Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-13
The Money Commune.

mune, we include all persons, whethe
dwelling in this country or any other
who assume to control the money o
our nation, whether specie or paper
for speculative purposes only, regard
less Of its real and appropriate use
Sound and thoroughly reliable bank
and banking institutions of deposit ant
discount whatever needed, are justly
regarded as Indispensable to the indus
tries Of the country, and the men wh(
are devoted to that profession as a bust
ness, are very properly esteemed al
equal to any others in honor integrity
and general usefulness.
The class of men we refer to under
the name of the money commune, are
those whose dealings in money, wheth,
er as professional bankers or under
some other name, are wholly in theil
own selfish interests. They usually
veil their transactions, as far as posi-.
BILE, under the appearance of legitimate
banking, but are really public plunder.
ers, and should be so regarded and
treated. We call them a commune,
because, through a community of in
terests they have placed themselves in
direct opposition to the common good
of the country.
In the name and on behalf of the
National party, we arraign and charge
the money commune with having wan.
tonly, wickedly and persistently disre-
garded the just rights and interests of
the people of this country, the follow
ing being some of the many ways in
which they have greatly injured the
trade and other industries of the cOm-
try:
l. Under the pretence of benefit
ing the public, they adroitly and sur
rtptitiously obtained through the United
States senate an amendment of the
legal tender act of February 2jth, 1862,
thereby placing certain infamous, de
mOnetizing exceptions upon the backs
of the legal tender notes. In that
way they plundered the government to
an almost unlimited extent, during and
since its deadly struggle for existence.
In consequence of that perlidious act,
the war was protracted, and hundreds
of thousands of lives needlessly sacri-
feed.
2. To aid them in despOiling The ma
tional treasury, they procured in 1868
the passage of the national bank act,
still further amended in their interest
in 1864. by that act the government
placed itself under an absurd and hui
initiating obligation to make and issue
paper currency under its own security,
and loan it TO the commune at one per
cent, to be re-loaned TO the people at
from six TO ten per cent In this way
the commune secured to itself the alb
solute power to contract and expand
the volume of that currency at its pleas.
IRE, and was in that way so situated
as to be enabled to change the prices
of all commodities and gather to it.
self the profits of the labor of the
country its power being such as to en-
aoIe IL by contracting tle volume OF
currency to cause deadly paralysis in
every department Of national industry
and trade, as shown by the sudden con-
UtacVloh uurlh8 lhe reluhulhg discus
sion in congress.
B. This nefarious scheme the COM
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az pieN.itlil, ltI, PiooGieu c tLle passage oc
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"','on m .Le so.Gtnii nc ~, opilS"!eu ivse,i
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nine tenths Of tbe said dnbt wac con
tracted an = nanar money bssis wbile
ToId md siIynr wero NJ high nre.
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pohus, ,,s !neieoy sleUSuIl,y S, Seouilns .s
W i'Sell Its pouliu VI iiosn @ III .lle pos,
sioio '' 1i rol.lliseiIy s. .i @ VI "ny SUBSEQUENT
"llellE.ne'tS III Io79 9i 'tie c0i,"se oii S laws ~
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claIe Iho plioe Vi all oVl'ei properly
anu ellnailce 'nc pliGe VI polluS' Vle
commune commune ui'uei , Vno ple'ellce o,
amending Vne coilase Mws, procured
Vile laSsase vi aii acV continuing slAGy
seven seven, Seot,GiiS, 3 t,; anu I'LL Al ioSi S % MoluS'
1on,onotiyod ou III % siIvor and Nth tborohv ST lar%eIy
Ui"t imorOaSod tbo ' uoIno of" Of hondS % .nd 1 ooii
@ nnd C az tho ' sarno tin timo " dotarioratod % % thoi
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VI -" o'n,t - p'0p0-"'
" III 1919, the commune procured
the passage OF the resumption act'
competing tne government 10 com
mehce the redemption Oh greehpack