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Show OLD FASHIONED MONEY. Away back in the morning of civilization, civili-zation, in the days of Moses, the Ptolemies, down to those tf Abraham, Solomon, Christ, the Roman republic, in the paimy days of Greek literature In the days of the Cid, 13ayard, Charles the V, Joseph the II, Frederick the Great, George the III, George "Washington, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, silver was recog nized as the full equal of gold at a fixed and definite ratio, as nearly as can be ascertained now, of 16 to 1. There was no thought of the demonetization demone-tization which startled the world in the days of Grant. Thus silver was an old-fashioned, old-fashioned, time-honored money of the people. It remained to John Sherman, the arch-plotter and traitor to the silver sil-ver west, to smuggle a brief demonetizing demone-tizing clause into a bill before congress which passed and was signed before President Grant or any one else, other than the arch-traitor and his co-con-epirators engaged in the fell work of blotting out thus the money of the ages the money ot the masses and the money especially of the poor was aware of the blow struck. The old-fashioned money wa3 the money of the constitution and especially especi-ally of the damocratic party. A democratic dem-ocratic hand penned the constitution and that sacred hand did not lose its cunning untii it had written legibly in that eacred document the living words which make it treason to destroy the money functions of the white metal. Nearly every democratic platform written writ-ten since the adoption of the constitution constitu-tion has explicitly re-siated the democratic demo-cratic doctrine of hard money, gold and silyer, as the money of ultimate redemption. An honest interpretation of the constitution reveals the important import-ant fact that even the government itself cannot legally force the citizen to take any other money than gold or silver, or paper based upon them both and redeemable only in gold and silver. Then what do we see these latter days? The congress of the United States coolv passing a law without an amendment to the constitution first being bad to wipe out utterly one of these metals, both of which are given by that document as the only competent compet-ent money of ultimate redemption. It is amazing. It is astounding, and while this act was consumated by a republican house, a republican senate and by a republican president, what words can fittingly speak our v nder-ment nder-ment when we see this baleful raid upon the money of the ages and of the constitution, not to speak of the bible, continued by a democratic national administration. "What mighty alchemist al-chemist has changed the democratic blood of the nation into this weak red Btuff which does not boil when democratic demo-cratic hands are rudely laid upon the sacred old democratic principle of the equality of gold and silver in the money of the nation? "When the government forces a citi zen to accept paper for its indebtedness indebted-ness to him which is not redeemable in Loth gold and silver, either the one or the other, at a certain weight for eich, it simply revolts against the constitution con-stitution and basely defrauds him. Republican Re-publican national administrations have done this; it remains to be seen if a democratic administration dares to go out of power or before the people for re-election having failed to accomplish the full and perfect restitution of silver sil-ver to its old time eacred functions. "We must stop piling up mere token money upon the gold reserve. We must restore silver and issue notes redeemable re-deemable in gold and silver at the old ratio of 16 to I. Our money of ultimate redemption must be like Cesai's wife, above suspicion. Then, and only then, will the west north and south be satisfiedand satis-fiedand not till then can democratic victories be won, as of yore. |