The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-10-16
SEWALL'S ACCEPTANCE.
The Only Remedy Against a Dishonest
Dollar.

Arthur Sewall, the Demo cratic
nominee for Vice. President, gave TO
the press last week his formal letter
of acceptance. 1t was one of the
strongest documents yet given to the
public during this remarkable and
memorable campaign. We quote as
follows:
Hands of a Few.
We are told that the country has
prospered under the present none
tary standard; that its wealth has
enormously increased. Granted so,
but in whose hands? The hands of
the toilers, the producers, the farm
ers, the miners, the fabricators in
the factories, the creators of the ma
tion's wealth in peace, its defenders
in war? Have they the prosperity
which was theirs so late as even
twenty years ago? 1 deny it. They
deny it. None affirm it save those
whose interests it is to do so, whose
profit would diminish as prosperity
returns to those on whose distress
they thrive.
All is, indeed, right between capi-
tai and labor. The "best money in
the world" is none too good for those
who have got it, but how is it with
the so per cent. of our people who
have got it to get?" How is it with
those who must buy this "best
money in the world" with the pro-
ducts of their own labor? Those are
the people for whom the Democratic
party would legislate. What is the
best money for these is the question
for all to ask who really love this
land. How else can you increase
labor's purchasing power but by in
creasing the price of labor's pro-
ducts? 1t is fair measure of values,
that in our great producing section
ten bushels of potatoes must be paid
for a dollar, ten bushels of oats for Il
dollar, six bushels of corn for a dol
lar, three bushels of wheat and all
products of the soil and mines, and
the labor of all wage-earners at the
same ratio? Does any fair-minded
man say this is honest money that
forces such an exchange; and if it is
not fair exchange, is it honest, is it
less than robbery?
r Debt of the Debtor.
This is the. condition to which the
single gold standard has brought us.
Under it the appreciation of the
"best money in the world has in
creased the wealth of the rich. and
for the same reason has increased
the debt of the debtor. So it has
been, so under the present standard
it must continue to be. With these
object lessons about we have little
need for history and statistics and
the studies of scholars. Little salts
faction it is to us that they have
warned us long since of the deadly
evil of the gold standard.
1t has brought us at last to the
parting of the ways. Whittier shall
the people go-in the way that has
led to their ensl1vement or into that
which offers them their only chance
to regain individual liberty, lasting
prosperity and happiness? Let not
our opponents charge us with Great
ing class distinction. Alas, for the
republic, they are already here,
created by the Republican policy of
the last thirty years, created by the
very system we would now over
| throw.
The Dangerous Glass.
We know well the nature of the
struggle in which we are engaged
We are anxious only that the people
of the land shall understand it, and
then our battle is won. Behind the
strong entrenchment of the gold
standard are gathered all those fa-
vored classes 1t has fostered, the only
dangerous classes of the land. Ava
rice and unholy greed are there
every trust and combination is there
every monopoly is there, led by the
greatest monopoly of all, the monop-
| oily of the power of gold. With us
in our assault upon these entrench-
ments are all those unselfish men.
who, if not suffering themselves
cannot rest content with conditions
so full of suffering for others, and
that vaster number of our people
who have been sacrificed to the
small and selfish class, who now re.
sist their attempts to restrain theil
ancient rights and liberties.
These are the patriots of 1896, the
lOoS vi u ulollOu6sG uOlldT, WDlcT
enriches 10 per cent. of our people to
rob the rest, the defenders OF the
homes Of the land, the public NOR
ais and the public faith, both o.
which alike forbid the payment o.
Government obligations in a coir
costlier to those who have to pay
than what the contract calls for; the
defenders Of the honor of the nation
whose most sacred charge is to care
for the welfare of all its citizens.
Only One Remedy.
The free and unlimited coinage o.
silver is the sole remedy with which
to check the wrongs of to-day, to un
do the ruin of the past, and for oul
inspiration we have the Justice O.
our cause and those cherished prin.
ciples of Jefferson and Jackson
which shall be our guide on our re
turn to power: Equal and exac
Justice to all men, absolute acuuies.
cence in the decision of the maiori.
ty, the vital principles of republics
the honest payment of our debts, ane
sacred preservation of the public
faith
ARTHUR SEwALL.