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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-05-02
The Saline County Journal
THURSDAY, MAYl2, 1878.

Extra Copies Of tho JOURNAL can DO
ound ct the Book and News Store OF White
head oeaman's. first door east Of Postomce
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-05-02
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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-05-02

worth SIS. They are for sale at $l3.5O. Now
Is the time to secure bargains in clothing BY
calling on Ober, Wilson & Co.
Mr.. Oscar Seisz has purchased two lots
opposite his residence on South Santa Fe,
Of Judge A. N. Beebe. and intends to move
his house to them. and build beautiful resi-.
dence upon the lots he now occupies.
Ladies must not read this: .p,vs aIsq S, ,sq~
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81 u s!Ql 10 JooId III 'A,!sO!ino s.uvuoA =
AL. piIoM sq' u! Su!q,ou 81 aIsql Ass AsqL
IfyoG want to see something nicer than
you ever saw b. fore and ever expect to see
again. watch for your chance to inspect the
mammoth stock OF varied styles and patterns
OF wall paper, 10 arrive at Whitehead & Sea-
mans to-day.
making those stylish suits worn By the young
men in Salina. He has q splendid line Of
spring and summer styles for suits. Call
around and leave your measure. Next door to
the Herald office.
By some oversight we missed page or
two of our subscribers in mailing last week
We. however. mailed copies Of the paper A.
forwards to those whom we had skipped"
The mailing clerk hired q pair Of spurs and
has been squirting himself ever since the
omiss ion was made.
On Saturday last Santa Fe and Iron Avenues
presented q wonderfully busy scene. Scores
Of teams lined escb side Of the avenues. and
at times the walks were SO crowded with pc
destrians that IL was almost impossible for .
person to make any Roadway. Il was Broad
way scene on . small scale-noe . small scene
either. Strangers were impressed forcibly
with the truth Of the statement that Salina q
the busiest city in KanssE
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-05-02

The following IL list Of real estate trans.
fcrs In Saline county. flied In the Office OF y
I. Criss, Register Of Deeds. for the week end.
ing April 9th:
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31
VOLUME 80.

keeping up the initiation which caused
the delusion does not answer. The
expansion of the currency tended to
an explosion all the time, and the ex-
plosion could not be avoided. AS the
day of reckoning came round to one
and then another, the signs of un-
|soundness were disclosed, and failures
and panic ensued. OF course there
came clamor for more money, and
the insolvents all said if they could
only get accommodations as usual
that is, if they could keep on borrow
ing they need not fail. The difficult
ty was that they could not longer bor-
row. Debt beyond ability to pay had
absorbed their substance, and not be-
ing able to put up security, their notes
would not bring the money. The
bubble being blown to the last degree
of tension, at length bursted, and the
enormous amount of Indebtedness to
be liquidated made hard times.
To return to specie payments is
therefore only another name for get
ting back from delusion to reality.
We can no longer force our books and
make eighty cents pass for one dollar.
We can no longer imagine that we
have 81 900, when in truth there are
but $500 in our vaults. Repu5-
Hc
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31
OTTUMWA, IOWA, JULY 81. 1878.

1868, 100000 (the currency value of th'
bonds) or little over ~ per cont.
It must be admitted that this is no
q very ruinous monopoly, even Il
there were no
MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES;
but when we take into consideration
the fact that the stock upon which
this circulation is based, valued In
1876 at $501, 7SS, 900, was made to pay
State and municipal taxes aggregat-
ing 80, 70l, 1872, or 2 per cent, any can.
did man will fail to see where the
charge that the national banking sys-
tenn is excessively burdensome to the
people and the business and industry
of the countay fairly comes in. When
one looks at this subject in its true
light he will find that the only United
States bonds which are taxed indi-
rectly are those which are held by
the Government as security for bank
circulation-that the tax on cirCulA-
ton ($3, l16,O ,OOO and on bank stock by
local authority ($9, ,70l, ,OOO is to all in
tents and purposes tax on Govern
ment bonds, which are in fact the on
ly property upon which the business
is based.
We have not alluded to the
MANY ADVANTAGES.
which all classes of people in this
country derive from the National
banking system, such as the general
currency Of the bills of National
banks, the sums of money saved by
business men which years ago they
were compelled to pay as discounts
on State bank bills, and the millions
lost by all classes, and the Govern
ment, through the failure of State
banks. These considerations of them
selves would convince candid men
that even if the National banking
system afforded no revenue and cost
the people several millions annually,
1t could not be wisely done away with.
We look at this question from
THE POPULAR SIDE
and from that aspect we believe that
the National banking system is the
wisest, safest, and in every way the
best ever devised. To-day the class
which would be the least injured by
the withdrawal OF the circulation Of
national banks would be those men
whom demagogues denounce as bank
ers. The chief revenue of all banks
is derived from loaning their depos-
its. Should their own circulation be
taken from them they will continue
business just the same and ask as high
rates of interest as now. They will,
mr. =
their disposal, and the country will
lose over $4OO, 600, 600 of property now
heavily taxed as National Bank stock.
When sensible people come to con-
slider this subject in all its bearings
they will be forced to conclude that
this cry against the national banking
system has been raised by ignorant
and unprincipled demsgogues for
political effect, = Oxford (Me.) Demo-
crdt
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31

