Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-01-27
Immediate Payment of the Bonds ir
the Currency of the Country.

Immediate Payment OF the BONDS IN
the Currency of the Country.
The National View.
The virulence which marks the man.
ner in which the refunding bill is being
pressed upon congress, the manifest
determination with which all the force
of Wall street is brought to bear upon
its passage, shows palmer than any
mere editorial can speak it, the arbi-
trary measures to which the dominant
hard-money element is willing to resort
for the purpose Of increasing and per-
petuating their hold on the resources of
the country.
This, with the yet more evident
policy of the Republican party to force
greenbacks out of circulation altogether,
proves that the time for any temporiz-
ing policy on the part of t'reenbacIiers
is past. We have Il square fight to
make on this issue, and we make it on
this decisive ground:
Immediate payment of the bonds i'll
the currency of the country.
The issue of all money by the govern
ment, and greenbacks legal tender for
the payment of all national dues, with
out exception.
II is not sufficient That the bonds be
paid off only as they mature. 1t is not
sufficient that payment which, as the
refunding bill proposes, be deferred
fifty years, shall be made when that
time expires.
We demand that they be paid now,
and in the immediate future, and paid
in the currency Of the country, be it
gold, silver or greenbacks.
We demand that the silver now
stored in the treasury, and that being
minted monthly, be applied to that pur.
pose, as alO all the surplus revenue OF
the country, he il held in coin on eur
rency.
We demand that the silver already
minted be made money for the tax
receiver us well us for the tax payer
Instead of increasing the size of the sill.
yer dollar to make it equal the golt
standard, let the original one hundred
cents of silver be appreciated to green
back value, and do its duty in payin!
off the bonds, dollar for dollar.
If, as it be urged by the conservative
element of our party, there is no lay
for the payment of bonds before the,
mature, let us make law which shal
provide for calling them in and paying
them as rapidly as the accumulation o
currency in the treasury will admit.
If the original contract to pay il
coin could be changed to Il contract t,
pay in gold, it can also be changed t
payment in greenbacks. Their rightfl
payment is payment in the money o
the country; that was the spirit of TIL
contract. Pay them dollar for dollar
and then the bondholder, besides hi
long accumulation of interest, receive
a bonus of sixty-hve cents on ever
dollar originally invested,
If il be necessary TO change the col
: stitution to accomplish these tw
: things, immediate payment of tn
bonds in the money of the country, an
: the issue of all money by the govern
: ment, let the constitution be changed
A seventeenth amendment is rs feas
, BILE as were a fifteenth and sixteenth
and the people demand the seventeent
amendment if it be necessary to secul
to them the right to relieve themselve
5 from an interest-bearing debt to a rapi
, cious enemy.
: No paltering with usury; no trucl
: ling with monopoly; no temporizir
t with the bondholders; no futile llgl
Q with shadow for weapon.
t Payment of the bonds in the mont
9 of the country, Or reputation of Il
J. debt.
: Gentlemen, bankers, bondholders, al
y stockholders, gamblers of every cor
r plexion, take your choice.