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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15
Creating Money.


The Pennsylvania Nationals resolve
that "the power to create money is
the highest prerogative of govern
ment'-and, therefore, that the mon
ey of the country shall be irredema-
BILE paper notes issued by the govern
ment alone, whose volume and value
shall be regulated "by wise and judi
cious legislation" Where they get
the idea that it is the province of the
government to "create money!" any
more than to create food, drink or
clothing, we are at a loss to conjecture.
1t is certainly not to be found in the
practices of man in his rude condi-
tons. The earliest money we hear
of was in the form of shekels and tai
ents, of silver and gold. These were
not created by government. They
were dug out of the earth by human
labor, whose province it is to create
or utilize all wealth; and as they con-
tanned certain definite quantities of
metal, they were used by the people
as money, without the interference or
assistance of government. The PEG
pie of California made gold dust their
money before their state government
was organized. The people Of Vir-
ginia made tobacco money. The peo-
pie of Missouri, in early times, made
skins money, for want of a better
medium. But in all cases, as wealth
accumulates and society improves,
these rude materials are given up and
gold and silver adopted as the perma-
nent money. Governments usually
recognize as money that which the
people use as mOney-but they do not
create it; it is not their business to do
SO. Whenever government inter-
NEEDLES with the money further than
to recognize gold and silver, provide
for its coinage in pieces of ascertained
weight and fineness, and punish coun-
terfeiting and clipping, it goes beyond
its authority and makes mischief.
The very monetary troubles that we
are quarreling about now in this coun-
try are the result of the governments
attempt to ''create" money in 1862,
and making them legal tender for all
debts. Paper notes, when based on
gold and silver and convertible into
gold and silver on demand, are a very
representative of money;
but they are not real money, and the
to make them so always ends
in trouble. If, as the Nationals pro-
pose, the government should repeat
the greenback experiment by issuing
several hundred millions paper notes,
irredeemable and inconvertible into
gold and silver. they would be acheap
substitute for mOney-that is all; and
the people would soon grow disguised
with them. It is the near approach
OF the time when the present green
backs are to be redeemed in coin that
has SO greatly enhanced their value. |
Several years ago, when there was no
immediate prospect of redemption,
they We're degraded Is to 80 per cent.
below par-and that will be the fate of
new issue of notes, or token money,
that could not be converted into real
money.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

Political gossips say that ex-senator
Harlan is the reputed dark horse in
the Congressional race in the First
district.-Register.
Don't think so; every year some
newspapers sing of the Hon. James
Harlan as the dark horse for some
thing. We suppose this is repeated
annually just because something is
needed to fill up and to satisfy the
public curiosity for something mys-
fariOuS
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15
cauueel la neatln.

CHICAGO, May lO.-The Iribune's
Joliet special says the coroner's jury,
to-day, in the case of Gus Reed. the
negro convict, who recently died un-
der peculiar circumstances in the
penitentiary, gave verdict that he
died in the solitary department from
pulmonary apoplexy, brought on by
persistent yelling, while the gag was
in his mouth; that the gag was put
in by Stephen Reed and Park Leas.
urc, acting under orders of their su-
perior officers, and that the officials
we're justified in giving such orders.
because of the unruly conduct of the
deceased. The case has attracted
some attention because of the alleged
extreme cruelty which had been
practiced on this man, and on Other
convicts.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

1t is rumored, says the Dubuque
Times, that the Regents of the State
University have decided to elect Mr..
J. L. Pickard, of Chicago, President
of the State University. Mr.. Pickard
was for thirteen years Superintendent
of the public schools of the city OF
Chicago, and is regarded as one of the
most practical educational men in the
country, and he will bring to the adj
ministration of his Office that meas
ure of confidence and ability that can
not fail of success.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

THE Boston Transcript says while
in that city "Senators Gordon and
Morgan both asserted the negro never
could be drawn into any Communist.
ic movement. Their statement is en-.
dorsed by the experience of the Com.
munists in Chicago, who have found
that neither the Italians nor the ne
groes would take a hand in their ne
farious plots"
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

commenced coming in quite free
ly and the quality SO far has proven
to be most excellent.
Hay has taken tumble downward
and so too has has straw, with which
commodity the market was well sup
piled to-day. Read the quotations
below.
Ottumwa Grocery larket
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

Another quickened conscience is
revealed in the case of Henry Matti-
son, living in the northeastern part of
La Rue county, O., who is supposed
to be on his death bed, and who has
given his estate to the Government,
saying that he made it since the war
by distilling moonshine whisky and
defrauding the United States to the
amount of $4,000. He is about IS
years old, unmarried, and democrat.
If this thing should go on spreading
in his party the national debt would
soon be wiped Chicago Journal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

