Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-28

TO participate In a fraud l cannot Deneve
If they understand it they will do it.
But it is said we want more money to
| transact the business of the country. DC
we get more money by demonetizing one
half of all we have, for the gold now In CIT
culation is more than one-half of the coin III
circulation2 1t is now the basis of all the
great transactions OF foreign and domestic
commerce. With gold at a premium 1t viii
sink ont of sight and be bought and sold like
any other commodity, as it was during the
war after the suspension ofspecie payments
We will again have gold for the capitalists
and silver for the people: The nuctuatlons
gold.
Now both are on the same footing. You
receive your pay in the highest standard OF
value known among men. Every oolar OF
paper money, whether it be q bank note or a
greenback or q silver certificate or treas.
ury note, is backed by the Government ol
the United. States with ample silver ana
gold to make good its promise, for when we
now issse treasury notes for silver bullion
We take care to get silver enough to De equal
at its market value in gold. The gold ano
silver and notes in which you are now pald
viii travel anywhere in the world ana
everywhere be received at par.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLAN.
Now let us examine the position taken in
this canvass by the Democratic party in
Ohio on this silver question. have already
read their platform. L know 1t is distasteful
servative Democrats of Ohio 1t was op-
posed by two-fifths of the members of their
convention. 1t was adopted only as politi-
cal expedient to catch votes for this cleo
ton. IL is at war with all the traditions and
principles of the old Democratic party. 1t
is opposed by the leading Democratic organs
of the commercial cities, North and south,
East and West. Governor Campbell, your
candidate for Governor, shrinks from 1t as
from a pestilence. He tries to abandon 1t,
and says in two weeks twill not be heard or
in the canvass.
do not intend that it shall escape dis
cussioE. know and you know that II the
Democratic party succeeds this fall In ONO,
fixed policy of that party. 1t will be on your
back as firmly as the old man of the sea on
Sfnbad the sailor President Cleveland, in
formal letter points out clearly the ineVita'
"The revival of business enterprise and
prosperity so ardently desired and appar-
emily sonear would be hopelessly postponed.
Gold would be withdrawn to its boarding
places, and an unprecedented contraction
in the actual volume of our currency would
speedily take place. Saddest OF all, In every
workshop. mill, factory, store, ana on every
railroad and farm, the wages OF labor, al
ready depressed. would suffer still further
depression by a scaling down OF the pur-
chasing power of every so-called dollar paid
ing calamities 1t is surely most patriotic
and grateful duty OF the representatives OF
the people TO deliver them"
ONLY A BARGAIN.
While he was President, with a Democratic
House of Representatives in Congress, no
such measure was proposed. President
Harrison is known to entertain the same
opinions. Yet, now, under strange leader
ship, this scheme to change the standard OF
value is pressed into our State canvass.
believe it is the result OF a bargain be-
tween what is called 1.-THE National Execu
tive Committee" composed of representa-
tives of the great silver mining corporation
of the United States with some of the leaders
of the Democratio party, by which portion
of the profits of these corporations is to be
invested in the Ohio canvass to defeat the
Bepublicaa party and especially ito down
John Sherman" on the issue of the free
ter of litthe importance. have had some
experience in such contests before. am
very willing to abide by the Judgment of the
people of Ohio,
Ohio shall not in any way be responsible for
the adoptian of the policy proposed by this
or for the evils that Will surely
flow from it. They invoke in its support a
new party, calling itself the Peoples party,
which is represented mainly by the disciples
Of the old greenback, fiat money craze, some
Of whom do their planting in law offices, and
whose crops, If they have any, are thistleS
and ragweeds. They recently met at Spring
field, and, after eliminating from their con-
vention large proportion of their number
by their wild delusions and opinions, they
announced their platform.
And what is it? Some Of their creed is the
repetition of mere dogmas or axisms to
which all parties agree. Some of it appears
10 me near approach to lunacy. They de-
nand an issue of full legal-tender Treasury
notes in sufficient volume to conduct the
business of the country on cash basis, and
% loan this money to the people at rate of
interest not to exceed per cent
PEOPLES PARTY DEMANDS.
They demand the free and unlimited COIN
lge of silver Government ownership of all |
means of transportation and communica-
ion, and that the whole liquor traffic shall |
De conducted by the Government at cost by |
alaried officers OF the United States. do |
lot attribute to our Democratic friends any |
ympathy with those wild notions, but they |
ire committed by their platform to the |
of all these vagaries, the free |
coinage of silver On this question appeal |
% the wage-workers, farmers and business |
men of Ohio.
They have not planted their lands with |
mortgages except to enable them to i'm |
prove or increase their farms, and they are |
'eady and willing to pay as they agreed. But |
ew of them are fortunate enough to own |
tock in mining corporations in the silver |
Delt. What they want is fair wages for |
rood days work and a home market for |
heir productions. Business men want a |
table standard Of value for their wares and |
merchandise. The pensioner, the widow |
md orphSn. the depositor in savings banks |
he investor in building associations, every |
me who receives wages or has q fixed salary /
las a right to demand that the purchasing |
,ower of his money shall not be diminished |,
o advance the interest of q single produc-
ion already among the most profitable in
ustries of the United States.
A CLOSING APPEAL.
appeal to the conservative men Of Ohio
f both parties to repeat now the service
hey rendered the people of the United
tates in 1875 by the election of Governor /
lays, in checking the wave of imitation that
hen threatened the country. You can rem
er even a greater service now in the cleo
ion of Governor Mckinley, in defeating the
rec coinage OF silver and strengthening the
ands of President Harrison and the Repub.
can Senate in maintaining American in
ustries, a full dollar for all labor and pro-
uctions, the untarnished credit of the
-merican people and the advancing growth |
nj prosperity of our great Republic
l have endeaTored, In a feeble way, to |
remote these objects of national policy, I
nd now that am growing old / have no |
Dung men of Ohio to take up the great work |
{ the generation that is passing away, and
D do in their time as much as or more than |
he soldiers and citizens of the last 40 wears |
ave been able to do to advance and elevate
ur Government to the highest Standard i
nd example of honor, courage and industry
nown among men.
FOR SLEEPLESSNESS