Show LOGIC AND TRUTH For at least ten years to be moderate moder-ate as to time a Republican paper kept up a continual stream of assertion that all the calamities of the times labor troubles trade disputes panics depressions depres-sions strikes the tramp nuisance crime suicide insanity pauperism and the decrease of marriages were the direct results of the demonetization of silver in 1873 Also that i this financial wrong was done by the Republican party which would be thrown out of power unless it repaired its own error And that the tariff had nothing to do with the terrible prostration of the agricultural interests of the country and other evils but that It was all due to the throwing away of half the money of the nation The people of the United States suffering suf-fering all the ills described as the ef ects of bad silver legislation some of them perceiving the evil results of anti silver laws but most of them believing that they were caused by the ruinous effects of a high protective tariff by which certain classes were fostered and fattened at the expense of the masses and the impoverishment of the working people arose in wrath and overthrew the party which had Increased Increas-ed the wroinr by increasing the tariff Before the party elected to correct the abuses complained of could possibly take any active steps in that direction the troubles which had been increasing for two decades burst forth in the ful ness of their fury Immediately the Repub lican party which had sown the seeds of these sorrows commenced to charge them upon their victoricus opponents op-ponents They exaggerated evervthintr They increased the panic whIch had set in by their prognostications of evil and their magnifying through the press of every financial failure and business disaster Then the Republican > heet which bid traced their calamities to the de monetization of silver hundreds of times which had prophesied general ruin as its consequence which had declared de-clared over and over again that tariff or no tariff the restoration of silver would in a month revive trade set money flowing freely open every closed clos-ed mill and forge and workshop and brighten up the country as with a transflsuraSon suddenly turned round and eohoed the cowardly and ridiculous clamor of its party that the Democrats who had not yet fairly laid I hold of the reins of government were II the authors of all these fruits of Republican Re-publican malalirinistration When confronted with the proofs of its perfidy in the shape of a few of its own utterances of the most recent publication branding its own party as the cause of the troubles showint that they had been increasing for twenty one years and started with the Republican Republi-can silver swindle of 873 it rears up shows its species and Hs breeding by braying out that the writer who makes the quotations is a wise ass and this sort of argument it speaks of as truth and logic It is said there are two kfnds of the animal which our refined contemporary is so fond of mentioning and for which it evidently has a family affection and we are inclined to think it has the qualities of both But neither of them is described as wise or sorry the favorite adjectives used by our neighbor neigh-bor in this connection The truth is the Republican party deposed silver as a money metal If all the troubles of the times are due to that act the logical deduction is conclusive con-clusive that the Republican party is responsible for these troubles Our very unwise contemporary has contended contend-ed for ten years that silver demoneti zation was the real original cause Now let it take the logical consequence or announce that it was wrong or fold up its ears and cease braying against the Democrats or the public will catch on to the fact that it is calling rational people by its own name j = H |