The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

means to pay it. They demand, too, that
certain specific wrongs shall be redressed.
Of the l sPsaA doar exa sne
ly as II stood before IL was touched
by the act of February, ls7s. They
tied coinage, not fearing that it VIII be-
come too plenty for their wants, and that IL be
1a ed io lsgsl lender, oelievng that 1t Is as
ana private, as 1t was during 81 years OF amer
lean history.
ally, OF the act of January IA 1875, compelling
resumption Of specie payments In January
1879, holding that the question of a return
TO specie basis for our currency should be
controlled entirely by the business interests of
the country. They do not believe that the
OF ruin, wretchedness and degradation IN or
der TO reach q gold standard for the benefit
alone of lhe income classes.
D. They demand that the national banking
system be removed and q circulating me-
dunn provided by the government for the
people, without taxing them for the privilege
OF obtaining IT, And they ask that the
amount thus placed IN circulation shall bear a
reasonable and Judicious proportion to the
business transactions and the population of
4. They demand that the currency circu-
lated on the authority OF the government shall
debts, public and private, including all dues to
the government well knowing that 1t will
then De at par with gold or more likely at a
5. They demand that hereafter the financial
policy of the country be framed permanently
IN their interest; that they shall not be dis
eliminated against in future legislation as in
past, and that their prosperity, and not the
mere growth OF income to retired capitalists,
snail be the primary duty OF the government.
In my Judgment, these demands are just and
moderate. implore senators not to suppose
tlae tney can De olsressrued with SAFETY. III
they are rejected now they will be renewed
hereafter with still greater determination and
perhaps with others added. plead for the
financial credit of the government. 1t rests
on the popular will alone, and that will can
no longer be defled or menaced with impuni-
". The people are sovereign, and they can
bind and they can loosen. If the money power
IL advised with wisdom 1t will stop
and retrace It's steps. 1t confronts a pow
people at the ballot box, infiamed by
a sense of injustice and oppression
II, however, 1t Is Joined to its golden Idol If its
heart Is hardened and its neck stiffened by its
vast possessions; If the burning lust of avarice
has made 1t deaf to the voice of reason ana
Dlnd TO all human experience, 1t will push on
ton; Tor, sooner or later, the people, irrespec.
tive of party names. will unite In their own
defense and establish Justice.
They have been slow to believe that there
was deliberate purpose to degrade and i'm
poverish the great producing ella ses, but they
are being rapidly educated now. The condf-
ton OF the country is a teacher whose awful
lesson Is engraven on all their hearts. They
nave also recently read the proclamations of
ing all disguise as to the meaning of our finan-
cial legislation and the misery IL has created.
IN the column ms OF one they have read that
1.-THE American laborer must make up his
mind henceforth not TO be so much better of
than the European laborer. Men must be
content to work for low wages. - In
this way the workingman will be nearer to
that station In life to which 1t has pleased God
to call him."
In the columns Of another organ of oonsol-
tdated capital they have read the following
revolving sentiments:
"There eeems to be but one remedy. II Is a
change OF the ownership of the soil, and the
creation of o class of land owners on the one
hand and Of tenant farmers on the other:
something similar in both cases to what has
long existed ana now exists in the older coun-
tries OF Europe"
And in every form in which the English
language can be used the American people,
and especially the people of the west, have
been notified, not that their consent will be
asked, but that they will be com pelled to sub
mit 10 the legislation which results in this
dependent tenantry and pauper wages for the
w0rkinsmen. Sir, have no word Of menace
to utter on this floor, but in behalf of every
laborer and every owner of soil whom repre-
sent, warn all such as value their Investments
that when these doctrines Of despotism are
sought TO be enforced, this fair land will
again be convulsed in agony. and the
fires Of liberty viii blaze forth again, as
they did hundred years ago, in defense
Of the natural rights OF man. May the
wisdom of our fathers and benignity of our
God avert such an issue, but If IL shall come
IT infatuation has seized our hearts, the result
viii only add one more instance to the long
catalogue of human crimes and folly, where
avarice, like ambition, overiaps ITSELF and in
Its unholy attempt to rob others of their pos
sessions, loses It's own.