Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-08-11
Stick to the Old Issue.

indianapolis Sun.
We have noticed a disposition
among some of our people to switch
off for new issues. We do not think
this wise. What issue on which the
National party rests has been carried
out by the other parties? Not one.
We have prevented them from carrying
out their policy in several particulars,
but we have not been able to compel
them to accept our theories on any
question.
The national bank issue is yet before
us and in no sense has it been settled ;
the substituting of treasury notes for
bank notes has not taken place yet the
payment of the public debt has not
been accomplished, and we should like
for some one to tell us just what has
been done to make it necessary for us
to drop any issue on which our National
party was built. We may add new
issues, but we must not drop old ones
until we have gained our ends. Never.
The Anti-Monopoly issue is not new
one with us but it has not received the
attention that has been given to other
questions. Still it is one of our issues,
and should receive more attention in
the future from our speakers and
papers, but to drop the currency and
debt questions, and dwell on Anti.
Monopoly alone will be the death of
our party and the destruction of ON
principles. Mol we must stick to thf
old issues until the national banks are
abolished, the public debt paid, and
greenbacks substituted for national
bank notes. There can be no com
promise while these evils remain, and
to drop them is to surrender our claims
as a reform party.
There are other questions of great
Importance, but we cannot hitch to oul
car the entire freight train of side
issues. Once establish the doctrines OF
the National party, and all of thest
things that are worthy can have due
attention. We hold that there are fOul
cardinal principles; |. The payment
of the public debt. 2. The abolition ol
the national banks. 3. The substitution
of government paper money for banl
notes. 4. The regulation of all tht
great monopolies by national legislation
On these planks the battle is to bt
fought, and we insist on the party
keeping these great issues constantly
before the people. Some Of our peOpl,
may have been misled by the reports o
our enemies, and may have acceptt {
the statement that there is no NOR,
money in circulation now than at an,
period in the history of the country
The report is utterly false, as ever.
business man very well knows. There
are $346,000,000 in round numbers o
greenbacks, and s343,OO0,000 in rounC
numbers of national bank notes in eX
istence, making a total of $6S9,00O,00I
in paper money. Over S2O0,0OO,O00 o
this is idle in the treasury vaults as
reserve and there is not $l00,0O0,00I
in coin in circulation, so that there i
not over S6O0,000,0O0 in circulation
to-day, making only S12 per capita
Everybody who knows anything abou
such matters knows that this amour
is not equal to the wants of the coun
try. Collections are reported harde
now than at this date one year ago an,
the failures for June of 1881 are great
er by some millions than they were 70
June 1880, which is sufficient evidenc
that we have not enough money for til
common business transactions of tn
day.
No, we have great work l.
do in the matter of adjusting tn
finances of the country, and of making
business failures less frequent in tn
future. Therefore, while we shall ell
large on the monopoly issue, we shal
not contract on the other questions
Stick to the old issues.