The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-21


people yet hold the delusion that these
sheets represent honest, patriotic and in
dependent convictions. There may be
exceptions; but, as rule, no greater
mistake could be made. Less Wall
street newspaper scare and news manip-
ulation and more common sense and in>
dependent thinkinRi
MORE CURRENCY NEEDED.
Bifth-We need more money,
A money famine is an inexcusable
crime on the part Of any government.
why does a government cumber the earth
bat 70 protect it's people from such mon
strosity2 A premium on currency Ia an
Advertisement that the government has
literal y n q lie an assignment TO Shylock.
History shows beyond doubt that since
silver was demonetized In 1873 and one,
half the worlds money practically with
drawn from It's legitimate uses as full
tender money, the nations tubs affected
have suffered continuously industrial
distress, bordering at times upon revolu-
ton and civil war. We need and must
have all our gold and silver as money
and much more besides.
Let our government at once take pos
session of every gold and silver mine in
the nation and eliminate this question
from sectional politics and lift it to the
plane of international settlement. If
gold and silver have intrinsic value as
money, as is claimed, private individuals
have no more business owning and con-
trolling the mines than they have own
ing the government plates from which
our bank notes are printed.
When this has been accomplished, it
will then be time TO ask ourselves the
question, What business have either gold
or silver in the the mechanism Of ex-
changep Is their use not in fact sur
vival of barbaric mann
They have been useful In their day
certainly, but have we not found In our
national bank notes based on govern
ment bonds something much better for
| the measure of values2 Our fathers used
the horse and OK as carriers, but Is not
| the locomotive better Our grandmoth-
ers were expert with the hand needle, but
none the less do we hail the advent Of
the sewing machine. We began naviga-
ton with a dusout canoe, but the Cunard-
er Is surely an improvement.
A days labor is the unit Of real value,
not so many grains Of gold. Let us
hasten to find here the true standard for
the measurement of wealth. II you say
that England finds no need OF much
money-that gold has been her only
standard for years--let US remember that
/ hAa dos faI
than $10, 900, ,000, 900, and that she never
adopted the gold basis till she became the
money broker Of the world. Let us also
remember that the London press report
ed q speech Of one of their great men on
July 8, 1885, as follows:
Sir Richard w. Fowler, NJ. p, the London
banker and ex-lord mayor, said the effect OF
the depreciation Of silver must ultimately be
the complete ruin Of the agricultural export
interests Of the United States and the devel.
| opment Of India as the chief wheat and cotton
| exporter of the world
A CALL TO THE PEOPLE.
Sixth-We need less class legislation
and more government Of the people, fo1
the people and by the people. The Hon.
John II. Eckels, comptroller Of the cur
rency, says in recent article that the
present panic is to be traced to class
legislation:
The ailment from which our. financial sys
tenn Is suffering, he says, did not commence
with the passage of the Sherman silver act
nor with the passage OF the Bland act i
found Its origin long before either was enacted
| at q time when congress first assumed Il to b,
the chief end of legislation to make through
enacted laws certain individuals rich. II wa
with this end In view that protective tariff law
were passed, and for this purpose was brough
into being the silver bill, which is not only nov
returned TO plague It's authors, but II Is dc
| stroytng the very interest IL was designed b
| benefit. Such legislation is responsible for tn,
| spirit OF speculation that would create some
thing out Of nothing, that organizes trusts fo
| the purpose Of enriching few at the expens
Of many and looks upon tho general public
not less than the public's interests, as legit
innate plunder. 1t has popularized an extrava
gance In public and private expenditure tina
| has led the government In Its public matter
and the individual In his private affairs TO liv
| beyond their means. II has done more +
strangle the life Of legitimate trade than al
else combined, and today the people are seeinI
the full effects Of the evil In the menace to hon
est endeayors through the distrust bred by It
Let the people federate In every stat
to dethrone this power.
The country calls to 1t.
Your hungry families are now calling
you to it.
It Is the call of God.
I believe in government by the peo
pie. The masses Of mankind have show
. themselves worthy when put to the test
The news Of every day is replete wit
the heorics Of commonplace life Of tn
common people. The masses Of the pee
ole the world over must rise at the bal
Iot and assert themselves. They are gu
preme II they but know 1t.
A recent report from Belgium tells u
that more decisive popular victory thai
that gained by the people over thei
rulers has seldom been achieved. B.
sheer numbers and the demonstration O
the popular will the legislature wa
, compelled to reverse decision which
had previously passed by vote Of fou
; to one. The question involved was a
) extension of the franchise. The worl
ingmen of the country demanded tn
right to vote at the election of Legislators
Hitherto the wealthy classes alone hav
had the vote.
The consequence has been that tn
legislators have faithfully served th
class which elected them and neglecte
the interests of the poor. The conditio
of the workingman in Belgium wa
therefore fast degenerating into one littl
better than slavery. He is without til
protection of those laws which in othe
lands in some slight degree restrain I'll
power and rapacity Of oppressive en-