The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-01-20
@, F. TRAIN VERSUS U. s. GRANT.


Mr.. George Francis Train created some ex
citement by reading the following to the larg
est lecture audience ever in Bay City:
| GRATITUDE TO ENGLAND.
| Elected by the English Ring through the
Mason and l-Trent-Japanese gunboat
Aaska-Purchase- Whiskey- Ring White-House
Poole, | have selected for my Cabinet and Di.
plomatic staff. the George Peabody Trustees,
of which l am President-and have done and
shall do all can to repay England for making
nue. Chief Magistrate of this country-as wit
nesSeth these measures:
ALABAMA CLAIMS.
England having killed million of Amerl-
cans, rolled up three thousand millions of debt,
wiped our commerce from every sea, Bastlled
our citizens, placed our flag at hat-mast abroad,
and still refuses to pay the Alabama Claims, 1t
is our duty to do everything possible to perpet-
uate peace and everlasting friendship with our
kind relation. Hence sent Motley abroad as
u blind, and he obeyed my instructions by ab
solutely doing nothing.
CITIZENS IN JAIL.
Two hundred thousand Fenians having died
for the Union, under the leadership of score
of Corcorans, Mulligans, and Meaghers, it is
our duty to checkmate all Irish aspirations for
liberty by showing our sympathy for the Gre
tans and Cubans, and in this way directly as
sst England i'll stamping out the Irish Revolt
ton rs soon as possible
CURRENCY.
England having one thousand million of our
bonds, bought for three hundred millions in
greenbacks, when gold was $50, it is important
that we appoint several foreign agencies 10 dis
burSc the gold interest thereon-amountlng 10
sixty millions in gold annually, COR six hundred
millions in ten years. aud | would suggest as
suitable persons for the important mission my
brOther-n-law, Corbin, and my personal friends
James Fisk, Jr and Jay Gould II IS impor
tant that the crippled soldiers pension be paid
in grcenbacks. while England. who furnished
the bullet 10 cripple him, should be paid in gold
rs specie payment means free trade, | recon
mend resumption Us soon as possible, III order
To shut up our industrial enterprises, aud thus
add two millions more 10 tie one million of
starving workmen already thrown out OF en-
ploymrnt; and havng two friends in the Rus
sian trade, advise Congress 10 reduce the du-
y on Russian hemp.
coSILCs:uS.
Deeply grateful for having been presented
with house, forty thousand dollars III five
twcntlrs aud check, making up one hundred
thousand, have appointed the gcttrr-up oil the
donation. Ger. Buttcricd, rs guardian Of the
Treasury, and So long rs his lips arc scaled as
10 the late Wall street tiasco. shall retain him
IN office. Never having srcn ilye hundred dol.
lars | could cal! my own up Ia the time was
iurty-llyc years OF age. feel deeply grateful
for the bCuntltul presents that have been show
cred upon me. and 10 all cases have given of.
flee to those most Interested. aud consider Il
bad taste tn my iIlus.r.ous predecessor refusing
the carriage and horses rendered HIM in Ne"
York
ain about 10 appoint 4 corps Of experts
relatives al mlne-to report on the most I'm.
purtau. petr!iactlou OF my time. the Cardiff
Giant. aud in consideration Of services render.
ed, recommend my friends Ia stop 4: Leland r
ut Saratoga, Stctsou's nj Long Branch. and hot
go past my friend Banners Dexter IN New
York City.
The English matter aud finance bring the
vital Questions ct tie hour, omit MI definite
action thereon. and So far ~ the one hundred
citizens that are diving tn Eng
.tsh JI..s, are concerned. nj. can say ii. may
God hafc mercy on their soul,
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN
Bay City. Michigan, Dee :, l-69.