Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — A Deadly Parallel. [ARTICLE]

A Deadly Parallel.

Bringing the ’’deadly parallel" method of criticism to bear upon the platform of the Democratic party as adopted at Chicago seems to prove its framers guilty either of culpable ignorance or deliberate deceit. Consider the following: Extract from thel Extract from the, platform: _ ''' ■ _jaet_ of Congress ap\Ve TlematuT tliat t be! proved Fetmurry 2.8. standard silver dollar 1878: „ Shall be full legal ten-i There shall be tier, equally, with gold coined al the several’ fora'll debts public or'mints of the I'r.lteJ private. States silver dollars of the weight of •112*, * grains troy stainllard silver., as provided In the net of January IS. 1.837. on which be devices and superscriptions as provided by said act, whii-li coins, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the I’ntted States of , like weight and idleness. shall be .a legal tender nt their nominal value for all debts public or private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in tlie contract. That part of the act of 1878 Ims never .beeti-repea led or modified ami is the law of the land today. To demand what they must know is already a law is the most barefaced political jugglery. There never has been a time since the organization of this government. except between February 14, IS7l’>, says a writer (when the trade dollar was substituted for the standard dollar, sometimes styled “the crime of ’73”). mid February 18. 1878, when the standard dollar was restored to our currency, that the standard dollar such as isMNHtied today has been in any way. or to she smallest extent! limifisl in its legal tender value. Whether a tliau has owed $5 or $5,000,004). there has never been it time when the standard silver dollar ((ever since 1837 of 412% grains stnudnrd silver) was by law otic of our silver coins tlint tender of the amount of such debt, large or small, in silver dollars would not bar a suit for nonpayment of such debt. As legal tender, and only ns legal tender. has legislation anything to do with money. But the more important functions. that of a measure of values, is the one with which the grtmt mass of voters of this country is concerned, nuy. that in which every man. woman and child hns ii deep interest, and it is this interest which is being criminally jeopardized by such boldly false insinuations ns is the demand above quoted. ____________ *• ' • * '*’• —The grave of John Fitch, who is said to have first applied steam to navigation on the Western rivers, is unmarked hy any stone in an old cemetery in Nelson county. Ky. —Henry Labouchere. recently refrtred an invitation from a high authority f) join the English Conservative club.