The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-04-19

you uIIu tIidU Tie government 1ISelI now Q1S-
credits these notes and makes them worth less
than coin because it refuses to receive them
for custom dues. for which it demands gold in
stead and you find, further, that the Govern
ment has rendered these notes irredeemable by
repeating the provision of law under which
they were issued, which provided that they
should be receivable by the Government at par
for Understanding obligations of the Govern
ment. fe.s
YOU DEMAND
1st. That greenbacks shall be received for
customs and all other dues to Government the
same as gold. E WE 5.s
I'd. That the silver dollar shall be restored to
its old rank in the list of coins, and that the
products of our American silver mines shall be
coined as well as the products of the British
gold mines. td 5E4H 0 4a .eT
Sd. You demand that if any person has green
backs-United States notes not bearing inter-
est-and desires to exchange them for Govern
ment notes bearing interest, that the inter
change should be made at the sub-treasuries,
and that the holder Of the Understanding obi
cation may re-exchange it for greenbacks at par
and interest at his pleasure.
You demand that without suddenly disturb
ing existing conditions, the policy of this Gov
eminent shall be to supply, in the form of evil
dences of its own debt, the paper currency of
the country instead of farming out the priyi-
rency to consist of evidences of their debts
While managing your plows, your drills, your
harvesters and your threshing machines, farm
ers of the Mississippi valley! you have time
and opportunity to think. Your education has
been sufficient to give you control of all histor-
ical and scientific facts and while tilling your
farms, you may find the proper relation of these
facts and build better machinery for the social
use of mankind.
rrTIF pEOI 9rrrIr war
are in number, twenty-one of the forty-six
millions of our population. In this great CEN
trail basin of the continent we have one-third
of the acreage of the United States A steamer
leaving the Gulf may pursue her uninterrupted
course to the head-waters of the Missouri
more than 1850 miles, We have within this
grand region an abundance of iron, coal, lead,
copper, zinc, silver and gold; and wood and
timber, both hard and soft, in great abundance
and variety a soil of unsurpassed richness a
people in whose veins are mingled the blood of
the Puritans, Cavaliers, Huguenots, the Dutch,
the Celts, the Germans and the Scandinavians
who sought this continent during the last cen
tury and of those OF later immigration. If the
minghng of the blood of the most energetic
specimens of the best nations can pro uce
superior race, we have it here.
WITH A TERRITORY
extending through twenty degrees of latitude
we have the best varieties of climate.
Emigration, which for 1000 years has been
flowing westward. here meets the current
coming eastward. We have area enough to
contain the principal countries of Europe
and we have in forest, mine and soil resources
sufficient to shelter, feed and clothe all the in
habitants of those countries, in addition to our
own. t. -rs. t...
With all these resources, with an intelligent
and skilled people, the majority are poor, and
nearly all are reforming body or mind, or BOTH
in efforts to provide shelter, food, clothing and
other necessares of civilized life for themselves
and their families.
We have sufficient raw material and men
with skill to make and operate machinery
enough 10 make all those things needed, to the
extent of the reasonable desires of our whole
population yet men and women, able and
willing to do this work, are idle and suffering
machinery stands unused or works sluggishly
and this is largely owing to the want of proper
system of exchanging products and commodi-
ties. The machinery of production and of in
terchange stands idle for want of oil to lubri-
cate it. The Rothschilds of the world have a
monopoly of the
FINANCIAL OIL.
A distinguished Englishman recently re-
marked that when on the Atlantic coast he felt
quite as much at home as though he was in a
British colony, but when he crossed the Allie
ghany mountains he felt that he was in Ameri-
ca, and among different people.
The Eastern people are accustomed to look
eastward across the AtlaD tic for precedents, and
to follow them closely and look for foreign APP
plause for having done So Let the people of
the West think and act as Americans.
In this great central plain our steamboats,
and our railroad trains move like shuttleS,
WEAVING THE FABRIC OF A NEW SOCIETY.
Here we have both the wool and the warp
our lines run north and south, as well as east
and west ; we are moving people; we come
into contact from every direction; we modify
each others habits. both in thought and action.
We may be as et.. .........
RICH AS WE DESIRE
in all that contributes to the physical and in
tellectual well-being of man we have the raw
material, and the men and machinery to change
its form. We have position and power. Let
us realize our responsibility, and fully and
properly use our power, first, to improve our
own social condition, and by our influence and
example and moral force to improve the con-
dition of mankind. Let our Government be
made to .
PROTECT OUR PEOPLE
from being impoverished by foreign legislation,
and let us solve the transportation question 6y
bringing the factories to oar farms. ~
Let us change our raw material into houses,
clothing, food, means of instruction and recrea-
ton, SO that all shall be supplied. Let us Sc
cure a system of interchanging what is pro-
duced, SO that all who produce may be sup
piled in exchange with what they need or de-
sire. Let those who cannot work or will not
work be placed in infrmaries.
We have received much from those who
lived in past centuries let us add our quota
to the fund to be transmitted to future genera
tions.
YOUNG MEN
yeomanry of the Mississippi valley! Hold the
fortress, the citadel of the civilization of the
century. Hold the best stronghold
of representative government, and let not our
civilization be plowed under like those that
have preceded it.
Make every school house raIying point for
enlistment and drill. Organize a company in
every school district, battalion in every town
ship a brigade in every county, a division in
every Congressional district, a corps in every
State. With your right resting on the Rio
Grande, your left on the Pembina,
FORWARD
to victories to be gained not with shot and
SHE'LL but with well-aimed ballots.
Six hundred years ago,
FRIAR BACON
ventured to predict the advent of the steam
ship and the railroad. May we not venture