Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-07-31

from ChhseS Chronicle,
Nearly one million of men who believe
that the government OF the people has the
right to say what shall be money and who
shall issue it, cast their votes on the side
of the people. 1t was done through or
ganized effort, and against the most form
idable opposition ever known, the money
power. In most states it was as a distin 1t
party, not by alfiliating with either of the
old parties. Wherever they affiliated the
result was failure. The govern
ment either has or has not the power
to create and issue full legal tender
money to men only who can be trusted to
pay debt. Every Greenbacker, and In
fact every sensible man, admits the above
right and power. Now having the power
to do it, why should the government be in
debt to few in order to tax the many to
support them in ,dleness? Then why not
create and issue enough money to pay off
every government bond in the United
States and stop the drain OF interest from
labor to the mOnied arstocracy?
Who are to be the judges, the people or
a few bankers and money lcnders2 II
there be too much money, then let the
government call it in through taxation,
and destroy it, until the volume is reduc.
ed to the lowest minimum that will be for
the best interests Of the whole people,
and then, by constitutional amendment,
fix the amount per capita. They never
stop to think there may be or that there is
any danger of too many bonds. They
have never been able to point out any in
divldual that had too many bonds, not
even the Rothchilds of England.
What, then, is the duty OF every green
back man2 To enroll himself with others
into clubs, standing to the above princi-
pies, pledging themselves never to vote
for any man who does not come up to
them. Men may prate about contracts,
oppose the above radical views, oppose
organization. and tell you the govern.
ment cannot break its contract with the
bondholder. Put no faith In such men,
but pity them for their ignorance of the
facts, and place in their hands the laws
enacted by Congress since 1861, showing
where contracts have been made and
broken where it was for the interest OF the
bondhoIder; when contract was made
to a soldier to pay him 800 to enlist, $2j
at time of enlistment and $75 when he
was honoraby discharged. Mind
this was a contract, and as sa-
cred as with any bOndholder Yet before
the soldier was discharged the govern
ment had changed the contract" and
the soldier never received his SIS. Ask
them to read the credit act of 1869; ask
them to read the law demonetizing silver
in 1873; ask them to ascertain who want,
ed a resumption af specie payments. The
people must be educated to know these
facts before we can expect they will he
greenback men in the true sense of the
term, and any man knowing them, who
will endorse the above radical views and
work to carry them out, is not fit man
to hold any position of trust for the peo-
pie. The people must be educated,
through the press and on the platform,
and the people must organize themselves
into clubs and become distinct party
aiming at the one great idea that the law
is what the people make it, That money
is a creation oflaw. Not power and place
should be the aim of the greenback party.
butthe rights ofhumanity, ever remember.
ing that "all men are born free and equal. d"
Then let us organize to pay every United
States bond without any unnecessary de-
lay and never issue another United States
bond of any rate or class.