The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-12-05

area the enduring fabric OF Christian so
ciety. Already II has single counties that
produce annually more corn than any
State in New England, and more whea,
than all the States of New England COM
biued. Ii has made the most liberal pro-
visions iCr education, the most heroic sac
riices for liberty. Men Of all races and
creeds have assembled there from every
Continent, amid the most favorable condi.
tion- OF nature, assimilatei and blended by
Il common purpose to build a stately editce
where they and their children and all who
love liberty and order and law may dwell
in pesceful prosperity. They are toler-
ant, thoughtful, progressive and laborious
people; and yet they are habitually stig-
matized by gentlemen whose only claim to
superiority is based upon a difference OF
opinion, as mapiacs, lunatics, regulators,
violators Of public faith, robbers, des,royers
Of the national honor, because they ask
that silver may be restored to the place
which by Law it occupied till 1873 in the
monetary system Of the United States.
Like all new communities they have
been borrowers. and were obliged to antici-
pate their revenues and pawn the future
They had TO buy their land, to build
houses, to make highways, to bridge
streams, construct churches and school
houses, and lay the foundations of the
State
The capitalists of the East, captivated by
the prospects of secure investments and
large interest, advanced money to the far
mers, and took mortgages on their farms;
they purchased tax-,itles; they Undue
ed cities and counties TO issue bonds for the
construction Of railroads and court houses
and works CT public Improvement. They
loaned their capital at eIhorbitant rates,
beginning at 10 per cent, and thence rang
ing through the various gradations by
which interest passes into usury, usury into
e1tortion, and all into larceny ard spolia-
ton. Even under these conditions so long
as money was abundant and exchanges
easy the country thrived great enterprises
were stimulated; new industries were de-
veioped, AND states grew opulent and pros
porous.
| But soon the circulating medium OF the
nation began to be diminished BY law. The
public debt was declared to be payable in
coin, and then the money power OF silver
was destroyed. The value OF property d.
minished.ln proportion. Wages Tell and bnal-
ly employment ceased; The value OF every,
thing was deprecated except debts and
gold. The mortgage, the bond, the coupon:
the tax, nave retained Immortal youth ana
vigor. Iney nave not deprecated. Inc
DEBT remains, pat inc capacity 70 pay mas
been DESTROYED Inc accumuiations oil
years nave disappeared under Inc hammer
OF the sherii, ard the deotsr Is homeless
wnhe Inc creaiiol oo'aihs 'he security i0r
lractioh Oh "hat IL was ac'uaiiy worm when
the deos was contracted:
| As q satisfactory solution ol ,he oillicuity
we are a suieu tna' our prosperity Nas
unreal thar mere had Deen an unnatural ,
expansion oil values; tnat our towns ana
cities sprsng IKE an eAnala'lon IRON !he
Sesei'i lha' tnis ne" emP"e DIsGnu ' NC
mississippi, win i's ueh5e popuia.ion, ils
harvest neiuS' i's perlhaneht iIs.i,u ,:s.
was merely oeceP'i's niifaSe Sni.n iii'eu
us nasiie PhAn'oihs "oo'e 'ne ui'''n' ioi
hon.
AZ every ne" oiisis ~ Puntic "uens, vi
rresiaeh'' the Americau peoPie Ht'e nesh
evidence oi men caPac,.y ior
nien', ana oi their aoiiily ~ Ip.p ien.nu
| any supJect, however acs,f use, 'h"' may NC
presented ior tneir consideration.
| ihey VIII MOI De aeterI I,, W threae nor
deluded by sophistries. lhey KNOW that an
| abundant ana stable currency Is the essep-
tai foundation Oh national P,osPeri,y'
They know that had not Inc eredit Oh lne
nation been utilized as Inc oasis Oh circi,
latlng medium Inc iacinc r.aiiroau "oUlu
have been to day Inc unTeaiized cream oi
Bentons prain; lhat tne faciIc States
would have been accessible only py sea OF
.he oA-""bDn Inu 'ne ~" 49,,
wood Of the plains: and that the footsteps
Of the pioneer would vet have faltered upon
the imaginary confines of the Great Amer
lean Desert. They know that our legal
tender period previous to enforced contrac-
tion was not as the gold worsnippers would
maintain. a freuzied epoch of wild and ca
,,er snecnI, .;on like tba, Of John Law.when
the holders or assigua,s, based upon church
revenues or the confiscated estates of an ex
lie ! inability. having no faith either in the
nermapepce or the honor of the nation, reck-
iessIy sought to invest worthless currency
!, any scheme that offered prospect of ui-
timat, reward. but healthy era of legiti-
mate ENTERPRISE. attended with the most
benefcient results not 10 this nation alone,
but 10 the whole limits and boundary of
the civilized world.
Tbev lnov ,Iso that their distress j.
chiefly dine to the efforts of those who own
the debt and money of the nation TO en-
b,,ca its v,Iue who are rspidly obtaining
fatal control OF the railroads the forests.
and the fertile land, OF the south and west,
tbronpb colossal monopolies, which threat
on with arropan, menace not only the ma
teri,I nrosneritv. but the social order of the
country
We cannot disguise the truth that We are
on the verge OF an impending revolution.
The old issues are dead. Inc people are
arraying themselves upon one side or the
other OF porten.ous contest. on one side
Is capital, iormidaoiy .intrenched IN PRIV
ilege, arrogant from continued triumph,
conservative, tenacious oil Old iheories, de-
handing new concessions, enriched by DO,
nestle levy ard foreign commerce, and
struggling TO adjust all values TO ITS own
standard. OR the other Is labor, asking ior
employment, striving to develop domestic
industries, battling with the forces OF ma
ture, and subdulng the wilderness; labor,
starving and sulien In cities, resoiute!y de-
termIned TO overthrow a system under
which the rich are growing richer and the
poor are growing poorer; system which
gives to Vanderbilt the possession OF
wealth beyond the dreams OF avarice and
condemns the poor to poverty which has
no refuge from starvation but the prison or
the grave.
Our demands for relief, Tor justice, have
been met with Indifference or disdain. The
laborers OF the country asking Tor employ
ment are treated like lmpudent mendicants
begging for bread. The Senator from Con-
necticut informs US that hundreds OF mil
lions Of dollars are lying idle IN New York
and Hartford, which can be borrowed on
good security at 1 FER cent, and asks with