The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-03-20


take away fEem the debtor the right to
pay according to the contract. To have
torn up all the contracts then existing,
public aud private, substituting ne w con
tracts, increasing thedollars 100 per cent,
but leaving the contract in other res
poets in full force would not have been
a more palpable violation of the rights
of the people by impairing the obliga-
ton of contracts. f.o,..g 81. ef
Tie same money power in 1852 pre-
walled on the Senate to change the
House bill for putting out the green
backs and making the public loan, SO as
to provide coin for themselvesand paper
money for the masses. This is the same
money poewr that is now in the Tribune,
et4eFgtGa, W05h and TINES setting up a
spitiful wall in behalf of the laboring
people because an Ignorant Congress Is
tab0ut TO make silvcr-worth only 80
cents in the dollar-money-
compelling the laboring man to take
cheap money. This Is unadulterated
hypocryis. g This money power is the
same set of law breakers who STAINLESS
ly, and in writing, calling the fraud
an act of Congress, changed all
the contracts made between them
and the people so as to strike
kout the word dollars" in the
contract and insert the word "coin,
and that not only after the Supreme
/ Court had decided that greenDacksw
a legal tender, but after entering into
+ a solemn agreement, outside of, and IN
addition to, the general law that IDOL
lars" in contract means anything
which is legal tender, that these particu-
! lar contracts, $50 bonds. should always
be payable in the greenbacks then lssu-
ued They are the same impudent
kerOwd that assembled at thew hiteH0nse,
| aud caused President Grant to veto.
| Morton's bill for the relief OF the peo-!
I pie and which the President himself re-
/ commended. They are the same set Of.
| fellows who are now returning from
their trip to the White House to have.
the silver bill vetoed, and after having
I for more than two years, in fact ever
since Mr. Bright discovered the fraud,
! pointed with sbrazen faces to the ditter-..
! ence between silver as community
/ and gold as money, as reason why
| contracts should not be paid in silver
with the fact staring them in the face
at every turn, that their own great ma
/ ional crime and fraud was the cause OF
| the difference. knowing we'll at the
! time that they had derived Silver of its
legal tender quality simply to- make
money scarce, and that putting on its
! legal tender grab would restore it to its
place in society which it had had among
! all. civilized people since the day of
I Abraham. ~A-~ S-e. -
= They are the same set of hypocrites,
robbers and wreckers who are now
writing for the New York Tribune, de-
manding that the Federal Government
shall make many a law by which the
State of New York shall be allowed to
raise an army to comestO Tennessee and
chastise the people until they pay the
last dollar of'the State debt.
L ItturEs out. that ono single association
| of this New York money newer owns
more than ten millions of our bonds
indeed, it is certain that more than
twenty millions of the whole belong
t. the gambling money power, through
whose influence every contract made be-
tween them and the people has been
changed with as little ado as the father
would take the big boys toy and give
it to the little one because he cried teI
It,
Before the act of 1869, which without
consideration changed the words OF the
contract-these yiolators of the law
made the Government purchase gold al
enormous premiums to take up the
beads payable in currency, always man
aging to have the office of Secretary OIL
the Treasury filed with one of theiI
number, and by the use of money and
the large newspapers they have been
able to have the Government run IL
their own interest exclusively.
What has this policy brought the
country to? 1t has made the money
power not only exacting and rapacious
but impudent and insulting-the agents
eff this power in Congress and the New
| York papers have for years Sneered, al
and blackguarded every man Who open
Of he 10
The word demagOgue, fool, robber,
plunderer, have been essential to thcil
northumberland until FELTON, and Vor
hees told them who they were and what
the peoples rights were, they seemed az
if they would stride swaggeringly over
the whole people.
And this policy has not only divided
the people and drawn the line between
the rich and the poor, establishing al
aristocracy and peasantry-but it ha:
made millions of people hate the Gov
eminent that oppresses them; it has sew
cred the ties of friendship between
neighbOrs;it has established the fixed
grades in society based upon money
and the want of it; it has brought tC
poverty almost every man of enterprise
while it has made rich all who lacked
enterprise and boarded their money; i
has made the mechanic, the farmer anC
the professional man alike dissatisfied
with their pursuits; it has turned whole
communities of starving people out up
on their neighbors who were but LITTLE
better off; it has filed the whole country
with tramps, people hunting work; il
has sent paug after paug to millions o.
families as the earnings OF a lifetime
have disappeared; and last, but not least
social disorder threatens peace and quie
4 of every large city in the United States
and the prosperity of all the industrial
enterprises not already consigned t
bankruptcy. ...- -as- .ss T..
Among The evils of This great calamity
i'm business sense is the entire loss Of
confidence; the lending of credit only
to traders, the producers of the country
having no more chance to get credi
from the banks than rowing Indians
the stripping the people of all power tc
help each other by uniting capital; Civ
ing 2, 200 banks a monopoly in lending
credit, and then fixing the maximum ot
circulation by lava thing never done
except to enslaye the people-and this
maximum far below what other couu
ties actually use. sva 5o - d s.SsI
La social point of view tile evils are
ppalIing-enforced idleuess leads 10 al
sorts of crime. The result is that jails
suenitentiaries and refOrmatories are full
many families in every community
with no sympathy from the world, pain
fully listens to each others sobs over a
loss and imprisoned member; occasional
1y a worse and more terrible afflfction
comes-not death, but still mare terri
ble-a beloved daughter puts, on the
garb of shame and disappears to hide
her poverty. 81 ia. s.e4 ar aus
Why this waste and ruin? Simply
that those who have fixed incomes may
haYe their wealth Increased without
work and without risk. These viola
tions of c5ntracts-thesc destroyers OF
human 'haPpiness--these men who for
the sake of gain threaten us with social
disorder which may never be repaired
are the menwho are demanding of us a