The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-30
THE CAUSTIC PEN,
WELDED BY THE HANDS OF
MIR. A. M'GREGOR,
Used to Touch UP a Local Poet In an
Excelleot way-The Standard
and the Gold Are Entirely
For the Gold Bug.

friend, Mckinney.
with all due respect, we think Brother
Hartzell Is more at home in solid prose.
We say this much, however, with no
wish 10 curb his muse. No doubt he
would like to help the Major In this ex-
tremity, for it is, be assured, serious
extremity, judging by the outlook. How
ever, the town that furnished the candl-
date should furnish poet.
In Europe royalty has its poet laureate,
and used to have It's fool, one fool, espeo-
tally assigi Led there. An old poem starts
in:
"In merry old Eng land it once was the
rule,
The king had his poet and also his fool;
And sometimes, tits said, things would
work very pat,
And poet and fool be found under one
hat.
But sing'lar to soy in this singular plan,
The fool was by far the most popular man
And the court ladies' all, just as well as
Would relish the fools wit again and
again,
While the poet they treated in every way
loose,
And pointed at him as poor gabby goose;
Such treatment Of course, was disgusting
oil round;
And in time there waO no poet goose to
be found
So the poet went out, and the king ana the
fool
Were the twain to be toadied and wor-
shipped-and rulep'
This is not reproduced to interfere in
the least with our friend, for of all
editorial competitors during my career,
must award the palm to Josiah Hartzell,
as a man of ability and force, and a gentle.
man.
But the British gold party may full
inmate in both prose and poetry. 1t
really looks as II there is to be union
OF the people for the sake of liberty
and union one and inseparable. The
party of justice is the party of liberty, for
liberty must include justice, and Justice
means equal rights, equal opportunities.
Justice gives no special privileges, no
monopolies as kings used to do; makes
no class distinction, shows no favoritism
in legislation; as jackson said: "Ihe
blessings of government, like the dews
of heaven, should fall on the high and
the low, the rich and the poor alike"
The Republican party is not Eow the
party of liberty and right, for 1t is openly
in the service of the gold magnates whose
only god is gold and whose schemes aim
to secure themselves and enslave man
kind. The American people have been
tasting of this bitter dose and are evident
ly sick and disgusted with it and with
those who would compel them to take
more. The Democratic convention led
the way in the revolt.
Great minds sometimes draw different
conclusions from the same state of facts.
For example: One man goes to Mexico
on trip ana finds that a five-dollar
American gold coin buys ten Mexican sill
yer dollars or the same amount of goods
and that American silver dollars are
treated in the same way as gold. The
gentleman returns full Of argument
against free coinageand bimetallism. TIC
him Mexico furnishes convincing argu.
ment in favor of the British gold stand
ard
Another man visits Mexico and from
all he can gather returns convert to free
coinage and the double standard. He
sees that 1t is gold that has appreciated
rather than silver that has deprecated
and he is now going to vote for Bryan
and Sewall in order to help to restore
silver to its coinage value as 1t was uI
to 1878. He wants bond.holders and
bankers to share with the people-why
not?
The latter gentleman satisfied himself
that silver in Mexico had not depreoiated.
1t was just where 1t was, the coinage
value and bullion value being the same
and hence values there had not been dis
turbed, prices had not fallen, and that
Mexico has not suffered financial disturb
ancs and calamity as we have. The
credit OF Mexico is good and her railways
are not in the hands Of receivers as three
fourths of ours are.
Is it not strange what different conclu
sions people can draw from the same
premisesS Interest, no doubt may in
Auenoe Judgment, for "if self the.waverinf
balance shake, tbs rarely right adjusted. >
But this Mexican case is worthy Of oon
sideration.
In the United States, we have golt
standard without gold currency. Th'
standard and the gold are entirely for thu
gold bugs, ana the government and thu
Republican parsy are on that side. Thu
British gold organs are now harping that
restore free coinage and the owners o
silver mines will make profit of A
eents on every dollar. They do not tel
how much the owners of gold mines maxi
and have been right along. That's
horse OF another color
Now, the facts are, that silver cost
more to mine, dollar for dollar, thar
gold, by several cents. But this ha
nothing to do with II, any more than tn
cost of producing wheat, cotton, etc
The gold organs do not trouble themselve
about farmers and such trifes. What |
farmers don't make II payf That is o