Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-03-25

Stephen D. Dillaye, presidential can
dldate OF the -Pomeroy convention, In a
letter to the Sentinel (Chicago), says: No
part OF the United States IS so deeply in
terested in the question Of what cons til.
tutes money, how it shall be created, and
how it shall be distributed as tae West.
Labor and the West ave Iystaers. The
greenback is the child-of libCr. The price
= OF wheat, the price Of corn, the price of
pork, the price Of lumber, the price of
farms, the price of everything is centered
in the greenDaCk.
Will the American people make them
selves slaves to coin aud coin tyrants, or
taking up arms against al its selfish pro-
pagandists, will they declare themselves
free from its tyranny and independent oil
its powerp
Look at the States west of the lakes.
They have all sprung into empires grander
than anything in the past-greater in
wealth than all the coin in the world
grander in yearly harvests ten tunes over
than all the products OF all the gold and
silver mines in the world, and yet this
great granary Of the useful products,
according to hard money philosophy can
have no representative Of its vaue-no
measure Of its useiulness-no medium Of
exchange but an arbitrary, useless metal
which none but the rich can control. 1t
is bhsphemy to so argue. 1t is to make
labor which alone produces and creates
the slave to one OF its own products, to a
product which aristOCratic power has
made power to make idleness dominate
over industry, and usury over economy.
Slaves, men licanti and dupes may submit
to the insolence Of coin domination,
Freemen will not. San Domingo, Mexico
and South America are dupes to com.
The West has grown into life, into wealth
into progress, and into intelligence on
American credit, energy and labor; it has
never been tae slave OF coin. Will it now
give up It's indep endence2 Will it give
up, the most perfect system Of monetary
independence ever devisedp A system
based on nationality, on resources without
limit, on absolute wealth beyond estimate,
system which ftirly developed makes
money an equal with labor, AMI labor
an equal with money. A system,
and the only system ever devised which
can furnish supply adequate to every
demand, equal to every emergency, a posi-
tive leveler Of monetary power 10
industrial powc;. Yes, the only
system which can graduate the
supply to the demand SO as to produce
that exact equality Of means and rights
which constitute the proudcst and the
best aim of civilization, The only means
by which an aggregated people without
seIhshnesS and without profit, can labor
together to constitute a government of
the people by the people, for the people.
platform. 1t is our religion. There is
justice, honor equality, and tru4 progress
in 1t. The West knows how TO prize ii.
Let them learn how to retain it. The
voter reigns. Tne voter is sovereign.
The people are voters. The Republican
party says: XII the greenback; create
patent5 of nobility by bonds; banks as
inonopolies OF money and OF power; rail
road kings, an1 make the p p}ople the SER
wants of the privileged. The Democratic
party in the dead ruts Of the past, crying
between its fears and its hopes, says: No
legal tender money but gold and silver;
makes Bayard its apostle, Belmont its
herald, and Tilden its nightmare. The
National Greenback Labor party alone
represents nun, labor and equality. The
battle is between the exclusiveness Of coin
and the associated guardian of the pee
pie. Vote and be free. or vote and be
slaves. The past has its history, the world
is full Of it. The future has It's possibili-
ties and will be what the voter says it shall
be. The West is the young giant of the
true and of the free. Let it be true to
itself.