The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-19
wHlTetAw aslp.s WARNING.
The New York Editors Letter to tn
Ohio Editors.

Tribune, to Col. r. B. Brown, presi-
dent of the Ohio Republican Editorial
association:
Camp Wild Air. Upper St. Regis. Sept
4.-R. b. Brown, President Ohio Repub-
lican Editorial Association. Courier ONCE.
GAINESVILLE. O.-Dear Sir: The remem-
brance OF my birthright among you touches
me ana 1 am grateful to the Ohio repub-
lican editors for 1t. much more grateful,
IN fact. than for your friendly persistence
In requiring letter when you found
could not come to make a speech. Ny
friend. Charles Emory Smith. will do the
latter 50 acceptably that you will need
neither from me.
I'VE have had the four years In clover
which our friends, the enemy, promised US
In 1882. The people are quite satisfied that
they have had enough Of 1t. On the old
lines this campaign was already won.
Voters were absolutely resolved to go back
to the point where they turned off, four
years ago. and get into the path again.
which from 1883 to 1892 had led them to
the greatest and most widely diffueed pros
perity this country ever enjoyed Assert
ing the power of the common people, they
put forward as their candidate the man
whose very name meant to everyone OF
them the policy Of those four prosperous
years. and the work was practically done.
Then burst out the Adullamites. Every
minimizing or INSCRIPTIONS man who was
IN distress. and everyone who was In debt.
and everyone who was disconnected, gath
cred themselves together. not unto David,
alas! But unto Altgeld. They captured
the national convention of historic par
ty and disgraced 1t and Inundated the
country by asking the American people
to vote that they would not obey the
eighth commandment.
Now. when a question is submitted to
popular vote people must infer that there
are two sides to 1t. And that they have a
right to vote on whichever side their judg-
ment or their interest inclines. But there
are no two sides to the moral law. No
man. no party. has a right to put the
eighth commandment to a popular vote,
to decide through an expression of popular
desires at the polls whether this nation
shall cheat it's creditors by paying its debts
at the rate of IS cents on the dollar and
whether every private debtor shall be at
liberty to cheat TO the same extent the
man who has trusted him. To propose
such vote and such a decision is itself a
crime. But having proposed 1t, the plain
people of the country will sustain the
great commandment by vote which will
surprise those who would break It,
II hope you Ohio editors will deal with
call spade u spade Many of our oppo-
nents are as sincere as we are and mean
to be as honest, but the thing they have
done Is the wickedest and most immoral
public act since secession. To pay the
national debt In silver; to pay private
debts In silver: to nullify and declare in
valid any contract, however freely and
honestly entered into. for paying gold. and
to turn 50 centS worth of silver into a
dollar at our mints as often and as long
as any silver nine owners at home or any
lver-burdened Chinaman or Hindoo from
Asia chooses to bring II to u.s.; the effect
of all this is simple robbery. To ask intelli-
gent and honest men to vote for II is to
insult them. as well as to declare that the
American people have the right to over
rule Mount Sinai at the polls and reverse
the moral law II they want to.
Dishonesty never pays. There are a
dozen ways of proving 1t in this case.
But fist make the moral nature of the
proposals clear to the average voter. and
there should be no more doubt then of
the verdict this honest and Christian ma
ton will give than there is of Tomorrow
sunrise.
Then. If you like. It may be well to go
further and show, for instance, tina. q
real nation. not a mere colony or isolated
province, cannot get on with what our New
York candidate for governor called a sur
rcncy that can't stand salt water. We
sell now more than 10 times as much OF
cur products to gold countries as we dc
to silver countries. Do we want to take the
pay for this wheat. beef. pork. cotton
corn. ETC., not now, in gold or its equiva-
lent, but in silver bullion TO be given free
coinage at our minis? This becomes a
question, not so much of paying silver,
but OF taking silver.
us the great American republic to seek
to hold toward all Europe such a financial
relation as India nov holds toward Eng
land, or a worse one? Surely fresh water
currency is only 1T for people content
with fresh water commerce.
You can make free silver men see. from
the financial history of every nation that
ever tried II. that while making more
money initiates prices II works both wavs.
II raises prices for what they have to buy.
as well as for what they have to sell, and
IL apt 10 raise the former first and highest.
The grocer raises his figures long before
the day laborer can have his wages adj
vanced. and the laborer never really
catches up until the inevitable crash comes
and both tumble together. Cheap money
never did cheaper the necessities of life.
but II cheapens the men. Look at Mexico.
China and India.
"Silver men can be made to see, too. that
making more money does not put 1t In
their pockets. The bullion owner may get
n hundred times more silver than is now
stamped into dollars. but he will not be
any more willing to give the wheat raiser
Il single one of them without getting a
ibund 100 cents worth of wheat for 1t. An
ignorant voter thinks that when more
metal Is stamped at the mint he can some
how get dollar for less than what the
open market calls 100 cents in value. The
real authors of this movement have
farther views. What they want is TO lind
some way of paying something with moth
ing. 1t is merely the old unlimited green
back fiat money craze in a new form.
1T has been tried at one time or another
by nearly every nation and has always
led to ruin. 1t met its first great defeat
with us I'm an Ohio campaign, led by an
Ohio soldier whom that campaign made
president This time 1t will be finally
crushed under another Ohio soldier. who
will become president by the largest pop
ular majority OF this generation. Vermont
points the way.
Next TO the attack on the eighth COM
mandment is the attack by our oppo-
nents on the constitution and courts of
the United States. The protest against the
Use of constitutional power for the sup
preston of riot. the proposal to pack the
supreme court, the attempt to destroy the
validity of contracts-these are not mere
dcmagogisms, or even intelligent COM
munism: they are the formal naturaliza-
tion In the United States of Russian an
archy. Little better Is the demand that
every thrifty. economical and prosperous
citizen shall be Disseminated against and
taxed. not merely once. like other people.
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