. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . apital unproductive andlabor unemployed, we find ourselves in the midst of an agitationrespecting the medium with which business transactions shall becarried on. Until this question is definitely adjusted it is idle toexpect that full measure of prosperity to which the energies ofour people and the resources of the land entitle us. In the wayof that adjustment one great section of the Democratic party—possibly its controlling power—stubbornly stands to-day. TheRepublican
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . apital unproductive andlabor unemployed, we find ourselves in the midst of an agitationrespecting the medium with which business transactions shall becarried on. Until this question is definitely adjusted it is idle toexpect that full measure of prosperity to which the energies ofour people and the resources of the land entitle us. In the wayof that adjustment one great section of the Democratic party—possibly its controlling power—stubbornly stands to-day. TheRepublicans, always true to the primal duty of supporting thenations credit, have now cast behind them all minor differencesand dissensions on the financial question, and have graduallyconsolidated their strength against inflation. The currency,therefore, becomes of necessity a prominent political issue, andthose Democrats who are in favor of honest dealing by theGovernment and honest money for the people may be compelledto act as they did in that still graver exigency when the existenceof the Government itself was at BLAINE AS LEADER OF THE PARTY. 143 While this question should be approached in no spirit of partisanbitterness, it has yet become so entangled with party relationsthat no intelligent discussion of it can be had without giving itspolitical history, and if that history bears severely on the Demo-cratic party, its defenders must answer the facts, and not quarrelwith their presentation. Firmly attached to one political partymyself, firmly believing that parties in a free government are ashealthful as they are inevitable, I still think there are questionsabout which parties should agree never to disagree ; and of theseis the essential nature and value of the circulating medium. Andit is a fact of especial weight and significance that up to thepaper-money era, which was precipitated upon us during therebelhon as one of wars inexorable necessities, there never was apol
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