Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-04-07
The Storm is Coming.

The Natl nal View.
Let it not be forgotten that the ligh
made against the funding bill by TIN
Republicans was not against funding
as a policy, but against the sixth sec
tion of that bill, fathered by Mr.. Car
Isle, Democrat, which put the interes
at 3 per cent. Let it also be remem
bered that Fernando Wood 1--WE regre
his death, but a mans acts live after
him) proposed and advocated the bill
fixing a low rate Of interest, because
he and his friends wanted to carr,
water on both shoulders. He wanteC
the bonds as a safe refuge of retreat
insuring 3 per cent. to capital in any
case; and they want the interest al
that decreased rate to give the wateret
stock of Wall street, a wide margin fol
speculation, and the power to offer 4
large bait to the lambs they propose tC
shear. There was nothing for the
burdened people on either side. There
was no looking to the paraly2ed indus.
try of the country, no seeking to raise
shelter for the defenceless heads OF
the poor in the coming business crash
which is as inevitable as the change of
season.
The banks have made a good deal of
stage thunder, but its false rattle can
not still the warning reverberations of
the coming storm, which is sweeping
down from every point of the horizon.
The cry against greenbacks, as falsely
called imitation, has always been that it
would unsettle values and bring about
a disastrous business crisis. The banks
have had control and hard money has
been to the fore.
Where are your settled values to-
day, and where is any stability in bust
ness? Echo answers, no where. Val
ues are so unsettled, all business tOs-
sing in such Il sea of disaster that COM
mercial centers are sending petitions to
to the president to withhold his call
for an extra session, because business
and stability have such wavering
hold that even the cOnvening of 50
slight a thing as the next congress, for
the purpose of legislating new grip to
standard values and hard money sta
bility, has power to pitch to the winds
and waves of commercial uncertainty
the bOasted prosperity, activity and
grand altitudanism of the vaunted
security of values Brought about by
John Sherman in his grand impersona-
ton of providence. Even the good
crops, the provident supplies of nature,
and the beneilcent outgrOwth of the
soil from the elements have been in
sufficient to make good the inroads in-
to prosperity made by Sherman and
cOnfrereS.
But the storm is coming, and we
welcome it as the harbinger of cleared
and restored atmosphere. We herald
it as preceding an era when an honest
man can succeed in business by keeping
strictly to righteous methods. We hail
it as the agony which will announce a
death and precede new birth; as the
confusion of falsehOOds clashing to
their fall; and the uprising of the truth
that the reality of money is its pnr-
chasing power and not its selling value.
The glorifcation of this truth is worth
the agony; it is commensurate with
and is IA part of the glorIication of the
truth that men are born free; and the
death of the lie of gold standard will
free the world of us great tyranny as
did the death of that other lie-the
divine right of kings.
We have worked for it, waited for it,
prayed for it, and all the time we knew
thatithe pangs were us inevitable as the
birth.
Since the first struggle of parturition,
Americans have long fallen into the
dull slumber of inaction. 1t must no
longer be. Liberty, the child of God,
must come full limbed, palpitating, and
glorious into this breathing world.
We love America, we feel no pangs,
but America is the predestined mother
of freedom, and she can neither avoid
the agony nor delay the birth. "Ring
out the old, ring in the new," and hail
to the storm-clOud which presages so
fair morning.