Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-03-03
Saline township, KILLER Co., 10.

req ~, 1871.
Editor BANNKa, -Pieass insert the follow.
ing article ia your wide.awaks news.pArer az
a psrt OF Legislative proceedings, clipped
from the J,gsrSon City Tribune OF Feb. 10,
1881.
Mr.. II irst offered a recitation, belag a copy
Of tho srd and 4 b resolutions OF The Demo-
cratic platform Of 1878, relatiug to national
finar COS.
Mr.. Deslherage moved 10 lay The rosolu-
ton on the table. Ayes, ~; noes, 81.
Mr.. MAI r 10 refer TO the committee on
federal relaticn'. Ayes, ca; noes, 40.
Nc. Editor. will you be kind enough to
publish the srd, 4th and Oh Sec. referred TO
by MIR. II Irsi, they read as follows.
Sec. 3. We regard national banking sys-
tenn as being Oppressive and burdensome,
aud demand its Abolition and the retirement
IRON circulation Of all national bank notes
and the issue OF legal tender notes 10 lieu
thereof. an ! In quantities from time to timc
sufi lent to supply the Wholesome md nee
essAty business demands OF the county, and
that an gree backs 90 issued shall hs used In
the purchase and retirement OF the bonds OF
the Unite0 States so that the Interest bearing
debt OF the country may be lessened 70 the
extent Of the graonbaoks thus putan eircala-
tion.
Legal tender notes commonly called green
backs, should be a legal tender In payment OF
all dHbts, public or private except such oh
legations as are In The terms OF the otigiDa!
contract expressly made payable 10 coin; that
tina right to coin money and TO regulate the
vAlne thereof, can be exercised under the
Constitution by Congress alone, and that the
possession OF the power imposes the duty OF
lis exercise 10 the extent Of all the gid and
bullion offered for ooinsge OF the mints Of the
Uuited States and We regard the limitations
and restrictions imposed by Congress upon
the coinage OF silver ~ impolite and unjust
and should at once DO removed.
Sec. 5. That a return TO specie pAymen,
is impossible In the present financial cOndi-
ton OF the country, aud we demand tho inn
mediate and unconstitutional repeal OF the act
OF January ash, 1875, known rs the rssump.
ton act, holding the same 10 be unwlso aud
ruinous to the interest OF the people.
Now, Nc. EjitOr, this Is the wording OF the
Democratic platform as adopted at Jefferson
City, Jaiy 10Th, 1878 and said 10 b in full
accord with Western sentiment; but now Ia
less than four years after the Democratic
party sending forth such utteranees, they are
ready Ia a Legislative body to entirely ignore
1t; for IL It is the same, FOE the COMMITTEES
will never report tho resolution.
Mr.. Ewing, concurrent resolution provId.
ing an amendment TO the constitution reduc.
ing the number OF representatives to double
tha number of state senators and 10 elect two
representatives from each senatorial district,
one hslf Of the number TO be elected eyerv
two yeard, and 10 increase the pay TO S. o.
per day.
Capitalization OF wealth in Missouri, this
is one step in that direction, will tho people
ever take the hint. From what source does
this resolution come, s banker, one OF tho
moneyed Aristocracy. Law Is the first step
to liberty, And without representation ia
each coantyin Oils state We would s6Oa have
no law for the poor .ClSss.
A SrRNcRfRRR.