Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-05-11

delay the leaders Of the labor com
binations, instead of sharing in thi
constructive program, rejected co
operation. The very acts of the lea
dership of the labor combines hav'
been fatal to their own cause. I'm
provident living and delinquency il
! the ideals of home produce condi
/ tions complained of by the mass o.
! labor. Demanding the fruits Of
! knowledge, and gathering the fruits
thereof, are two very different prop
ositions. The government franchise
confers on all alike privileges great
er than king. the irresponsible
the wise, and the ignorant, and for
eigner alike, who are as ignorant OF
the ideals and freedom Of democ-
racy as the bushmen on the opposite
side of the globe. This ignorance
makes them as subservient to the
arts of the demagogue as the delud-
ed Greeks, who blindly followed
Alcibiades and produced the Thirty
Tyrants" It avails nothing to es-
cape Sylla and rush into Charybdis.
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Returning to the subject of the
monetary course charted by the
president, no such constructive and
far-reaching legislation has ever
been, even suggested by 3 president
of this United States. But Roose-
velt fearlessly mapped the course
and asks the United States congress
to enact them into law, with added
powers conferred upon the presi
dent. Such acts to restore economic
equilibrium require wisdom, cour-
age, and a technical knowledge, and
fearless surety to perform the job.
1t is not an impossible task, or the
great statesmen of Europe would
not sail the ocean for a conference
with the man who has charted the
way to prosperity to all who will as
and alarmed men in high places;
who probably possessed technical
and theoretical knowledge to lead
an army, but their intentions had
broken handspring, and the advice
of some Wall Street baron who hug
ged his gold and smiled at the weak
ness of humanity; and lost oppor-
tunity to serve the nation. instead of
giving aid and comfort to the un-
grateful wretch whose ingratitude
and selfish spirit has atrophied his
soul to the point where it would
rattle like shot in tin pan.
With the wheels of industry in
every activity of life, sunken to the
hubs, in the mire of the most
heartrending depression in the his
tory of the world, it certainly be-
hooves evry individual of common
sense to place his shoulder to the
wheels, instead of shivering in his
not be done" The time has arrived
for us all to divest ourselves of our
political prejudice, unholy hatred,
postulate propaganda, and pluto
cratic poltroonery. The problem is
much more than one of political ma
,hinery; it is one where great ideas I
and ideals are the power that
motivates all the revolving economic .
acts of the governments.
It's humiliating to the Nth de- I
gree, to have to submit real con-
;tructiye legislation and have it .
held back by a bloc of quasi-poli-
icians who do not hold their in
,renched positions through states
but by the mistaken suf-
rage of the people. Therefore, the
people suffer through the delusion
If the voter. 1t appears when one
appeals to common sense that the
rec and unlimited coinage of silver
would at once, without restraint or
advance the price of
Wheat, corn. cotton, pork and all
ther staple products that the
armer wishes to sell in the open
market. We are constrained to be-
ieve that prices complained of by
he farmer class can ever be legis-
ated to an upward tendency, but
he American price level must be
by the guidance in the
alue of the American dollar in
erms of commodities. Hence the
residents conference with the rep
esentatiyes of the foreign govern
lents, relative to international |
tabilization of the currency of the
ations, and it is feasible for the
eason of our valuable information
trade. We do not find the "gol-
en- mean" at once, but if the cur
aDcy as charted by the president,
followed with the same desire as
lanifested by him, to bring back
rosperity, be assured it will soon | |
e on the way. When we abandon
/ the gold standard we no more
ave currency managed by stock
anipulators and other gamblers
| money as commodity. The
nited States shook off the cold
an of the sea-" fixed price for
lie gold dollar, for dollar that
ill produce and maintain at all |
mes a stable and an average nrice