The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-02-03
SOME INTERROGAT0RIES
AN ABLE WRITER SUGGESTS
SOME PERTINENT FACTS 4.
That Ought to serve to 0etths work.
ing People of the Nation to
Thtuking of rh -msetves.


hand you for publication in your valua-
BILE paper an article taken from the Boston
Herald, a Id organ, and an enthusiastic
supporter OF McKinleyism. The recent
wage reductions in the highly protected
industries of Massachusetts,, and the
consequent strikes, have at la t aroused
even the proud aristocratic people Of the
east to the dangers which thr. a,en them
and their Institutions;
Boston, Ian. 25.--If the prosperity
promised 10y the election Of Mr.. Mckinley
"exists" in our country, "why is IT,
that the inhaler Of the bewilderlng gas
ben his slow steps Uha working nan)
TO his sorry 6omicile or wakes therein
On the morrow, in his sober and
practical mood. His house Sc ms narrow;
ais food coarse; his furniture sclut, his
prospect gloomy, and those of hi, chill
dren more somber, and If he has WORK, as
no hurries OF to perform his days task,
which he has little heart for, he too falls
into that train of thought which is only
now beginning to encircle the industrial
class not only Of New e gland, but ali
over the United States, rendered thus:
Why should those by whose toll all cont
forts and luxuries are produc d or made
avail BILE, enjoy so scanty share of
thmeP Why should man able and
eager TO work stand idle for want of en-
ployment In country where so much
needful work impatiently awaits the do
ingP Why should a man be required to
surrender sonnet ming of his independence
enabl1 him to earn by honest effort the
bread to sustain his family? Why should
the man who faithfully labors for All
other and receives therefor less than the
product Of his labor be currently held
the Obliged party, rather than he who
buys tn work and makes a good bargain
Of itP Why should speculation and schem-
ing ride so jauntily in their carriages,
splashing honest work as II trudges
humbly and wearily on footP These
are the problems which no burden ths
knotted brains of toll in Fall River, New
Bedford and all New L gland Let us
ponder IL before we swallow the hutter-
mOuthed editorials Of the Boston Herald
and all her gold-bug papers. The peo-
Pile will lose nothing and may gain some
thing by educating mankind on the
monetary questions of or country. In
estimable is the value of facts, II we do
but rightly hpprehend them. Our money
question Is at the bottom of all the evil.
Is 1t not true that the Jewish banking
system of London has opened a sub office
at indianapolis, where a self.constituted
monetary commission are distributing
literature 10 blind the people of the
United States on a foreign system of
banking laws upon business assets etc,
which l. false theory for A 10 orleans to
adopt AL money should be issued by
the government
This commission report admits two i'm
portant points-flr't, that the United
States possessed the bim tallic standard
from 1892 down to 1873; and second,
thst the value Of it did not decline until
after the act Of demon .tizatlon, the
silver dollar in 1878 being commercially
more valuable than the gold dollar. An.
other fact will call attention to, that in
the world at large from 1880 to 1878 there
was no appreciable variation between the
coinage and commercial value of gold and
silver, is suggestive of the real cause of
the decline in the value of silver bullion
collect that when silver was discredited
at the mints it was denied its largest and
most important use; while the S me act
placed an additional burden on gold, as
it was in greater demand and became
more valuable. Silver was in less de-
mand and depreciated. Gold and silver
had maintained an almost unvarying
ratio for nearly two hundred years. II
it was not legislation that gave rise to
this unfortunate divergence, then what
was itY The friends of bimetallism de-
mand that this legislation shall be un-
done. They assert, with the known
experience of two centuries, that when
both metals are again received at the
mints on the same terms as existed prior
20 1873, gold and silver must come to-
gether again. The silver people are ask
ing for nothing new-only return to
the conditions which, according to his
tory and facts, prevailed from 1899 to
1873. Once more I call attention to the
words of Abraham Lincoln, ami the cold
fact remains that every outstanding bond
of the United States issued previous to
1873 down to 1873, under the Matthews
resolution of 1878 is payable in 412H-
grain silver dollars. The people must re-
m ember that this was the contract with |
the bondholders. This is the law as it |
stands upon the statute books of the
United States, and every silver man
objects to any change in the contract for
the law. If silver has deprecated in
value it is due to the Vaccinations of the
bondholders and the London jew bank
ers. In concluding, l hope every true
American will study the matter carefully
and not be led by the nose OF smooth
written editorials Of subsidized press.
Let these bondholders stand the conse-
quence of their owu acts and read the re-