The following shows the true ami
mus of the Burlington Gazette, which
in almost every one of its issues gives
advice to the democracy of the Sixth
district about their congressional af
fairs. The Gazette of the oath gives
editorial prominence to the following,
Republican greenbackers will please
make a note of it:
This from the Council Bluffs Glo5t
is to the point: '"The greenback party
would have fine field to work in il
the managers could only succeed in
getting the democratic party out ot
the way. But the democratic party
covers the ground, and there is nc
room for a new party to spring into
life. The democratic party promises
all the reforms demanded, and so far
as it has been able, the reforms
demanded and the reforms necessary
have been carried out. This being
true, let our republican-greenback
friends come into the democratic ranks
and help us to carry out all the re-
forms that they and the whole coun-
try are now demanding. There
would be some sense i'm something of
that kind, but there is none in organ
izing a third party, which simply
means continuing the old republican
party in power for few years more. y
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31

who have never been disloyal, and
the findings of this court the rebel
democratic House preceding the pres
ent, at its last session, refused to pay.
They refused to make provisions for
payment because the money was 60
ing to men who had not been traitors.
We know personally of one of these
claims to the amount of some eight
hundred dollars awarded to DIR. A..
Britton, a resident during the rebel
lion near Camden, in Arkansas. This
claim was for lumber, hogs and pro-
duce taken by Gen. Steele's army for
its use and sustenance, and of all the
true, loyal men who ever lived in the
South, none was more staunch and
true than this DR.. Britton. The writer
knows personally whereof he writes.
Britton lay in rebel prison month
after month on account of his love for
the old flag. He periled his own life
in assisting escaped Union men from
prison, and finally fled to avoid assas-
sination, leaving his family in the
South. These are not rebel claims at
all, but claims of those who passed
through the very fiery furnace of 10y
atty. Who would have thought Gen.
j. B. Weaver would have ever be-
come so ahject as to talk thus to curry
democratic favor? When Gen. Wea-
yer said not Northern democrat was
in favor of paying rebel claims he
ought to have known that four North
ern members Of the House voted
against resolution declaring they
should not be paid, in the very last
days of the last session, and about
thirty more did not vote at all upon
the resolution, while over sixty DEM
ocrats of the South voted also against
the resolution. This vote was had
In the House a week before Gen.
Weaver made the above statement.
Gov. Walden and some others have
been appointed, from time to time, to
go South, and in a quiet and incog.
manner, SO far as possible, ascertain
the real facts about some claims be-
fore this commission, to oprevent fraud.
Some of these claims are said to be
made by late rebels and false affida-
Wits made to support them, and to de-
tect these frauds some agents have
been appointed to ferret out the facts.
Verify the General makes quite a pat
cid Bourbon of late in abusing ne re-
publican party.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31
OH and Water.
No democrat can ever be a achristian
Gen. j. b. Weaver, republican.

No democrat can ever be a christian.
Gen. j. b. Weaver, republican.
Democrats, l am with you on all
important issues; endorse me as a
greenbacker and my votes in Congress
will be on your side in all except per-
haps small difference on finances
Weaver at Newton.
"D-n Weaver, all he knows about
greenbacks he learned from democra-
cy. Suppose we should swallow Wea-
yer, or rather, let Weaver swallow us,
I'd be a pretty fool should / write to
the democratic administration that is
sure to be and ask a favor. They'd
simply tell me to 60 to thunder, you
didn't have any democratic party in
the 9Th district of Iowa."
This was JEFF Anderson, of Knox.
vile, in conversation with the writer,
four weeks ago, and now willing to be
toyed with by mother Weaver, if II
will make him a candidate for Dis.
trict Judge.-,SiyoU7aey Nears.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31

timidation and murder in the bulldo-
zed parishes. The democratic courts
have never made any attempts to
bring offenders to justice. Witness,
from personal inspection, was satisfied
that Eliza Pinkston had been danger
ously MANNED. The nomination of
Packard produced such dissatisfac-
tion that leading republicans discuss
ed whether 1t was not best to protest
against it, and support the presiden-
tial ticket alone. When republicans
had control of the courts they did
not punish single one Of the 1000
murderers reported by the congress
siOnAl committee,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31

The Greenbaek doctrine may be
summed up thus: Pay off the bonds
in greenbacks and then refuse to pay
the greenbacks. each of which bear
ing promise to pay is fatty repudi-
ated. No amount of twisting and
turning, jugglery Of words or sOphis-
cry of augmentation, can oyerturn
this obvious truth. The Times chal-
lenges every Greenbacker in Iowa to
dispute its plain definition.-Dubuq
Times.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31
GOLD FOR SILVER.
silver and Paper Dollars.

