Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-04-16

SPEAKING of the action Of those
members of Congress who voted ia
vorably upon the bill for an increase
in the currency and free banking. The
New York World (democra.ic) says
They were simply oYerbornc by
tie 'oud. ignorant clnnor .f Meia' coz
>tiRents at their doors. aud they gave
mp the honor Of the nation, so far ~ il
was in their keeping, and the Interests
OF every American man engaged in an
honest industry, in Difference 20 that
cTdmor."
We wonder ii the World thinks the
money changers of the Eas, are the
proper parties 10 run the country. or
should the people control? Does the
WW3d want our form OF government
changed into an aristocracy instead Of
democracy If so it better at once
call its party by its true name, viz: the
aris.ocratic party. The people of the
country called upon: yea more they
demanded in thunder tones, that Con.
gressmen should repeal the back salary
hill. and Congress did it. A majority
of The people required that the ques.
lion of whether the forty four million
grcenback reserve (said to have been
retircd> was really retired ..or whether
it might not be re issued, should be
determined by Reissue of it, and
that we should have in the West and
South an increase in bank notes.
They demanded that the answer should
be in favor of more currency, and thus
far Congress has complied with that
demand. This result has RULED the
temper of the Ford and Eastern cap
i;alists, and now they are SO silly as TO
talk about the people being noodles, in
a word not fit TO rule. They now
want the exercise of the one man
power; suddenly they are great lovers
of Cnsarism. IL Wall street is to
make laws on finances for the country,
We doubt not the West might become
hewers of wood and drawers of water
for the Worlds aristocracy for all
time.
THH Hon. John Worth Edmonds,
who died on the 5ih inst, was seventy.
five years old. He was q native oil
Hudson, New York, and a graduate Of
Union College, His profession wai
the law. He was several times elect.
cd to both branches of the State Leg.
islature, was State Prison Inspector o.
New York, and was first made a Judg,
of the Circuit Court, then OF the Su
preme Court, and ncxt on the bench o
the Court of Appeals. In 1851 his at
tcntion was attracted to the phenome
ma of Spiritualism, and after yer
extended investigation in compan
with several men OF science, he be
came firm believer in that philosophy
and has ever since maintained grea
prominence as an advocate of Spirit
nalism. He became medium him
sclf, and lecturcd and wrote much up
Oh the subject. Judge Edmonds has
sister residing in this city, and was 81
uncle of Mr.. Flagler, of the UnioI
Coal and Mining Company. OF hi
last illness aud his faith unto death,
friend of his says:
Judge EdEond's wife aud brother
died many years ago, and with then
he conceived that he had companion
ship up to his death. He said tina
they often sat aud talked with him
and he described thcir looks and re
cited their words to his friends will
minuteness. His wife especially Ii,
believed to be constantly with him
and during his fatal sickness cul
mination nf ssAss. s,~;s.f .sl rarrcric- DIS
case--he talked much of her faithfn
lninistrations and consolation. III,
said that his bed was surrounded will
spirit forms, and that upon joininS
them. by reason of entering fheiI
sphere in an already advanced state oil
spiritual development, he would d
once be able to send back such proofs
Of the truth of Spiritualism as could
not be doubted. His faith did no
waver to the end.