The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1898-04-29

Hon. John Sherman, who has been G
conspicous figure in American politics
for almost a half a century, and who
has continuously held high official po
sitions with credit, honor and much
more than ordinary ability, has finally
retired is private life, resigning the po.
sition of Secretary of State, in which
he has been little, if any, more than fig
ure-head for the past year, the active
duties of the oflcs having devolved
upon Judge Day, OF Ohio, the Assistant
Secretary, and now Mr. Sherman's sue
cessor.
Mr.. Sherman was born in Mansfel, =,
Ohio, May 10, 1928. He entered the
House of Representatives in 1855, from
which time, until Tuesday last, his of
ficlal life has been unbrolien. Intel
lectua.ly Mr.. Sherman has been giant
among men, and, with his more distin-
guished brother, the late General W. T.
Sherman, an instance is given of two
great men reared in one family.
It may seem almost treason to doubt
this distinguished citizens integrity or
patriotism, and yet very large per
centage of the people of America will
continue to attribute to him the most
unenviable distinction of either know.
ingly or unwittingly being the chief ac-
tor in perpetrating the greatest wrong
upon the American people known in
our history. If done not foreseeing its
consequences he is not entitled to the
luster surrounding his name as great
statesman. If done, knowing its affect,
he is simply entitled to ;nfamy When
member of the United States Senate,
in 1873, he introduced bill and secured
the passage OF an act which virtually
destroyed one half the real money OF
the country. That this bill was snug
gled into a law has been absolutely
proven, and second only to this Crime
of the century is the criminal resusa.
to undo the wrong. Millions Of tramps,
over crowded prisons, poor houses and
insane asylums, people starved and
women driven to dishonor are some OF
the consequences of that terrible crime. |
John G. Carlisle used rnore forcible
language in predicting its effects be-
fore they hal begun to be SO severely |
felt as they since have been, than al
most any other man has uttered. and |
then, for an official position, sold him
self to assist in its porpetuation. MI
nerous other people of ability have
been equally guilty. 1t was a law
which robbed the debtor Of his ability
to pay and robbed the producer OF half
the profits of his toll. What for ? To
pile more millions into the vaults of |
capitalists, and give interest gatherers
l stronger grip on the worl |. That
John Sherman and the late unlamented
John ]. Knox, Comptroller of the
Treasury at the time of the passage OF
,he bill, were the arch conspiritors on
his side of the Atlantic-the tools of
money kings rather than their dupes-
We verify believe. With this thought
n mind who could wish monuments
-eared over the remains of such men
hat would make shadow as high as
heir shoe tops? and yet, crowded into
,he columns of the great daily papers
or the coming weeks, will be many
audations of the distinguished public
,areer of John, Sherman. Had his
obituary been written twenty flveyears
go the world would have been no
worse off to-day and possibly the
crime of the century" would not have
'een perpetrated.