Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-05-22
POLITICAL MENTION,

NOL. Ill.
POLITICAL MENTION,
The handwriting is on the wall. No
man that is half horse and half alligator
can win in this country.
If the contest in Ohio should be between
Sherman and Ewing, the country would
probably hear Of one or two live issues.
The Macoom (Ill.) Independent suggests
that the national convention of Grcenbacli
editors shall be held in Chicago, Wednes-
day, the 10th of July.
MONEY is merely tool of exchange, as
the pOw is a tool of production; and COM
merce, like production, is endeavoring to
secure the use of cheap tools.
RESUMPTION on gold basis and pros
perity are incompatible, inconsistent, an,
tagonistic. A resumption that is not on
Il gold basis amounts to nothing.
THE assassins of Europe are making it
warm for the autocrats. 1t will come to
pass, within the time of men now living,
that no man will dare to be king.
EVERY act of John Sherman proves
that he uses his position to protect and de
icnt the interests of the bondholders
against the rights and privileges of the
government.
THERE Is asight panic among the mono
mcntulists. They show strong DISPOSE
ton to abandon their theory and adopt
bi-mctalism There is nothing so destruct-
I'VE to theory as the logic of events.
The law now in force, il permitted to
act, will in time drive us to the silver
standard. II silver continues to increase,
in short time twill equal in amount the
gold, then if it be given free circulation
the gold standard will he lost.
MONEY is drug ut four per cent; but
the best real estate in Chicago sells for
onc-haIf its appraised value, and the APP
praisement was low. The great wave Of
prosperity does not seem to be lashing and
splashing things in the neighborhood of
Chicago.
TIE grecnback party proposes to save
800, 100000 in taxes to the people of
America every year. How? BY paying
the bonds in greenbacks, according to the
original contract. 1t costs the people just
that sum every year for interest on the
bonds.
THE rock-ribbcd mountains do not give
up the gold that lies hid in the quartz,
until the hammer crushcs therocks. There
are many good people in the rockrootcd
Republican and Democratic parties, but
they will not come ont until the hammer
of agitation breaks the hold of corrupt
leaders.
TnK number of failures during the first
quarter of this year is far smaller than
that during the corresponding quarter of
1873. The bankrupt law has been repeal
ed in the meantime. 1t must not be
argued that because man cannot take
advantage of the bankrupt act his affairs
are blooming.
AT recent meeting of the Manchester
(Englandl Statistical Society, the re-cs-
tablishmcnt of the double standard, and
the restoration of silver to an equality
with gold was advocated as a remedy for
the prevailing depression. 1t was argued
that the difficulty was not in the tall of
the value of silver, bm in the increase in
the ralue Of gold.
OVER 100000 acres of land in Cali
fonia are owned by land-rings, or indi-
vidual monopolists, for speculative pur-
poses, in tracts of $4,000 to 100000 acres.
This state of things has greatly checked
the prosperity of the State. Under the
new constitution recently adopted, such
tax will be put upon these large tracts as
will COMPEL the owners to sell.
TX reply to question by Mr.. Warner
Secretary Sherman said:
"We cannot get the silver dollars into
circulation. We have tried it in every
way, but we cannot succeed.
We would suggest to the secretary that
he offer them in payment of the public
debt, and stop interest from and after the
time the tender is made. IL they are not
then taken he can make more interest by
their folly than he has through the wis
dom OF his funding scheme.
THE Rothchilds and their agents in
Wall street have had more power during
the last twenty years in shaping the legis-
lative measures Of this government, than
twenty millions OF laboiing men. They
have been power superior to cabinets
and congresses. They have shaped and
moulded our laws. They have framed our
party crecds and platforms. They have
been supreme at the capitol.
WE can pay every public and private
debt we owe with the cheap silver dollar,
and violate no contract. BY paying the
interest on the public debt with silver we
can save more annually than is being
saved by the per cent. funding scheme,
and by paying the principal In silver, we
would save SlGS,0O0,0O0. This is worth
saving, and finance minister who prop
crly guards the public interests would not
neglect to give the government the benefit
of it.
A FEW years ago poor pawnbroker
took it into his head that the surest road
to fortune was to get possession of what
other people earned SO he armed himself
with usury and took to the highways Of
Kingdoms and empires. He succeeded in
placing every nation of the world under
bonds to pay him tribute. He never
earned an honest dollar, but, by virtue of
his bonds, he absorbed the product of
three millions CT laborers every day of his