Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-02

become a law without his signature, but
we doubt if he will face the majority
i'll each house with Il step OF positive op'
position" With the votes on the Mat
thews resolution. which are fair tests %
the question, staring him i'll the face
Mr. Hayes muS sign the silver bill i
he believes in a popular form OF gov
eminent. A less decisive indication OF
the will OF the people would change al
English ministry. and matters have
cometoa pretty pass in republican Amer
! ica when such Il newspaper AS the New
York Herald can. IN spite OF n vote OF
43 to - IN tho senate and lS9 10 ~ in
the house. use such language rs his
''Be that as ii may the friends OF homes
money need not be discouraged by the
vote in the senat yesterday il President
Hayes can be relied on for an able and
vigorous veto OF the Bland bill Homes,
money, forsooth Who constituted these
eastern money lenders organs judges
OF other mems honesty? Senator Thur.
man is Il silver man. Is he not as honest,
as able and AS wise as the Herald, the
Tribune, the World aud the lesser
lights in the eastern newspaper tiima.
ment ? Are the forty-three senators and
one hundred and eighty-nine represent.
atives who voted for the resolution. to
oSnaFt, il, tha 1ytsi,ns Of chair opnSfifr1antS
and the morals of finance from the men
who hold the bonds and do the money
lending to the nation Congress. fol
years, under republican rule. vas the
creature of this class. Legislation to make
the rich richer and the poor poorer, mark
ed every step in the supremacy of that
trampS, factories were closed, honest
women. were by the hard pinch of des-
t%itution. by bitter cold and hunger and
want driven to prostitution. great cities
We're made powder magazines OF COM
munism, and bread riots for the first
time in the history of the nation dis
graced its industrial centers. The DEM
ocratic party charged these things
against the republicans in 1872, to no
purpose. In 1876, the truth having
come home to the people, the demo-
cratic party, in spite of lies against the
south, in spite oflies against the charac-
ter of lis candidate. in spite of the use
of the federal machinery in the interest
of 4 civil service candidate, in spite OF
i~niquities glarlng and palpable in keep
ing troops to overawe democratic voters
at southern polls, carried the country by
a popular majority of 4 quarter OF q
million votes. That little episode in
the history ofthese United States opened
some eyes to the fact that legislation in
the interest OF the people must be had,
and at last we find republicans IS well
as democrats voting against the behests
| Of Wall street. 1t is time.
A friend asks US, What will be the
good effect OF the repeal of the reSump-
ton act and the RECOMMENDATION OF sill,
ver?' We answer that the greatest
benefit conferred by these acts will be a
lists who move the IN and indus
tries of the country. The greatest evil
Of the resumption act. greater even than
the subsequent contraction which took
place with resumption in view. was the
destruction OF this confidence. Plain
men could not understand how the gov
eminent could resume specie payments
with no adequate preparation: they could
not see how seven hundred million dol,
lars of paper WAS to be redeemed with one
hundred or one hundred and nifty million
dollars in gold. and they looked for a
grand crash in 1879. and consequently
as quickly rs they could. they got their
money out ofbusiness and loaned it IRON
day to day. from week to week. where
they could get it OF call, SO that gradu'
ally the industries of the coun ~ have
been contracted to 4 g-eater extent even
than the money OF the country. These
thousands of useful capitalists, under
favorable circumstances, see that Il ma
.iority Of the people of the country desire
a retention OF the greenhack circulation,
and they recognized the fact that there can,
in a republican government, be no set
Element OF a question adjusted against ths
will OF the majority. In the remonetiza
ton of silver they see a great aid in The
payment OF our ~burdensome public debt
and consequently they feel that the re
peal of the resumption act and remon
etization of silver will be 4 settlement o
the financial question, the national bank:
being a mere incidental matter, and the
passage of the two acts will restore con
fdence, unlock long sealed vaults. star
the wheels of industry and commerce
and bring back to the country that pros
perlty which it has SO long been wait
ing tor.
The Louisiana returning board have
applied for the transfer OF their case t
the United States court. fearing tina
they may get justice in the superlo'
criminal court. In the mean time som
OF them took refuge in the c~ustomhouse
and Wells and Anderson ran away,
Washington it is supposed. They are
hard lot.
General Ewing, Senator Voorhees, an'
other prominent advocates of silver an,