Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-08-12
POLITICAL MENTION,

POLITICAL MENTION,
The standard silver dollar is the thorr
that pricks the fundholder under the shor
ribs.
THE free coinage of silver would tax,
Is per cent. of hog out of every bond ii
America.
August BELMONT spent the whole day
on Sunday last, on Governors Island
with General Hancock.
PETER COOPER will support Weave
and not Hancock, as the Democratic jour
mails have been reporting.
The Greenbackers of Bay City, Mich.
have cast new cannon for the campaign
It is named General Weaver"
The Grecnbackcrs OF the Fourteenth
Illinois district have nominated J. r
Scott fer congress, vice Col. Wolf, declined
~ OUT OF twenty-six huadred voters o
Llncoln county, Miss, tweety-iour hund
red arc enrolled as members Of Greenblcl
clubs.
IT is now beginning to be understood
that the tax payers and "plain people
have some rights which the fund holder
are bound to respect.
WHAT difference does it make to tn
hog-raiser whether the robber who steal
II per ecut. OF every hog in America i
Damed Republican or Democrat?
Discussion and the tide Of passnl
events will yet throw tue robbcr scheme
so high upon the burning rocks Of th,
peoples indignation that only Il few strag
glers here and there will be left to delcnt
them.
THE old party .aders are almost uni
on the money question, an men who de
sire the success OF Grccnback principle
must look to and act with the Greenbacl
party. Tho sooner they learn this fact th
better.
The old Democratic party, through
Speaker Randall, insuted not only tn
Greenback party hut struck at the right
of every freeman in America-the right t,
be heard through their representatives. il
the halls Of congress.
TIE two billion dollars now in govern
ment bonds pay no taxes, but, instead
the poor man who has property, is taxe'
to pay the interest on the bonds, thereb
nmkinga thrce-lolIartGx for the poor M,
where he should pay but one.
WoRKIYGMEN 5 clubs Of San Jose, 10
Angeles, and other California cities, hay
re.organized into Gracnback cubs and ar
working with will. The Pacific Green
backer says every county in the state
organizing with much enthusiasm.
WHILE the friends Of The Grecnbac
cause may think the future is but o.
span of dark disappointments, bitter de
fcats, and VAN efforts, the fact still re
mains as firm as the pillars of the cart
that the Justice Of our principles will Gu
its bigncss in the walls Of oppression AM
will come out victorious in the final strug
gle.
GENERAL WEAVER, the GrcenbacI
candidate for president, is Il valiant worl;
cr in the temperance cause, and is ai
official member of the Methodist Episcopa
church. lie was lAy delegate to tn
General Conference which met in Balti
more in 1876, and is recognized by every
body who knows him as conscientious
sincere and devote christian.
MUcH has been said and written in re
gard to the financial question, and tn
story is not yet half told. This agitation
is just in its infancy and is destined to b.
the leading theme in political circles 70
the next decade. Let every financial stu
dent study well the open page Of this sub
iect, knowing that it is Though knowlcdg
thus obtained the financial riddle will b
solved.
GENERAL WEAVER addressed q vast as
semblage Of attentive people at Martins
burg, West Virginia, on the ooh ult
Language is inadequate to do our nobl
Standard bearer justice; he is practical
eloquent, and in every respect one of tn
best speakers living. Could the ten mil
lion voters in the United States listen t
bis uuanswerable arguments in behal. G
humanity, he would lie elected presiden
10y an overwhelming majority.
Nor a dollar of the legal-lender none
put in circulation during the war shoul
ever have been taken from tha people
Every dollar Of it should have been left a
the currency of the country through a
time, as the permanent, unauctuatn
measure Of all values, to be made and cor
stituted as uniform in its measuring powt
as the yard stick and pound weight.
was all the people received for service
rendered the government during the mo,
trying period of the country's history
Peter Cooper.
The Rapid Increase of Greenback Paper
From the National View, Washington D. O.
The rapid increase in the number
Greenback papers, and the ability show
by their contents, is the greatest eyidenC
OF the growth OF the party and the hold il
ideas have taken upon the minds Of th
people. Newspapers cannot live wlthor
support, end men who are stralghtene
for means, as mechanics and farmers no
are, will not support what they do not b,
licve IN. The New York Times acknow
edges in n late editorial that there hi