Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-18

From the Irish World,


While our undivided attention was di
rected to the great growing, central Hy'
dra, with its bank heads-two thousand
of them; its cotton-Mill heads, blasting
human life; its coal-mine heads, crowned
with galows for innocent men; its far.
reaching Railroad heads, rush all owe,
and gorging the public lands; its Pa.
cifc heads boring and burrowing into the
earth to drag out the precious metals, to
bank them by hundreds of millions, and
and crown Snob Hill with three million
dollar houses-whilst we were watching
all these, and the swarms Of lesser heads
budding out in all other directions, we
lost sight Of two colossal off-shoots of the
same hydra. The produce exchange" "
which has fastened on the grain crops Of
the West, and works his way: One cir
cumventing knave, seated in Wall street
orders by telegram sale Of grain he had
never seen, but in which he had gambled
at the produce exchange, And that tele.
gram netted him $4,000. Encouraged
by this fact, half dozen southern knaves
set to work and formed cotton ex-
change'-.one root in New York and the
other in New Orleans. They are to par
tition out the cotton crop into three or
four grades-'sea island" "upland, +"
"choice middlings," "poor middlings," :"
etc. To aid their classification and grease
the wheels generally, they are to approach
Congress for convenient grant Of money,
and thus feel the way before them.
If difficulties present themselves they
will have time and tact and public mon
ey to overcome them. But one great diff.
fculty, they inform us, has disappeared.
The great difficulty that has cost them so
dear before the war and through the war
-''the labor problem" at isnowsolved
they inform us. Wages labor is more
efficient-costs no trouble to manage it,
and all told, is cheaper than was the la
Dor of the Chattle Slave. "And So" says
their Chairman, I'VE are quickly to be-
comeithe main producer of this great staple,
suled."
"Assured!" And what assures itP
Why, the labor that is easily managed
and cheap, chedp-and growing CHEAP
Err, as the Mongol sails in. That's what
"assures" it.
In the meanwhile the disinherit0d white
man and the disinherited colored man
will serve the purpose even at so cents or
less a day till the Celestial visitant comes
to them at so cents or 40 cents or30 cents,
or the price of tunic Of rice and mo-
lasses, down in that cheap neighborhood.
And SO they assure themselves that the
future is assured" When they turned
the negro Observation-Disclosures an
acre on which to build him q cabin or
plant him ahead of corn, when the long
faced hypocri,ical men and women, who
had struck off his chains, turned their
forces from him and left him TO stand alone
with nothing to stand upon, the future
was assured" It has been assured"
to the disinherited white man long before,
but now it was assured to both white ard
black. Aud so Mr.. Cotton Exchanger"
takes assurance that the problem is solv-
ed" He does not comprehend that with
claw and order" and legislatures, and
governors, presidents, and regular and
militia forces at his back, and above and
beyond all with mesmerizing press in
jecting lts daily virus into the public
mind-he does not comprehend how that
laborer, toiling in his rice swamp or his
cotton field, can possibly disturb the "as-
sursnce" that now sits pleasantly on his
mind he sees that the white man has &C.
cepted his disinheritance-that he bends
beneath the blasphemy that has, in the
old nations, tortured his fathers and driven
them exlles so this new land. Oh! misery!
misery! that this circumyenting scoun-
drel can look at this mental degradation
Of men who call themselves American
citizens.