The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1896-09-12
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ueht OF the Ohlo hepuDican Editorial
association:
Camp Wild Air. Upper 81. Regis. Sept
ar b. Brown. President Ohio Repub-
lican Editorial Association. Courier Office,
GAINESVILLE. O.-Dear Sir. The remefn-
brance OF my birthright among you touches
me ana l am grateful TO the Ohio rcpub-
llcan editors for II, much more grateful
In fact. than for your friendly persistence
I'm requiring a letter when you found
could not come TO make a speech. Ms
friend, Charles Emory Smith, will do the
litter so acceptably that you will need
neither from me.
I'VE have had the four years In clover
which our friends. the enemy, promised us
In 1892. The people are quite satisfied that
they have had enough OF IL. on the old
lines this campaign was already won
Voters were absolutely resolved 20 go back
10 the point where they turned on. four
years ago. and get into the path again.
which from 1855 TO 1892 had led them 10
the greatest and most widely difTused pros
perity this country ever enjoyed Assert
ing the power OF the common people. they
put forward as their candidate the man
whose very name meant to everyone OF
them the policy OF those four prosperous
years, and the work was practically done
Then burst out the Adullamltes. Every
unthinking or INSCRIPTIONS man who was
In distress. and everyone who was IN debt.
and everyone who was Disconnected. gath
cred themselves together. not unto David
alas. But unto Altgeld. They captured
the national convention OF historic par
~ and disCraced Il and Inundated the
country by asking the American pee pie
TO vote that they would not obey the
eighth commandment.
Now, when question Is submitted 70
a popular vote people must infer that there
are two sides to Il. And that they have a
right to vote on whichever side their iudg-
ment or their interest inclines But there
are no two sides 10 the moral law No
man. no party. has a right 10 put the
eighth commandment TO a popular vote.
TO decide through an expression Unpopular
desires at the polls whether this nation
shall cheat It's creditors by paying it's debts
at the rate or % cents on the dollar and
whether every private debtor shall be- at
liberty 70 cheat 10 the same extent the
man who has trusted him. To propose
snch vote and such decision IS itself a
crime. But having proposed It, the plain
people OF the country Will sustain the
great commandment by vote which will
surprise those who would break IL.
II hope you Ohio editors win deal with
this matter In straightforward fashion and
call spade spade. Many of our oppo-
nents are as sincere as we are and mean
TO he as honest. but the thing they have
done Is the wickcdest and most immoral
public act since secession. To pay the
national debt In silver: 10 pay private
debts IN silver. TO nullify and declare IN
valid any contract. however freely and
honestly entered into, for paying gold. and
to turn SO cents worth OF silver into a
dollar at our minis as often and as long
as any silver mine owners at home or any
silver burdened Chlnaman or Hindoo from
Asia chooses 10 bring IL TO us. the effect
OF all this Is simple robbery. To ask inttlli-
gent and honest men TO vote for ~ Is to
insult them. as well as 20 declare that the
American people have the right 10 over
rule Mount Sinai at the polls and reverse
the moral law II they want 10.
Dishonesty never pays. There are a
dozen ways OF proving Il in this case.
But first make the moral nature OF the
proposals clear 10 the average voter. and
there should be no more doubt then OF
the verdict this honest and Christian ma
ton viii give than there IS OF Tomorrow
sunris~
"'rhe = n you like. II may be well 10 60
further end show. for instance. thai a
real nation. not "A mere colony or Isolated
province, cannot get on with what our New
York candidate for governor called cur
rency that can't stand salt water. We
sell now more than IL times as much of
cur products TO gold countries as we do
To silver countries. DO we want 20 take the
pay for this wheat, beef. pork, cotton.
corn. etc, not as now, I'm gold or it's cquiva-
lent. but in silver bullion. TO be given free
coinage AT our mints2 This becomes a
question, not so much or paying silver,
but OF taking silver.
rs the great American republic 10 seek
10 hold toward all Europe such financial
relation as India now holds toward Eng
land. or worse enc? Surely fresh water
currency Is only NJ for a people content
with fresh water commerce.
eYou can make free silver men see from
~.
ever tried II. that while making more
money initiates prices II works both ways.
10 raises prices for what they have 10 buy
as well as for what they have TO sell. and
is apt 70 raise the former first and highest
The grocer raises hts figures long before
the day laborer can have his wages adj
vanced, and the laborer never really
catches MP until the Inevitable crash comes
and both tumble together. Cheap money
never did cheaper the necessities of life.
but Il chcnpeus the men Look at Mexico.
China and India.
''silver men can be made 20 sec. too. that
making more money does not put Il IN
q hundred times more silver than Is now
stamped into dollars. but he viii not be
any more willing 10 give the wheat raiser
a single one OF them without getting a
round 100 cents worth OF wheat for Il. An
ignorant voter thinks that when more
how get q dollar for less than what the
open market calls 100 cents IN value. The
real authors OF this movement have
farther views. what they want Il 10 and
some way OF paying something with moth
ing. II Is merely the old unlimited green
back fiat money craze In new form.
1T has been tried AT one time or another
by nearly every nation and has always
led 10 ruin. II met It's first great defeat
with US I'm an Ohio campaign. led by an
Ohio soldier whom that campaign made
president This time Il VIII be finally
crushed under another Ohio soldier. who
Will become president by the largest pop
ular majority OF this generation. Vermont
points the way.
Next 10 the attack on the eighth COM
mandmcnt - the attack by our oppo-
nents on the constitution and courts OF
the United States. The protest against the
iso OF constitutional power for the sup
preston OF riot. the proposal TO pack the
supreme court, the attempt 10 destroy the
validity OF contracts-these are not mere
demagoglsms. or even intelligent COM
munism they are the formal naturaliza-
tion In the United States OF Russian an
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