Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-11
POLITICAL MENTION,

POLITICAL MENTION,
STRAIGHT out greenback ticket will be
IN the field during the coming campaign
in New York.
WITH the strength OF unity and the
right OF Justice on our side, the Green
back party should sail into the port Of
victory in the coming campaign.
WHEN men are enjoying short pros.
perity-when they are making ready for
swift calamity-in their recklessness they
forget the central law and drift back into
individualism.
THE evil Of periodical glut of the
labor market calls for special attention,
because it is not temporary one. 1t is
likely to continue SO long as the present
Industrial system Lasts"
lF the farmers and producers will con-
slider the true doctrines of the Greenback
party and recognize that their interests
are involved in its success, they will work
in perfect harmony for the relief Green
back representatives could afford them.
WHAT representations the banks made
to John Sherman to obtain the extension
are not yet known, but several can be
easily imagined-namely, the aid it has
been to him in his funding operations, or
the 'id rendered for campaign purposes.
The banks control the railroads. The
whole system is usurpaton Of public
rights. 1t is responsible to-day for the
stagnation OF business, for the failures,
for the starvation, and for the universal
gloom which pervadeS the land.
If the right to pay the bonds in green
backs is denied on the ground that one
debt cannot be paid without another,
then have any of the soldiers been really
paid, or any of the millions of debts and
mortgages, that have been cancelled with
greenbacks?
WHEN orders went forth from the treas.
ury department at Washington, through
the New York clearing house, to the Wall
street gold exchange to turn the gold dial
to 100, and let it remain there till further
orders-what was resumption but the fat
of John Sherman?
If the government chooses to farm out
its control over the currency to private
parties, why not grant the privilege 10
those who need 1t in the production of
wealth, instead of giving 1t to an idle
monopoly to rob, blackmail and oppress
the producers of wealth.
THERE has been, and there i3, under
consumption. Millions in the United
States are wearing old clothes, using
worn-out articles, going without what
they need, living on half fare, and thous-
ands are starving, while Capital locks up
its Silver, and its Gold, and its Green
backs in United States Bonds, drawing
Interest and exempt from taxes.
THREE hundred thousand capitalists
have in the last sixteen years concentrate
ed s2,OOO,OO0OOO in National Banks
more than 1000 in number-and these
1000 Banks, the more effectually to con-
troll legislation, finances and political
power, have combined into an association
to control the money of the nation, the
labor of the nation, and the people Of the
nation.
MEN who would abandon the Green.
buck cause, or be prevented from espOus-
ing it, in consequence of temporary
spurt of good growing out of the provi-
dence of God on the one hand and the
misfortunes of their neighbors on the
other, would neglect to roof their houses
in dry weather, to SOW in seel time or
reap in harvest time, and like the slug
gard they would be doomed to starve and
freeze the winter when comes.
THERE was better times, more business
transacted, more improvements made,
more labor performed, the products Of la
Dor more equally and uniformly distribut-
cd, labor was better employed, more gen.
erously rewarded and better supplied with
the comforts Of life; there were less debts
contracted, fewer business failures, and
by far greater degree of general pros
perity throughout the country, in 1865,
when gold was dearest and currency
cheapest, than ever, was in this country,
before or since.
CONGRESS has been Frustrated by the
credit Strengthening act, the demonetiza-
tion Of silver, the resumption act, the con-
traction and cremation acts. And the
funding acts by which the bond exemp-
tion fraud has been perpetuated to gain
the support Of the bank association. They
have sacrificed the prosperity Of the ma
ton. They have perpetuated exemption
of the rich from taxes, and they have di,
rected the whole power Of their party to
gain the political support of the 1000
banks with their $4,000, 100000 Of money.
England suspended specie payment
in 1907 and inflated his paper currency
from S45, 100000 to $235, 100000, reduc-