Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-03-06

lNanSwer to the statement of the Ci'
ciinati Enquirer, that:
FERNANDO WooD has seen light. He
thinks that the Grcenbackers are right.
The value of money like everything
else, is regulated by the laws Of supply
and demand.
If grecnbacks are not money, then the
bondholdcrs never loaned the government
any moncy-thcy simply loaned green.
ks,-T'crc HoMe ErpcsS.
Ben BUTLER has been talking very in
coherently about rebel pensions. Can il
he that this great man has put aprcsiden.
tial bee in his bonnet to steal away hi,
brains?
EVERY true national should and will
maintain IA consistent position of EARNED
neutrality" no matter to which side hi,
sympathies may incline. Tcmy lind.
NcW E,u.
PETEL COOPER celebrated his ninetiet
birthday on the day when Abraham Lin.
coin vas born and his cighty.mnth birth.
day yesterday; and he is as lively as q
cricket, and full of good fun.
VINO wonders that society iS becoming
alarmingly dcmoraliaed, when tramping
in such Of work to earn money is made a
felony i'll some states. and men are thrrst
into prison in others for not possessing it
IT is difficult to see how the Democracy
can avoid trotting out the old team, Til.
den and Hendricks, in 1850, although
Governor Hendricks doubtless thinks that
that would be putting the cart before the
horse.
The more valuable money is, the less
valuable is everything that money pur.
chaSes, and vice versa. Money is too val
uable the world over and labor and,cOmmo,
dities too cheap. Money buys, property
sells, and the value of money depends on
the amount of property a given sum will
purchase.
LABOR seeks in vain for remmeratyc
employment. Farmers find it impossible
to meet current expenses from the profit,
of tillagc, Notwithstanding the seasons
are good and the havcsts bountiful, Will,
many IL farm and home are shrinking
from the grasp of their owners under the
pressure of interest and excessive taxa.
ton.
The Democrats of the East must either
'scch an immediate combination with the
Grecnback party or he disgrdcefully de-.
feated next fall;" the basis of agreement
being every dollar that crcuates in Tie
United States as money, be it gold, silver
or paper shall be issued hy the Govern.
ment shall be Il full legal tender for all
debts, public and private"
For the millions of money that have
been spent in the multitudinous inyrsti.
cations during the past decade, will some
Investigator rise up and inform the country
Of one wrong that has been rightcd, one
crime punished, one officer displaced VIII.
has obtained his position hy fraud, or Il
single remedy provided to prevent rcpc.
tition of the wrongs exposed?
WTTH our grccnback yOlumcsmcrcascd
to 81, l,5OO,OOO,OOO, would property values
increase? OF course they would; and ir.t
in proportion as the value of cOmmodr
increase the value of money will dccIin,
of the value and purchasing power o
grcenbackS? No, not unless its value and
purchasing power should decline all over
the world by general rise in prices equal
to the rise in the United States.
THE Weekly (O.J Bee thus hits the
mark: Fourteen millions Of dollars went
INTO four per cent. Government bond,
Saturday. Bonds employ no laborers,
feed no hungry mouths. and clothe II,
shivering torms-and want and woe will
not cease to travel up and down the high.
ways and byways Of the land until there
is more money going into business enter.
prlses than into bonds. No money should
70 into bonds; stop the sale, now and
.tOrercr. Bonds means bondage.
THE prisons Of the east are 'ilcd wltl
delinquent tax payers, and the gloom Of
despair hangs heavily over many hearth,
stone, that few years since was lighted
up with hope and joy. What this load is,
why it is steadily increasing, and how re.
lief from it can be obtained, are question.
of the deepest interest to society, and the
Importance of their correct solution is pan.
amount to all partisan political cOnsider
tions. They involve the happiness ofevcry
man, the prosperity of the country, the
peace and safety Of society, the perpctaity
of our free institutions and the life of the
republic.
AFTER congress had recognized silver
and provided to increase the coinage OF
that metal to meet the crying demands Of
want, who wonders that morality is at q
low ebb when preachers of the gospc
from their pulpits are allowed to pray that
the sixteen millions of silver dollars now
coined may be tied to the necks of thos,
who authorized their issue and the,
drowned in the depths of the sea, as Rev
DR., DENIM last Sabbath, in New Haven
Conn, expressed himself. Who doubts
but Satan is loose on his thousand yeal
furlough, a.>, has chosen his disciple,
from the velvet cushioned pulpits, wher
the Rev. DR.. Joseph Cook of Boston is per
mitted to utter, in fremont Temple, such
dcvilish sentiments as the following in re,
ference to recent labor meeting in that
city:
81 say come on with your schemes oi
confsoation, and forced loans, and graded
income taxes, and irredeemable currency
under universal suffrage, and If you are
sufficiently frank in proclaiming the doc
trines Of your ring leaders, then, under
military necessity, and even here in The
United States, we must get rid of Univer
sal suffrage, and we shall" Applause. /
"Rathcr than allow these things we viii
have one of the fercest of civil wars y