WASHINGTON, D. C., July l9.-Sec-
retary Sherman was inquired of to-
day why gold is paid into the Treas
ury in exchange for silver dollars in
San Francisco. He answered at is
to save the transportation of coin.
BY depositing gold in San Francisco
for silver, silver certificates can be
obtained and transported to New
York, and used for the payment of
custom duties, and thus the expense
of transporting the gold is thrown
upon the Government. This will no
doubt bring into the Treasury both
the gold and silver products of the
country, and will throw upon the
Governmentthe expense of transport
ing both metals East for distribution.
1t is believed that it will work we'll,
and arrangements are being made
now to procure the transportation at
rates far less than heretofore"
Mr.. Sherman's attention was called
to the following dispatch printed in
the Cincinnati Enquirer of yester-
day:
"About year ago Secretary Sher-
man endeavored to get into his mac.
Grating machine for cancellation and
destruction, all the 81 and 40 hills re.
ceived at the Treasury. The scarcity
being 80 severely felt, especially in
the West-the clamor from that sec-
ton becoming so loud that he was
compelIed to desist and again re;ssns
them-he has now in contemplation a
new scheme to contract legal tenders
by boarding hereafter ali the small
notes that are received, and issning
in their place the new silver dollar
He has in course Of preparation cir.
cular which will soon be issued. set
ting forth that A small CHANGE ia
needed by farmers to move their
crops, he contemplates substituting
the ones and twos with silver, as an
accommodation to the horny handed
ycomanry. His object is not SO much
to cater to the solicitude of the far
mer or his crops as it is to get the
notes in his keeping, for he we'll
knows if he does not allow them to be
reissued after they get into the Treas
ury hopper that the people will be
forced to accept silver as one of the
ece.sities Of exchange. and in this
way he rctires all the small circuia-
ton. In other words, ne uses his
power, unoer the Silver bill, to retire
the small circulating notes with the
silver ana calls 1t resumption. He
dont say TINS IN these plain words,
put the erect OF his scheme amounts
70 II precisely. In day or two the
Secretary Will leave again for New
\ ork to consult with the Wall street
brokers. Evidently there is some
plan brewing between Sherman and
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31
One Charles I. Barker writes to the
Burlington Gazette communication
from which we take the following.

from which we take the following:
81 read in the Hd,ckeye that green.
back imitation can never gain per.
manent foothold in Iowa. Her people
are too intelligent and progressive to
be duped by such fallacies.'
"How long since such doctrines be-
came republican principles? / can
well remember when it was as much
as a mans life was worth for any one
to question the theory of greenback
initiation, or doubt the value of that
kind of mOney-nOt believing it to be
equal in value with a gold dollar.
"ThOse were times when doctrines,
even ''greenback imitation" were fore
ed down the throats of the people at
the point of the bayonet. No ques-
tions need be asked-it was what re-
publicans demanded, and that the peo-
pie must take, and Iowa marched
solidly to the tune of 'greenback in
fiation,' until it took nearly three dol
lars to buy one of gold.
"Now comes Beardsley following
in the wake of his old paper, and says
that the illustrations furnished BY
history of the c0,Tuptions and crimes
attending large issues of paper money
are numerous
Democrats told them so at the time
republicans of Iowa were clamoring
for large issues of paper money, and
predicted what we are now seeing,
but prominent democrats must shut
up or 60 where the woodbine twin
eth"
We are glad to see a democrat frank
enough to own that when the repub-
lican party By stern necessity, in order
to save the life of the nation, issued
greenbacks, the democratic party was
opposed to these greenbacks, opposed
to them because they were the means
by which democratic treason was to
be overthrown, and of course this did
not suit sympathizers with treason.
But just as soon as the crisis was pass
ed, ademocratic rebellion overthrown,
and there was no adequate cause for
flooding the country with irredeema-
bic paper money, but the honor of
the nation was pledged to pay its
debts, then the Pendletonian democ-
racy made its next attack on the ma
tion by seeking reputation, and this
same portion of the democratic party
are at it yet. Mad because the Union
was saved and their rebel political
friends whipped, they now unite with
these same friends of theirs to ruin
the credit of the nation, Influenced by
their same old hatred,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31
The Secretary of the Treasury Al

