Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-10
A PRACTICAL SUGGESTION.
The Nashville American, of Frida

The Nashville American, of Friday
morning, says:
Hon. r. P. Cole, of Henry County, has
an easy and logical way of showing his
constituents how they nay relieve tuem-
selves from the slavery of which they CON-
plain under the 1908 bill. One of them
complained the other day to Mr. Cole that
he had sold him and his children into slav-
cry for ninety-Line years. He asked him
how much property he owned, to which he
replied that he mad house worth about two
thousand dollars. Then said Cole, Il
can show you how you can pay your part of
the debt relieve yourself from slavery, and
have the money with which you paid it in
your pocket. Your part Is ten dollars,
on which you have sixty cents interest
year to pay. If there are ten dollar bonds
issued, all you have to do is to buy one.
The attached coupons will pay your yearly
tax on account of State debt, and you will
have the ten dollar bond in your pocket to
deposit any time as collateral to borrow
money you may need in pinch. You can
# You are not wiling 10 for mail Ill d falls or do
anything else to relieve your children from
slavery, 1 don't think you are entitled to
much sympathy. Ii at any time you grow
richer and owner of more property, you
will owe a larger part of the debt and ought
to be willing TO pay more. You can then
buy another bond and always keep your
part paid mp aud chains OF the limbs of
yourself and children"
This is all clear and true Any man
who feels himself slave can settle his part
at any time by purchasing a bond, large
enough for the coupons to pay his taxes each
| year, and have the money with which he
paid it, a good collateral at any bank at any
| time. Moreover, he can buy it at sixty
Gently, which will be equivalent to settle
ment at sixty cents and per cent. interest.
| 1t is also true that the man who saves the
money to settle his part viii have made that
much, simply because he will have saved it.
| In nine cases out of ten it will be clear gain.
His children viii have it left, too, clear
gain of the principal of the bond.
This is practical suggestion.
The people of Tennessee may es-
cape the slavery which the repudia-
tionists are bowling about, by taking
up the bonds and holding them
themselves. A $1,000 bond will sell
for 5000 The interest on the same
will be $50 per annum, which may
be used IN the payment of State
taxes. Thus he holder will have a
5 per cent. investment, which may
be used as above stated, in the banks
as collateral. The best way out OF
this trouble is for the people them-
selves to hold the debt and then all
talk Of reputation will soon cease.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CoRKHILL hiss 8
detailed statement Of Guiteau's crime
as related to him by the cul grit him
self, which statement he will furnish
for publication in due time. He be
lleves it to be accurately correct. II
states when it was done, where il
was done and Just how it was done
Mr.. Corkhill says:
After I had told him certain facts I haG
obtained, | then got from him what l be.
lieve is a correct statement. He was sc
\ soncltous ABOUT 1t beng correct that ne sent
a messenger for me to return to jail, as he
wanted to say something to me which had
escaped his memory. He was afraid
would learn it somewhere else and Their
think he had concealed something from me-
There is necessarily and very properly great
anxiety on the part of everybody to learn
the minutest detail in connection with the
commission of this crime. ! am met on the
streets, and people come to my residence
day and night. have not a minutes leis-
ure in my Office. have said but very little,
but I think it proper to say that there are
no startling revelations that will be develop
ed from present indications; that the assas
| sination was a cold blooded, premeditated
attempt at murder by man that knew what
he was doing, and the consequence of his
act, | have no question that the man is
rational and saoe