Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-04-03

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to the dangers which threaten our free in
stitutions.
In all civilized countries there is cl ass
OF restless, over-reGchlng spirits amblt-
lous for power that they may CRAFTY their
unsuitable thirst for greed and gain.
Every throne in Europe rests upon
heartless, nnrelcnting, gigantic monopol.
lirs.
Civilization is no freer from banditti
robbers than were the ages of barbarism.
The same spirit but operating though
different modes, exist5 today.
In early times these gangs banded to.
gether and waylaid and devasted coun-
tries by the right of might, outside of law.
In modern times they siezc upon sover-
eighty, and justify their deprcdations un-
dor cover Of legal statues. But legalizing
wrong renders it more bearable than
though it was perpetrated outside of law,
England nobility, mohopoli2ing certain
sovereign powers and attributes, which of
right belong to the people collectively
have become rich and powerful, while
those whom they have deprived of power
except to be oppressed by il, have become
serfs and paupers. II has desolatod Ire
land, and swept her factories from the
face Of the earth. Ireland. less than a
century ago, was the home of a contented
,,~ople, the seat Of busy and prosperous
industries, but is now land whose peo-
pie are born only to be watched or hunted
as felcns, or exled from the land they
owe SO we'll A few years since, over a
million Of these oppressed people were
driven to Premature graves by starvation,
while thousands of ship-loads of grain and
cattle were exported across the channel Us
tribute to tho avarice and greed OF Eng
land law-creatcd and law-proteCted ban
ditti. Misery and death follow in the
footsteps of the British system of
finance. The very air Of India
is fetid with the stencil of de-
caying bodies, starved in one of The most
extensive and productive agricultural dis.
tricts in the world. This oligarchy by
the aid of a few tories and traitors to
American interests, is sboring with un-
tiring zeal to fasten this same monopoly
upon our people. 1t has established its
headquarters in our Atlantic seaport cit
les. 1t aims to control the land and in
lustries of the United States as it does
those of Ireland and India. 1t proposes
to do this by seizing and controlling the
money volume Of the country. Every man
knows that he who holds the purse of
country, is as much Of tyrant over the
people, as ever the c7ar was of all the Rus
sias. The banks Of New York govern and
control the banking associations of the
whole country. Not prominent bank in
New York, but is branch, or a co-part
ner of some London or European banking
house. Every member of fSherman's syn
licate is a partner or an agent of some
European firm of capitalists. This
o!igarchy is endeavoringto to wrest from our
government its moss powerful sovereign
attribute-its power to issue and control
the volume of its exchange medium.
Popular liberty and constitutional gov
ernment cannot exist in country where
the money function is controlled by pri-
vate monopoly. Every monopoly weakens
popular sovereignty, but monopoly of
the money of country, like that contem-
plated by the national banking scheme,
will swallow up and absorb every veshge
Of popular liberty, and from necessity for
tfy and intrnch itself within the walls
Of absolute monarchy, which it will he
abundantly able to do, by dcpriving the
people of the means of resistance.
The finance system, which the Money
Power is endeavoring to thrust upon our
people through John Sherman and the
machinery OF the Republican party pro-
pose to turn over to the Republican bond
holders the whole money creating and
controlling power Of the nation. Who
are these men whom the once patriotic
Republican party proposes to entrdst with
the greatest and most important sovereign
attribute of the government? FOREIGN
ERs AND ALIENs-men who have no SYM
pathy with our institutions but to crush
them, and 10 regard for our prosperity
but DO reap its fruits. The same men
who are to-day crushing the life ont OF
Ireland and India, and whose colossal for
times have accumulated by cnslaving
very people, and levymg tribute upon
very nation and industry ON which they
Ould fasten their golden graphing hooks.
Our banking monopoly of $500, 100000 of
capital, with authority to increase it in.
definitely, will become power, if he
maintained, that cannot be successfully
opposed.
1t will be the power In the land.
1t will be as arbitrary as tyranny itself
1t will defy and snap its fingers at the
complaints Of the people.
twill be a power beyond the reach of
the people.
Its dynasty will he hereditary and per-
petual.
The right to issue and control the volume
Of the couutry's money Is said to be
tremendous and dangerous power, too
dangerous to trust to Congress. 1t is pro-
posed to confer this power upon the banks
The bankers may be all right to-day, but
who can tell or who dare to trust this tre-
mendous power" to those who may in.
herit it from the present generation? As
well have king at once, clothed with
full sovereign power to be inherited by
bis eldest son, as to confer the greatest of
all sovereign powers upon a monopoly to
be inherited and exercised by n progeny
IF born aristocrats who know nothing of
the wants of the people and care less.
This power already controls Legislators,
shapes political platforms and policies,
and through party machinery lashes the
votes of the country to choose between
two candidates of its own selection. 1t
aims to destroy constitutional government,
and deprive the people of popular liberty.
1t IS preparing for it. The imperial egg
is already laid, and Incubation is taking
place undeHGrantism.