The Morning herald., 1877-12-24
WILMINGTON. Del. Dec. Fl, 1877.
GOD SAVE THE PEOPLEs

GOD SAVE CHE PEOPLE?
The Orators Of the money Lords of Eu
rope, and their obsequious claqsers, ar
Aorid faced with angry denunciation, G
every man who demands the uncoiling c
the ligatures, which fetter. the industrie
of the country-as dishonest men, who de
sire to evade personal, state, and nationa
obligations. Is the abuse merited? 1t j
we'll accepted maxim, that the good Q
the greatest number, is the highest aim o
the statesman, who is honest, and patriotic
It is also admitted that we have earned thu
greatest harvest, ever gathered by
one people since the dawn of history
and yet amid this abundance millions
starve!
A few thousand people who own United
States and other bonds, mortgages &c, practi-
eally own the press Of the country; the
halls Of Congress are filed with their Law
yers, falsely assuming to be the peoples
representatives; the lobbies of the House.
and Senate, are choked with their agents
with the object in view TO obtain such
legislation, as will exempt their bonds
from sharing any Of the burden Of loss
which the country has met. Silver, or
gresnbacks, are good enough for the maim-
ed soldier, the sickly widow, or the shiver-
ing orphan; but gold alone will satisfy the
bondholders. Is it not fair, and honest,
that they should bear some portion of the
public burdenI Silver was demonitized
in the interest Of the money Lords, who
saw it, inevitable fall in price, by the act
ion Of Germany, and England, and the
prospect inNev The people demand, and
the representatives must heed, that that bur-
densoms law, be repealed. The resumption
act was passed, to enhance the value of
bonds, and thereby increase the public load |
Of interest. The millions require its re-
peal, as an act Of common justice. Pub
lie credit must not be impaired say the re-
sunphonists. We will not enter into any
fine spun tt eories about public credit-it is |
we'll to sustain it, by fair and honest
methods; it is a crime to prop it up, by
the destruction of our National industries
and the starvation of the people.
England has great credit, and plethoric
exchequer: yet in the county of Lanca-
shire, there is more pauperism, than in the
entire Kingdom Of Spain-this is a fact we
will stand by, and prove. So much for
mere wealth. The policy Of the resumpt-
ionists, is to make few families rich in
every country, they gradually acquiring all
the land, entailing the peasant condition
upon the rest. Farmers of Delaware is not
this process going on among you? Every
Court the fiat of legal confscation goes out
to the Sheriff, and all this staring us in the
face, We are treated to disquisitions, about
honest money as if old Jacksonian silver,
was not honest enough for the men, who
had no act or part, in imposing rags upon
the Republic.
There was dinner given in leading
hotel in New Vow, a short time ago, bv a
party Of Railroad magnates, and capital
ists-to their Congressional friends-there
were seven courses, and five different kinds,
Of wine-the individual cost of each mans
dinner was probably s25,OO. In a few DAYS
after the following statement appeared in
the New York Sun.
In the words of Mr.. John Bovine, Sec
retsry of the association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor" the destitution in
New York was never so great a. now. and
want is reaching class to whom it has
hitherto been stranger. Figures in the
Associations books tell the story Of suffer. |
ing among all classes. The number ofl
application for relief is near ly double that
Of last year at this time, although in De-
cember the weather was much more severe,
There are eighty applications made day
now against forty then. In fact only the |
pleasant weather and employment furnish
ed by the Elevated Railroad prevented the
resources of The Association have been
greatly lessened owing to the peouniary |
losses of the subscribers"
Persons heretofore we'll to do now need
the necessities Of life. A lady recently ap-
piled to Mr.. Bovine for relief who ten
years ago kept carriage and lived in a |
handsome house in Madison avenue She
now occupies with her little chrildren a
basement room in tenement in Thomp-
son street, and until she can get few pu-
pils is dependent on the association fo',.
food and fuel. A merchant worth few
yean ago $4,000, and then boarded in the
St. Dennis Hotel, now lives in garret,