The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-23


was July child, the wheat was still in
the hands Of the producers The price
had to go up then, for the elections were
coming in November. pray you, old
farm ere, to reap the advantage while You
may. Maze Ray while the sun shines,
but do not be foolish enough to trust that
enemy when he comes, as he will come
this fall, TO superintend your voting. II
you follow him to the election booth and
do his bidding, he will throw you again.
As soon as you have deposited your bal
lot he will go away chuckling and think
what an unmitigat fool old hayseed is.
With his left eye he will perform wink
at your expense that may be seen from
the Chicago wheat pit to Lombard street.
Trust him not, farmers, unless indeed
you will enjoy the exc else of being
trounoed once more on your own board.
"of this kind Of prosperity we should
think the American people had now a
sufliciency. The real prosperity of ma
tion is the healthful and natural condi-
tion Of the economic body. 1t implies a
healthful production, q healthful ex-
change, healthful distribution and
heslthful consumption Of those values
which are created by human labor. There
must be healthful condition throughout
the economic body before real prosperity
can exist, for prosperity is simply health,
and health is prosperity, that is, pros
perity is industrial health
I'm plain narrative, the reduction Of
our currency from rational to an IRA
tional basis has been the bane of the in-
dustrial life in Am erica. With this be-
gan the destruction OF prosperity. The
currency was contracted because CT debt
and with view to increase the value of
that debt. 1t was done to double the
debt and cut the American industry
in twain. 1t was money lending
scheme, in which the government Of the
United Stares became silent partner
and finally the hesd of the house.
"Is is intended by the money power to
destroy finally our silver dollar currency.
Let no one imagiue that the silver dol
lar will be spared. AS soon as the green
backs are out Of the way, the upholders
of the national credit will turn upon our
silver residre Of legal tender with all the
enmity and genius they possess. They
will first use the silver dollats 20 repair
the bucket chain and to force the sale
they will denonunce the silver dollars
because they are convertible into a
bucket chain. Therefore they ought to
be sent to the mint and to tie silver
shop to be reooined into change or con-
overted into the arts.
Prosperity withered and persisted be-
the currency system Of the United States.
Prosperity and single gold standard of
values do not exist and they never will
exist. The gold standard may be fixed
and riveted on the American people, but
do not think it will be. If it should be
done industrial slavery will be the per-
prosperity will linger, not only on Cleve-
land S threshold and On McKinley's thres-
hold, but on the threshold Of every presi-
dent TO come. If the gold scheme shall
be successful in Europe and America
prosperity need not be expt cted to re-
turn.
1T makes no difference how much a
fictitious pre- sperity may be Illuminated
through the land. 1t makes no differ
ence how much it may be declared by
ukase and supported by spurious statis-
tics. 1t makes no difference how much
it may be electrified with grapevine dis
patches, telling Of impossible conditions,
Of rsvivals that exist only in imagina.
ton, and Of the flOrid reports that are in
vented in the Offices of the mendacious
journals that publish them. Raj pros.
perity will come when the equilibrium
shall be restored in the economic body of
this nation. That will be when the prices
of products and the wages of labor shall
rise to the level Of adequate remuneration
1t shall come when the circulating
medium shall be equivalent to the steady
and comparatively unohanging demands
of productive enterprise and commerce.
1t will come when the metallic basis of
currency shall be broadened and con-
flrmed on both metals silver and gold, on
terms of absolute equality. 1t will come
when silver and gold together, at an es.
tablished ratio, shall be built into the
Of our industrisl structure.
1t will come when the people shall have
the peoples money in their pockets;
when interest bearing debt as a.
basis of business shall be abolished; when
industry shall again be individualizsd
and indeI endent, when man shall become
the owner Of dollar, and when the man
ipulstion of the dollar, which is mans
counter and the index Of value iu the
trans iction of his business by any power
whatsoever, whether bank or syndicate
or nation, shall be branded and punished
as crime"