Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-30

ported.
THE permanence of the Government can
be secured only by such property quail
fications as will prevent those who have
no Interest in the country from controlling
its affairs, If the necessity for a strong
government arises, it will be because Of
unlimited suffrage"
The report of the patent Office for the
last fiscal year would indicate that the in.
ventive genius of the everlasting Yankee
is still on the alert. There were 1890
applications received, 2,6H caveats filed
and 1929 patents granted. The receipts
of the Office for the year were $703,l46.
FIDELITY to the party does not consist
in talking vaguely about "bad men" te-
fore conventions are held, and heartily
supporting the candidates, good, bad, or
Indifferent, after they have been nominat-
ed. No man claiming to be "bad" ever
came before a political convention for
Office.
To avert this calamity and sec, re the
peaceful evolution of civilization to its
destined end-the complete establis nment
mentof industrial rights - peacefully
through the ballot in the ranks OF he
Greenback party, who represent the ouy
safe and proper money available in the
United States.
THE Ohio River at the present time can
hardly be said to exist. In fact, where
once rolled the mighty stream which in
the springtime freshets dealt destruction
to steamboats, and coal-barges, is now seen
only succession Of shallow ponds, scarce
ly deep enough for ducks to perform their
accustomed ablutions.
ALI money issued by the government
to defray the expenses Of administration,
to execute public works or to loan to In
dustry should be full legal tender in
payment Of all private and public debts,
ana that the loan issue shall only be linn
tied by the demand OF industry accom-
panied by the ability to secure repayment.
Is 1860 the taxed negro ayistOcracy
owned $1,000, 100000 OF slave property.
In 1879 the untaxed Shylock aristocracy
own $2,2O0,000,OOO, of United States
bonds, this has controlled three million
OF men out of employment, and controls
the labor of 100000 more. Let the hard
ware hirellng press give us a shower of
National honor. Shylock legislation is a
bad fraud.
THIS government is not instituted mere
ly for the protection of property holders
but rather to protect the citizen in his life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness; to
establish justice and promore the general
welfare. That from its very beginning
it was founded upon the principal that
claims of man are prior in time, para
mount in title, and supreme in equity, to
the claims of material wealth.
The signs of the times indicate that the
progressive development of civilization is
in imminent danger of being checked;
that self.interest overriding social aims
will subvert our institutions and restore
the tyranny Of a class; that an industrial
leudalism will arise wherein the lord of
the factory, the railroad and the mine,
will replace the lord Of the manor and
the freeman of this land becomes the wage
slave of grasping and unfeeling monopo.
li2ers.
The civilization OF an epoch is deter
mined by its social activity; in ancient
civilizations it was warlike, in modern
civilization it is industrial. The former
was the government OF the many by the
few; the domination of private interests;
the latter government of the people by
the people: the domination of social in
terests. Modern civilization is therefore
based on industry rather than the sword.
1t demands prosperity for the mass rather
than the few. Its rulers are servants not
lords. Social ends, not class interests, are
its aims. In a word, laborers are not q
class, they constitute the body OF society,
the professions being their organs, sub
servient to and dependent upon the body
they serve. Whatever tends to de.
crease the happiness of the industrial por.
tion Of society for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT oI
class is retrogressive an anarchial.
FRANCE is not the only country in Eu.
rope in which the land is divided into
small freeholds. The proportion of land
owners to the whole population is larger
in several European countries than it is
in France. According to the last returns
there were 5,550,00O distinct properties in
France, and the population at the end o.
1876 was 37,000,0OO. That is, rather more
than one in seven Of the people were own
ers of land. The population of Prussia
was less than 26,0OO, 900 in 1876, and near
ly 100000, or almost one in FIVE, possess
landed property. In Bavaria there 3, 900,
600 people and 950,000 owners of land, o.
about one in six. In Spain the popula
ton is under 100000; the number o
landowners 100000, or one in FIVE. Il
Belgium the population is about 8, 500, 900
the proprietors Of land number 1,13l, 200
Or more than one in FIVE. Finally, in
Switzerland, out Of Q, 100000 inhabitants
it estimated that there are not NOR
than 100000 who do not own land.
Greenbeck