People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-02
Sane or Insane.

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Sane or Insane.
DR.. NJ. G. Ellzey, in National Waterman
Certain editors keep by them some
pet-phrazes ready at moments notice
to be trotted out when facts are lack
ing and arguments fail. Sane and
Insane are highly valued pair Of
such epithets which have been to
many doughty knight of the quill,
buckle and shield and sword. When
unable to cope with the arguments
of an antagonist and incapable of
seeing their way through the ques-
ton, it is so very easy to write the
adversary down insane. Those capa-
bic of reading between the lines fail
not, however, to perceive that as
often as the able editor thus writes
his adversary down a lunatic he
writes himself down an ass. To
your stump orator the sole source of
his transformation and malinspira-
ton is your "great daily" He is
but brassy echo Of the able editor.
Like the poor boy whom the evil
spirit tormented, oft1imes he foameth
at the mouth and teareth himself in
the midst of his frenzy. When
such a fellow denounces what he
knows nothing about, and is not
capable of understanding, as a wild
lunacy and dangerous hereoy, what
of it? To hear such a person de-
nouncing a sensible and honest man
as a silver lunatic calls forth pity
and contempt. 1t is known that no
satisfactory legal test of insanity has
been proposed. But there are GER
tain proverbial tests, much relied on.
A man is often judged not to be a
lunatic on the ground that he never
had sense enough to 60 crazy. And
whenever anybody comes to the con-
cluslon that everybody else is insane
the evidence is that he is crazy him
self. Just now your able editor is
so overstraining his faculties to de-
nounce that insane blunder, the Sher-
man law, as to justify apprehensions
in his behalf. Daily he pours out
upon it the thunderous torrents of
his wrath. The only sane thing, he
cries, is for Congress to repeal this
insane blunder at once. But where
abouts is Congress at this moment !?
Hugely indignant is our able editor
that silver continues daily to be
ricked up in the treasury where the
vast and increasing pile is as useless
as so much rusty old iron. True,
Oh, King! And why don't Mr..
Cleveland cause it to be coined and
paid out, and not ricked up like rusty
iron? The Sherman law itself directs
it to be coined at the discretion of
the Secretary. Our able editor CON
veniently forgets to remember that
when this Sherman law, base subter-
fuge and cowardly makesh1ft that it
was, became a law, he rather con-
graduated the country upon its pas
sage as being a saner and far safer
measure than free coinage.
President Cleveland alone, and no.
body else, is responsible for the con-
tinuation of the ricklng up process.
He alone, and nobody else, is respon-
sible for the existing situation, for
he alone, and nobody else, has the
power to take any effective steps to
remedy what is wrong.
1t is the first time in his whole
curiously remarkable career that he
ever had to face any really serious
responsibility, and how does our
much magnifed Hercules and heroic
leader meet it? His magnificent
health and astonishing capacity for
work have been heralded to the