The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-08-17
GIVE US MORE MONEY.

More currency for the transaction Of
business is the great monetary need Of
the country at the present time.
Currency Is the life blood of industry
without it there is weakness, whitening
and death.
We want currency TO run our mills
and factories; 20 buy bread and meat
and potatoes and milk and plenty of
warm clothes for the cold weather.
The employer wants currency to pay
for labor and the laborer wants cur
rency to keep his family from the poor
house. He needs 1t for the butcher and
the baker; for the shoemaker and the
tailor and the man who has been trust
ing him for groceries.
What Congress should do, and at
once, is to provide for this currency. 1t
should not be left to employers and
bankers to do what the government
should promptly do.
Bank checks are patriotic make
shift; but what the working man wants
is the money of the realm. He wants
something he can see and feel; and
better still, something that will rattle
in his pocket. He wants silver and
plenty of it.
It is very hard for the toilers of the
land to understand why they cannot be
paid in currency, when they read OF
thousands of dollars of silver, coined
and uncoined, locked up in the govern
ment vaults. They are not sure that
bank checks and employers script are
| lust as safe as the money that bears the
stamp and superscription of the country
whose protection they, theoretically
| receive.
Consequently we hear of the Hooking
| Valley coal mines shutting down, be
cause timid labor will not accept the
paper of cramped capital. We
hear of the Cleveland laborers dissatis-
| fed and miserable, because they are
paid in perfectly good bank checks
that are not to them "money."
We hear of mills and factories closed
and closing that would be in full oper-
alton but for the inability of employers
| to meet the requirements of the pay
roll. Canton Is a heavy sharer in this
unnatural stringency of currency.
| Bread winners are idle; and yet there
| are as many mouths to fill, as many
| feet needing shoes and as many gar
ments to be replaced.
The kind of craftsmanship which is
wanted In Congress today, the states
manship that recognizes vital neet
and provides for 1t, nationally, is indi
Gated in the following editorial COM
ments Of the Arena for August:
sour country neoer needed broGG
craftsmanship IN perfect SynlpGthl
Nth the industrial millions more thar
today. The people must have relief
The crushing poverty suffered, through
contraction Of currency, has for year!
been bearing upon millions of lives
Now the whole fabric of business IL
being shaken to its foundation. On,
thing is of vital importance the Eng
lish financial policy which the past ad.
ministration favored, and which haI
dragged Australia over the precipice o.
ruin, must be resisted in spite of thu
gamblers of Wall street and the officia
lash of their slave. Unless there Is al
expansion of currency, and unless th'
government turns Its back upon thos'
who are growing rich through SpectG
pri0ileges, we shall have only temper
ary relief, followed by still greater dis.
tress. The nation is facing crisis o.
greater proportion than most people
imagine. The recent action of tn
money power in India Is fresh proc
of the merciless inhumanity Of tn,
usurer. Australia's ruin is not enough
Now India must suffer; and If the golt
power can corrupt our lawmakers, ou
country must experience Australia
fate. ReinStdte SiloeT or demonettz
| 0OLd"