Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-10-06
"Mud Sill" to the Rescue.

had occasion to refer to rather ridicu
lous proposition advanced at publ
meeting in Buffalo Grove, by an apostle
OF the greenback dispensation, prefacinl
the same by few remarks, in a jocula
tone upon the proclivity of certain theo
rlsts of that region, for floundering il
subjects beyond their depth, subjects
which wiser and ADLER men approach
with circumspection. The article wa.
not designed in any sense, to be offensive
but it seems that the Buffalo philosophers
are three-skinned tribe, and one OF
them this week in the Conservative essays
the task of demolishing the BULLETIN or
rather its editor. Here let us intcrject
suggestion, that, inasmuch as the cor
respondent of the Conservative has chosen
to allude to the editor hereof by name, il
would have been the fair and manly part
tor him to have appended his real name
to his article]. The writer, whom we
easily recognize by certain ear marks,
must needs show the weakness of his po-
sltion, by little demagoguesim at the
very outset. He says:
1t may be "bewildering" to the learned
and great, that the mud stills" attempt to
discuss questions as Intricate as the tinan-
cial question is, but they will undoubtcd-
ly continue to practice such audacity not
w OF MD fl,o ~
of the BULLETIN.
Here is an intlmation that the BULLE-
TIN sneered at the idea of farmers getting
together to discuss questions in which
they are interested. The writer well
knows that this is not true, that III fact,
the reverse is true. What we did gently
prick with the point of ridicule, was the
high and mighty airs of superior wisdom
and discernment assumed by certain
would be doctors of finance, in relation
to subject that in fact thay heve neither
the capacity or knowledge or tempera-
ment to treat wisely or even intelligently
Even the writer in the Conservative, if
we have correctly identified him, is noted
for the arrogant intolerant brow-beating
air with which he attempts to silence all
who honestly differ with him. For him,
and such as him, is our ridicule reserved,
and not for the men who are honestly
seeking TO know the truth. We merely
add II, fhic cnppoct;n,, hat tI,o
SLIP is not ours, as the correspondent
would imply by quoting it.
But the Conservative writer RENTS his
sarcastic thrusts at us for a moment to
say:
The Independents believe that if mon
ey were plenty, business would be pros
porous, labor would be employed, and
then those who tried could gain an hon
est livelihood and pay their debts; but as
it now is, this Is impossible.
Now we claim that the above precious
piece of buncombe justifies the ridcule
at which 'NIudsill' takes umbrage -
Why is it impossible to pay debtss Is 1t
because the wherewith to pay them does
not exist? Suppose this to be true, and
the presses were set at work manufacture
ing money at the rate of hundred mil
lions per day, how would the Buchanan
county farmers ability to pay his debts
be enhanced, if he has nothing to ex-
change for the money. Money is plenty
for every farmer who has anything to
SELL or, with the proper security, it may
be borrowed in almost any amount, at an
extremely low rate of interest. We can
not see how the situation is to be improv-
ed by the manufacturing of more money,
unless the government should give it
away to all who need it. Is this "Mud-
sill's" theory? Again he says:
1t is the theory of the bullionists that
it is overproduction that has caused a
large share of the present financial EN-
barrassment; if this be true, then this
failure of crops is entirely very fortunate
for us, for if we had good crops, the
overproduction would be still larger and
the embarrassment would be augmented.
Here is profundity for you. The Chico
ry of the bullionists," alluded to, has not
been applied to the products of the soil so
much as to manufactures and the like
Even "Mudsill" ought to know that
what is alone troubling us right here
and every man will look at the question
from the stand point of his own individu-
al interests under production But for
this, we should have no complaints of the
scarcity of money. But for this, the po-
litcal stock IN trade of ''Mudsill" and 9TH
er fanatical theorists would be gone
The discomfort arising from failure of
crops, and consequent embarrassment, is
what induces men to listen to the crude
sophistries of such teachers us he