The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-06-16
Plans of the Privileged Glasses.

Plans of the Privileged Glasses.
The money barons and privileged
classes generally, are in favor of adher-
ing to the Sherman plan Of administer
ing the finances Of the Government,
whether the Republicans or Democrats
are successful. The Republicans have
done their work TO the entire satistac-
ton Of this class, and to make 4 sure
thing no matter which side wins, they
are now looking to Cincinnati. There
are some pregnant sentences IN a speech
recently delivered. in the House Of Rep
resentatives, by Hon. Fl, B. Wright, OF
Pennsylvania, which we may aPpro-
priately insert here. He Is speaking Of
the Sherman policy to destroy the
greenback currency, and to annul the
silver legislation by boarding coin in the
vaults Of the treasury instead Of using
it in payment Of the principal and inter
est Of the bonded debt:
Are our people blind? DO they not see
VIII they not give heed to the strange
things which every day ob-rude their dis
gushing features upon them? Are they not
aware that every appliance Of power, every
means of strategy that can result from the
practice Of "ways that are dark and tricks
that are yaiu," are used as weapons to OBJ
literate and destroy the best currency that
any country ever had-done not in the hope
or wish to benefit the industries Of the
country but to enable the broker, the ban
ker, and the bondh0lder 10 anass fortunes,
at the sacrifice of the best men of the ma
ton? What petition came up to Congress
asking it to be the execUtiouer of the legal
tender currency? Who, outside of Wall
street. suggested to the ear of the Secretary
that the legal tenders must be destroyed ;
thag the silver dollar was a fraud? For
whose benefit is it tina, she great Office he
holds should be administered? Is it Wall
streets, or the whole American peoples
There Is 40 Official act emanating from the
Treasury touching the curreGcyo tie coun-
try that is not directly opposed to the indus
tries Of the country and for the benefit Of
a moneyed monopoly. Call youths equal
ity?
And this system of unrelenting war upon
the currency of the country has reduced its
volume from some eighteen hundred
millions to three hundred and fifty millions.
The budgeonis now in the hands of the
Secretary and his Wall street satellites to
brain the legaI-tenders that have survived
the crusade ard lock up and conceal from
sight the silver coin Of the country. And
unless the people, the hard working people
the mechanic, the artisan, the manufac-
turer, the producers-uuite with spirit and
determination to oppose this wild scheme
two years will not pass around before every
greenback dollar will be converted into an
interest bearing bond. This Is the policy
of this Administration. 1t is not concealed
It is proclaimed frop. the Erecutice JfaHsioa
It Is echoed back iron, the Treasury, and re-
echoed from the shops Of the Rothscdiids, Nor
qa5ls and Se1igmans In Val street. The cry
Is, tie greenback must be destroyed. 1t has
the doom of Carthage, unless the good sense
of the people shall stay the ebbing tide.
Mr. Hayes, in his message to Congress on
its assembling in December last, recon-
mended the withdrawal of the legal-tenders
from circulation. But what party hench-
man ofhis haa the courage, in the Senate or
the House, to endorse the doctrine.
And why, in the name Of Heaven, is it
that this continual war of extermindt!on
must be waged against it? Ask the agents
of your Rothschilds, ask the banker; ask
the ockjobber; ask the bondholder, and
you may learn the reason. They can in
form you. And Is it the policy of our Gov
eminent to permit the opinions of these
money-changers to be the guiding star in
the financial armament
But for this continual TRADE
and the destruction ofour currency by the
million, funding bills would not have
been necessary. The State would have
fourished; but as a consequence the banker
and the bondholder would have made less
Taxation would have been less
and prosperity greater.