Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-09-17

try Into the Use of Deprecated Money,
stabs Your Interest and Your Happi-
ness to the Heart"
II any farmer thinks that he Ia going to
do all selling and no buying, or tha; he is
going to sell more than he buys, AM .hus
preciated and fuctuating currency, we
commend to him the following words of
Daniel Webster:
"Sir, I pronounce the author Of such
sentiments to be guilty of attempting
detestable fraud on tho community; q
double fraud; fraud which is to cheat
men out Of their property and out of the
earnings Of their labor by first cheating
them out of their misunderstanding.
1.-THE natural hatred Of tho poor to the
rich Sir, 1t shall not be till the last mo-
when am drawn to the verge Of oblivion,
when 1 shall cease to have respect or nffec-
tion for anything on earth, that I will be-
lieve the people Of the United States cap
able Of being effectually deluded cajolsd
and driven about In herds by such abom-
Unable frauds as this II they shall sink
10 that point, IL they so far cease to be
men as to yield to such pretenses and such
olamor, they will be slaves already; slaves
to their own passions, slaves to the fraud
and knavery of pretended friends.
Z" The national hatred Of the poor against
the rich The danger Of u moncyed aris-
tocracy. Sir, admonish the people against
the object of cries likes these. admonish
every intelligent laborer In the country to
be on his guard against such delusions.
tell him the attempt is to play on his pas
sions against his interests. and to prevgl
on him In the name Of liberty to destroy
all the fruits of liberty, in the name Of
patriotism to injure and afiict his country,
In the name OF his own Independence to
destroy that very Independence, and mako
him beggar and a slave.
HAS he u dollars He Is advised to do
that which will destroy halfits value. Has
he hands TO labori Let him rather fold
them and sit still than be pushed on by
fraud and arti1ce to support measures
which will ronder his labor useless and
hopeless.
"Sir, the very man Of all others who has
the deepest interest In q sound currency,
who suffers most by mischievous legisla-
tion In money matters. Is the man who
earns his daily bread by his daily toll. A
deprecated currency, sudden changes OF
prices, paper money falling between morn
ing and noon, and falling still lower be-
tweon noon and night-these things con-
stitute tho very harvest time Of spccu-
lators, and OF the whole race Of those who
are at once idlo and crafty, and Of that
other race, too, the Catilines Of all times,
marked so ns TO be known forever, by one
stroke of the historians pen, those greedy
Of other mems property and prodigal Of
their own
Capitalists too, may outlivs such
times; thoy may either prey on tho earn
ings Of lahof by their cent, per cent, or
they may hoard. But the laboring man,
what oan no hoardY Preying on nobody.
he becomes the prey OF all. His property
is In his hands. His reliance, his fund,
his productive freehold, his all, is his la
bor Whether no work on his own small
capital or another's, his living is still
earnod by his industry; and when the
money Of the country becomes deprcciated
or debasod, whether 1t be adulterated coin
or paper without credit, that industry is
robbed OF its reward He then labors for
"a country whose laws cheat him out OF
his bread
II would say to every owner OF overy
quarter section OF land In the west,
would say TO every man In the cast who
follows his own plow, and to every mo
chanic, artisan and laborer In every city
In the country-I would say to every
man everywhere who wishes by honest
means TO gain an honest living. Beware
OF wolves In Sleeps clothing. Whoever
attempts under whatevor popular cry, to
shake tho stability of the public currency,
bring on distress In money matters and
drive tho country into tho use OF dspre-
ciated money. stabs your Interest and your
happiness TO tho heart.