Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24
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The individual who owns the above
initials is out in column article in this
weeks Conservative, intended mainly for
the benefit of the BULLETIN. E, 8. G..
thinks he is especially fitted to play the
role of the injured man, and is determined
that we shall invest him with the crown
of martyrdom. This we do not intend to
do. He goes into personal explanation !;
tells how he came to Iowa to make q
home for himself and four boys, how he
had good prospect of success until Con-
gress agreed to pay the bonds in gold; but
since that time he has constantly got poor
err until now his property is all gone. He
evidently anticipates that we will pick up
this dolerous statement of his misfortunes
| and subject it to criticism, giving our idea
of the causes for his i'll success, and thus
afford him the opportunity to ask SYM
pathy, on account of personal at
tack upon HIM. We do not propose to
crafty E. S. G. in this regard. We have
nothing to do with his financial difficulties
or his failare in life. We certainly have
no disposition to exult over them, and the
only allusion we have made to them was
in the most remote manner, to illustrate
how untitled he was for the place to which
he aspires, cad to which some of his fool
ish friends would boost him--that of an
oracle in finance.
He complains that the BULLETIN left
his arguments unanswered. If he will
assist US in identifying said arguments
the omission shall be rcctfied. From
diligent perusal of his articles we have
been unable to extract anything like prac-
teal theory or suggestion regarding the
financial situation, except it be sort of
shadowy demand, conveyed rather by i'm
plication than directly, that the interest
Oh the bonds be paid in greenbacks. This
suggestion of dishonesty, for which
recently convicted swindler, Pendeton,
has the patent, is all that we can find that E.
S. G. has to offer by way of argument.
1t is an argument for dishonor. an argu-
ment for violation of plighted faith, for
reputation of contracts, and, as we have
before intimated, it answers itself
But E. S. G. does not subscribe to the
doctrine, that the man who cannot sue
cesstully manage his own small financial
interests is not qualified to dictate how
larger interests shall be managed, and es-
pecially to crlticise savagely the financial
mistakes of others On the other hand,
placing himself in that category he says:
We are the best testimony that can be
got" He further says: :" Are there none
in this vast multitude of failures who had
any financial ability" and then lie al
ludcs to Daniel Drew, and asks: " is he
financial IDIOT" Possibly not; but would
Mr.. E. S. G. select man with Drew's
financial record as Secretary of the Treas
ury? The allusion to Drew's failure is
unfortunate, for it Is known that Drew
lost his money, not by Encouragement,
but by the most stupendous gambling in
stocks. AS E. S. G. has chosen to illus
trate his own situation by that of Daniel
Drew, are we to understand that he failed
from similar cause?
If E S. G. has anything to offer the
public that will tend to solve the difficult
problem of the currency, nobody will oh
ject to his doing so; but when he assumes
to know everything, and goes to knocking
men and parties about the head because
they cannot see, or have not seen, through
his spectacles, lie must expect, and, if he
is a wsse man, he will not protest against
an examination of what there is in his
qualifications and career that gives him
authority or fitness to WELD the club.