Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-10-21
The Whole Shylock Army Alarmed

The Whole Shylock Army Alarmed.
Chicago Sentinel.
Well, we have given the enemy a
terrible fight.
If the Greenback party has accomp-
liShed nothing more, it has at least
forced the Republican party to an ac-
acknowledgement that the rag baby still
lives and is rapidly outgrowing both of
its rivals. 1t is growing in spite of the
united attempt of the two old parties
to starve it to death by neglect and ig-
noring its existence.
From the day that Gen. Weaver
proved himself more than a match for
the entire congressional syndicate both
parties resolved to let him and his par
ty alone, thinking they would exhaust
themselves kicking sunbeams and box
ing air.
From the housetOps and the hilltOps
their shouts have echoed through the
valleys proclaiming the death of Green
backism from starvation; that the
boom of prosperity had robbed it of
food and its life had gone like the
light Of lamp whose oil is exhausted.
They proclaimed its death for two
reasons: First, to turn the tide of pop
ular sentiment against Il movement
which was rapidly depicting their
ranks; and secondly, to suppress dis
cussion of the labor and finance issues,
knowing that their policy, like Il bad
egg, must he masked in order to he
marketable.
The Greenback party has had to con-
tend against not only the political preiu-
dices of society, but the power of near
ly the entire newspaper press of the coun-
try, as well as that corrupt ring called
the Associated Press"
1t has had to perform the double Ia
bOr, Of not only tearing down the deep
ly planted, strong walls of traditional
error and of removing the rubbish, but
has had to construct anew with one
hand, while the other was employed in
beating back the ho.de of ShylOck van
dals who were bent on destruction.
But the work went ON, silently, but
steadily and surely, with determine
| ton that could not he halkcd-a hope
that could not falter, and Il confidence
in ultimate success that could not he
shaken.
AS insignificant aS was its begin
ming. and as the vampire press would
now have the public believe it still is,
the voice it uttered in Maine the other
week was like Il tlundrr-bolt from a
clear sky.
1t caused the rObber castles of the
old world and the new to rock and ca
rcen as if shaken by an earthquake.
1t caused Shylock to trcmblc in his
gilded palace, and political sinners tC
turn pale, while the bank and board Of
trade huZzards who have fattened of
of the carcasses Of impoverished labor
for ages, ran to and fro. crying: "LorC
save. or We perish -
William Pitt Kellogg declares that
the bankers are frightened.
Tuesday evening, two weeks ago, til,
Columbus, Ohio, board of trade callec
around its sacred altar the half-dead
with-tright bankers, brokers and spec
ulators Of that city, to see what the,
could do to he saved.
|. They resolved that they yiewcC
the situation with alarm.
,. That irrespective Of party, ever,
town and county he requested to NEE
in consultation and prayer-for tht
purpose of deyisng the most cnicien
measures to maintain the gold stand
ard value of money and bonds and TIN
paupcr standard of labor and products
and TO see that their influence he fel
, at the polls in October and Noyembe
. next. Then after singing
"Trcmblc, trcmblc. trcmblc. ifs!
The storm king rides along the sky
, And solemnly pledging to stand b,
= each other in this, the hour of thei
) greatest trial, they closed by "trcmend
ously applauding" themselves?
The prospects are really encouraging
3 If the little victory in Maine has caus
= ed the whole Shylock army to show tn
2 white feather, who can predict the re
S suit when the battle RACES all along tn
line in November?