The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-10-28

Office for the usually al
application having been first made
there. If from the report of the
office he was satisfied that the claim
was uniust-one in a hundred, say
was false, had already been passeC
upon and rejected for cause, he re
fused to sign the bill. But no honest
claim was ever vetoed by him, and
when he did veto a dishonest claim
no honest soldier would blame him
for doing SO.
STATE BANKS.
1t has been represented by some
Republican newspapers that there is
a resolution in the Democratic plat
form in favor OF state banks Of issue
created by the state to issue
paper money; end they point out that
in foImer times when such money
was issued it was often at Il discount
below par, not worth its face value.
In the first place, the resolution in.
the Democratic platform is one of
denunciatlon of an act of congress
which under color OF the tax power
lays a tax of ten per cent, upon the
issue of state banks. That was done
during the war; 1t was done for the
purpose OF clearing the road for the
natoual banks, in order that their
money shon.d circulate; it was a war
measure. Congress, of course, had
no power to pass such 4 law under
the constitution of the United States;
and the only meaning of that resolut-
ion is, that act should now be repealed.
It's purpose having been completed a
generation ago, it ought to be repeal
ed because 1t violates constitutional
rights. The United State has no
right to pass law abolishing a state
institution that the state has lawfully
created: it might just as well pass a
tax-law to destroy any other ins,tut-
ION. lhe state properly fixes the de
cree of taxation upon its own proper
ty.
But the Democratic party is not in
favor Of state banks of issue after the
old neutrality-suspicious. to have a
capital a reserve of one.third
coin and to issue notes. Our party
is dead against it, and it is one of the
absurdest things in the world to charge
the Democratic party Of the United
states with being dangerous party
on the subject OF banks and banking
We have been fighting the abuses of
banking every since can remember,
ever since the beginning of Jackson's
administration down to this time
opposed to bank having paper
floatlrg around at a discount, and
people being thereby oppressed or
injured. Against bank abuses we have
been fighting for two or three genera
tons. This is most absurd charge to
make against us; we have been opposed
to speculative banking and shall
alwaysr emain So
THE BAKER BALLOT LAW.
There is now 4 law for voters and
for voting in this state, called the
Baker ballot-law. Baker, a represent.
tative from Delaware county, got the
legislature to pass the ballot-law. |
believe some of his friends amended
1t in certain ways that he did not
approve. However that may BE-, we
have from the Republican legislature
a sort OF elephant on our hands-a
law full of inconvenience, law with
great many imperiections, and so
complicated that it would take a
Philadelphia lawyer to explain it and
a very smart man afterwards to follow
the explanation. Without saying any.
thing further about the law, the
character of which you will under.
stand a little more of when you get
into the caboose and have to hunt
your ticket on the day of election
ever since | can remember there has
been complaint in this state and in
this country that voters ale coerced
lntlmidated, to some extent, at cleo
tons; that some employer of laboring-
men will go to the polls and stand
there and see hon they ale going to
vote. For many years of my life,
election after election, saw verv
able man of respectable character,
the manager Of great business-estab-
lishsment, go and place himself near
the election-window, where votes
were received, and remain there all
day, and see how every man employ
ed by him thirty or forty in number
voted each as he came up. Hs
attended, every year to that business
Just as strictly and just as carefully as
he attended to the carrying on of his
business as manager of his own
works. For dozen or fifteen years