Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-07-17
POLITICAL MENTION,

IULlllCAL mENllUNt
This is time that tries mems integri.
W. We hope the greenback party will
stand firm on principal.
WE are in the house of our fathers, and
we not only mean to stay, but, please God
we intend to have control.
For hundreds of years they have tired
gold and silver and dozens of times they
have failed them when in the sorest need
REAL success can be obtained only by
driving the hard-money men of all parties
together and making the greenback the
real issue.
FRANCE has good times. She owes $l4
per capita and has $i5 to pay with. The
United States has hard times. We owe
$45 per capita and have $l4 to pay with.
GOLD staid at home during the war and
sent u crippled substitute. Gold now
draws pension of u hundred millions a
year and compels the substitute to pay it.
TIE states follow fast upon the nation
al government, while the towns are sinks
of iniquity, where crime stalks forth in
broad daylight, and the daily papers are
little more than police reports.
Those who finch when the country
calls for firm, determined men-men who
are not afraid to say what they believe
and to act upon that belief-will lose the
respect of every true lover of liberty.
WE see no good in whipping one Ring
for the purpose Of instituting another.
We hope the greenbackers saw enough of
trading last winter and will refuse to en-
bark in another so hazardous enterprise.
SINCE 1865 two thousand bondholders
have made more money by paralyzing and
wrecking industry than ten millions of
cnterpriSing producers have made with all
the labor saving machinery of the coun-
try.
lF the railroad companies should limit
their baggage checks to brass representa-
tivcs of gold duplicates, they would dis.
play about as much business genius as
people do Of financial genius who limit
their national credit tokens to borrowed
coin duplicates.
LYING back of these ia the national
government, that IS kept up on a war
footing of the most cxtravagant sort, and
administered through a civil service so
rotten that it is estimated that out OF
every three dollars collected one only
reaches its destination.
Now, class servitude is bound to exist
when the capitalists can say to the laborer,
"Iou work for me for so much day or
starve," and labor has TO accept or suffer-
And the bitter fruits of this scrvitude
tntsH H,rn
is what wc moan hy bord t;moo '''
10 have this sort of thing continue is
to doom ourselves and our postcritv to a
dreary servitude. 1t is to acknowledge
that self government is Il failure, and the
beautiful political structure ofthe fathers,
erected at such cost of blood and treasure,
a vain dream, that would not bear the
test of experience.
WE have two thousand three hundred
national banks banking on the credit of
the government, with a little army of
officials who not only execute the will of
their principles, but tatten on perquisites.
These banks cost us more to support and
before the late civil war.
For a thousand years craftsmanship
has been taxed to devise some means by
which labor might be relieved OF its bur-
dens in supporting not only the govern
ment, but capital also, and without sue
cess. Exoctions aud extortions alike reach
through to labor-the men who produce
everything and enjoy nothing that they
may rest in peace.
TIE effect of credit on business has been
pointed out by the political economists but
the English statesmen are so infatuated
With their system that they attribute pan
IS to the speculative disposition of the