paid in the best coin of the
epublic, and every obligation should be
.credly kept and observed. They were
Hing to wait. for their pensions until
is great money obligation was provided
II. The government credit was, there
re, sustained and over two thousand
illions of that great debt has been paid
|, not in clipped dollar, but in full
,llar.
PENSIONERS NOT BoNDHoLDERs.
The positions are now reversed. The
lief money creditors of the government
e now the soldiers; they are in every
ate and Territory of the Union North |
i'd in many of the States of the South.
he interest on the public debt to the
'ndholder is only sA 100000 annually as
,ainst sl43, ,00o, 600 in 1867, and the pen
on roll of soldiers in 1891 is $137 100000
,ainst $20,000,000 in 1867, Shall the
ldier have his great debt paid off in the
me coin as the bondholder? Is ID right !
force upon him dollar worth
cents when the other creditors
the Government were paid a dollar
orth 100 cents? Ia tjust to the pension
who receives Sl2 month to be paid in
silver dollar worth SOC, and thus receive
go as his monthly pension rather than
2 which the Government has contra cted
pay him? For one shall never con-
mt that the soldier of the country shall
paid in any poorer coin than the most
vored creditors of the Government.
OHIO FOR HONEST MONEY.
Ohio has never in the past given her
tie for a debased currency, ana she will
It do so in the future.
When the country was wild for imitation
1875, under pressure of hard times land
ey were hard) the sober sense of the |
ople OF this State, without regard to
.rty, stemmed that awful tide. Ihepeo.
g of Ohio had more to do than any other
ate or constituency of theUnion in keep
z the Nation upon the rock of honest
lance and honest currency.
Of Democrats helped in that
eat struggle. Not through their own
rty organization, but by leaving their