The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-09-27
A Specimen Financier.

A friend recently related to US a litti.
incident which he met with, and which
edited him to high degree. He haC
been intensely Disguised with Elder
Slitchell's harangue at the "Harves
Home" and a few days afterwards, was
on his way toward a neighboring CITY
when he came up with one of the mos
Jealous leaders of the Greenbaek party
of this county, driving several young
cattle, in not very thrifty condition
Our friend, (who is a Democrat, by the
Way,) struck up a conversation, and the
following is the substance of the col
lOquy:
Which way are you driv.
ing your calves?''
Greenbacker.-"I am taking them to
the city, to raise little money to paw
my taxes. The farmers are robbed to
pay taxes, while the bondholders are ex.
empt. tell you, the government must is
sue greenbacks, and pay off these inter
est-bearing bonds, and if we must have
bonds, issue the incontrovertible bonds
in their stead"
Dyes, know times are bad; but
we have good crops this year, ane times
will be little better for us. How did
your wheat turn out 30
G.-"Well, the fact is, wheat has been
so low, that it has not paid to raise it. /
sowed but little last fall, and don't think
l will have enough to bread my family.
We never will have prices that viii paw
us for our labor, until the government
issues sufficient greenbacks to give al
least fifty dollars per capita"
Dyes, plenty of money is a good
thing. But as it is, we can manage to
get little money, now and then. How
is your corn 81
G.-"Corn, hell! Since the grasshop-
per years, corn has not been worth haul
ing to market, and have become so dis.
couraged, that l put in but little this
spring: Unless congress repeats the re-
sumption act, and gives us the green
back, we may as well turn our corn-fields
OUT
D-"But you have a lot of hogs to
market, this fall They will bring some
G.-"No, sold all my shoats in the
spring, and have not enough left for my
own meat. For the last two years, hogs
have not paid for their raising, and l
haven't got the corn to feed them, if I
had the hogs. Government goes on con.
tracing, and contracting, and contract
ing the currency, and the people are
coming to want"
Dwell, we needn't starve, as long
as we can raise enough to eat How are
your potatoes getting alongr'
G.-"Potatoes! planted only about
half dozen rows, and don't know
whether could find them now. You
can't get enough for potatoes to pay for
the digging. The farmer may work, but
he gets poorer every year. The country
is ruined, unless the government comes
to our relief at once. Give us about
three hundred billions of dollars in
greenbacks, absolute money, and you
will see good times once more"
Our friend says he left the man Joined
to his idols. He is but one of many.
There are hundreds of thousands of
greenbacks waiting for those who have
something to exchange for them. If alb
solute money were issued by the wagon
load, could it be got without something
to exchange for it? Yet there are scores
of men who neglect their farms, in order
to waste their time in clamoring for
greenbacks. You see here a farm that
has been left implanted; there one in
which the weeds are so thick among the
corn, that 1t looks as if the weeds were
being raised for crop, and some corn
had accidentally got among them; there
another farm that has been left to run by
the mortgages upon it; another that has
been let out to tenants and troopers ex-
clusively; and many others that show
neglect. Inquire, and you will find that
a majority of these farms are owned by
men who spend their time clamoring
for more greenbacks, while you find adj
joining farms thrifty, and their owners
possessed of greenbacks in abundance.
When God decreed that man should earn
his bread by the sweat of his face, He
established law that no government
can repeal, and for which no running
around and clamoring for greenbacks
can answer as a ubstitute-Troy Chief.