Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-07-15

trolling the volume OF money, the banks
fix the price OF all labor and property; and
the railroads, by combination, render cont
petition impossible, and control absolutely
the price of transportation.
This places the people between the up
per and neither millstOncs, and grinds
them to poverty and ruin. 1t results in
the wholesale robbery Of both producer
and consumer. Who is able to controvert
this stupendous iactP Farmers, planters
and Iaboring mcn of the United States, |
beseech you to open your eyes at once to
this alarming condition of things
am especially thankful that the plat
form OF the party which placed me in
nomination is open, bold and unmistakab!c
on these great questions.
The Republican and Democratic plat
forms are either silent with regard to these
vital issues, or they have pronounced in
favor Of the monopolies and against the
people. With fifty millions of people
looking them in the face and pleading lor
relief, they utter not one word Of promise
or hope. Their leaders and platform
makers are in the tolls of the syndicate,
gigantic bank corporations and railroad
monopolies, and have neither the DISPOSE
ton nor the courage to strike one generous
blow for industrial emancipation.
An area of our public domain, larger
than the territory occupied by the great
German empire, has been wantOnly do
mated to wealthy corporations; while Il
bill introduced by Hon. Ilendrick b.
Wright, of Pennsylvania, to enable our
poor people to reach and occupy the few
acres remaining, has been secuted, ridi
culed and defeated IN congress. In con-
sequence Of this stupendous system of land
grabbing, millions Of the young men Of
America, and millions more OF industrious
people from abroad, seeking homes IN the
New World, are left homeless and desti.
tutc. The public domain must be sacredly
reserved to actual settlers, and where cor
poratons have not complied strictly with
the terms OF their grants, the lands should
be at once reclaimed.
The immigration persons from foreign
countries, seeking homes, and desiring to
become citizens of the United States,
should be encouraged, but the importation
of Chinese servile laborers should be pro-
hibited by stringent laws.
While the bondholder has been paid
gold in return for his deprecated cur
rency, the soldiers and sailors, who saved
our union, our homes, our money and our
affairs, and whose blood consecrated every
battlefield from Belmont and Donelson to
Gettysburg and Appomattox, are denied
the pittanCe Justly due them under their
contract with the government-as though
soldiers and sailors could live on gratitude
alone.
By the answer of Secretary Sherman of
June 10, 1880, to the senate resolution of
inquiry, it appears that the government
paid the soldiers in greenbacks during the
war OF the rebellion, $1,240, $40 135. 16.
The total interest paid in gold on the pub.
lie debt from July |, 1861, to June 30,
1879, was $1,S09, sol, ASS. 10. The soldier
has been taxed to pay this interest, while
the bondholder has gone free,
During the present congress it has been
impossible to induce the committees to
report 2lngle bill to remedy existing
evils. The important committees Of the
house are so constituted and the despotic
rules of that body so interpreted as to
render relief impossible. Under these
rules the speaker is as much the dictator
OF the country as though he were an em-
pcror and ruling in the most despotic
government on the globe.
One of the grand missions of our party
is to Danish forever from American poll
tics that deplorable spirit of sectional
hatred which, for base purposes, has been
| fo,to,oJ l, tha lno1nrs NJ tna ol1 no,l,n ia,
This has greatly deceived and embittered
the public mind, both north and south.
Our civilization demands u new party,
dedicated to the pursuits of peace, and
which will not allow the war issues ever
| to be reopencd, and will render the mill
tary strictly subservient to the civil power.
The war is over, and the sweet voice of
peace, long neglected, calls us to worship
at her altars; let us crowd her temples
with willing votaries. Let us have free
ballot, fair count, and equal rights for
all classes-for the laboring man in north.
ern manufactures, mines and work shops,
and for the struggling poor. both black
and white, in the cotton fields of the south.
most earnestly and solemuly invoke
united action OF all industrial classes, ire.
| SpeCUlNe vi party, Jnht we may make q
manly struggle for the independence OF
labor, and to re-establish in the admins.
tration of public affairs the old-time De-
mocracy Of Jefferson and Jackson, and the
pure Republicauism of Abraham Lincoln
and Thaddeus Stevens.
In consequence of the great avenues TO
public opinion-the press, the bar and the
pulpit-being mainly under the control Of
| the enemies of our movement, your con.
vention thought proper TO request Its can
didates to visit the various sections Of the
union and talk to the people. 1t is my
intention to comply with this request Ia
the extent Of my ability.
And now, eschewing all violence and
tumult, as unworthy of the cause we rep.
resent, and relying upon divine Provi.
dence and the justice Of our cause, let us
90 forth in the great struggle for human
rights.
With high regard, am
Your obedient servant,
]. B. WEAVER.