Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-13
A FEW WORDS ABovr cohsls.
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rGMCY.
The paper Of our venerable cotem- n
'orary across the street, was founded I,
lpon the idea Of hostility to railroad 4
yet he is supporting a I
nan for the presidency whom, it is a
agreed upon all hands, (and it will not I
be denied by the editor himself) }, has 6
been more extensively engaged in
and monopolizing and
swindling the first owners and build
ers of railroads, to-wit: the people,
than any other man in the United
States.
He has shown by his own deliberate
declarations in his paper that Samuel
j. Tilden was utterly unfit to be pres
ident, by the following language,
which we quote as sample from his
paper, the Spirit Of the Times:
"There is not the remotest danger
:" of Tilden securing the nomination
at st. Louis, unless he buys up the
hummer delegates that have been al
ready chosen In some quarters. But
if he should get the nomination he
will be spurned as a dirty dog by the |
honest men of the party and defeated
by an overwhelming vote. If, in the
unaccountable dispensation of Prov
idence, the working people are to be
ground down into the dust, it would
be better to suffer what Is shame to
government under republican, than
under q Democratic administration.
l-Ottumsoa Spirit Of the Times June
9th, 1876.
He has of late mounted the silver
hobby, and just now spends most of
his time on it, because Col. Sampson,
our member Of Congress, put at the
tail end of q patent committee by
Confederate House, in hopeless nil
nority, didn't IN one session get silver
remonetized.
For the. purpose Of diverting his
mind for a moment from Judge
Sampson, we desire to call his atten-
ton to the following from the Irish
World, of New York, of the 9th inst,
heretofore q red hot democratic Irish
paper:
"Mr. Tilden seems very anxious
that we here in America should lay at
| the feet of the great Money Kings,
both foreign and domestic, all the
tribute they deem fit to demand of us.
This we are given to understand is a
: sign of high national honorl "The
highest national honor" says the st.
. Louis candidate for President, in his
s letter of acceptance, "is not only right
but would prove profitable" Very
4 true. But Mr.. Tilden destroys the
1 significance of this general principle
by his forced application for in the
4 very next sentence which he hooks
v on to this he tells us that "Of the
K public debt, 1886, 100000 bear snteres,
at sir per cent. in GOLD and $7l2, 600,
j. 600, at five per cent. in GOLD" Ii
d this craftily worded phraseology
sticks out tho point of Shylock'
3, knife. Mr.. Tilden misstates. Their,
is not one solitary act of Congress
l. which obliges the payment Of this in
i terest in gold. The law distinct,
i states ''coin"-that is either gold o
l. silver. This was we'll understood b,
10 the bondholders at the time. Blu
,e silver is now worth twenty-five cent
9. on the dollar less than the gold
,r depreciation that was effected by a
rs interruptions trick of the None
Kings themselves; and now if the in
l. terest is paid in silver there will be
TO saving to the people of tsrenty.fe
Of million dollars every year, and in tina
- case, the Money Kings will not b
C. able to wiring from their subjects a
the tribute they had hoped for.
10 To pay the bondholders in silver
~ perfectly legal. And yet Mr.. Tildel
50 who is keen, sharp lawyer, and VIII
as knows its-legality as well as any on
of can tell him, comes forward in the il
,a tcrest of the bondholders and assur,
us it would not be 'the highest II,
.. tional honor to treat them that way
es The bondholders ought to be yer
Or thankful to Mr.. Tilden certainly. II
n. is very generous to them. But viii
he is generous to them he should Of
hc deavor to be just to the people.
m The payment Of this national deb
n, even in silver, will wiring many
,n drop from the hearts blood of the n,
49, ton. 1t is a terrible load to shake Of
10 However, we are willing that Sh!
sc lock shall have all that is "nominate
in the bond" How can Mr.. Tide
it have the audacity to demand moi
than this? 4=
-, Silver was demonetized in su
- reptitious way, without any oppos
:, ton, or discussion, by the votes
republicans and democrats alike. "
=. think that that was an outrage, all
" as soon as the matter was fully III
.. derstood, which has only recent
70 come to pass, the people without r
IA spect to party, have demanded OF Il
ID Confederate Congress (where all
IL nancial legislation must originate
~ the RECOMMENDATION Of silver, b,
If that body failed to do SO
q. the editor Of the SPIRIT Of q
I'd Times well knows. We denounce
~ the action of the Confederate Houl
10 for the cowardly trucking to Il
I'd bullionists in this particular, and v
o. denounce Governor Tilden for h
I'd studied attempt to demonetize silv'
%, in his letter, as quoted above by IL
,e Irish World. Will friend Ives gi,
"a Sampson little rest on this subje
"a and preach us q sermon on the te!
\ quoted from the Irish Worldf