The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-25
A GREENBACKER ON THE POLITICAL
SITUATION.

Mr.. Kelly, Greenback- Republican from
Philadelphia, made speech in the house
at Washington, Thursday, on the Demo
cratic plan of starving the government
into compliance with its demands He
took the ground that the Democrats had
no right TO secure their objects by any
such methods as they are now resorting
to, and concluded as follows:
''The whole system of putting a rider
on the appropriation bills was vicious,
and to be repudiated. / say to the gen.
tlemen on the other side of the house
now, that they have but TO adjourn, leav-
ing the light houses on our coasts un-
lighted, and the courts and other branch
es of our government dependent upon
these bills, unprovided for, to make the
north as solid as it was from 1861 to 1865.
II will, irrespective of party, stand by the
constitution as it stood by il when it was
being applied to maintain the life of the
nation and unity of the country Now
addressing the Democratic side of the
hOuse-are You sure of a solid south on
so unconstitutional a matter? Your
south is not solid to-day OF those who
constitute what you sneer at as the CEN
ter, one comes from Texas and one from
Alabama, representing Democratic dis
tricts; you have among you three indie
pendent Democrats, who beat the regu-
lar nominees, and there is a score of gen
tlemen among you, who, although enjoy
ing the right to go into the Democratic
caucuses, know that but for the Green
back votes in their districts, others would
have occupied their places. No, gentle
men, the south is not solid, and you have
I,Nrk to l. l.a
stitution to find your party crumbling in
the south, as it will crumble in every
northern state. have no fear of war
or threats of war. Behind US all lie the
people, the depository of power, and they
will see to it that if they have mistaken
their man, they will not make such a
mistake again. Nay, they will see to it
that their voice shall re-illuminate the
light houses along the coast, and set the
government IN all Its branches in vital
motion again. Ourcountry is filled with
discomfort and murmurs; capital finds
no profit, and seeks shelter in the vaults
of your treasury at four per cent. per an
mum, while the labOrer, i'll requited when
employed, wanders through the country,
seeking work at any wages. The coun-
try needs repOse. Nothing can be of
less benefit at this time than agitation.
~ AultOA ChnLOI pIOSpCl du1luSl III pas
stoned agitation, nor IN a great country
like this can you prevent party degen-
Grating into faction, when you pro-
pose to entertain people for two years
on the simple question as to which Is
the blacklist, the Democratic pot or the
Republican kettle. Uaughter.) The peo-
pie are feeling the pressure of the unusu-
al want, and are asking for relief. They
find themselves passing year by year,
month by month, day by day, from con-
tented and decent homes to want and
vagranoy, and you cannot feed them fat
on such breathings of east winds as has
been INDUCED in in these halls during
this session. The Republican party has
made a record which will live as long as
man marks great events in history; bet
ter fifty years of Europe than cycle of
Cathay; better for humanity twenty years
of such strife and blOOdshed as the Re
publican party has guided than hun
dred years of European history; its grand
record shows that it has done more for
the advancement of man; it has opened
more access to culture, and more minds
to working; it has Obliterated prejudice,
and the rising generations, springing
from the loins of eX-slaVeS, will know
only the tradition and impulses of the
American freemen. If, instead of striv-
ing to promote political agitation on both
sides, we will turn to the condition of
the country, and strive to reanimate the
industry OF our own country, to enable
capital to be invested in productive pur-
suits, and to give labor to the people,
then we shall be able TO reduce that debt,
by the existence of which, by offering
better terms than private enterprise can
elsewhere, is absorbing and placing in
the vaults of the treasury what should
be the life blood of trade and production.
If we do so, we will give content To the
people and enable them to reduce that
debt out of their surplus profits as rapid
ly as it was before Hugh Mccullough
began his internal work of retiring legal
tender money, driving the enterprise of
the country to BANKRUPTCY for the accom-
mediation of an unholy interest.