The Secretary Of State gives notice
that under the new law regulating
the distribution of laws, only the
county officers, justices of the peace
township clerks, and mayors of cities
and towns, are entitled to the laws at
the expense Of the state. This cuts
off constables, township trustees, city
aldermen and several other officials
who were on the auditors free list.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

quence of the st. Petersburg Govern
ment disappearing Gen. 1odlebens
programme relating to Adriahopolis.
The position of Sadyke Pasha, Presi-
dent of the Turkish cabinet council,
is conseq uently established. News
from the Musselman instruction
state that the disturbance is spreading
and that large numbers of Albanians
are participating with Greeks in New
Bulgaria, who are also greatly dis
satisfied and have just received now
occasion for alarm in an sttempt of
the Russian authorities to enroll
them under general CONSUMPTION
now being enforced throughout Bull
garia,
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15
Yoa Must Cure that Couch.

With 6hiloh's Consumption Cure
you can cure yourself. 1t has estab-
!ished the fact that Consumption can
be cured while for Coughs, Bronchitis
Whooptng Cough, Asthma, and all
diseases Of Throat and Lungs, it is alb
solutely without an equal. Two dos
90 will relieve your child of Group, 1t
1t 10 pleasant to take and perfectly
harmless to tho youngest child. and no
mother can afford to be without II.
You can use thirds OF . bottle,
and Ii what we say is not true, we will
refund the price paid. Price 10 cts,
so cts, and 81 90 per bottle. II your
Lungs are sore or chest or back lame,
use Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Sold by
j. L. Taylor d Co., Ottumws, Iowa.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15
Weaver Weaving.

Gen. j. B. Weaver was nominated
for Congress by the greenback con-
vention in Oskaloosa last week. II
was well known beforehand that he
was to be the candidate, and this time
there was no strong Sampson to wrest
the prize from his grasp. There is but
one thing now to make his happiness
complete, and that is an election. To
secure that he will do anything and
promise anything that the democracy
ask Of him as the price of their en-
dorsement and support. That is his
only possible show for an election,
and even with that we regard the
chances as most decidedly against
him.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

The Davenport Democrat has got
tired of possuming, anti-monopolizing
and the mixed sex business generally
in political matters. 1t says:
The Des Moines Leader says that
Judge Knapp will probably have a
solid support from the delegation sent
to the Democratic State Convention
from Polk county. Which means
that the Polk county democrats want
to waste a year or two more on ques-
tionable experiments. That's what
the toad was up to when he was try
ing to get out of the well.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15
Frost in ohio.

C1NCINNATI, May l4.-Dispatches
from some seventy-five points in
Ohio and Indiana indicate that the
ice and frost of the past few nights
have very materially injured vegeta-
bles and early fruits. Peaches seem
to have suffered most, especially in
the north. The wheat crop is also
somewhat damaged, but not enough
to signify.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

Dennis, the Florida sensationalist,
is disguised. He says the democrats
don't seem to have either ability or
courage. They would like to show
frauds in the republican ranks, but
when they find out that their own
party friends will be smirched in
theinvestigation they back out, fright
ened to death. Dennis is tired of the
business, and has gone home.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

The Silk Association of America,
in session at New York, gives the pub
lie an idea of the extent Of the silk
interest in this country by its compi-
lation of articles manufactured during
the year past, showing that l,177 ,5O4
pounds of silkwas consumed, at a cost
of$l5, 105, 092, and goods manufactured
to the value of 2l,411, 436.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

THE House Naval committe have
made majority and minority report.
These reports are decidedly at vari-
ance. The democrats allege that
there has been a useless and unwar-
rantable expenditure of some three
millions Of dollars of money and the
republicans deny this in toto. 1t is a
favorite pastime with ex-rebel demo-
crafts who, during the time they were
waging a war of rebellion to find
fault with Union men as to the man.
ner in which they expended govern
ment money to whip rebels.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

Col. SAPP, of the eighth Iowa dis
trict, has got through the House bill
importantto Iowa. This bill provides
for the payment of per cent. of 81 .25
per acre on all lands located on mill
tary scrip within states entitled to
such per centage of the sales of pub
lie lands within their borders. IF the
bill becomes law Iowa will have a
windfall of about three-fourths of a
million.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15
Army Appvoprjatjops.

