Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-30

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school district in the republic will be
organized.
SYSTEM OF PRoPAGANDISM.
Believing that popular liberty, indi.
yidual rights and the general welfare
can be secured and maintained only
through the enlightenment of the pco.
pie upon the fundamental principles OF
just government, and a scientific po.
litical economy, the National board OF
organization will establish
NATIONAL LECTURE BUREAU.
The object of this bureau will be td
employ and keep constantly in the
field, the ablest and most efficient pub.
lie speakers to go from place to place
in the shortest possible time, and at the
least expense for travelling.
Auxiliary TO the National bureau, the
chairman of the state boards of organi
zation will establish
STATE LECTURE BUREAUS
to organize and utilize the local cduca-
tiOnal talent Of each state to arrange
routes and provide speakers for meet.
ings throughout his state in co-Opera.
tiOn with county canvassers, asking for
subscriptions from 81 upwards.
Every subscriber shall be entitled as
II reward for his subscription, as fol
lows:
For a one dollar subscription, one
dollar national paper such as he may
select, and five public speeches OF
documents such as the executive com
mittee may have for distribution.
Two dollar subscribers shall be en-
titled to any national paper in the
United States, and ten speeches OF
documents.
Three dollar subscribers shall be en-
titled to any national paper, twenty
speeches and documents.
-Four dollar subscribers shall be en-
titled to any two National papers, thir,
ty speeches.
Five dollars shall entille the sub
scriber to any three two dollar National
papers, thirty SpeeCneS.
Ten dollars Shall cntitlc the subscri-
Der to any ten. dollar papers, or any
six two dollar papers, forty speeches Or
documents.
Any man sending the largest list of
subscribers for National papers to the
executive committee prior TO -- -
shall be entitled to S. DO reward. The
next largest to $500; the third largest,
to $3.50; the fourth largest, to 5000.
AS soon as practicable, the committee
will issue the necessary blanks to state
boards of organization, who will dis
tribute them TO every school district in
their respective states, through the
county and township canyassers.
This system, it is beliyed, if carried
out, will not only thoroughly organize
the party, but supply it with the nee
cssary means of education, fOrtify it
for battle. and lay the foundations for
those reforms essential To our prOspcri-
ty, our development, and our success in
the grlndest reforms ever submitted
for the support of intelligent and
libcrty-loving people.
By order of Executive Committee.
ADDEE>S.
The central committee of the Green
back Labor party, by its executive COM
mittee, publishes the following address
TO the people of the United States:
Never since the liberty bell in old
Independence hall first rang out the
adoption of the declaration Of indie
pcndcncc have the liberties and the
material welfare of the people and the
republic been monaced by such power
full foes, or in such imminent danger of
being overthrown and stamped out by
the cohorts of dcpOtism, as at the pres
cnt time.
After the close Of the late war the
billions of credit tokens authorized by
congress TO restore union TO The govern
ment and freedom to -four millions Of
ColOrcd laborers, were seized upon by
mammon, who, under the trip-hammer
of national legislation, forged them in
to manacles for the limbs OF every toll
CT and producer in the republic.
We travel the serpcntnc track of
this willy foe of labor, this enemy of
God and Christian civilization, from its
first step of crime, in the following
seven infamous acts Of lcgislatiOn
|. The act of congress of 1862, plaC
ing two exceptions on the grconback
dollar.
>. The act of congress Of 1868, Great
ing the national banks.
.. The act of congress of 1865, con,
tracing the currency. a law TO make
less money and more bonds.
4. The act of congress of 1869, that
changed the condition of payment of
the 500 bonds, from payment in paper
money to payment in coin; also, max.
ing the greenback redcemable in coin
5. The act of congress of 1870
authorizing the funding of the bonds
6. The act of congress Of 1878, de.
moneti2ing silver, thereby making oul
debt payable in gold alone.
z. The resumption act of 1875.
These laws bring us down by thcil
inexorable operation, to
l. A single gold standard as Il meas
ure of value.
2. A bonded debt never to be paid.
3. Bank paper issued on these bonds
inflated and contracted at the will Of
the bank corporations, giving them the
absolute control Of the wages of every
mans labor, and the price of every
species of property and merchandise.
Out of this legislation has grown q
giant money monopoly without a par,
allel on the worlds history. The oppo.
sition it has met from the greenback
movement has forced it into closer alli
ance with other giant corporations, and
to-day the National party finds itself
confronted by a confederation of cor
porate powers, to overcome which will
put to test the political integrity, the
patriotism, the moral courage and the
wisdom of the American people. Iso
lated and independent of each other
these corporate monopolies were ere
ated for the purpose of robbery. En-
dowed with privileges denied to indi
viduals, and clothed with powers i'm
possible for private enterprise to copC
with, they went forth under their char
ters Of marque and reprisal to pre-.