Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-11-06

money bought less than it, face In
gold would have bought, but think
the trouble was not that Il bought too
little, but that that 1t bough too much.
Loud and renewed applause with
great cheering and shouting.l But
ii you take it's whole volume and ays-
tenn, where was there any money
since the world began that bought 90
much as that legal tender !? Applausel
It bought US q name and power
among the nations Of the world,
which forefends war and makes real
ly all external defenses for . long
while unnecessary. Since Midas, BY
his touch, turned everything into gold,
since Cresus amassed the treasures OF
the mines, NO man has ever got %
good . bargain for his money % the
American people got for their legal
tender. [Applause and cheers.
Aud now, step by step, patiently,
faithfully, by heavy taxation, BY lib
eral pay yment OF taxes-income and
other taxes-we have made up the A.
nanees Of the country, 20 that legal
tender 10 worth to-day, oil over this
country, what its face purports TO be
worth. Applause. And now, that
legal.tender NO repu blican will suffer
to be tarnished, either by disparaging
its previous services or BY allowing
IL to be 90 confounded with . avolune
OF peace currency to draw out the
finances and the honor Of the people
- that its fame shall be destroyed In
any mans mind. We made the legal
tender to fight through . diAicalt
war into peace, and We will take 40
fiat money to fight difficult peace Into
war. [Applause and cheers. II
there anything in the history Of this
country, 20 conducted by the repub-
licsn party, that We have any occasion
to find fault with9 Did not We un-
derstaud from the beginning that
what WAS needed was money IN IL
shape In sufficient volume 70 keep MP
the armies of the country in full Wig
or, and to maintain the credit Of the
Government with it, citizens? And
what has become Of oil these ques-
tions about impaising the validity of
contracts and violating private
rights? The war 10 entitled 70 the
service and whole power and wealth
Of the country cd 1t 10 the wisdom
Of the Government to determine how
It should be mArshAled, when and
whore il IL needed and with suficisnt
strength. War interferes with other
contracts than the contracts of money.
War separates the bridegroom from
the bride ct the foot Of the altar, thus
interrupting the sincerest contract Of
society. War takes the SON from the
dying bed Of his mother, breaking
thus the commandment with promiss,
and shall We much .agitate ourselyea
about the past troubles - to whether
this country ahould be sacrificed to the
necessity Of specie payments when
specie pay ments were Incompatible
with its ssfety? This matter Of our
greenbacks, therefore, Il one that Il
now presently limitsd to the duty oi
the Government 70 make them equal
to gold and silver and AL subsequent
transactions q II that problem haa
solved the interests Of commerce, the
interests Of society and the obiigs.
tions Of the public faith shall be paid
That 10 our present issue and to thai
We will defer. We know very well
that II there 10 anything that this pso'
pie insist upon Il 10 that they shal
have paper money. They want thA'
money good, and they know there Il
NO standard Of excellcnce that can bt
trusted except Il 10 convertible Into
gold and silver. They wish to fee
that they are not obliged TO caffy
about with them the gold and silver