The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-02-05

with it any party which sustains IL. |
would like the readers of the NEws-D DEMO.
Graf, very many of them my old
friends and neighbors, to remember
Democratic party, is untrue TO its tradi.
tions and old time faith in sound cur
| renCy IL will march to the rear just as II
did when it turned its back on hard mon
| ey and went a whoring after greenbacks.
For years after that the Democratic party
| eat OF the husks and warmed itself with
ice, while Republicans enjoyed the corn,
| wine and oil, and the same fate is ahead
| of us If ON this silver question we are un.
| true to the people. | have no objection to
! the free coinage Of silver, IL II is not given
! legal tender qualities, OF II we insist that
| 100 cents worth Of silver be put in it, maxi
| it a Democratic dollar, an honest coin
| worthy of great nation and fit for an en-
| hghtened people; but would rather re-
| turn to private life at the close of my first
| term in Congress, than vote TO cheat and
| rob the people who have honored me by
| election, ia forcing them to take in return
| for their labor or property debased and
| degraded coin at the demand and under
| the lash ola puplic opinion created by an
| interest whose object is to rob the public
! in order to fill their private Golfers with
! the plundcr. II am wrong why will they
! not consent TO make their dollar worth a
| dullrrn
y. d. What do you think ought to be
| done with the silver question?
| Answer. / believe we had better let the
present law alone for while and as it
now coins a little more silver (perhaps
| S5,OOOOO0 per year, than all cur mines pro-
| duce and as all the profits in ii now goes
/ to the government (the whole peoplel no
| reasonable complaint can arise, but speak.
! ing my own mind | would cease to coin
light weight dollars and from and after
| say the end of the fiscal year would aim
In nWlNs 0.
worth of silver into each silver dollar
leaving the mints of the U. 5. | would give
an houest dollar to an honest people. l
| believe that money to a country Is what
tools are to mechanic, and | would sup
ply lhe people of the United States with
as good money as any nation on earth has,
and II will be very easy to do IL. l would
preach the doctrine that anything calling
itself a dollar, and worth less than one
hundred cents in the markets of the
world, is a cheat and a swindle, and that
the cheap" dollar is only another cum
ming device for fertilizing the rich mans
tield with the poor mans sweat.
n. d. The NEwS-DEMOCRAT thanks
you tor what you have said, and wishes
you long career In Congress.
Answer. | know how sincere the wishes
of tue NEws-DEMOCRAT are, and value its
friendship and good will. | never can
forget the splendid services it has done
the party and the county in its fights for
the rights of the masses against the privi-
lcgcs Of the classes in the past, and trust
the Causo of the people, ian honest dol
lar will have its strong help now, AS for
as | am there | shall represent what
believe to be the rights
Of thr people and the honor and dignity
of the Nation. | can make no honest
money out of the office, but / hope to
make an honorable name in it asa faithful
Q
| Will never be an important or well
known member, but to the extent that
may be known to the public, (if at all out.
side Of my own district and State, il will
he my ambition to be considered a safe,
sMdiOus, conservative member, one who
is moderate and level headed in his views,
an who always prefers common sense,
business like methods, rather than the
chmerical. Next to having the entire
confidence of the people who send me to
Washington, value the esteem of those
in Stark county, for l never forget that il
was the home of my honorable father,
and that in its bounds live most of those
who are dearest to me by the ties of ma
turc, and that its sod covers those whose
memories | shall cherish longest. Nor
can l easily forget that its people have
more than once tried, and without my
asking 1t, to secure for me honors which
thought were far beyond my merits.
n. d. But MIR. Harter we forgot TO ask
you an important questan or two. Can
we have little more of your time?
Mr.. H. Certainly, though do not know
that many points have escaped your
notice on the silver question.
n. ID. Had the silver question been set
tied in the time you indicate in your an
swers to our interrogations do you think
the country would have been in a state of
semi-panic for the past three or four
months?
Mr. H. No sir, do not.
n. d. Why?
Mr.. II. Well for this reason and others,
had the English and Germans felt when |
the South American troubles came upon |
the Earrings and others connected with |
them, the people of England, Germany |
and the Continental investing nations |
would have made large investments |
in our bonds, stocks and securities |
had they have felt a sense of security |
about receiving their pay in dollars that |
had full intrinsic value in relation to the |
standards as they now exist, and believe |
moreover that money from abroad would
have come into this country, such as the
hoardings of the foreign nations, which |
are always taken from monied centres in
periods of uncertainty, as prevailed in
England and the continent this fall and |
winter in supplies for investment of
every kind that most of the great failures
would have been averted. In my opinion
prosperity can only eAlSt ]
when the whole people have confidence
in the value OF the circulation. Conf
dence brings down the rates of interest
and makes all investors free loaners.
N. ID. Who, in your opinion, suffer
most by the uncertainty of the value of
the currency?
Mr.. II. Well, there are so many diver
Sihed interests in our country that il is
hard to say, but the farming interests are
largest, and taking the country as whole
he farmer is large borrower,
and during the times OF paper in
lation he paid nearly or altogether
)ne third more interest than he has paid
since resumption. | hold that he will
get better prices in sound money for his
produce not nominally in dollars, mind
'ou, because prices OF produce wont 90 up
much during times of distrust even il we |
lad free coinage on a debased basis, for
general dulness of trade would have a |
to keep produce of every kind
ow. j can therefore see no class who |
viii suffer more than the farmers. When
he farmer is not prosperous the whole
suffers.
But with a sound currency based on real |
'alues, rates of interest will surely 90 !
lown, trade will brace up in every direc-
ion, the farmer will get better prices and |
ret them in dollars with the greatest pur-
,hasiDg power.
N. ID. We are greatly obliged for fur
her trespassing on your time, and hope
We have not interfered with your engage
nents.
Answer-Never mind that, for am
'reatly interested in all public questions,
md am always open to the expression of
VFas.