The Secretary Of the Treasury at
Washington has issued orders to all
Sub-I'reasurers and United States
Depositsries to pay out silver dollars,
and In connection with this to re-
strict the use Of 81 and 50 bills a.
much - possible, to force silver dol
lars into the place they now occupy
in the circulation. It's the intention
to begin paying the laborers on the
public works silver dollars, and Off
GERS of the army have received inti-
nation from the Pay Department
that they may expect their next pay
ment in silver.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31
,MlscfnM99.
CASTLES IN the AIR.
JAMES BALLANTINE

The bonnie, bonnie bairn
Who sits with careless grace
Glowering In the fire
With his wee round face,
Laughing at the gusty flame
What sees he there5
Ha! the young dreamer
Builds castles In the air.
His wee chubby face
And his rough curly head
Are dancing and nOdding
To the fire In its bed;
He'll brown his rosy cheeks,
And SINCE his sunny hair,
Staring Al the imps
With their castles in the air.
He sees lofty towers
Rising to the moon;
He sees little soldiers
Pulling them all down;
Worlds rushing UP and down,
Blazing with Hare
See how he leaps &.
AS they glimmer in the air.
Forall so sage he looks,
What can the latldie ken?
He's thinking upon nothing,
Like many mighty men.
A wee thing makes us think,
A wee thing makes us stare;
There are more folks than him
Building castles in the air.
Such night in winter
May well make him cold;
His chin upon his chubby hand
Will soon make him old.
His brow Is smooth and broad
Oh, pray that busy care
Would let the wean alone,
With his castles In the air!
He'll glover at the fire,
And he'll glance at the light,
But many sparkling stars
Are swallowed up in night;
Older eyes than his
Are dazzled by q glare;
Hearts are broken, heads are turned,
With castles in the air.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31
A Mob Of Democratic Pitch Onto .
Man for Remarks At q Meeting.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., July A.-ln An
affray this morning at 10 O'Clock, ON
the corner of Cherry and Union Sta,
between Samuel Hicks and Edwin,
Nathaniel, Jere and Jones Baxter,
sons Of Judge Nathaniel Baxter, the
Democratic nominee for reelection
40 Judge Of the Circuit Court, Hicks
and Jones Baxter were fatally shot.
The former received several shots
from the Baxters, and his skull was
fractured In two places by blows
from the muzzle Of . pistol in the
hands Of one of them. Jones Baxter
received one shot near the heart from
q party unknown. Hicks expired In
. few minutes, and Jones Baxter liv-
ed scarcely an hour. Jere Baxter re-
ceived . slight wound in tho hand,
Nat Baxter In the foot and . negro
girl II years of age was struck in the
thigh by . stray shot, inflicting .
painful but not fatal wound. The af-
fray grew out Of remarks derogatory
to the character Of the father Of the
Baxtsrs by Hicks, in . speech at .
meeting Of candidates for county Of
flcers ON the Independent ticket, the
evening previous. The Baxters gave
bonds In $4,000, for their appearanct
ON Monday week.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31
Tho Eject Of Imitation !.

The Hon. John Sherman took
charge of the Treasury Department
at period of great commercial and
industrial depression that has contin-
ued to the present time, and the Sc
verify of which has been in proper
tion to the speculation, extravagance,
waste, and debt incident to an overis-
sue of paper money. To carry on the
huge operations of the war a larger
amount of paper money became
necessary than the usual busi-
ness of the country required. As
was foreseen and predicted in 1861,
this paper deprecated in value, and
the depreciation was shown in the
rise of prices of all commodities
goods, lands, rents, and wages. Rel
atively these things were worth no
more than before, but seemingly they
were; and, as the prices advanced,
people felt they were growing rich.
In fact, they were growing poor. The
money issued to conduct the war was
used to buy material, which the war
destroyed, and to pay soldiers whose
time and energies added nothing to
the wealth of the country; conse.
quently the money used to carry on
the war represented, when the wal
was over, thelossin production which
the war had created. Money, instead
of being the evidence of wealth, AZ
gold is, was the evidence Of debt, and
represented loss instead of gain, as
money ordinarily is supposed to.
The first effect of the suspension ol
specie payment was the depreciation
OF paper, or as it appeared, rise in
prices. AS prices rose, it took more
paper money to transact the business
of the country, and this necessitated
further issues from time to time Il
meet the demand; and as each issue
caused increased depreciation, tn,
process of imitation went on continu
ally, and SO debts rapidly augmented
under the guise Of riches. 1t was /
fascinating illusion, which has ended
in disappointment and disaster. I
was Q fiction, and in the nature 0
things could not continue. We must
in the long run, live on realities, ant
voting to keep up the delnsion b,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-31

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