Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-01-09
POLITICAL MENTION.

lN the fiscal year of lS77-7S the con.
merce of the United States amounted t,
sl,OOO,OOO,OOO
The banks that discriminate against
silver will find their names written in thu
black book of the peoples record and i
will one day be opened for their iudg
ment.
THE resumptionists will find that to Sc
cure resumption and national prosperity
as consequence is an impossibihty. i
will be terrific failure, eyadc its true in
tent and curtail its full scope as the,
may.
THE latest disclosures in regard tC
Sheran's little game with his pet New
lolk bank is that Hewitt declares it is
fact, clearly proved, that that bank has
made 100000 in interest, which the gov
crnment could have saved if John Shcr
man had chosen to do so.
SERIOUS trouble is anticipated among
the operatives of the South Yorkshire and
North Derbyshire collieries of England
about New Years; on account of Il pro.
posed reduction of 1913 per cent. in wages
This will affect 100000 men, whose pay i.
barely sufficient to sustainlile. Amonstcl
meeting will DO held about January lst
when scheme for striking en- masse will
he discussed
THERE is no other savior for the coun
try than the treasury note. Gold will not
save it but destroy it. 1t is immensely in.
sufficient i'll quantity and in the hands Of
few. The failure of the Glasgow Bank
of Scotland and the occurrence OF over 4JO
failures in England during the last SIX
weeks presagc the entire break down OF
the gold basis personal credit system Of
the world. This is another lesson from
abroad but American ignorance and sell
iishncss must before it learns thi. lesson,
have one nearer home and will soon be ac-
commodated.
Tue charge of ten cents and upward by
the govern nent for money orders that
ought not to cost over two cents at the far
thcst Is beginning to cause great COM
plant. 1t seems that the rulers Of the
great republic try to block the way against
their republican subjects ut all points.
This money order impost and the de.
struction Of the fractional currency, so
handy to send in letters on small crrands
but sometimes errands of great import
ance, seems to warrant the belief that our
government Is inclined to petty dcspot-
ism.
Is another column we copy from The
New York San letter written by Jchn
Thompson in reference to John Sherman S
speculation with the First National bank.
The author OF this letter is in position to
know just whathc is writing about. Hcis
the oldest living banker in New York, was
the editor and publisher of Thompson
Bank Note Detec,er, which in the DAYS Of
wild cat state banks was an indispensable
article in any well regulated business
house, He established the first national
bank in the United States outside of Wash
ington, all of which render ~ opinion
from him OF more than ordinary imuOr-
tencc.
ANOTHER fresh picture of horror from
England's specie basi5 easel, is given in the
tissue of The Empress by correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune. Those who study
carefully the pictures us they are present.
ed from day to day, ca not fail to see that
the British empire is agonizng in the
throcs Of dissolution. Its wealth and
greatness consisted of the products of that
labor which, to-day, is PROSTATE and dying
Of hunger and cold. The seeds of death
and decay sowcd in the moral, social and
physical organism of her labor element by
Pcel's policy of 1890 have insiduously but
surely performed their work, and although
a few have amasscd colossal fortunes by
robbing those w,.o produced them, they
have killed the goose that laid the golden
egg. The starving process has gone on 50
long that. the physique and muscle of
oven her agricultural laborcrs have be-
come too deteriorated to handle the mus
ket in her defense.
The peopleof this country pay IL thous.
and millions year in interest This is a
sum greater than the value of every bushel
OF corn, wheat, oats and barley grown in
the country, This interest is not paid
alone by these who borrow. 1t is paid by
those who deal with or are employed bv
these who borrow. The manufacturer
who pays usury takes 1t out of his labor
ers, and the merchant from his customers.
That thousand millions is IN absolute tax
upon all the industry of the country, with.
out any return whatever 1t is this sys.
TEN of debt and usury which has produced
the great extremes of splendor and soual-
or, Of magniicence and of wrctchedness,
in England We are following in the
same road. The common people of this
country will reach the same level of
degradation as the working people of
England if W. do not change our poli.
cieS. 1t is humiliating to find the most of
the clergy of America taking sides with
the extortioners and the oppressors, lust
as the clergy of the south stood on the
side of slavery, and as the clergy of Eng.
land have resisted every encroachment
upon feudal and manorial rights.
Kleptomania.
Providence journal.
Such disease as kleptomania undoubt.