The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-30

gether with remarkable nearness, and
1t is said with great force. 1t seems to
me, that to adopt the gold standard
alone and demonetlze silver, would be
to deprive the poor people of the world,
of the money which alone measures the
value of their production and of their
| labor. These two metals--gold and sill
ver-have Travelled side and side since
| the beginning of time; the records of
| human history do not go back to a
time when they did not move together.
| They have varied in value, sometimes
| one and sometimes the other being
higher, but they have gone on, gold the
money of the rich. silver the money of
| the poor; the one to measure acquired
| wealth. the other to measure the daily
necessities of life; and, sir, no act OF
| parliament, although IL may disturb
| for a moment the relation of these two
metals to each other, nothing but an
act Of God, can destroy the use of both
| Of them by mankind. The silver dollar
of the United states has never been
| changed in intrinsic value The change
has been in the gold dollar"
In the speech delivered by Senator j
| b. Foraker at Jackson, Ohio, March g.
| 1895. he said. 1--WE believe in bimetal-
ism in the sense that silver shall be
more than credit money. II must be
again made a money of ultimate re-
| demption, and as such take its place
alongside of gold"
on the 10Th of June, 1894, stephen b.
Elkins, in addressing the state league
| of Republican clubs, at Fairmont
| West Virginia, among other observa-
| tions said "Silver is the money of the
| constitution as much as gold. The peo-
| pie will have silver for money and
| fight for it, and the contest will not
end until 1t has its proper place in the
-.
people are too intelligent to permit val
| ues to be measured by gold alone. the
production of which Is relatively dimin-
| ishing in the world. This would make
money dearer and property cheaper
| Silver should be used as well as gold,
and the parity between both maintain
ed. The time will come when the silver
in the treasury will perform the func-
tiOns of money as gold, and the trouble
will be, that there Is not too much of it,
but too little"
James G. Blaine said: I'VE need both
gold and silver, and we can have both
only by making each the equal of the
other 1t would not be difficult to show
that, in the nations where both have
been fully recognized and most widely
diffused, the steadiest and most con-
tinuous prosperity have been enjoyed
that true form Of prosperity which
with the day laborer whose toll lays
the foundation Of the whole super
structure of wealth
"The exclusively gold nation, like
England, may show the most massive
fortunes in the ruling classes, but 1t
shows also the most helpless and hope
less poverty in the humber walks Of
life. The gold and silver nation like
France can exhibit no such Individual
q G. q In n
England but IT has a peasantry whose
silver savings can pay war indemnity
that would have beggared the gold
bankers of London, and to which the
gold peasantry Of England could not
have contributed a pound sterling ir
gold or even a shilling in silver"
| could quote from Cameron. Logan,
Carlisle Palmer, Henry Watterson,
Chief Justice Chase, and many others
who have expressed their ideas in as
strong language upon this question.
After the wars of England ended in
1915, they started to return to the gold
basis with the enormous Indebtedness
of over four billions, and when they
reached what they termed a solid bass
in 1896, the property owners had de-
creased in the ratio of 5 to /. This Is a
matter of history as related by Allison,
and as result of ths same financial
policy continued down to the present
time, according to the London Times
Almanac" last year, of the 80 millions
OF acres of cultivated land in England,
Wales and Scotland, 2S MILLION acres
were owned by landlords and occupied
by tenants, and only four million acres
were occupied by the people owning the
same; in other words, one acre in eight
The same ratio was true of the homes
owned by the labOring classes, and those
owned by thu landlords and occupied
by tenants. We, in this country, are
rapidly approaching the same Condi-
lion of things under precisely the same
financial policy, as is proven by the re-
lords of every court house in the land,
We are fast becoming a people of land
lords and tenants, the great masses to
be "hewers Of wood and drawers of
water for the benefit of the few, which
will sooner or later lead to disastrous
results to our system of government,
unless a change takes place in our finan-
cial policy By class legislation the
wealth Of the country Is being trans
ferred into the hands of a few, through
trusts and combines of all kinds, and
nothing has contributed more to this
than the decentralization of silver, there
by increasing the value of the purchas-
ing power of the dollar and lowering
the value Of everything else.
In the support Of these propositions,
! quote from some of the wise men of
the country again. Daniel Webster
said: Liberty cannot long endure in
any country where the tendency of leg
islation is to concentrate the wealth in
the hands of a few"
Garfield said: Whoever controls the
volume of money in any country Is alb
solute master of all industry and COM
merce."
Abraham Lincoln said: "I affirm II is
my conviction that class laws, placing
capital above labor in the structure of
government are more dangerous to the
republic than was chattel slavery in the
days of its haughtiest supremacy. That
labor is prior to and Independent of
capital. Capital is only the fruit of la
Dor, and could never have existed If la
Dor had not first existed. Labor Is su-
perior to capital and deserves much the
greater consideration"
Thomas Jefferson said: "I am not
among those who fear the people They
and not the rich, are our dependence for
continued freedom and to preserve their
independence we must not let our rul-
ers load us with perpetual debts"
Chauncey M. Depew said: Fifty men
In these United States have it in their
power, by reason of the wealth which
they control, to come together within
twenty-four hours, and arrive at an un-
derstanding by which every wheel Of
commerce may be stopped, and every
electric key struck dumb. These fifty
men can paralyze the whole country,
for they can control the circulation Of
the currency and create a panic when
ever they will"
History tells us that In the zenith and
greatness Of Rome, S5 per cent. of her
population held titles in lands and cuI-
tivated their own. Then her people were
happy and prosperous, hardy and
brave; her legions were invincibe; then