The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-20
TIRED OF m,KrNLrYrsm.
A Rock-Ribbsd Proteotionist Gets His
Eyes Open and Writes a Letter.

Eyes Open and Writes Letter.
EAST LIVERPOOL, Aug. 1s.--one OF the
most prominent citizens Of eastern Ohio
Is Daniel Crawford. He has been a lead
ing Republican and farmer. Recently he
was elected the Republican member of the
| council in this city from the fourth ward.
Mr.. Crawford has until this campaign
been an ardent high tariff advocate.
Shortly after McKinley's opening speech
in this city he sent the following letter to
the Crisis Of this city, which shows that he
has effectually soured on McKinleyism,
and with him are hundreds of others in
this hitherto hotbed OF pro.ectionists. Mr..
Crawford says:
Major Mckinley gave US Thursday
night, the immense damage the people of
this country would sustain by the carrying
out OF the Democratic doctrine in relation
TO the free coinage of silver, and we con-
fess we were disappointed in the major,
as we always looked on him as one of the
politicians who would tell the truth
at all times; but in his
speech Thursday night he stamps
himself as a low demagogue to every fair
minded man who is acquainted with the
history OF our country. He says: The
silver dollar will never be worth more
than 80 cents" Now he knows well
enough why such is the case that because
the English bondholder, whose bonds
were to be paid in coin, feared that they
might be paid in silver, demanded that
silver be demonetized in 1873, which was
done In the dead of night, and without the
knowledge of members of Congress, as it
was smugglcd through at the instance of
John Sherman. What was the dollar
worth then, major? II was just worth
Sl.o4, while gold was worth only 81, and its
fall commenced from the passage OF that
law making gold the only standard of ex-
change, and which deprecated all kinds
OF property except bonds and cash to the
extent OF millions of dollars.
The farmer, previous TO this got from
Sl.5O to 81 for four pecks of wheat; now he
gets for the same four pecks so cents.
The former dollars would pay his tax 1;
would pay his debts; would buy anything
in the market nearly as cheap as today.
The labor Of the country was fully em-
ployed; no strikes; no labor troubles, but
all contented and happy. Now with
this 100 cent dollar we have
strikes, lockouts, low wages, half-time,
many times starvation, and money famine
all the time; and on, the poor soldier; the
idea that he should take an so cent dollar
for his pension; but he does not say a
word about him when he was in the field
suffering all the privations incident to
war for Sl6 per month and then paying
him in % or 40 cent dollar, while the
bondholder was taken care of by paying
his claims in gold. For the soldiers SIC
he got about S6.40, and If the major was
honest he would at least have made an
effort TO right this wrong and make the
difference up to him long before this; but
soldiers have votes now that make them
worth taifying some.
There are great many old workers
here who say boldly that the tariff was
never advanced on crockery, that their
wages were not cut down. Who then got
the benefit of the advance? These men
say il was not them. He also says the
price OF wool has declined instead OF ad.
vancing, and that IL is not so high as IL
was year ago, but higher than two or
three years ago. Now this is not true, for
good, straight, XX Ohio wool has not sold
here any year for % cents since 1861, until
this year and il the price OF the worlds
wool has gone down, how does it happen
the people have to pay the old prices for
wooden goods?
1.-THE MAJORS prediction that the cam
paign will get hot, think, will about come