Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-06-24

GENERAL JAMES B. WEAVER.
Speech Of the Great Champion Of Human
Rights, at Indianapolis, April 18th.
The whole bond and Currency Ques.
tiOn Made as Plain as A. BIC

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General Weaver came forward and
said;
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen
1t was with the greatest reluctance
that | consented to come to Indlanapo.
lis and address the people on this Oc.
casiOn, for the reason that my duties IN
the National House of Representatives
were very pressing and urgent; but
the invitation, the call to address YOU
came from the soldiers of Indiana, ma.
ny of whom were my comrades In arms
and could not refuse.
| have never before visited your city
since the close of the war. | came to
this city with my regiment after we
had been mustered out of the service
It was here that we took our farewell
of each other, and assure you that the
picture has been burnt deep into my
mind and heart, and | can never forget
1t. Nor can forget Il transaction that
witnessed in Georgia, in which ar
Indiana soldier was the hero. 1t was q
deed far surprising the deed of Ser
geant Jasper at Fort Moultrie. When
our forces were engaged with the rebel
forces on the Alatamaha river in GeOr-
gia, our troops were endeavOring to ef-
feet crossing, and beyond the stream
the enemy had posted II battery that
was inilicting considerable injury upon
our works, situated about fifty yards
from the eastern bank of the Alatama-
ha river. 1t was playing sad havoc
with our ranks. Then it was that
saw man--a private soldier of the
Ffity-siXth Regiment of Indiana Vol
unteers-COl. Martins regjment-(I
hope there may be some of them here
to-nighO go to the bank of that river
alone, plunge into the water alone,
swim the river, mount the bank on the
opposite side, run up the slope to the
rebel fort, mount it, haul down the re-
bel flag that was haunting in the breeze
Haunting insult and rebellion into
our faces; carry it back with him to the
rivers edge, plunge in and swim across
with it again and deliver with his own
hand that emblem of treason and rebel
lion to the Colonel of his regiment.
Prolonged cheers.
But my fellow-citizens, came here
to talk to you tonight, not in manner
that might arouse your prejudices, but
l'm here to address myself to your rea-
son, your Judgment and your hearts.
Pm afraid of human prejudice; it has
produced more suffering than famine,
more suffering than pestilencc, more
suffering than war. 1t is this very day
the greatest obstacle we meet in the
path of human progress and in the adj
vancement of our race.
Now, therefore, please lay it all aside
and tonight, while talk to you, let us
be perfectly free from its influence.
am here to speak to you on two subjects
one of them cognate to the other-inti-
mately connected with the other. These
subjects are: LIST, the financial question
of the day; 2nd, what justice and hon
or require at the hand of this nation to-
wards the men who have saved the ma
tion's life, And while shall addres!
you, beg you to listen to me patiently
shall not detain you very long. Dc
not be alarmed at the number of dOcu.
ments which you see spread out befor,
you upon the table before me; | only
carry them as the soldier carries hi
gun; if it should prove necessary to us,
them they are here. Applause
There is n maxim in political econo
my with which we are all familiar, ant
which is laid down by Amasa Walker
in these words: "Other things being
equal, the amount of currency in circu
latiOn determines the price of every
thing that is for sale, and those price
are increased or diminished as the vol
ume of currency is increased or dimin.
ished." And this he says is as inva,
riable as any law of nature. Let IN,
Illustrate: If hurl this book into tn,
air it will fall to the earth. If | pou
water out of vessel the same law car
ries it to its level; and this law of po
litical economy which says that til,
quality of money in eirculation-th,
volume the currency determines tn,
price of everything that is for sale, thi
author says, and 10 one can contradic
him, is just as invariable and Just Il
certain as any law of nature. Now, |
that is the case, you can readily se
that those who control the volume o
the currency control the market prize
of every commodity that is for sale
This is Il practical question. My Re
publican friend, with whom | lahore,
for twenty-One years, in that party, /
Just as much interested in its measure
and in its success rs | am to-day In thos
of the Greenback party. My Demo
|. cratic friends, you ofthe party in whicl
was born, and In which was raise
till | reached my majority; all of yo
|, are alike with me interested in the re
cOgnition Of that great law of politica
economy, that the volume of the curren
| cy determines the price Of everything
And being Interested In that question
we must needs be equally Interested 1
respect to the question, into who's
hands the control of the currency sha
20. .. ..b.. ..g.u
Now, in republic, where ought a
power to reside? Is there any branc
of the administration Of the govern
ment that you cannot entrust the pei
pie with? If so, to that extent you
government ceases to be republic. /
republic the power manifestly mul
llreside with the people. When OF
fathers made this government--lai
broad and deep its foundations-the
had the chart of the worlds history b,
fore them. Why did not they mai
this monarchy2 Because all huma
history had demonstrated not that yo
could not occasionally find an hone
: monarch, but that in the great, gran
round of human history, In its magnii
cent sweep from the cradle of the hl
lnian race down to the time that tl
dread responsibility was placed upo
them Of making government tor tn
nation, they saw that when power W,
centered In the hands of few it WI
used for the exclusive benefit of the fe
y land enslavement of many. The office
81 ofthe government were to be the sci
Wants of the people. The tenure
y their office was to be of short duration
lat the end Of their term of office the
were to give an account of their ste,
haI ardship. All the power should remal
In tile hands of the people. That WI
,s the theory. What do they say In Il
I constitution "Congress shall ha'
oil power to regulate commerce with 70
h Explanations and between the States.'
~ Iii civilized countries where you g
nErid of barter money, and the making
Z money Ia one of the highest attribut