WASHINGTON. May lathe total
amount recommended in the bill re-
ported in the House from the Com
mittee on Appropriations for the
support of the army for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1879, and for
other purposes is SIG, 29,67l, and of
which the amount recommended for
the pay and allowance of officers who
may retire under its provisions lie 49,
$4,000. Total Of regular sum $24,-
032,67l. Total amount appropriated
by the last law $25, 7l2,5OO. Total
sum of estimates $3l, 292, 232. De-
crease from the estimates "a, 1862, SCI.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

In Memorial Of Brother p. c. Moore.
The following resolutions were
unanimously adopted by Eldon
Lodge, No. %, 1. 0. o. F. at their
regular meeting, May 18th, 1878.
WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty
God in his Infinite wisdom to remove
from our midst our dearly beloved
brother P. G. Enos Moore. There
fore be it
Resolved That in his death we have
lost true, faithful and warm heart
ed brother, who was ever found in the
path of duty and honor, whose gencr-
GUS nature aud noble bearing we will
ever cherish as worthy of Imitation.
Resolved That while our hearts
yearn for him in grief and our sor-
rowing eyes still wander unbidden
towards his vacant chair, we know
that he is only transported to the
Grand Lodge above, and we bow in
humble submission to the will of our
great Creator, knowing that his
thoughts are higher than our thoughts
and his ways higher than our WAYS.
AsScoCSSW - Aok Jul uOOp0SJ by HIDE
thy be and is hereby extended to the
BEL eaved widow and family and
friends of our Brother, believing that
their sorrow is such as none but q
widows heart can feel and her tears
bitter as no other eyes can weep.
Res0Ived That our heartfelt sympa-
thy be and is hereby extended to the
widow, family and friends, that one
90 dear to them has been 40 suddenly
torn from their embrace.
Resolved That the Lodge Room
be draped in mourning and that each
brother wear badge Of Grape for the
next thirty days, and that the Resolu-
tons be printed in the Ottumwa
COURIER and Ottumwa Democrat, and
that copy of the same be presented
to the widow and family of the de-
ceased brother.
E. D1BBLE, }
A. UTTER, Com.
E. T. RoLAND.S
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

In one day last week the Secretary
of the Treasury received $i35, mailed
at New York, for amount due the
United States Treasury for customs
duties, which was placed to the credit
of the conscience fund; also a second
anonymous letter, inclosing $500, to
be credited to the same fund.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

THE McCoskry scandal seems in a
fair way to thoroughly collapse.
There are genuine letters which i'm
volve no wrong or shadow of wrong.
There are other letters signed in ci-
pher which are coarse, vulgar epistles
and bear no semblance to the genu-
inc. These latter contain all there is
of the alleged offence. The printer,
Mcconnell, is the one supposed to
have written the spurious letters.
The Chicago Times has, however,
made its spec and cares not whether
it be true or false.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15
A Snow Storm.

MUscATINE, Ia, May ia snow
storm has been prevailing to-day
along the Oskaloosa branch of Rock
Island road, covering the ground in
places, and terminating in hail and
rain. No damage to fruit or crops
reported. Heavy frost this morning.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15
Catherine Reecher uv,np

New YORK. May 1O.-In the course
Of his talk, tonight, at Plymouth
church, Mr.. Beecher announced the
receipt of q telegram from his broth
er Thomas, at Elmira, New York,
stating that their sister, Miss Cath
crime Beecher, bad been stricken with
apoplexy and was dying.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

Sr LouIs, May H.
BY Telegraph
Wheat-lower No. 3 red 81 u cash
l Az Ga June.
Corn-lower, 3S4 cash, 1901
June.
Oais-lower, choice 1864 June.
Whisky-s,eady 81 O5.
Pork-dull jobbing at SO 90 deliv-
cred.
Lard-nominal.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15
SUICIDE.

A Davis County Man Ends His
Troubles that way.
Special dispatch to The Hawkeye.
PULASKI, Iowa, May ll.-Chris
Reese, q farmer living four miles
south Of here, committed suicide to-
day by hanging himself to . tree.
He was found about noon by his sons,
hanging by rope fifteen feet long,
his feet five feet from the ground.
1t appears that he went up the tree
and jumped down, breaking his neck
instantly. He was not cold when
found. He has had spells of derange-
ment all spring, and it is supposed he
was deranged ct the time. He leaves
quite family and was in good cir
eli m fAncna.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15
Chicago Wool Market.

