Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-05

then that money becomes deprecated
and property has fictitious, abnormal
valuation.
| recollect. and no doubt many of you
have had the same experience, my Old
grandfather told me when | clambered
over his knees as a child, that he fought
seven years under George Washington
In the revolutionary army, and when he
went back to his home in Virginia he
could not buy II breakfast with his seven
years wages as a continental soldier;
and if any of you had the misfortune
to have taken with ME the losing side in
the late unpleasantness you know some
thing about confederate money. The
last purcha, Z | made was the meanest
horse | think | ever saw. for Sl6.9SO.
CLaughterl and it was the cheapest
horse | ever bought, and il | had paid
$40. 900 900 tor him he would have
been cheap. The money had lost its
purchasing power. 1t had become so
much in excess of the demands OF bust
ness that il was no mone ut all. Now
how much money does Mr.. Hill propose
TO issue? He proposed TO pay the
national debt and to loan enough to
counties, cities and states at , per
cent. to pay off their debts, and then
Ioan every individual citizen in the
United States enough absolute money
at , per cent. to pay his debts. And
what does it all come to? Sl2 ,0oO, oOO,-
600. Why the largest per capita dis
tribution ever known among civilized
nations was S43 per capita, yet when he
brings us out of our state and other H.
debtedness, we find there are Al, 700 900
OF people in the Tn ted States, and if
we divide Sl2, 600, GOO, 600 among them,
it gives 1000 per capita to every man,
woman and child. ILaughter Why.
my friend, continental money would be
worth 800 to 81. and confederate
money at n large premium. Four
thousand dollars per capita! Who SUI
ters by
THE DEPRECIATION OF THE CURRENCY?
his income. and still drives his carriage,
lives in his house. and has his fine soups
and wines. lie car stand deprecated
currency. but who suffers? 1t is the
workingmen of the country. because,
while their labor does not go up in price
every article of consumption. meat aud
vegetables all advance. and the result
comes at las. rs it did in the coufed-
eracy. where meat MAS $40 \ pound.
THE WORKING MEN
of the country. with the paid faces of
their wives and starving little ones. are
the people that Mr.. Hill is robbing.
They are the people whom he is ruin
ming to-day by his platform. and If that
l-tyo.-, - ,n-;,I lat -, III, o.,to nj
Missouri and in the United States. then
your bread riots and famine stricken
w~orkingmen will be seen, and the bay
onets of the law-and-order portion OF the
working people viii! be called into re-
QUESTION in order to suppress them.
Fellow-citazens. do not propose to
weary you with an analysis of any length
tonight OF the platform Of the party &c
which | Belong. 1t is enough for me 10
say that the democratic party of Mis-
souri, proposes ample.
COMPLETE Asp ADEQUATE RELIEF.
The democratic party OF the state pro
poses to do away with the national bank
ing system, and to pay all its bonds ii
legal tender notes. They propose L
repeal the resumption act and in add
ton to issue enough greenbacks to meet
al the demands OF the business OF the
country. What more can any man ask:
What more can be demanded? Ii | al
asked how many greenbacks are to bs
ISSUED, | have simply to say that thu
man does not live who can answer tina
question. My honest and earnest opln
ion is. that. in order to relieve this coun
try from the financial congestion tina
has now seized it aud that has coagulat
ed the financial blood OF the country Unit
its extrcmities are cold, and inciplen
paralysis and death has siezed upon It
/ vitals-my honest opinion is, If you re
{ peal the resumption act. and make tn
: greenback currency OF the country re
: ceiyable tor import duties, and interes
on the public debt and put the greenbacl
into circulation az the bonds becom
due, and call on the bondholders to brin;
them in under an act OF congress an
! pay them OF in greenbacks, If the green
. back circulation of the country is IN
5 creased SO as to do away with this con
= gestion, | have no sort of doubt but thi
t terrible paralysis will be relieved
: What to-day we are suffering from is
= WANT OF CONFIDENCE.
c on the part OF the people OF the countr
in the administration OF he financial 4
fairs of the United states. MIR. Sherma
declares to the people that he propose
c to 90 on in this system ofconge,tion an
g of contraction. He Is like those OIL
e fashioned physicians who. when | was
boy, we're called in. and no matter VIII
was the trouble with the patient, III.
/ looked at his tongue aud then felt OF Ii
pulse and sent down for an Old-fashiol
V ed instrument an inch and aquarter lon
IS and Immediately took hall Il gallon
blood from him. and the next day the
81 would come back aud take another ha
J. gallon, and SO on till the patient was r
duced to his bones. and then went
the boneyard, and the mex thing our L
spectacle family physician did, when
heard the thud of the last clod up'
Is his victim. coffin was to start off to |
n carriage saving: well. | didn't tai
IN IN quite enough blood" CLaughter.l
" NOT QUITE ENOUGH,
a DR.. Sherman says in his To!eio speec
tv when he proposed to take a little mo
We blood. This country to-day is like I
Ia Scotchman's mare when he underto'
Ut to see if she could live on nothing, l.
,e unfortunately Tor the cause of scien
when he got her to a straw a day $
RS died. To-day the people of the Unit
10 states are Keeling under this artitic
he contraction. here Is no people on t
face OF the earth, with our resource
in wh.o have ever been called upon to pr
tn through such agonies, such horrit
nut financial sufferings, as ourselves duri
en- the last ten years. Why is it tod
t., that your business men are standing a
wv demanding from each other what Is
in matter with the business of the count
Fellow citizens, they say they have p:
off a portion OF the national debt. WI
difference does it make to US whett
,c- they have paid Oft one or fifty millic
he whom the business of the country |
all peer struck down like a bullock in
N. shambles. and the lite OF the people
I'D pouring out in the streets of all the cit
IL In the land?
he Permit me to say that there never v
nd any dem nd. any cause or occasion
out the sacrifice to which the people OF
the United States have been called upon
TIL submit. Every honest republican wi
.ial IN the sound of my voice knows t
thing was not necessary. We hear
ian said continually and in default OF
es- argument, the republican politics
pre- and republican press have always
the dernler resort. and that is