The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-10-21


treachery this Republican party pre-.
sents on the currency question: Is 1t
not a curious fact that Republican organs
agreed that the Bank of England was
making serious blunder in proposing
to hold one fifth of its reserve in silver ?
They all see this money question through
British gold-b eyes. "Sound money"
say these business leaguers. Why not be
honest and tell what you mean2 Why
do you not say you are for the British
gold standard, as all British and German
Jew bankers in Europe and America
Ae2
This silver issue is not dead, and this
agitation and warfare will not cease un-
til this vicious financial system is driven
back to England where 1t belongs. The
advocates of silver neither ask nor will
give quarter. The Chicago platform is
stronger than ever in the hearts of the
American people. Events have and will
continue to vindicate it. Its position on
government by injunction is conceded
to be right. Democracy stands by the
rights of the people The people did
not need more taxation but more money
with which to pay, hence did not need
the Dingley law to increase burdens and
place them under robber trusts.
Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire,
in bis letter dated August 25, says policy
as we'll as principle will prevent the Re-
publican party and the Mckinley ad-
ministration from abandoning bimetal
lism. Overwhelming party defeat will
follow such an abandonment. There is
danger of disaster from even the ex-
istence of the many current suspicious,
however unjust, that abandonment is in
tended; suspicious caused in part by
reported utterances, probably incorrect,
of Secretary Gage, and by proclama.
tions by Director Preston of the United
States mint, whose real business is to
coin money and not to formulate party
policy"
During the hurraw monetary campaign
last year as directed by Mark Hanna,
great were the promises of work if Han
mas man were elected. Lots of con.
ditional orders said to be on hand. These
orders did not materlalize, and yet this
address says "the immediate results Of
the election OF 1896 we're restoration of
confidence in the monetary system, etc. |"
coincidence Why then these none
tary commissions? Why the schemes
to retire the greenbacks and saddle the
people with bank paper2 And "pros-
perity!" with millions of idle working
men, and those at work scarcely getting
living wages as a rule. What, too, means
the late miners strike and the murdar
GUS shooting of so many innocent men
near Hazleton. This business league
scheme is only to elect Mark Hanna, the
labor crusher." And yet they had not
the courage to name him.
They prate about "honest efforts"
"good business conditions" etc. Is it
not fact that the monetary policy of
the country has been and is entirely
Republican? Is it not true that the
system has been vicious throughout,
panic, bankruptcy and ruin generally?
And is it not this wretched system these
"business men" would continue? Is it
not strange that men will persist in
urging such costly folly2 Even ex.
Governor Charles Foster is on the
stump for Hanna and more Republican
ruin. Has he not had and seen enough
of it? Will more and higher taxation
under Dingley tariff, mainly to benefit
trusts restore prosperity Seriously, is
any honest hoodlum such tarnal fool ?
We think not. Some smart "business
men" may be. But then they want to
elect Hanna.
If some men were better acquainted
with our American system of govern.
ment they would be in better accord
with it. The European idea of classes
keeps hold-grades in humanity that
must be kept up, the old Pharisee non.
sense, not the Samaritan conception
They cannot get into their heads pr o.
perly the individuality Of the citizen as
the basis, and hence that the genera
good is and must be the object and pur.
pose, not the emolument of the few by
legislative favors and franchises. The
general good is individual good. The
object as stated in the preamble to the
constitution was to form more perfect
union, establish justice, etc. All this in
proper shape; itseems can not be got il
to some noddles. The narrow selfish
heart cannot receive or grasp the idea
No wonder one of the early patriots
said on one occasion that he wished ar
ocean of fame separated us from
Europe instead of water.
Is it not annoying, not to say aggravat
ing, to true American, to witness suct
upstart, shoddy, busy, pretentious bust
nessism Illuminating their sound money
British gold standard nonsense will
airs Of lofty authority, as though the.
were lords of better blood2
upon what meat do these our Kaisers feed
That they have grown so great"