Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-04-15

n correspondent vi tHe NDlCtBO EAprtbb,
writing from Oxmoor, Ala, submits q
series OF questions to that paper, and says
that full and explicit answers will relieve
the voters Of the south of much confusion.
The following are the lnterrogatories and
the Express answers to the same:
"The Democrats of Alabama clam that
there is no difference between the Demo-
cratic party and the Greenback party on
the currency question, and that the Dem
ocratic party is the genuine Greenback
party, and that the Greenbackers if sincere,
should unite With the Democrats to ac-
complish their object.
If the Express will fully and clearly an
swer the following questions, it will oblige
thousands of voters in the south who are
not posted as to the facts
|. What is the difference between hard
money Democrats and hard money Repub-
licans, and soft money Democrats and soft
money Republicans"
There is no material difference--in fact
no ifference-between hard money Dem
ocrats and hard money Republicans, nor
between soft money Democrats and soft
money Republicans, so far as the currency
is concerned. As far as individual mem.
bers Of the two old parties ara concerned,
at least nine-tenths of the vCt,rs in each
party are Of the soft money kind. But
Notwithstanding the great majority Of the
old parties are 1reenbackers in sentiment,
neither of those parties has adopted the
Greenback policy, and both unite to pre-.
vent the discussion Of the currency question
in congress
The leaders Of the two old parties never
allow their Greenbachism to be carried
to the front. They keep it at home
among the voters, to be used only on
election days. They find it an excellent
campaign card to catch votes, but when it
is proposed 10 enact Greenbackism into
law, both of the old parties unite to defeat
it.
The voter, Of the two old parties believe
IN one thing, and the machine managers
believe in, or at least practice, another.
2. "Wsat is difference between the
Democratic party and the Republican
party on principleP'
The only perc ,ptlble differenc, between
the two old parties is, one is in, the other
is out. So far as the machinery and party
leaders are concerned, both are on their
knees to the Money Power of Wall street,
and each is striving to be more abject and
servile than the ether for Shylock's sup
port and recognition.
The only advantage the Republican
party has is its war prestige with the north
ern majority, and it will keep in 50 long as
it can, by waving the bloody shirt, keep
alive the war spirit, and keep open the
bloody cha'm between the north and
south. There is but Que single issue be.
tween the Democrat and Rcpubicaa
parties, and that is (which shall run the
government.
3. "What is the difference between the
Greenback party and the two cd parties
on general principles, and on the currency
question in par'icularp"
Both Of the old parties propose to con.
tinue the same British.Jew policy of debt,
usury, coin oasis and the gold standard
which has dug the gulf between the noble
and ignoble, the nabob and the pauper,
capital and labor, the despot and the sert
throughout all Europe,
They are both welded and committed to
the support and protection OF the landed,
railroad, and banking monopolies, as
against the interests of the industrial
classes.
The fundamental difference between the
two old parties and the Greenback party is
that the Greenback party has sprung up
from, and is laboring in the interest OF the
industrial classes. 1t purposes to give la
bor and productive enterprise equal pro.
lection with unproductive capitll.
1t proposes that every interest which -.
quires government protection shall pay its
Just proportion OF tax for such protection
1t believes that one Of the fist duties oi
the government is to protect tn, weak
against the unjust over-reachiugs Of the
strong.
1t denies the right Of combined capital
to crush out weak individual effort
1t denies the right of government ia
clothe corporations and mon)polies with
powers or special privileges not enjoyed
by the masses,
It believes that the governmtn has no
right to involve itself in bonded interest.
bearing debt, but that as it is instituted
for the benefit and protection of its citi-
zens, its every want should be supplied by
society, and that each individual who con
tributes to the governments needs should
receive a certificate of deposit for the
amount in the form Of treasury note,
made legal tender between the govern.
ment Of the nation and all the people
thereof. This is the only medium OF ex.
change needed by the people Of any nation
As the government has no occasion tC
deal with foreign nations, it needs nc
money current in other nations.
nil IL, Il so
to deal with other nations, let them accu,
mulate such products and commodities as
other nations require. it matters mol
whether it be corn, cottor, wheat tobacco
gold or silver.
All Of our foreign balances are paid in
gold as commodity and not as coin oi
money. Let gold be accumulated for that
purpose and no other.
As the creating, coming and issuing o.
money is sovereign pr5rogative, the
Greenback party denies the right of con
gress to delegate that power to banks OIL
other corporations.
The Green5ack party believes in thu
issue and distribution Of sufficient lega
tender currency to do business on cas(
basis, to restore prices to the standard
they were when the vast indebtedness O
the country was contracted, and to keeI
in profitable employment all the labor anC
wealth resources Of the nation.
4. as the Democratic party the only
genuine Greenback party, and car
Gr,s slbackers hope to succeed by restoring
that party to power!"
No national convention OF the Demo
cratic party ever adopted a Greenbacl