Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-09-12
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value for any of US. He knows that he
is preaching to the people a doctrine
that sounds we'll, but is as tinkling
brass-pleasing to the ear, but can
never bear fruit.
Money, to be good, to be safe, to be
desirable, must be staple. The labor
er, the farmer, che man who counts
upon what he can produce from day
to day or as the result of his monthly
or yearly labor or effort, is the one
who suffers most if the stability of our
money be changed.
Whoever attempts, under whatever
popular cry, to shake the stability of
the public currency, attempts that
which will bring distress &! Distress
that will be seriously felt and full of
disastrous results to every man who
labors; to every honest toiler.
It is demsgogue who tells US that
with free silver we could pay our
debts with debased dollar and escape
the need Of an honest full payment of
our mortgaged Indebtedness. They
know better. They know that if elected
it would be year before such law
could be in effect, and that in the
meantime the creditor would, by force
of impending loss to himself, crowd to
an immediate settlement and without
mercy to such debtors, full and just
settlement. They know that before
that law could be enacted that the
creditor would have the mortgaged
farms, the mechanics house, and the
laborer's cottage. They know that
only the few-the mine owners of this
country-are the ones benefited ben
efitted because they are to use our
mints to stamp so cents worth of
their silver with the sign of $1.00, and
that if this law passed we would be
forced to take it as $1.00.
While Mr.. Bryan proclaims this to
be the grandest, greatest and most glo.
rious nation on the face of the earth,
he, at the same time, calls upon the
masses to pry the classes off from it; !;
proclaims that the state must own all
and then protect and feed all. He is
neither Democrat nor Republican.
We despise the doctrine he breaches
and believe that his success would
be calamity to our country and
our country's interests. He over
looks the fact that suffrage, liberty
and the right of private property
have made our country 80 great and
80 glorious. But the Republican
party has ever maintained that to
every man should 60 the fruits of his
labor. 1t is the Republican party
which believes in honest men, honest
money, American market-which loves
liberty, order and prosperity: fhe
Republican party always has and al
ways will contend that prosperity
cannot dwell where labor and the pro-
ducer suffer injustice. The Republican
party does not attempt, by appeals to
prejudice or greed, to awaken revolu-
tionary sentiment. The Republican
party seeks to protect US, one and
all, from the disturbances which might
come from cheap labor, cheaper pro-
ductions and the influx of immigra-
ton. Not necessarily popular meas
ures; but emiuently to the advantage
of the greatest number and to the. ad-
vantage of the majority of our home
people. Why need he rant about lack
of prosperity 10 our country? The
facts are against such statement,
and they are but demagogues who
would so mislead the less we'll inform
ed.
Ia the last 25 years nine-tenths OF
the wealth of this nation has been
created. Is that not, sign of pros
perity9 In the same time labor has
advanced to double what it was for
meriy paid, and doubled again in its
purchasing power, while the earning
power of capital-of money-is re-
dueed at least oae-third. Labor, abil-
| ity and capital have done this, and
whoever tries to bribe the one into a
betrayal Of the other, seeks to destroy
the foundation-the life of our pros
perity.
To many it has been an evidence of
the superior wisdom of those who
framed our laws and created our con-
stitution. That they provided 80
surely and so absolutely balance by
which the legislative and executive
departments should forever be held in
check without lowering the standard
of other departments of our govern
ment. As such balance our su-
preme coart stands as judicial
body ahead of the world and is the
safeguard of our government. Yet
our adversaries propose to destroy that
balance, to pack that court, to create
a court that will decide as congress
wants them to, and destroy this great
safeguard. The courts are the defense
of the weak and their security. We
can depend upon every true American,
whenever he comes to appreciate this
question, to stand by the constitution
and government our forefathers framed
and established. The thoughtful man
of every party or class who loves jus.
tice, liberty, freedom of thought and
action, will never, by word or act, lend