Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-10-13

By act of Congress. You answer as
though | said IN acts of Congress-
To my mind there is a difference in
the meaning Of, by and in, but see
that in your mind they have the
same meaning; and yet, if you were
to say "the mill goes by water" you
would not mean "the mill goes in
water" would you?
70 illustrate the proposed green
back | compare it to note against
yourself, which runs thus: "On de-
mand promise to pay the bearer my
bond for 500 drawing 3.65 per cent
interest and both principal and inter-
est of said bond payablein just such
paper as this" You answer, Gas
this note is not such money as the
greenbackers propose to have, can
see no force in the >illustration."
Let us see, you continue: "Now I
Will give little nearer the form of
money the "reformers" propose to
have. 1t is an engraved piece
OF paper, the back a little greenish,
and on one side is printed these
words; 'The United States will pay
the bearer one dollar on demand"
How will it pay? Let us have no
Juggling about it. Will the United
States on demand pay that note in
"gold and silver" IF so it is my
kind Of money and | am satisfied;
but your plan discards specie, you do
not propose to pay the note in money
at all, but in the 3.65 bond. Then it
follows that my illustration was per-
fectly accurate, substituting the gov
eminent for the individual, and | am
astonished that you should say it is
not the kind Of money the green
hackers propose to have. At first l
thought you did not recognize your
adopted child when you met him
away from home, but when l remem-
bered that You are prominent apos-
tie of the greenback dispensatlon, 1
became satisfied there was intclli-
gence in your refusal to recognize it,
which is crcditahlc to youas it shows
you are in some degree ashamed of
the company you have inadvertently
got into.
Not quite enough has yet been
said about the kind of money the
grcenbackers propose to have. On
one side of it you are going TO say
the United States will pay Oh de-
mand, when your theory never con
templates paying it at all, but only
changing the form Of the debt. ''Bc-
dad, Biddy, Ive paid old Mulligins
his hundred dollars ut last" says Pat
Malunpy. "Hivcn be praised, and
how did you do it, Pat?" "Aisy
enough, darlint, I give him a MORE
gage on the oxen" The greenback-
ers have just got up to Pat NAHUM
py's plan and no higher, only they
use little more clap trap. Thenotes
you intend are n forced loan and the
debt represented by them Is never to
be paid. Then why not make them
to correspond to the facts? Let the
backs be a ''little greonish," as that
seems to be vital point with you,
but don't put a false promise on
them.
You ask me three questions to
which l wish to reply. You ask
"Did you not and do you not believe
the railroads received more than. a
fair compensation for services rem
dered?" | did and do so believe in
regard to most OF the roads, but for
the state to lay its heavy hand upon
the weakest roads that were barely
paying running expenses and some
of them much less, and cut down
their receipts IS per cent, was not
only robbery of the roads, but suici-
dial to the best interests of the state,
which | set forth at length in the
BULLETIN at the time, and predicted
what has since come to pass.
You ask care not your opinions on
this financial question formed more
from tradition and prejudice than
from reason and facts?" | am free
to say that l have some pretty strong
prejudices and one of them is a pref
udice in favor of honest money.
Lastly you ask as there any argu-
ment in calling your opponents fools
or knaves?" | will try to respond in
the spirit OF the question. do not
think there is, and furthermore |
think such epithets are not al
lowablc in respectful debate. The
turthest you shall go is to call your
opponent nincompoop, and that on
ly in extreme cases;
And finally, please accept my
warmest thanks for your benign ben
ediction: "Aoping that the scales
may fall from your eyes so that you
may sec the truth, is the wish of your
friend" TO this end | have labored
for many years and sometimes | have
been almost discouraged, but with
the assurance Of your sympathy |
take fresh courage and confidently
hope that with your prayers and my
own best eXertions to get those mas
ty scales off my eyes sometime so
that may see the truth, for | shall
then see (among other thingsl why
my solid and substantial old friend
Russell, who wants real plety in his
religion, real honesty in his politice,
real corn in his crib and real pork
in his barrel, is spending his last, best
years in trying to get fictitious mon
ey in his pocket.
With my best wishes for your
health and happiness and success in
everything but your financial cru
SADIE, | am Yours sincerely,
MOODY Grow.
BOB Ingersoll said in a late speech:
cat the time the Republican party