Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-07-16
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FARMERS ana mscnanics mere hewefs OF wood
and carriers of water.

FARMERS ana mscnanics mere hewefs on wood
and carriers of water.
There is one thing golden, which permit mo.
In the same good humoy which has character
ized your conduct to command to you here
II is the golden rule to do unto others as you
would have them do unto you. Forget not the
greed of devils and that an absolute acquies-
cence in the will of the majority is the vital
principal of the republic Democrats you have
been, Democrats as l trust you will ever be-
acquiesce gracefully in the will of this great
majority OF your fellow Democrats, and only
esk TO go with them, as they have often gone
with you.
What hope is there for the country and
what hope for the Democracy unless the views
Of the majority here shall be adopted2 Do not
the people know that it was not silver legisla-
ton but legislation dictated by the advocates
Of the gold standard that has caused and now
continues the financial depression2 Do they
not know that when their demands upon De-
mocracy were complied with in 1893 and the
Sherman law repealed without substitute,
that the very states Of the east that demanded
it turned against the Democracy who granted
it and swept away their majority in torrent
of ballots2
From the Joint operation of the Mckinney
law and Sherman law and adverse balance of
trade was forced against US in 1858, surplus
lO0,000,0 900 in the treasury was converted into
a deficit of $70,000,000 in 1894, and engraved
bonds prepared by Republican secretary to
borrow money TO support the governments
were the ill-omens of the pre-organized ruin
that waited the incoming Democracy and o
depleted treasury, More significant still, the
very authors of the ill-starred Sherman law
makeshift were aready at confessional upon
the stool of penitence and were begging Dem
ocrats to help them put out the conhagration
of disaG ter that they themselves had kindled.
Then consider these facts gentlemen: The
federal, state and municipal taxes in this
country are assessed and paid by the stand
ard of the whole mass of money circulation.
No authority has ever been conferred by con-
gress for the issue of any bonds payable in
gold, but distinctly refused.
As we have $4,000 0o0,0OO Of public and pri-
vate debt, 1t would take more than three
| times all the gold in this country to pay even
one years interest upon it. We should be
compelled hereafter to contract the currency
| by paying off $500, 900 900 of greenbacks and
Sherman notes in gold, which would nearly
exhaust the entire American stock in and out
of the treasury, and the same policy would re-
ouire the S3440O0,000 of silver certificates
should be paid in gold also as foreshadowed by
the present draft upon the country's stock of
gold. This mears an increase of the public
debt by $500 900, ,C00 with the prospect of 1884,
000,000 more
The disastrous consequences OF such policy
are appalling to contemplate and the only al
! tentative suggested to fight for before the
people is the free coinage of silver at the ratio
of IS to l, and the complete restoration of our
hereditary and constitutional system of Amer
lean money. We pray you no more make
shifts and straddles. Vex not the country
with your cries of smooth things to come
from the British Republican propaganda
el,s
honor here to represent it, maintain that this
great American nation with natural base of
fixed empire, the greatest ever established by
man, with more territory and more product
| i've energy than Great Britain, France and
Germany combined, without dependence upon
Europe and nations for anything that they
produce, and with European nations depend
ent upon much that we produce, is fully capa'
! BILE OF restoring this constitutional money sys'
TEN of gold and silver at equality with each
other.
And as our fathers in l776 declared our ma
tional independence of all the world, so today
has the great Democratic party, founded by
| Thomas Jefferson the author of that Declara
| ton, appeared here in Chicago to declare the
financial Independence of all other nations
and to invoke all true Americans to assert ii
by their suffrage at the polls that our country
may be placed where she by right belongs as
| the freest, as the foremost, as the most pros
porous and happy nation that ever blessed the
life of mankind upon this globe.
When Mr.. Daniel finished and an
nounced that the convention was ready
for business, there were loud cries fo1
Hill The New York senator sat quiet
ly eating q sandwich and showed nc
disposition to respond.
At l :43 p. m. the convention ad,
journed till 10 a. NJ Wednesday.