Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-05-29

to OF the hardpan crew.
TIE national party to the people,
Greenbacks and a safe financial basis for
every worthy working man and woman.
If business were good, the people could
use what little money they have to a bet
ter advantage than four per cent. securi-
ties.
FoR every old-party success at the polls
hereafter, there will be lively increase Of
raw recruits for the army of dependent
and tramps.
A CAT is said to have nine lives, but the
"rag baby" can die every day, and still
scream loud enough to scare the scalpers
out of their boots.
A TEXAS exchange complains of lack
Of trees in that state. The New York
Herald wickedly asks, Haven't you
enough to lynch people on?'
MANY of the men who this year are
thoughtlessly following the old parties and
voting their tickets at the local elections
will be turned out to do tramp duty next
year.
Now John Sherman is actively noised
about us Il itman for president, and ali
the flags Of distress, in the immediate
rear Of every tramp, beats responsive in
one grand flip flap.
Mn. MuNDELLA's recent attempt to
abolish property qualification for Office in
municipal corporations in England was
defeated in parliament last week, but by
so small a majority that it is supposed the |
bill will pass next session.
The confederate and continental mon
cys were lost but oncc-by depreciation. |
But the redeemed greenbacks are lost
every seventeen years, and will continue
TO be for all time to come, in payment of
interest on the bonds with which the ransom
was purchased.
By and by, as the money of the coun-
try disappears, and is replaced by un-
taxed, interest. bearing bonds, the United |
States will have to adopt the plan of the
Persian government, and receive grain. |
wheat and whatever the people grow or
manufacture in payment of taxes.
''lF have made Il mistake am re-
sponsiblc for it, said Judge Kelly, when
II Republican congressman demonstrated |
with him for joining the Grecnbackers. |
Likewise Il Democrat tackled Colonel Lowe,
and he remarked, "If have done any.
thing to make you sorry, am glad of it"
How can man be healthy and happy
when two-thirds of the blood In his body
has been absorbed by lecches? How can
a nation be prosperous when two-thirls of |
It's life blood money which formerly pull
satcd through every vein, artery and cham
mel of trade, has been drawn from circula-
ton.
JOSH BlLLGNGs strikes the nail sQuarcly |
on the head when he says: "The man
who is willing to work for fame, and let
bread and molasses take care of itself, has
got perfect right to do it, according to
the statutes, but he must make up his
mind TO staye at public expense, and be
buried at last in the same way"
The grccnback party must have been
a power about two years ago. According
to the hardpan papers, it has lost about
ten million votes since twas inauguratcd
and yet they have told us all the time that
the rag baby didn't amount to anything"
These fellows don't get hair enough on
their lies tomake them hang together.
The hard moneyites in Congress dare
not permit even discussion of the fnan-
cial question. They know that the Green
hackers have the argument all on their
side, and they are now resorting to all sorts
ofdisreputable tactics to use up the Mon
day morning hour" without permitting
the currency question tocome under con-
sideration.
lN congress the other day. Mr.. Hom, of
Michigan, met the needs of the country in
the following fOrcibe style. He says: 81
am not sectional man, but good feel
ing man, and say that what you want
down south is to work. You want to raise
In Mississippi more corn and more cotton
and less 'cussedness.' You want more
hogs and less humbug. You must raise
horses and hogs more and hell less
As surely as light floods the horizon
when the sun rises, will prosperity dawn
once more on our land when the bonds are
taken up and cancelled by the government
and greenbacks issued, dollar for dollar
in their stead, Organize a greenback club
in your town, get all the subscriptions you
can for a reliable greenback paper, and
you will then have done your share to-
ward Fastening the time when the coun-
try will be freed from the most loathsome
of aristocracics-an aristocracy of men
who cannot point to ancient ancestry and
untarnished named as an excuse for their
pride and would-be superiority; an aris-
tocracy of men whose only boast is their
wealth. wrung from under-paid labor.
. OUR resources are ten times more ex-
tended than those of France. We possess
every element to encourage industry.
Every means of production n-unmeasurcd
millions of territory waiting for develop
ment, factories without number, which
arc idle, millions of men without labor,
without bread; all because we are without
adequate currency. France is prosperous
beyond other nationalities, because her
people are supplied with abundant cur
rency. Fifty dollars per capita is in cal
culation. Every kind of industry is en-
ployed and fairly paid. France never
produced so much, never produced so
pro6tably, and never occupied so enviable
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