From Tribune OF May 18th.
The market 10 little better than nominal. The
stock OF old IL almost exhausted, and very little
new has yet come forward. Farmers and manu-
factrers are far apart In their ideas about prices
Of the new clip, and the season 10 likely to be
late In opening. Following are the prices Of old
woods; new quoted 6D6c less: Medium unwashed
wools 22a24c; fine do. lsa23c; coarse DO. 2Oa23c;
fine fleece washed 85sSsc; medium do. 38s8sc,
coarse do s3a35c; tub woods, choice, 3ss39c, lair
to good, 3aa37c.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

Have You Dyspepsia, are You Con.
stipated, have you Q Yellow Skin,
Loss OF Appetite. Head Aches. il so
don't fail to use SHILOHS SYSTEM
VlTALIZER. It is guaranteed to re.
lieve you. and will you continue to
suffer when you can be cured on suoh
terms % Theses. Price 10 cts and rs
cts. Sold by j. L. Taylor 3 Co., Of
tumWA, Iowa. decl9 dAwaltWtf
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

They have new political secret or
ganization in Pittsburg, Pa. Its do
ings are transacted in German and
French, and the main question for the
applicant for admission to answer is
"Have you a gum" The use of the
gun is to put it in place of the ballot.
Conciliate them. If not, why not?
That is the way Southern democrats
are treated. If ku-klux South must
be conciliated why not Northern ku-
klux?
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

The Davenport Democrat advises a
straight-out fight as follows:
"The Sixth district democrats will
do well to nominate congressman
from their own party, and let the
greenback movement and movers
quite alone. There has been enough
fooling around done in times past to
encourage our people to attend to
their own party measures and let side
shows attend to theirs
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

LII ~ CNCA OSSuI W Tic dIuclt dpOS-
tie of Daniel w. VOORHEES, in his adj
vocacy of having Congress, at each
session, say how much paper money
shall be ground out for the public,
that he is one of the original back
pay swag voters and partakers- one
who drew his pay, put it down in his
jeans and kept it? Would it not be
well to let him test his sincerity for
the dear people by refunding to the
people that swag? Please don't be
deceived and made dupes of by loud
talking demagogues. Look around
you and see if you can't find some
more of kindred nature with Voor-
hees who are making here in Iowa a
continuous bawl about hard times and
for lots of paper money-who are
practically in the same boat with
Daniel.
See if there are not those who have
been exalted by the peopleto respons-
ible trusts; who have held offices for
years that brought them from four to
six thousand year; who have built
fine houses and lived and sported in
elegant and costly style and who out
Heroded Herod, if you please, shout
ing at all times and upon all occasions
the ''bloody Shirt" as they now sar-
castically term it, while the thing
paid and their wishes were gratified,
but who, at very recent period, have
been struck with most righteous
spirit of reform, as they claim, tick
ling the ears of the populace with the
introduction of a millenial financial
era by having each Congress, as its
fancy controls it, issue stacks Of ire
deemable paper money, and cotempo-
rary with this reform spasm, they
have themselves adopted the same
theory individually, so that their lit
tie grocery bills and bills oftall kinds
are hawked about on the street trying
to find the maker to honor them, but
without success.
1t is wonderful what a kinship is
developed between many noisy indi-
viduals whose promises to pay are so
plenty, unhonored, and many of those
who are striving by hot impetuous
talk and charges ofdishonesty against
their fellow-men, to arouse the people
into giving them good fat Office.
Take retrospect of the past lives of
some of these men and, as we have
said, see what good paying offices
they have held; see how lavishly they
have lived; how improvidently, how
ingloriously they have failed to exer-
else the commonest prudence; how
and with what effrontery
they go on in whatever style they can
master, to live at the expense of other
people, contracting debts they do not
pay; and yet these fellows tell the |
people this is the way the govern
ment should continue to do, and in an
era like this of close times they hope
to consolidate strength enough out oil
the disaffected elements to unite with
the democratic party to crafty their
for place and more govern
ment pap. As a rule have these fell
lows ever met with any unfortunate
and unavoidable misfortune in bust
ness? No. They have simply been
improvident ivers. They would
teach the nation, the people, new
and the only correct system of finance,
one OF promising to pay and never
doing it.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

OH,oAsos May IA.

ORsoAs"s May IA.
BY Telegraph
Wheat-steady, firm, firm 81 IO5S
May, l O7N June 514July.
Corn-steady, firm, 397s cash and
May, 395s June.
Oats-dull, easier, 26 bid cash and
May, June and July.
Rye $50.
Barley-5OI@5l.
Pork weak, IS Tx bid cash, 8 20
bid June, 8 4O@42k July.
Lard--weak, II 72ha cash, Z SO bid
June.
Alcohol-$l 33@l "a.
Whisky-$l4.