The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1895-03-27

with accumulating rent, food and fuel bllls,
and the awful realization of pleading off
spring sent hungry to cold, comfortless beds.
Neither are they sufficiently enlightened to
comprehend the grandeur of the civilization
that calls for woman, the mother and pre-
server of the race, to add to the infinite bur-
denS of her sex large share of the rude,
rugged labor designed for sinewy manhood.
And their limited mental faculties deny to
them the proper conception of the blessings
of a money monopoly and its attendant
potencieS.
But there are certain other things in the |
full realization of which they have no diff |
Guilty. For instance, hunger, cold, social |
and moral neglect, enforced idleness, and |
their endless trains of misery and evil. No
special endowmentS are necessary for them
TO understand the rigorous nature of power
tvs ordeal, or appreciate its privations.
They can also understand without any colleg
late training, the justice of the mandate,
He that can and will not work and produce
Shall not eat"
Likewise do they perceive the existence of
the moral anarchy that affords foundation
i'll fact for the terrible saying" worthy
people starving in the land of plenty"
The people are profoundly agitated and
would remedy these great evils speedily if
they only understood Alright the necessity of
adherence to Democratic principles. But
many of the victims of these inequalities are,
We think, mistaken in attaching the blame
to men and measures wholly Irresponsible
for the lamentable conditions. And again,
there are too many physicians differing in
honest theory and baneful plethora of
quacks and sophists, who between them,
divide the house of the Nations producers
against Itself, and nothing apparently is ac-
complished. A considerable percentage of
the voters seem to think that the country
is in need of more money with which to
transact its business, and are persuaded that
| Utopia will be realized in " free silver" for
which they clamor necessarily, and criticise
and even abandon the administration for its
position on the question. But how this
would afford, at the best, anything more
than temporal relief to certain class of
citizens, We confess We are unable to see at
this time. When it is borne in mind that the
faculty of money getting attaches to COM
paratively few of the inhabitants of this, or
any other land, it follows that the great bulk
of the medium is centered ultimately in the
hands of speculators and millionaire man
ipulators, and this, we apprehend, will al
ways be true, in the main, whatever the sys
tenn or the amount of OAR currency.
And again, the country has practically as
much money as it had during its most pros
porous eras. 1t is not, it seems to US, the
lack of finances, but conditions that have
conspired to lock up the cash and keep it
from the channels of industry.
The country was at one time "green-
backed" into apparent prosperity. Values
rose enormously, and every body was busy
buying and selling whatever they had to
exchange. But it is hardly necessary to re-
mind men of sober judgment or ordinary
knowledge that this was but an instance of
te Il IpOral over stimulation, unnatural, and
therefore doomed to an early collapse. 1t
was the most dangerous and ultimately the
most disastrous kind of prosperity for the
country, born of the infinite necessities of a
great war, when the nation was in the throes
of civil discord. When the cause ceased to
exist and the country returned to its normal
industrial and commercial conditions, the
cheap currency" ceased also, as matter
of inevitable economic law. Then followed
the continuation, by the Republican party
of an equally unnatural, over strained and
ourdensUme system of industrial stimulation
! tn the shape of war tariff, perpetuated and
increased in time of peace. 1t certainly
seems to us that any school boy of average
t capabilities might have intelligently proph-
esed the unavoidable result of such artificial
conditions, which came in the hard times
of 1873 and 1898. Nature Furnishes every
violation of her laws, and is quite as jealous
, of her sway in monetary and pollticrl affairs
as IN her purely physical domains.
What is needed is soldity and stability in
al the departments of political admins.
tration. There are certain fundamental
changes underlying anything we have ye
mentioned that must be made ere approx
mate freedom from the present ills will ever
1e realized. But in the meantime we must dc
the best we can with the material at hand We
Eapprehend, however, there are few minds SC
ot1ogsed with the "diVinity''o of prevailing
doctrines as to be unable to recognize tha
permanency IN values is an indispensable
condition to safe currency, and the neares
Ipproach to continued prosperity, as we now
/ understand the term.
What matters it if there are debtors who
rushed into speculations and extensive pur
chases during the unnatural "bushel basket
A period and failed to pay before the bubble
burst? The same hardships would result in
the event of another cheap money delHge
and after its collapse another army of vic.
, TINS would take up the cry for " free silver
"greenbacks," or some other imaginary
panacea. Financial waters always Sc ek thei1
own levels, and as sure as men force then
above their rightfui elevation, just SO SURE
will they return again, sweeping along tt
i, peril or destruction those who have beer
oolish enough to launch their barks on tn,
, Itreacherous surface.
The thing for Democrats to do is to stanC
together as Democrats, and uphold the Ad
| mlnlStratlOn which has had to shoulder tbs
l. | fearful responsibility of tidlng the country
y | through the consequences of Republican
| Jaws, temporal in character and time-servins
N principle. This done and the instinctIve
| IDEAS of human progress will impel the grea
{ oody OF voters to again turn to the Fedora
i, | Democracy for the best conceptions of rea
liberty and equality before the law.
Every Democrat glories in the principles
= md mission OF his party, and a united Dem
d Jcracy i'll 1896 Will prevent a return to tht
, | wills of war tariff and the general clas
y egIslatiOn of the party of the money barons
Il which has proven itself not only false to thu
masses but utterly incompetent to provid,
Il tiny lasting system of prosperity. The in
.eniouS subtlety of its elaborate argumenta
process has entangled many in its meshe
;, and it is high time for the people to begin t.
{ Iig deeper and build for themselves on NOR,
| tbidIng foundations of real Justice which
'annot exist outside of Democracy's princi
l. pies.
A HARD=WORKING WOMAN
fT0 sooner or later suffers
liza from backache, nervous,
EA worn-out feelings, or
H=U - a sense of weight in
/ Ann dAM the abdomen, drag.
| - ANDiA9 ~ ging down sensations