Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25
POLITICAL MENTION.

POLITICAL MENTION,
JOHN SHERMAN rcpudiates the silver
dollar by refusing to receive it at the treas
ury from the banks. Good ground for i'm
parchment.
ZACH CHANDLER says that the laboriag
men are cheated out of $1S0,000,000 an
nually because of the coinage act, put
ting but IS cents worth of silver in a dol
lar.
THE real test whether per cent is low
er now than per cent. was in 1S69is how
much labor did it take to pay six dollars
then, and how much does it take to pay
four dollars nowP
THAT is not SO bad as the coinage act
of 1873, which abolished the silver dollar,
and authorized the coinage of half-dollars,
two OF which contained less that 50 cents
worth of silver.
"WE now see all over Europe, and par
ticulary in England, the curious pheno-
mena Of a nation looking one way and the
government the other; the one looking
forward and the other backward
THE demonstration of silver in Eng
land occasions an annual loss of $40, 0,00O,-
900 alone in the exchange of that king
dom with India. One thousand rupees in
India dwindle.d e.down to 500 when they reach
England.
Ten years ago wheat was worth Sl60
per bushe, now it is worth 81 cents. Ten
years ago 60 pounds of wheat would pay
per cent. interest on $27, now 1t takes Is
pounds to pay per cent. on the same
amount, so instead of lessening the inter
est burden it has actually been increased
20 per cent
THE widows and orphans of one class,
who gave their lives to defend the gov
crnment, are paid in currency worth fifty
cents on the dollar in gold, and the heirs
Of another class, who furnish the gov
ernment with the deprecated currency,
receive bonds worth more than gold, and
a generous interest pension for all time to
come.
RESUMPTION must be weak structure
If it requires so many administrative props
to hold it up as constantly keep their
shoulders under it, If it is a reality, dis
pensing all the blessings attributed to it,
why is it necessary for cabinet officers to
vacate their seats and tramp the length
and breadth of the land TO convince the
public of the fact?
THE civil and miscellaneous expenses
of the government amounted to $l3,000,-
900 more this year than last. During the
four years Of the war, the civil and mis-
cellaneous expenses averaged but fraction
over S28,OO0,00 year. This year OF pre-
found peace and prosperity, the amount
reported is $6j, ,7H, ,j55.49. and now Shcr-
man has placed censorship over infor-
nation hereafter going out from the treas
ury department.
OVER $4,000 miles of railroads, with
stock and bond liabilities of $500, ,S03, 40
in the eleven states OF Ohio, Michigan,
Indiana. Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky,
Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and
Kansas, are in default of interest. Add
to this the share can''-' m ~h'-t r. ~.
dends are paid, tht m' E uur..r-
tive capital will be ..s'. .,.r.s 81,
Poor's Manual es @ 4n"l. 1t
Sl,200,0I0,000.
THE relative amount oF cola m dH
United States tr grg ,5 Wl,hnrtm.
and the amount of ..HIal'n '
be kept in circula,ol nj pon ....
little to do with ea ID ,trc, jr.
ask the governmcnr u keep
money on hand lyn idle iata'a.
to demonstrate the nhIi'y OF 40 n .,.
to make is tpOstagc stamps e'. tn.. I
use they are made, or tb5. .' . +
deem each of then .v clrglnr Nl.r
THE Greenback T., o. Nn5sra county.
Kas. helda grand picnic i'm grove hata ~
Erie and Usage M sion The crowd was
variously estimate at rcm zoo 10 2c'1
which was very Ell 2rragiug considering.
that the gathering 5gcluat IN the uIl.!
of castor bean and uy haryost, unj tUt'
the morning preseatJ d .r,ns il..a.toa
of rain. Hon. G. ~. Sturgeon, lion. J.'
M. Allen and DR.. R. Brogan, all stalwart
We iers of our country, delivered able and
convincing speeches.
GOVERNMENT is not n trade which
any man Or body of men has right to
setup and exercise for his own cmolu-
ment, but is altogether trust, in right
of those by whom that trust is delegated
and by whom it is always resumable. 1t
has Of itself no rights; they are altogether
duties. In framing the constitution, out
of which the government grew, or by
which its form was changed, it had no
right to make itself party in any debate
respecting the principle or mode of form
ing or changing the constitution.
CAPITAL under the pretext of benefit
ting Public Credit, has robbed the public
first, by the "Credit.Strengthening
Act" that outrage which Bondholding