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


John Sherman, author of the crime of 1878
will be retired by Mckinley by the time
congress meets. a movement is already on
foot having that erd in view. The Republican
press has commenced to forestall any express
sion of public opinion regarding Sherman.
They know that he is deserving of all the
condemnation that can be heaped upon him by
reason of his pernicious and damning influence
in directing the financial legislation of the
country. To attempt to apologize or condone
his ofienses at this time isa work of supereroga-
tion. The work was done the bad effects are
visible everywhere and John Sherman will
always appear in the eyes Of great mass of
the people in America as the king Of the
plutoerats, who has brought upon the masses
all of the misery and degradation that
permeates the entire body polite. His ideas
of finance, which have become the doctrine of
his party, has made it possible to breed a
Hanna, Gould, a Carnegie, Rockefeller,
Huntington, Vanderbilt, an Armour, j.
Pierpont Morgan and a whole vile nest of
agents of the Rothschilds. While it was
breeding these enemies of liberty, it created
the slums and peopled them with Huns and
Dagoes and the off scourings of creation. 1t
clothed the babies with rags and grew them
into criminals. 1t destroyed the purity of our
politics, and laid ransom for the greatest
scoundrels of America to destroy and damn the
best people on earth. 1t has created a false
respectability which has for its foundation,
| fraud, chicanery and deceit. 1t has made it a
crime to be poor, but placed a premium on i'll
gotten riches and exalted their owners to the
seventh heaven of respectability. Sherman
has been in public life AZ years. Since 1867
he has had his portrait hanging in the Office OF
the Bank of England. 1t was at that time
that he traded of the honor and liberties of
the American people to the advocates of the
gold standard of the old world for a mess of
pottage for himself, He is an old man yet his
gray hairs deserve no honor at the hands of
the great plain people. Now since his
creatures, the magnates of Wall street, find
themselves Igreater than their creator, they
concede him no honor 1t seems in his dotage
if the good Lord has been so kind to him as
to grant him forgetfulness Of the miseries
and degradations he has brought upon the
people-he has had moments of remembrance
of hisearly integrity which he possessed before
being contaminated with the money power of
England. In these moments of remembrance
he seemed to have been imbued with desire
to rectify some of the wrongs inflicted on the
people, by declaring that the attempts to retire
} the government paper money would bring
endless ruin upon the United States. He also
expressed desire to aid the Cuban insurgents
in their fight for freedom before he retired
from the senate. Had it not been for the inter
ference of the owners of the Spanish bonds he
as secretary of state might have brought about
{ such a state of affairs as would have made
} Cuban recognition and freedom possible
several months ago.
The encomiums that will be heaped upon
, John Sherman by the Republican and gold bug
. press will be nauseating. He deserves and
, should receive no recognition as an American
citizen. All of his political acts since 1867 has
! been in the interest of the money magnates o.
the old world and the tories of this. He haI
+ had nothing in common and done nothing fol
the real bone and sinew of this country. HI
has passed his days of usefulness to the money
magnates. They propose to bind forever thu
D Cubans in bonded Indebtedness and fea
Sherman in his dotage may interfere.
They propose to lay him to one side. Th'
desire of great mass of the people is that hi
last days will be those of anguish and despai
ten fold worse than that he has inflicted on tn,
common people of the country. May he be a
dead politically, as Grover Cleveland, his ap
student. May every memory of him be tina
of regret that he ever lived in America an'
2 was the cause of the ruin of the high hopes o
patriotic Americans.