New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-09
Colgate s. Co.'S
VIOLETWATER

Colonel William s. Cappeler of THE Manshed
News; S. S. Knabenshue. OF "Ihe icieu'
Rlade' ] II Rabbits of "The Springheiu
Times Republic": F. Il. Alderman. Of THE MARI
eta Register: Colonel r. d. Brown, OF Zanes-
who. T N Jckes OF Tho Newark Tribune; >
c NcC,ure of Columbus. and II. p Boyden. OF
Cincinnati
. LETTER RECEIVED FROM MR.. REID.
Whom II was announced by Colonel Brown that
he had letter from Whitelaw Reid. or the
New-York Tribune. there was an outburst OF
cheers The letter was as follows:
Upper j.: i!esis:
Sept. 4th 1875.
r. B. Brown Esq.
Pres, Ohio Rep. Ed, Assn
Courie- Oaice, GAINESVILLE, Ohio
Dear s;r:-The remembrance Of my brth-rsh'
among vor touches me. and I am gratefui 10 inc
Ohio Republian Editors for it:-much more Crate
f;,l In fact than for your friendly persistence IN
recurring 4 letter when you found cou!ah come
20 make speech. Ny friend. Mr.. Charles Emory
Smith will 60 The latter so accepiably that you
will reed neither from me-
We have had the Four Years In Cover "hlch
our friends. the enemy promised us in 1872 Ihe
people arc quite satisfied that they have hao ehousn
Of It. On the old lines this campaign was aHeao!
Won Voters were absolutely resolved 10 30 pa0N
10 the poid where they turned off four years aso'
ard get into the path again which i'o"' 1850 ~
1869 had led them 10 the greatest and mos. widely
a~rsel prosperltv this country ever enjoyed AS
ser.i,g the power Of the common people they pu;
forward as their candidate the man whose very
name meant every one OF them the Po.NcS Oh
those fou' prosperous years; and me "o'" was
practically done.
Then burs, ont the Adullamites. Every unthnk-
,nr or unscrupu,ous man that was In distress and
every one that was in debt and every one that was
6iscon,ented gathered themselves together" not
unto David alasl but unto Altged. Iney captured
the National Convention OF historic party ana oe-
graded :, and inundated the country by asking me
American people TO vo;e that they would no. obey
the Eighth Commandment.
Now when question Is submitted TO popular
vote people mus. infer that there are two sldes 10
II. and that they have right 10 vote on whenever
side their judgment or their interest inclnes But
there are TO two sides 10 The Moral Law NO man.
no party has a right 10 pat the Eighth Command
ment 10 a popular vo;e:-to decide through an eA-
preston Of popular desires at the polls whether
this nation shall cheat its creditors by paying us
debts a, the rate OF ffty-hree cents on the dollar
and whether every private debtor shall pe al lio-
erty TO cheat 10 the same extent the man VINO mas
trusted him. To propose such vote ana such
decision IS Itself crime. but having proposed IT,
the plain people OF the country will sustain the
those who would break IT,
hone Won Ohio Editors Will deal with this mat
ter in stralgh forward fashion and call SPADE
spade Many Of our opponents are as sincere as We
are and mean 10 be as hones;: but the thing they
have done IS the wickedsst and most immoral pub
IL act since Secession To pay the National DEBT IN
silver: 10 pay private debts in silver; to nufy and
declare invalid any contract, however freely and
honestly entered INTO for paying gold; and TO turn
ftty-three cents worth of silver into dollar at
our minis often and as long as any SILVER mine
owner at home or any sver-burdened Chnaman
or Hindoo frcn Asia chooses to bring 1t to US; the
effvt OF all this Is simple Robbery. TO ask intel'-
gent and honest men for It is to insul. them.
as we'll as TO declare that the American people have
the right 20 over-ruo Mount Sinai at the polls and
reverse the Moral Law If they want to-
Dishonesty never pays. There are dozen ways
Of proving /. In this case. But first. do 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 Nation Will
give than there is of to-morrows sunrise
Then If YOU like /, may be well to 60 further and
show. for instance that a real nation. not mere
colony or isolated province cannot get on with what
our New York candidate for Governor called a cur
rency that can't stand salt water. We sell now
more than fifteen times as much OF our products
10 God countries do 10 Silver countries DO
we want TO take the pay for this wheat. beef. pork
cotton corn etc, not now in Gold or its equiv
at our minis? This becomes question. not SO much
OF paying silver but OF taking silver.
Ia the great American Republic to seek to hold
towards all Europe such a financial relation as
India now holds towards England, or worse one?
Surely fresh wa er currency Is only III for a peo-
ne content with a fresh water commerce.
You can make free silver men see. from the fnan-
cia history OF every nation that ever riec 1t. that
while making more money does initiate prices. II
works both ways. 1t raises prices for what they
have TO buy as well as for what they have 10 SELL
and is apt 10 raise the former first and highest The
grocer raises his figures long before the day laborer
can have his wages advanced and the iaborer never
really catches up It'll the Inevitable crash comes. and
both tumble together Cheap money never did
cheaper the necessities Of life; but 1t cheapers the
men, Look al Mexico. and China. and India
Silver men can be made 20 see, 100. thai making
more money doesn't put It in their pockets. The
bullion owner may get hundred times more silver
than now stamped into dollars but he Will not be
any more willing give the wheat raiser single
one OF them without getting round hundred cents
worth OF wheat for it. An ignorant vo,er thinks
that when more metal Is stamped at the mint he
can somehow get dollar for less than what the
open market calls hundred cents in value The
real authors of this movement nave farther views.
What they want is 10 find some way Of paying
something with nothing. 1t is merely the Old un-
limited greenback, fiat money craze in a new form.
II has been tried al one time or another by nearly
every nation, and has always led 10 ruin. 1t met
its first great defeat with us in an Ohio campaign.
led by an Ohio soldier whom that campaign made
President This time L will be finally crushed. under
another Ohio soldier. who vii, become President by
the largest popular majority OF this generation.
Vermont points the way.
Next 10 the attack the Eighth Commandment
In enormiiy is the attack by our opponents on the
Constitution and courts of the United States. Inc
protes, against the use OF Constitutional power for
the suppression OF riot the proposal to pack the
Supreme Court. the attempt 10 destroy the validity
OF contracis,-these are no, mere demagogsm, or
even intelligent communism they are the formal
naturalization in the United States OF RUSSIAN
anarchy Little better Is the demand that every
thrifty economical and prosperous citizen shall be
Disseminated against. and taxed. not merely once
like other people. but twice. first on what he mas
and then on what 1t earns Let US be as considerae
as you please OF our erring countrymen. VINO nave
hee, bonesrIv ms,ed: but let US Indulge In dis