The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-06-25
An Open Letter to Governor Brown.
PARr u-CoScLUsroS.

Party for it is just it is democratic. II Is Tor
the good Of all the people, anu II i IN accofu
with the Constitution. If the . Exodus brought
/ II out then the Exodus has done the State
some good There is no law against enngra-
ton and the safest plan = To perAiIt tat no
madie black man 70 try one winter ~ htusaS
The old school Of experience is still retained
Tor fools as the best that human ingenuity can
devise, and there is no patent on It, let It pe
used freely. II j not TOO much to assert, now
ever, and with the most perfect confluence that
The first second and third resolutions Of the
Nickshurg Convention expresses The views ana
feelings Of the masses of the white people OF
this state and that they viii find plsice IN the
platform of principles announced ny the next
+ general convention of her Democracx-a plat
form for performance and no sham
Your letter disappointment IN one re-
spect You make the financial question the
! great question at issue-a question by the way,
upon which the best OF Democrats may anu do
disagree, without wanting to turn each other out
( of church-but Is il true that the currency =
{ rhe tor-rnost one - Is there not one which
includes it, and overShadows all others one
which the Democratic peoples controlled De-
+ fore the war, but which now, with the currency.
/ dominates the people and the government ana
one against which war of communication
must be waged, il will speedily write the epi-
taph Of Constitutional liberty? listened Tor your
bugle call in this part OF the field In tie name
of the people let it sound.
/ The Union sir. is dying of corporations, al
/ first fostered by a generous, prosperous, a-fl-
cultural people for the national good, but which
have outgrown the government, and have so
rapidly reproduced its kind in the last teW
! years that unless relief arrives, will en-
! balm the State and general governments a eff
gies, and rule in their stead. The absorbing
power Of the manufacturing, banking ANA rall
/ road corporations, with their innumerable adj
iunets OF all names and grades, IS certainly not
second in Importance TO the question OF nnance,
or TO any other. Why, let oceans OF nat money
! flood the land or a currency OF the most honest
kind, in full volume and under our pre- sent con
dition, these gigantic corporations viii absorb
3 4 ii. n, tf,-. ttas
surface Of a boosted but simulated prosperity,
while the people VIII still groyel at the bottom,
and agriculture, the basis OF all perfect AmerI-
can political health, viii still Gnser IN bondage
/ to these lordly Molochs. Was 1t your desire To
defeat this Ubiquitous combination, that Ton
would loan an honest money, by the Govern
ment. directly to the people, There Is better
way; a way in strict accord with the Coustltu-
i ton and Democratic usage, and one which IN
cludes your topmost one OF tie currency.
/ The paramount question Is not finance simply,
as discussed in Congress ami the pubic prints
We must destroy the evil which 50 IouiIS SHINES
/ the government and the people in its centraiiz
ing and destructive folds, and finance will cease
to disturb parties. and perfect currency viii
come as necessity, come to all Tor the behit OF
all.
Democratic Congress then should begin
earnestly with the tariff \ protective tariff
creates Enothing, but like moneyed corpoF-
atoms pure, only hlndeFs and restricts
what already exists, and does that at
tina expense of the MANY, who by it, are
forced to pay an increased price for necessities.
Give US free goods and at the same time free
money, which means cheap money, by repeating
the unconstitutional National Bank Act; then
give free homes and honest transportation,
by securing from the possible grasp OF Railroad
Companies the public lands, and finally bring
ing all corporations for pecuniary profits def
nitely and certainly within the tax assessors
and collectors jurisdiction; and having thus
put American agriculture the same plane
with the corporations, they viii have no trouble
in giving the people national currency, based
upon the faith of the government, and the
minor issues of retiring the bonds and whether
the currency shall be legal tender, or convert
lble at the Will of the holder into coin, viii
regulate themselves. The legal tender act was
certainly unconstitutional, but this matters
little to the farmer when he handles his five
dollar American notes, for the security and
payment of which the faith and credit OF forty
millions OF prosperous people are pledged, for
they viii always command for the convenience
oil commerce and trade premium ON gold.
