The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-08-29
Silver Must be Restored.

Silver Must be Restored.
The west is for free silver, and
that too without regard to party
bias.
The agitation Of the restoration
of silver to its ancient and consti-
tutional place as money metal
began in the west, where the eff
fects of its criminal degradation
were most severely felt, and has
been growing in force and spread
ing eastward as rapidly as time will
admit.
In the far west the silver ques-
ton overtops and overshadows all
other questions and the power of
the six new states in the U. S. SEN
ate may yet bring the monopoly
party to grief.
The Salt Lake Tribune, an Inde-
pendent Republican paper, fitly
represented the feeling of the west
on this subject in the following
paragraph, which we commend to
the careful and prayerful consider
alton of our Republican readers.
The Tribune says: "The question
of giving to silver the same recog-
milton as money that is given to
gold is not partisan question, but
rather it is a sectional one. The
advocacy of silver money began
in the west; it is creeping east; and
if the Democrats of Ohio are bright
they will fill that state with men
who can discuss the silver question
on its merits, that will have very
! little to say about the Mckinley
| tariff, that will show to the men of
Ohio, and Democrats alike, that
the cause of the congestion of bus
iness, the fall of prices, which du-
ring the last fifteen years has ta-
ken vast amount of the profits
from labor, which he filed the land
with distress, which has caused
the mortgages on the country to
treble; which has doubled the num-
ber of inmates in the prisons and
insane asylums; which has caused
young men and women to fly from
beautiful homes in the country in
which they were born, to seek a
living by their wits in the cities ;
which has caused land to fall 80
per cent. throughout the old, beau
tiful agricultural valleys between
the prairies and the Atlantic;
| which has stopped the increase of
population in all the rural districts
r which has given city after city a
} feverish boom out of proportion to
: the country surrounding them;
that all these misfortunes and
many more have their origin in
a that nefarious act through which
t our government withdrew its rec
i ognition from the silver dollar
when that dollar ON an even foot
ing with gold was worth premium
over the gold dollar. That that
act, so far as our country was con.
cerned, destroyed one-half the
money in the world. That so far
: as the influence Of our country was
: concerned, it by natural law dc
stroyed one-half the property in
s the world; that the fall of prices is
I not because of the tariff; that the
: distress is not because of the tariff
but it is because, when our business
e was running at full speed, when
e the cuuntry was advancing as nc
: country ever advanced before, at q
y time when our people were using
twice as much money as any other
people, and when they needed
three times as much money as any
other people per capita, this infa
'' nous act, at the dictation of the
. creditor class, was forced upon oul
> country. That all the sorrows
: named above and more too, follow
X ed as natural consequence anC
u that the first thing to do to restore
y the ancient prosperity is to give
{ back the old recognition to silver
= and to learn to appreciate the rea
. fact that the gold and silver In the
{ western deserts of this country
{ were placed there for the purpose
of making the lubricating oil fol
l. commerce, that its wheels might
move without heating or delay on
ward to the peaceable conquest o
. this continent, and that, in point o
u fact, the silver plank in the Ohio
! Democratic platform is the only
. really important plank In thu
whole instrument"
Sand Run.