The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1878-01-17
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ScnooL DISTRICT No. On. Jan. 10, 1873.
The Club met promptly att O'Clock, p. IN, II. H.
Montgomery, President. in the Chair. Called the
house to order, and introduced B. O'Drisco, Esq,
of Donphan, who addressed the large, attentive
dencc with credit to himself and honor to the society
Following are some of the points OF his address,
Why he formerly acted with the proslavery party /;
the reason Of his convictions that il the will of
God that secession and slavery were overthrown /;
that the Democratic party have forsaken the doc
trines of Washington, jefferson, and jackson, who
taught that government by the people, for the people,
was true Democracy. The speaker showed his abhor-
renee Of the action of the party in selling out to s. j.
Tlden, at St. Louis and stated that he would have
joined the Republican party, if that party had not
adopted hard-money platform at Cincinnati But
as both of the old parties had adopted the same
course in yielding to the demands of foreign dictators
of the nations financial policy in burning the green
back which bore interest, Thereby granting pre-
mium to idleness and non-enterprise,) and issuing
bonds bearing interest," passed the resumption act,
and the act demonetzing silver in direct opposition
to, and without the knowledge and consent Of the
people, by which the price of labor has deprecated,
while the Indebtedness of the people, the nation
porations and individuals, has appreciated to such
extent to throw twelve million Of people out of
employment and enjoyment of the means of educa-
tion, morality, and religion filling the land, from
Maine to California and from the Lakes to the Gnlf
of Mexico, with tramps, nakedness, despondency and
crime While the old parties deaf to the cry of dis
tress blind to the sight of misery recognized the vote
of one national banker equal to one thousand aboring
men, he felt that it was his and the duty of every
true lover of liberty to sever allegiance to the
old parties and unite with the laboring men of the
nation under the banner of the Independent Green
back party already seven hundred thousand strong
The prosperity of England with a paper currency,
during her war with Napoleop. and the ruin that fol-
lowed the attempt at RESUMPTION of specie payment,
whereby the number of real estate owners was re-
duced from one hundred and ffy tbousapd to thirty
two thousand between the wears 1919 and ls2I also
the misery, degradation, Ignorance and crime that
ensue were plainly set forth by quotations of para
graphs of English history.
The sneaker called attention tn the thrift enter.
prise and urosper,v of the Northern States duripp
the war and while our paper currency was forty to
sixty cents below mar with gold and the state of af
fairs Mt the present time the ruined condition of in
dustry: the mortgages ON real estate in this County
and State: that an iron foundry in Pennsylvania.
worth 100000. mortgaged for $4,000 had recently
sold under the hammer for sI2 OOO that in San Fran
CISCO in the Golden State the people to the num-
ber of Thousands marched in procession to the Office
oof the Mayor asking the privilege of working on the
streets for bread for themselves and families and