And while they may not be money in the strict
sense, If regulated in judicious volume, they
will fill the place OF money that disgust
tons upon such subjects will be reIegated to the
abstruse witers on governmental science and the
wealth Of nations, for the benefit of students OF
political economy. What do all these "formu-
lated" ideas of the DIRECTORS to Democracy
come to at last, leaving out certain abSurdities,
but re-statement OF the principles and doe
trines of the Democratic party? Does the party
refuse to act? 1t is so said by these gentlemen
but 1t Is not So The Democratic party since
their partial accession TO power have advanced
rapidly. The fixed policy Of "A government like
this, cannot be changed in day; il is not
presto change matter, boys top to be turned ri
word. Here is the trouble The party is
right, but you must give it time. Fraud still
holds the first place in government, and is
proving itself still as strong as the people but
will certainly fall before the assaults of the old
party, while these formulated" organizations
by whatever name creed known are mere
flies on the rampant bulls horns.
But to return to the corporations While
hy-. nfV,. Il FI
sturdy men engaged in agriculture in this coun-
try, and only about one million in any manner
directly interested in corporate manufacturing
banking and raiIroading vet for nearly one
hundred years, untold millions of money have
been drawn from agriculture for the purpose Of
building up and maintaining these grasping /
corporations, until at last like the landed arstoc-
racy of England, some thirty thousand monied /
men, through these monopolies, this gov |
eminent and its forty millions of people. Own /
it and them thoroughly that it will be diff I
colt task peacebly to break the thrall. This dom
Inant power mas grown up within the past TWEEN /
ty years. The New " rk Tribune, a stalwart Re /
publican organ, paper, like many of the great
papers of the country, an obedient vassdl of the /
corporate power, in a late issue in discussing /
the probable action Of The Democratic majority |
in the houses of Congress upon the financial I
question, says 'tHhe time is near when they /
(the bank - will feel themselves compelled to |
act strongly. Meanwhile a very good thing has |
been done. The machinery is now furnished /
by which, IN any emergency the financial cor |
porations of the east act together at a sin /
gle days notice with such power that no act OF /
Congress can overcome resist their deci- /
sion" This is no idle boast, for within circle |
of three hundred miles from New York City as /
the center, the moneyed power WELD and con
troll absolutely a thousand millions of dollars
within that-circle rests the force and power /
OF the National Bank system and the home of |
the wealthy and overgrowp manufacturing, and /
Railroad corporations; and while this moneved /
power rules like an imperial autocrat at its I'M
mediate seat, every pulsation Of its gloating
selfish, centralizing AND corroding heart
troubles and tingles and dISturbs through every
every artery Of trade, and in every vein OF So I
ciety, from Penobscott to the Golden Gate and /
from the SHOWS Of Alaska to the Everglades. of /
Florida. The great question is this: Can the t
people curb this power? If they can, there is I
hope for Constitutional Democracy, and the I
Union is saved
The localized power Of money as represented
by corporations, and nourished by class legisla-
ton, is the pretorian guard of America, which, |
adyenturer as Emperor, that power and wealth
may be safe, sustained and supported bv a
strong military government
Can any of the ephemerel organizations cope
with this power? Labor Reform Socialist
Greenbackers, Independents or the hundreds
of other restless issues, which feel the sting but
are striking bindly? There is but one hone
and that is III the great Democratic party. And
while Democracy is not communism and has no
relationship with any of the many absurd issues
of the day, it is for diffusion Of wealth that |
NAV bless the MANY conioined with
steady government with fun freedom for all; ii
is for the Constitution; for honest money. hon
est labor and honest wealth; for the defence of
the labor Of all against the organized capital of
the few; for American agriculture against pro-
teeted industries; for free homes, free ships
and regulated transportation; and it is alone
the great party of the near future If the liberty
Of the people remains.
This being true then the first duty OF Dem.
oeratle Congress is to make President making a
q certainty by proceeding slowly but surely to
tear down and destroy the strong works of cen.
tralized despotism, which the Republican
party, the lineal decendent of ancient Federalism
has been most industriously building IN and
strengthening for the past eighteen years Not
only to eonstitutionalize the army. b. maxine,
The military subordinate 10 the civil authority
and re-establishing silver as money but a een