The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-02-26
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AoEc currency.
1t has become evident to every thouyhtful
man. that unless something can be done TO a.
leviAte the distrcss now prevalent throughout
the country, . great political change is in
! eyitable. This necessity. has become 90 APP
parent that it has alarmed even this Radical
Congress, so persistently absorbed in its
schemes of Southern domination, and result.
ed a few days ago in the adoption Of n resolu-
ton in the House of Representatives, instruct
ing committee to draw bill increasing the
currency Of the country to the extent Of fifty
millions.
The danger must bave been imminent in
deed which could startle this Congress, and
cause It to SO suddenly reverse its poll
cy, repudiate its platform and declarations
from thousand stumps, and adopt the policy
of George II. Pendleton. An early return to
specie payment was the most prominent fea-
ture in the Chicago platform. The issue Mt
this late day of fifty millions more greenbacks
is anything but an adherence to this policy.
Congress will find that fifty millions will
not plaster the wounds of this country.
Money is scarce and hard to be obtained
Workingmen are out of employment, and de-
mand labor to enable them to find food and
houses foriuffering families. The contraction
and sufferings are constantly increasing
Thousands lately employed at the Government
navy yards have been suddenly thrown out of
work; manufactures have reduced their hands
one-sided tariffs have driven American ships
from the ocean, and made the great States of
the West tributary slaves of New England fl
naneiers. And still taxation, incessSlnt and
exorbitant, continues to be levied and col
lected on everything that is eaten, drank, or
worn; on labor, for the privilege of sweating
over never-ending toll for the poor privilege of
life and being. .....
Men are beginning to inquire what all this
is for. They begin to realize that the Radi-
cal party has cost this country more during
the past five years Of peace than it required
to suppress the rebellion.
The working men of the country are in
clined to hold some one responsible for this
state Of things; and the reasonings of starya-
ton and despair are not always strictly logical
They demand a change. 1t cannot be for the
worse; II may be for the better. The policy
of contraction, of an early return to specie
payment has been tried, but the screws have
proven too tight for the people, and the muir
murs of discomfort herald a political revolu-
ton throughout the country, which will throw
the revolution of 1910, which placed General
Harrison in the Presidential chair, into insig-
nificance. Labor reform and working mems
parties are organizing in nearly every State,
which will not be placated by LOYAL buucomb
nor dispersed by passionate appeals Tor negro
governments. The authors of this crushing
taxation may well tremble at the signs of the
times; they may sacrifice one plank in their
platform, as the Chinese burn their paper in
the Josh house, but it will not nppcnse the
gnnwinS of an unsntistied hunger nor restore
confidence to apeo le who have to- pay the
expense of sectional legislation even while
they are wanting bread.