The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-12-10

soon come to parity. When gold begins
TO depreciste It will be brought from Its
hiding places and will seek Investment.
In this way money will bo brought into
circulation. When IL is known that a
new crop Of money Is coming, the huarded
gold will come out. Hoarding has some.
what to DO with enhancing gold. The
prospect of large crop OF new wheat
brings last years wheat to market. Gold
standard advocates will not admit that
the yellow metal has appreciated, but
claim that It is silver that has deprecated
And when reminded that other oom.
modities and values have declined with
silver showing greater purchasing power
in gold, 1t does not convince them. "A
man convinced against his will, Is OF
the same opini on STILL" When one side
Of the SCALE or one end of the. .teeter goes
down, the other end goes up. The gold
end has been going up-tbe other, down.
When greenbacks were our only currency
and kept depreciating, and even when II
took near SO to equal in value 81 OF
specie, Il was not the greenback that had
come down, but 1t was specie that was at
a premium. This deception reminds
one, II his train is standing and another
moving the other way, he thinks his
train is the one that is moving. OF
course by looking at some other object
-. n.Ia k-.. l. kA ,NnA fa
constantly occurring more or less in all
lines Of human affairs. We often see 1t
in our politics, and the present is full
Of surprises.
The Republican National Convention
at st. Louis only ratified the pre-
determined decree as to Major Mckinley
being the candidate of his party, and even
after his nomination 1t looked as though
he would have walk-over and be swept
into the White House, even notwith-
standing the gold standard decree. But
here comes the unexpected. When the
Demo convention met at Chicago,
the candidate was an unsettled matter.
While Bland and Boies were spoken Of,
there was no certainty. During the
discussion, however, Of the platform, the
inspired prophet appeared. The dis
tinguished senator from New York de-
livered his prepared speech for the gold
standard and he was followed by the
eloquent Ex-Governor RUSSELL of Massa.
chusetts, in the same gold line. A young
man from Nebraska took the floor in reply
and at once captured the convention. He
seemed Inspired by his subject and the
occasion, and the convention respond
ed accordingly, for 1t was evident that
speaker and convention were In accord.
Here, indeed, was the unexpected, that
made the candidate, and two other con-
ventions afterwards nominated him.
Just and honest government only Sc
cures the public good, and individual good
is also secured. There is no other safe |
rule. Hence the safety of the perple is
the supreme law. If gold and silver are
not treated the same way, how can they |
be at parity? Before Cleveland and Har.
risons rule. silver was not Disseminated |
against, as since, and hence there was no
run upon the gold reserve For ten years
prior to the imperial sway of Harrison
and Cleveland, the annual draw upon the
gold reserve was little less than two and
three-fourths millions. Daniel Manning,
first secretary of the treasury,
was not Carlisle, and proposed meeting
preventive. Harrison and his Foster
yielded and Cleveland and Carlisle fol
lowed suit. Mr.. Cleveland accommo-
dated them, too, by an extra session-to
repeal the Sherman silver purchasing law.
How accommodating The government
seems not to have been run in the inter-
,st of the people; and hence the gold
by selling bonds and increas-
ng the public debt. In the opinion of
Iome, "a pubic debt is a public bless
ng." 1t may be to these, but what is
me mans meat is another mans poison.
We are not likely now to get away from
he financial cyclone that has been de-
and oursing the country for
wenty years. The first duty of true
'itizen is to save the country. This is
Ibove all mere party considerations. Mr..
ingalls,, few years ago, said she did not
Know whether the Republican party
leeded Turkish bath, an emetic or a
ong rest" The outlook now is that the
'eople are not yet disposed to give the
'arty rest.
A few years ago the Atlanta Constitu-
ion published poem, entitled, "The
Of the Mules" Of which we give
few lines:
While they're jawin' there at Washing
ton, an wsitin' for a place,
We're happy here In Georgia where we've
got amazing grace;
We're maxim of llvin' an we're work.
in by the rules,
An keepin' time like music to the march
in of the mules!
You kin hear us in the mornin' at the
very peep o. day,
hitohin' up for business an singin' /,
on the way,
FER we all have graduated from IL
politicians schools,
IN we're keepin' time like music to
the marohin' of the mules