The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-07-15
Il pienxanf UrifIcism Upon fine Fene-
rnbIe TEadifcrss Remedies for Hard
Tinacs.

IFroM the Lynchbnrg ytrRinian OF Safurdaysl
s. AZ aREAT REPoRMER.
That venerable organ Of the most conser..
yatiye party ti,is country has eyer: knoW H.
d marty whose name it still bears, though
scouting nearly all OF its distinctive princI-
ples-has developed into arampant reformef.
that would turn the world upside down
and dlown.side up. In remarkable article
the Richmond Wing Of Thursday goes
EYor,' the money-changers, public and prl-
vate creditors, against the whole cred't sSs-
tenn, and Is for taking away oil legal means
for the collection Of debts. Whew! what
reform to commence in this hot July
weather!
The WING thinks that "tbe great struggle
OF the age" has commenced, ana IL e',.
IDENTIFY looks to the new National. parry,
now being directed by that "man OF sln,-,
Ben. Butler, to fight the battle through. ~
l.publishes old Ben.'s recent speech, and
seems to think that he procalms sound
doctrine. When 1t Is remembered that
| Ben, is more Of a Red than Black Repilo-
| lican now-in fact Democrat OF the
| French school, and the worst possible type
| Of what Ralph Waldo Emerson describes
when he saws ga Democrat is an arlsto-
Graf gone to seed"-he should be re-
| oarded as an unsafe counsellor or guide.
Ben, is rich in this worlds goods, Sc
cured through wears of successful plumber
and malpractice, and now, having :. much
goods laid up for many years." has SUD
denly been converted into an earnest auYo-
cate of the rights OF worklngmen! put
people understand old Ben, remembering
| that even the devil sometimes transforms
himself into an angel OF light to serve MS
purpose. We are sorry. tnerelofe 10 seq
our old confrfre taking kindly to" wicked
Rem in ANYTHING, since the line OF demar-
cation between him aud all honest people
should be very broad and well defined.
| The further one gets, in thought and prin-
cinIe. from that il-sbaped and hideously-
deformed moral monster, the stronger rea-
SON he shall have for feeling that he is in
the right way.
But to return to the Wing and It's remedy
for the evils that afllict the body polite.
We are first to overthrow the money
chan gers. II by this is meant simply the
men whose Unsuitable greed prompts them
to grind the people, taking advantage or
their necessities to eXtort exorbitant rates
OF interest for the use and iorbearance OF
money. we say 10 the Wing, eco ahead"
But we would have the limits defined be-
fore urging an indiscriminate war upon all
who have money to lend, or consent to see
their remedies at law taken away from them,
as the Wing suggests.
Our contemporary proposes tc drown all
these fellows Qhe Interchangeable
" flood them with greenback>," for 1t wants
a "deluge" OF paper money
Now, the generaIy-received opinion is
that $ flood'' OF irrcdeemable paper mo-
ncv browns more of the common people
The laborlng population-than it does OF
those who float the currency and float with
if, since they will always have the means to
keep their heads above water. We greatly
fear, therefore, that the attempt to drown
the money-changers in this way might only
stranele them little, while it would drown
the life out OF the toiling millions-the men
who work for their daily bread. We should
be greatly moved to build an ark OF some
kind to protect lis against the effects OF
such 4 flood" as our contemporary in
9okeS.
We shall not pause to cite the many argu-
ments that have been furnished by the ablest
statesmen and politicians this country has
produced against Yesting the whole money
power OF the country in the hands OF The
Government. Better it were, as we COLI
ceiyc, TO have citizen money changers scat
tered all over the land as they now are, than
TO have one money-changer in the seat OF
Washington TO corrupt and control the poll
tics OF the country, as it would be in his
power to do if he could ''flood" every part
OF it with Government promises to-day.
Who could wish to see an unscrupuous
minister OF finance like John Sherman
clothed with such power?
Having satisfied itself that "a deluSe OF
creenbacks' will "drown out the money
changers" who make the people " their abb
iect slaves" it proposes to abolish the credit
SYSTEM wholly "a system that, iudiciously
observed, has laid the foundation OF fortune
to many poor man who would otherwise
have remained poor), by inserting "a clause
in the State and Federal Constitutions to the
effect that no contract between individuals
shall be enforced in any COURT