Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-10-23
specie system and we got out of them
by suspending specie payment. v
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A specie basis will "give stability to
current valuesl" What does Mr.. Schurz
mean? Does be not know that during
our late Rebellion gold rose in price
more than any other article of merchan-
dis except cottoni Talk of such an ar
ticle giving stability to prices! 1t as
Snbad anchoring on whale. 1t Is IKE
the other green native OF that land OF
science and philosophy, Germany, who,
drawing a landscape, took COW for
/ the fixed point of his prospective. She
moved. and the picture became such a
mudde as these specie basis speeches
are. God save the Germans from their
specie basis friends! q4Itr
Instead of hairspli.ting of old theo-
ries, practical craftsmanship uses the
wisdom of experience, learns from our
own war policy, profits by the glorious
example France sets US, and by using
all modern expedients, as she did, turns
disaster into opportunity, setting hand,
spindle, steam engine. and sail all at
work, pouring content and plenty
through all the channels. 1t dlsdains,
as France did, to yield to unmanly fear
and shrek, "Wolf, wolf" from the
watch tower; but, with the cries of "Vic-
tory !" and Forward !" from the head
of the ranks, pours confidence into eve
ry heart and makes the success We
propbesy.
1t is a poor government, and they are
but sorry leaders, who stand:up to whine
before the people while even at our
doors, and a. this very time and year
other lands show us the safe path out
of all trouble and how to plant ourselves
on solid ground. Talleyrand said,
Everybody is wiser than anybody"
and the plain common sense of the peo-
pie will yet save us from this "much
learning" which makes our statesmen
"mad."
l remain, dear Mr.. Beebe, yours,
WENDELL PHILIps.
Granville, Mass.
LETTER FROM GENERAL BUTLER
Boston, Sept 80, 1S75.-Eugene
Beebe, Esq, Secretary United States
Legal Tender Club, New York.-My
Dear Sir:-I have the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of yours of the 2Sth,
telling me what l believed must be the
case, that real property in the city of
New York was passing into the hands
of mortgages and leaving deficit even
then. This is result of the endeavor
to contract the values of every kind of
property except invested debt, through
legislation voted for in Congress by
more than sixty (6O) bank directors vo-
ting in their interests, under ruling of
parliamentary law made by another
bank director. 1t is impossible that the
people of this country will permit this
state Of business ruin long to continue.
read in the Associated Press DIES.
patches yesterday the saddest sentence
that has ever come to my eye. Speak
ing of the Fall River troubles manu-
facturer said
"The courage is all taken out of the
operatives; they will submit to anything
for work" Pc.
You have been writing ME and / have
been replying upon the subject OF re-
ducticn of values ofproperty by this
system of contraction: but what shall
we say of the reduction of men into
slaves by this system Of contraction?
Men-free, white. aud twenty -one--
crushed down in spirit until they "will
submit to anything simply to get work.
An opportunity to ''earn their bread by
the sweat Of the face" not right to
partake of the blessings of God to His
creatures on earth-"to submit to any
thing" for the privilege only to enjoy
the primeval curse. How long, o Lord,
how long shall such things be. The
end must sooner or later surely come,
and in this-that the workingmen and
women will be obliged to call for their
wages invested in savings banks, and
the amount is greater than the capital
of the national banks, although it enjoys
none of the Is per cent dividends of
the latter institutions; and when that
call comes the money-lender at usury
must stand from under, and may find
himself as mach broken in spirit as the
workingman is now, and ready to sub
nit to any thing to get work. l am
yours truly,
! .. BENJAMIN F. BurIER.
"THE BLACK HORSE. "A meeting of
the surviving members of the famous
"Black Horse Cavalry" was held at
Warrcnton, or Saturday, to arrange
for attending, in AN organi zed body,
the unwilling OF the statue of Jackson,
in Richmond, on the 26th inst. The
re-assembliag of the Command was the
first since it furled its battle flag and
sheathed it's sword in 1865 The troop,
as We learn from the Warrenton To-
dex, was among the first to join Jack
son at Harper's Ferry in 81 and
throughout the brilliant compaign of