The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-03
McKINLEY's APPEAL TO THE VET
ERANS.


Col. Dom Piatt, In review of Major
McKinley's position on the silver ques'
tion, in connection with the monetary
acts of the Republican party, past and
present, made some strong points IN
his letter to the Plaindealer yesterday.
Here is n chapter on the soldier bust
ness which none will gainsay:
Major Mckinley, having screwed his
courage 70 the sticking point, goes to
and fro over the land denouncing free
coinage as dishonest money. This is
in accord with orders from his masters,
the goldbugs and hOndholders, The
Major is not happy in his mind. He
knows that he loses votes in his legal
ized extortiou called protective tariff,
but such 10 nothing TO compare to the
loss in his howl against free silver.
For one vote missing on his bill OF
abomination ten will disappear under
the abuse of an abundance of money.
He is troubled over dishonest dol.
lar" The Major is in danger OF dying
of modification as he ponders on the
shameful existence of the dollar that is
dishonest. am glad to note this deli
cate condition of the Majors moral
sense. Since when has he or his party
awakened to this recognition of hon.
esty in our currency? He appears on
behalf of the pensioned soldier. "Is it
possible" he cites, "that we should be
called upon to pay the brave defenders
of our country a dollar worth really
only so cents?" 1t is not likely that
the veterans will share with the Major
this alarm. So long as the so cent dol
lar will purchase 100 cents worth of
labor or goods the SAID veterans will be
eager for the dollar. The government
may lose. but since, according to Nc
Kinley, the government is paternal
concern engaged in the charitable
business of doing something in iinau-
cial way for everybody, letit lose the 20
cents and be thankful for the oppor-
tunity. The Napole0nic son of fudge
reminds me of the lrishman who de.
clined to touch good bank note near
the place where few day0 before he
had picked up a counterfeit. "Iees
cawnt fool me agin," he cried, at
tributiDg the worthlessness of the note
TO the fact of its being found,
Since when has this sensitivenes,
say, come upon the gentleman and his
Il
So long as that conflict hung doubtful
the only loan the government could ne
gotiate was in the shape of currency.
The government banked on its credit
and in the eyes of such patriots as Ma
Jor Mckinley now is and so faithfully
represents that credit was not good.
The soldiers took that money at par
The moneyed class now running Nc.
II fv,1n Nnl~ nA
a ruinous discount and did all that was
possible in its power to embarass and
bankrupt the government under which
II had grown rich and powerful. Now
is on the stump deprecating
with tears in his eyes the dishonest dol
lar. After the battle of Gettysburg
and the capture of Chattanooga capi-
tai, ever patriotic and timid, concluded
that it was safe to invest in the great
republic and 80 purchased our bonds in
the very deprecated currency it had
been decrying.
This was not the worst. When the
var was over the McKinleys then in |
power, same as today, passed through |
congress law pledging the govern
nent to payment in coin of these |
ponds that were purchased in depreci- |
tied paper. Thus by law they not only |
Jaid the soldier in one currency-a dis
honest currency, says our Napoleon
God save usO aud the bondholders in
mother, but in that same law yet fur
her depreciating the governments |
,rOmise to pay, that had carried us
Trough our dark hour of peril to our
unlight of triumph. Since when has
t occurred to these gentlemen, who
ever have made good to the soldier or
is family the deprecated paper in
which he was paid-since when, / ask,
ave they found it well to fall upon his
eck and weep?
And the major, this young Napoleon
f financial rot, this advocate of govern
aent extortion called high tariff, this
title tin god on wheels of a steel plate
monopoly is sorely disturbed lest the
old be driven from the country and
he poor veteran pensioners be paid in
n so cent dollar that has the purchas-
lg power of 100 cents. ! suppose of
curse the "fat frying" is going on. so
be major is not called on to pay his
yay from stump to stump; but it would
e good joke if some landlord of a
ountry tavern in presenting his bill
yould demand gold. The mystifed
lajor would have to gasp out that
trough a law enacted by Republican
ongress authorizing the almost unlim-
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