The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-04-16

Nothing else is talked of in Congress.
Nothing else is thought of in the great
financial centres Of the Union. Moth
ing else is discussed in the leading po-
Htical journals of the West and East.
but the currency question. Gov. Dix OF
New York made il the subject of spec
ial message TO the Legislature of his
State and called upon that body TO declare
its views against expansion in the most
emphatic manner 1t responded at once and
by an almost unanimous vote sent its
remonstrance to Congress. Immense meet
ings are held in New York and Boston,
to enter their protest, and the public
journals are literally hot with bitter
invective. The New York World, Hun
ker Democrat, )Tribune, Liberal Republi-
can, Times, administrator and Herald,
independently are blazing all over with
furious denunciations of the Senate
But the Monopoly phalanx repre-
sentiDg the great producing sections are
moving solidly forward to the accomplish
ment of their purposes Referring to
this contest which'is sweeping away the
foundations of efete parties as efectlally
as the forest is rended by tornado,
prominent Western journal, (RadicaD
says:
''For nearly four months lis has been
the great question before Congress,
whether there should be AN expansion
of the currency to a figure which the
comm ercial interests Of the country re
quire, the present amount being entirely
inadequate We are becoming 50 used to
the divisions as to regard as political
friends and opponents those lCho
uote on the one side or the other.
Those who speak for the interests
Of Wall street can not politically frat
ernie with US, no matter by whatever
name they choose to call themselves,
10 the South and Vest, they are equally
enemies, auhetter they term themselves
Democrats or Republicans If the money
sharks of the East do not yield on this
question, it is like Aaron's rod, bound
to swallow up all others, and uponitthey
will be overwhelmed. We feel like
thanking God that by the census of
1870 the political power of the Union
passed the East across the AHeghanies to
the Vest, never to return through oil the
cycle Of ages"
With the South as our natural ala zoe
are tlc0 to one IN the House oUer the East
We can spare many Western and South
ern "dough-faces," and yet win The
late most important vote in the House of
by which one hundred
snd seventy-one members pronounced for
an increase of the currency against seven
ty-one, and the manifestations of favor
by which the proposition is received to |
break up the National Bank monopoly |
by making it free to all who desire to en-
gage in it upon the present conditions, |
have created the most intense feeling |
among the Wall street gentry. In it |
they see the beginning of the inevitable
end The language INDUCED in by their |
organs shows how badly they have been
hurt. 1t is mingled groan of pain and |
an exceedingly vituperative yell against |
the peoples Representatives, who have |
at last voted that some stop ought to be
put to their public and private robbery of |
the debtor class OF society.
Remarking upon the declaration of the
Portland Press, that the effect of the ac-
lion of Congress in fixing the Greenback |
Circulation at $500, 000, 900, would be to
impose a heavy tax upon the labor of
he country, the Chicago Inter-Ocean
says:
cit is not even polite way of saying
he Southern and Western people are
, parcel of idolts; for the votes in the
National House and Senate show that
Western and Southern Congressman
ire both for the addition to the present
calculation Of the balance of the S44,
100, 900, and for free banking. 1t is
carcely necessary to say, in response
o these imputations upon the intelli-
,ence of the West and South, that
hey are very ungraciOus, if true, and
'erv mendacious if false. Whether
hey are true or false, must be deter
mined by the results of the financial
'olicy about to be inaugurated. AT all
vents, the position of the representa-
i've Of these sections ON the currency
uestion is heartily supported by the
ulk of their constituencies"