The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-01-10
Mr.. Griffin advOcates-the remoneti.in,

silver coin.
Mr.. Phillip, is not in favor of any fn1n-
elnt batoers, % Collapse IL moment :; no card
.leses, n fan.tls dorm al the frS touch Of I'd.
tsTsity, but sound circulating medium
currency that Is uniform in every part of
the nation; currency that will meet the
commercial, agricultural and mapufactur-
ing demands OF our people, and one that
will be received in dischage OF any debt,
Individual or national. We want a cur
rency that is not tiuctuating in value-one
IN which the government, with its capital
and resources, and also that Of every man,
woman and child is pledged to keep it At
par. We want that which is used as money
TO be in truth money, and not that which
represents money. A national bank bill,
greenback, silver dollar, or a gold dollar
will represent the same value. 1t is foolish
to pour out our idolatry upon the glitter
ing dress, or to hoard the gold % phylac-
terry to keep financial distempers either ma
tional or individual. This has been the
policy vi those who are in favor of resump-
ton.
They cling to the idea that gold must, in
all countries and in all ages, be the stand
ard of values that gold rs king the des-
pOtic, unrelenting tyrant Of mankind.
The capitalists Of the nation act upon
this principle, and Wall street money mon
gers clutch their gold and sway the Union.
All the varied interest and pursuits OF
the country must bow to gold. The day
laborers OF the nation (almost three-fourths
OF the adult population, both male and fe-
MALE have the price they are to receive for
their work established by the capitalist and
regulated by capital. The gold deposits of
New York and other wealthy citits Of the
Union control Congress and the financial
operations of the people, both great and
small. They starve day laborers, push
men Of small means out Of employment by
a contraction Of the currency, and their
cry in their ears is ''let us get back to the
good old days OF gold and silver and specie
payments" They say, as brother Griffin
does, that the issue is not between capital
and labor, and that those men are dema-
gogues who assert that it has been the poll
CIV Of Wall street brokers to get this nation
back to a metallic currency so a. to in
crease the power of gold, and thereby make
poor men poorer.
| Can it be true that the miilionaires of this
nation are urging resumption from a pure
spirit of benevolence and philanthropy
that they are, from unselfsh motives, try-
ing to furnish laboring men with sound
0"iien'' ''A so" anu w 'o ioi
A. uSui - a., ai.i in 'iau h.,
/ ance weighed.
C,pitalists are selfish. sordid. soulless
and buy members Of Congress, either with
votes or money, and by these means sieze anC
keep the reins OF government, to increase IN,
mower of Gold The man Of weaI,h too offer
wi,, anxions h.,r, and cr,nn,.d hands
| His bonds of debt ana mortgages OF lands,
On views his Golfers with suspicious eyes,
.hIoehS ms so.a anu COUNTS IL la LIE oies
No, friend Griliin, resumption Is the pet
the miserable banning oil all street none!
changers; and Mr.; Phillips and Others wh'
sympathlze with The poor, and who are 1o
building up Individual and national inter
ests, hnd that II has al least Increased GU
financial distress that commenced In 1919
these capitalists AL that time commenced
the work Of contraction; congress aided ant
. legalized their policy by the resumption &C
Of 1879, and now, in 1877, We find day labor
ers, and men Of moderate means, out Of EN-
ployment, begging for something TO do, 10
something to buy bread with. Then
there no issue between capital and labor
Between the rebellion and 1873, with GU
$500, 900 in circulation, was there eve
more prosperous nation? Greenback
were as good as gold. Laborers received
higher price for their work than has ev e
been paid in our national history, and tire
times as much was pad by any other civi
LIED nation on the globe. These green
backs carried us triumphantly through tn
rebellion; notwithstanding. the bond holder
4 of the nation, these Wall street partie
grudgingly let cut theirgold coin during tn
war when you offered them from 81 to- 8
in greenbacks for each dollar i
gold. These vultures who then fai
tened upon the blood and trea.
ure of the nation, still true to thei
natural instincts, ask now to be allowed t
feast at the expense of the laboring million
y of our land, The immense volume of cui
rency in circulation Immediately after tn
war brought up our wooden, cotton, an
other manufacturing interests until we wer
/ able to compete with and undersell BIRTHS
is manufacturers at their own doors. Sine
+ the war until 1873 more miles of railroa
/ were built in the United STATES than durin
r, any other period of time. and there was