The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-09
A. MGREGOR
ONCE MORE TAKES HIS PEN IN
HAND
And as is Characteristic with Him,
Says Something-A Few Words
with Reference to the Money of
The Constitution.


with Reference to the Money of
The Constitution.
Editor News Democrat:
TIE hope of this country is in the peo.
pie, not in few millionaire magnates,
seeking to run our public affairs in their
own interest.
The disruption at st. Louis should be
lesson for Chicago. The arrogant ma
jority in the Republican convention may
be wiser by and by. The Mckinley
leaders would have preferred to make
smoother the way and so have avoided
the break. The truth is, the leaders in
the break did not wish to leave.
Disruptions in churches and states are
nothing new in modern times. Re.
arrangement of political party ties occur
every now and again. History records
many noted examples. In these days of
newspapers and schools; Of free thought
and discussion and agitation; Of monopo-
ly and trusts, Rrasping greed; and a
suffering people, the result of elections
shows the unrest and the anxiety of the
people for relief. The defeat Of Harrison
four years ago, and the Democratic over
throw two years ago, are cases In point
1t used to be considered that 1t was just
as proper for q man to dig silver and take
it to the mint to be coined, as to dig gold
and do the same. Many people now can
not see why gold diggers should be saints
and the silver fellows sinners, outside the
pale of salvation.
We are having gold standard without
gold currency, for the precious standard
is housed in the Golfers Of the bank mag
mates and gold gamblers The common
people have to be satisfied with 50-cent
silver dollars, silver certificates, or
national bank paper promises secured by
one of col to eight of paper.
Their the political hocus pocus fellows
tell us that: "All our silver and paper
currency now in circulation must be
maintained at parity with gold" In the
next breath they say our silver dollar is
q so cent affair.
The Dem ocratic party never took any
other position on the currency question
than that in the constitution, which
recognizes nothing but gold and silver
a tender in payment of debts" National
bank paper don't come in at all, and is
not legal tender, and congress has not
the power to make it such. What political
frau,ls these hocus pocus fellows are!
These money changers in Europe and
this country, have been working the COM
pound interest game, taking everything,
and thus impoverishing the American
people and doing 1t, too, in the sacred
name of an honest dollar and sound
currency.
American prosperity is gone, and our
independence overthrown. Says an
ancient writer: "That state alone is free
which rests upon its own strength and
depends not upon the arbitrary will of
another"
For twenty years or more these grasp
ing gamblers have pretended they wanted
to rest ore silver to its historic place with
gold, by international agreement Why
did they demonetize silver when it was
two per cent, or 30 above gold In value'
OF course it was all preUense and sham.
All this time, until within year or so,
they did not openly advocate the British
gold standard.
Mammon predicts dire disaster to this
country If silver is fully restored and
The country, they say, will
be flooded with 50.cent dollars. The Sec
retary of the treasury, in a late speech,
said that if all the mints were running,
they could not coin over forty million
dollars year. This flood, surely, the
country could stand. Suppose we elect
the Chicago nominee and risk 1t, anyway.
The writer hereof remembers similar
predictions about ruin in 1889, II Jack
son should veto the rechartering of the
United States bank. The old hero, how
ever, was not prevented from doing his
duty, for he was true to his oath to
90 maintain and defend the constitution. "
Washington, in his farewell address,
warned his countrymen against the
insidious wiles of foreign influence
And really, II it 1t Is true, as stated, that
we owe foreign ey-bags five thousand
million dollars, we are in danger of for
eign influence.
OF late our home goldites were saying
the silver craze was dead, but they now
see 1t is very much alive. The fact Is, our
people are not m uch in favor of Issuing
interest bearing bonds at the rate, OF
hundred millions or more year, and
so increasing our foreign debt. Redeem
ing the greenbacks that are presented, in
silver, would protect the gold reserve.
The French government does this.
On the people does prosperity depend,
and by industry we thrive. The present
situation is the result Of long years of
financial and tariff tinlxering,
which has interfered with business and
labor, thereby throwing millions out of
work and creating an army of tramps.
Labor troubles at Homestead, Chicago
and elsewhere are fresh in recollection.
The st. Louis platform shows that the
Republican leaders have not been attend
ing Coins Financial School, nor proflted
by lessons Of the past. Their position
still is to keep the peoples silver dollar