Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-26

currency and shrinking its purchasing ts1S|
or, and thus changing bargains and trahsc-]
tiohs VII hightss ssaPiaal-aahs i 49,
What is to be done with the new issue Of
paper? It's be paid, We arc told, to bond
holders. What sfe thsys sto-dp with it'
Will they give it away? They tilkkeeRi. j.
or loae it. What good will l g II
put into circulation it will diluts - espre-
ciate the whole currency and pit up psle!s
for the poor to pay, and the wages Of hb0t
will not advance fast enough to keep up
With the advance Of the prices
Of food aud commodities. All borrowers
with security Can borrow at the cheapest
rate Of interest now. This is all they can
do after more greenbacks are issued. But
to pay of bonds with paper currency will
stop so much interest. Yes, but what stands
in the way? Gold cannot be bought, be-
cause it will be too dear In the first place
this would be fit Reputation. Why, the
bonds themselves forsyesrs have said on
their face, and laws and resolutions, in eve.
ry solemn form Of pliRhted faith. have said
they would be paid in gold.
Continuing at come length in favor of a
solid currency, sanator Conkling spoke Of
schemes to take money ousof the treasury in
staggering totals for claims and grievances
and projectsto be presented when full sway
in congress is given to the party and the
sentiment which now rules the solid south
"a south made solid by minositiq domino.
ting through crime against CID "a man.
Taat solid south again, as Of old, seeds mp /
majority of all the democratic votss in con.
gress. It rules the democratic caucuses and
must decide the party action whsnsverk 4 e
sists. Iu the house OF representatives thessx1
forty committees and already the chairmen
Of twenty y-three of them are ex-confederatei
from the south. After next March tlse
south will control the committees Of til
senate also. am for conciliation, and rec.
onciliation, and concord, and peace all
around, but my belief is that men and com
munities who stood by the flag and prayed
for it, and fought for it. if they behav,
themselves, are just as good as thos.
who drenched the land with bloot
and covered it with mourning. Whe,
pestilence smites the southern
people let the north pour out, as she nov
does, money and sympathy, never holding
back farthing because 1t is southern, no
northern. woe. This is right. But wher
taking political action let US be just to all
not only to ourselves. but 10 those, whether
black or white, to whose protection we ar
bound by ties which would not be forgot
ton by 40 Algerine pirate or Barbary cor
star
Seraior Conkling spoke of the dsband-
Jog G. the republican party in the southern
states and thus closed: These are mat,er
about which republicans differ-.dffer widel,
and earnestly. These differences do no
cover the issues which deserve attentio,
now. 1t is not the right of any man, no
any group of men to divert the republican
Of New York from questions which urg
themselves on us. Let all men, of whatev
er party, see the changes around and befor
US, and make common, wholehearted caus
to avoid them. Let our motto be, ain ee
sentials, unity in essentials, liberty in al
things charity"
| Mr.. Conkling, having concluded, til
usual committees were appointed, and
!. recess was taken.