Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-10-13
CHEAP MONEY AGAIN.
The Repudiated Plank in De-
mocracy's Platform.
PROSPERITY FLOORS DEMOCRACY.

She People of Ohio Are Asked to Vote
For the Fifty Cent Dollar That Would
Rob Them of Half Their Ear"ings and
-tR.ast the Unprecedented Prosperity
They Row Enjoy.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
6fee silver fallacy has been repudiated
Or the American nation, the voters of
Ghio will be called upon at the fall
election to again register their con-
demnation of the Democratic efforts
% change our financial policy and in
0roduce a reign of widespread indus
eEial depression and financial disaster.
The Mclean convention at Zanes-
willie had the temerity to insert in their
platform a radical and emphatic de-
nand for Bryan and 5O-cent dollar.
1t says: I'VE especially emphasize
GAe financial plank therein (Chicago
Rlatform) and we continue to demand
ehe free and unlimited coinage of silver
end gold as equal primary money at
She ratio of 16 to l, independent of all
ether nations in the world"
In the face of the present unprece-
dented national prosperity this is a
strange declaration. Apart from the
Hndeniable fact that John R. Mclean
will be Indignantly repudiated by all
aoFers of a state government free from
~bOsses and DOODLE" there is the addi-
Gonal fact that the indispensable
gtDck-in-trade of free silver advocates
has met with disaster at the hands of
General Prosperity, who today rules
with beneicent hand the American
ReOple.
The un-Jeffersonian, unphilosophical
and dishonest 50-cent-dollar movement
Would not have met with the degree of
approval it did in 1896 had it not been
fbr the deplorable condition of the
country then. The Democratic tariff
had shut down our industries. Hun
dfeds of thousands of workingmen were
0ut of employment; weeks passed into
months without these hvIes; sens OF
tail receiving any wages. They were
eking out bare existence on the credit
extended to than by the storekeepers
ar on charity, and despair stared them
n the face.
Then came the desperate Democratic
demagogues in a new guise. Knowing
chat they deserved. the execration of
ehe people for their disastrous tariff
measure, which allowed foreign prod
Acts anu l,annfactgrsa articles t? come
tnto this country from cheap-labor
countries in Europe, and drive our
vroducts of the field and workshop
from the market, they relegated free
arade to the background and brought
aree silver to the front. Instead of tell5
eng the truth about the matter, ttey
anpudently said that The cause of all
eZae poverty and distress IN this land
1T that tine was attributable to an al
aeged monetary crime committed %
years before-in 1S73-and tlat a con-
1inuance OF the gold Standard would
6hcrease the general distress and dis
ester. Many of the unemployed de-
snaIringly accepted the strange vaga-
sGeS OF the silverites as the panacea fol
aational ills. They thought:
God knows, the country can't be
msuch worse than ii Is"
They felt like man in the last stage
or consumption, with death staring
hlm in the face, and willing to try any
ching that promised relief.
Brt the wisdom of the American peo
Vie prevailed. They repudtated th'
sfee silver dope as the prescription o
political Quacks whose theories wer,
eDtally subversive of the interests ant
welfare of the farmers, wage earners
merchants and all classes alike.
They now see they were right in do
ing SO. Since William Mckinley wa
sIected to the presidency OF this Unite
Btates, and the administration of ma
eiSnaI affairs passed into Republica
Bands; since the Democratic Wilson
GGrmap tariff-for-reyenue-Only bill wa