The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25
A SURE ENOUGH Massey.


We read some weeks ago one of Mas
by's letters in which he told what good
time "the corners" would have when the
Greenbackers got sway. About $780,
100000 were to be spent there for inter
nal improvements, such as making a lit
tie creek navigable, building several rail
roads, canals, etc. And it seems that
Nasby's dream for the prosperous days
of the corners is to be realized. A
second Nasty lifts his voice in congress
and proposes to issue ten hundred mil
lions of dollars which shall be loaned to
all the Mulberry Sellers schemes of the
country for building canals, railroads,
ETC., on fifty years time. This Nasty is
a live member of congress from Indiana
in the person of one De LaMatyr. We
published his proposition yesterday in
our telegraphic column.
The very thing we have all been par
ticularly complaining about for years is
the granting of privileges and money to
corporations by the government. There
has been too much of that in the last
thirty years, and the cry for reform of
this abuse has gone up from every polit-
ical convention held for the last ten years.
No more money or privileges for cOrpO-
rations, and yet the first chance the lead
ing Greenbacker in congress gets he Sc
riously makes a proposition to give to
corporations ten hundred millions of
dollars. We seriously doubt that mans
sanity, or if sane, he is a dreamer on
the question of finances and political
economy,
We suggest if this sort of thing is to
be started that it be made more general
There is no use of one corporation act
ing the hog and taking in 100000, 900
when there are so many furnishing com
panies throughout the land. The Hene
pin canal company might get along with
less than $13,OOO,OOO. We know we
should not have the sanction of the Off
GERS and agents of this canal company
in this proposition, but think of the
hundreds of poor officers of other organ
= iZations who are laborlng to-day on sal
aries of not over $4,000. IfDe La Matyl
? is humanitarian he cannot turn 1
deaf ear to the cry for "divy" of thu
: ten hundred millions. Either this or lie
him make it twenty hundred millions
We call the attention of the Kansa!
! Greenbackers to the solemn fact that NJ
provision whatever is made for them BY
the festive brother from indianapolis
: Where is brother Mitchell, and the snort
J ing Taylor, of Johnson, and the erudita
Elder, and the innocent Sam Wood
Will they not move for the down-trod
den in Kansas If the people are to b
/ fed at the public treasury, we protes
: that Kansas shall not be left to starve
, Sam Woods rams horn railroad, whicl
, we have not heard from for several years
/ cannot move for want of funds. Tn
e Greenbacker ought to have a million
dollars. 1t is useful paper-would b
more so without ink, of course, but
a ought to be kept up. OF course San
g can continue to get local bonds enough
s for his personal expenses by managin,
+ little ten thousand dollar jobs to bull,
= school houses, but il is too much TO asl
5 him to sacrifice the funds necessary +
o conduct a great metropolitan journal
e and circulate it free. Unless Mr.. De L
n Matyr, who seems suddenly to have d.
n veloped into the smallest kind of a small
e bore demagogue, gives Kansas four o
r, five hundred millions of dollars, VI
l. may be set down as opposed to hi
lie scheme