Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-17
The Bends Of tho Rich and the Hard
Earned Dollars Of the Poor.
Pets Of "National Honor" and Neglected
Waits ofthe Treasury.
History Of the Actors in the Trial Of
the Assassin.
Current Political Gossip and Notes On
Topics Of the Times.
nv MniI and telegraph.

Washington, December b. w II
bonds were payable in currency, he
sonorous were Eastern organs of q
rich. "Nationaln pride and honor d
manded their transformation In
collaborating bonds. Congress tn,
representing the rich, and not the pc
ple, and watchful to the last degree
national honor" complied with ii
exactions of the bondholders, an
these bonds, bought at Black Frida
prices, were gilded with gold an
their value became twice their COS
The rich and the few held these bond.
Now when the common people al
holders Of trade dollars, intrinsicall
worth more than silver currency q
same denomination, and when ap
proved liver money Is so coined tina
each coin Is worth much less than it
nominal value, there is silent acquies
cence. The people are voiceless
National honor Is soothed TO re
pose aud the organs of "nationa
honor" would even have silver de
monetized. Owning the banks, nod
ing the gold-oearing bonds, and silver
demouelized. and Folger, their ap.
proved representative, issuing silver
and gold certificates most grudg-
ingly, the blessed representations of
national honorn become supreme
masters of the counlry's finances.
They augment or contract at viii the
volume Of currency. They raise or
depress prices. Monopolizing federal
bonds. they are also money monoD-
olists. They hold their conventions,
which are cunclaves of robbers devils
ing plans for the absorption of the pro-
duets Of popular toll. When the Dem.
ocratic representatives of the people
demanded the conversion of five per
cents into three per cents, these banks.
TO prevent the lesscning of popular
burdens, threatened the destruction of
commercial peace and prosperity.
They Withdrew, within three weeks. |
nearly twenty millions of currency |
from circulation, and dire popular dis. |
asters were only warded of by the |
Intervention of the TREASURY of |
The United states. And vet do these I
patriotic bankers cry
nut that the business interested Of
he country are endangered by Car
ISLES substitution for Randall. What
are they for the country, if only suf-
cred To rlin pold-henrj,,,.c on,,n,,J -, -,
edoroI ~ p so.n vi IN coupons rom
.olnmo ana "hn ",o ueii,ie q, ~ WIN me
They shor, ~ h sne ot,uut5y
he'r nytroord; 49, o,'u ,d oe stripped OF
agitima,o 1870. ",i,",S p ,,,S, ana made
nore than r@caiva . au.,vree ,.' 20 10 no
: ih "s, ,s,,,i, he volGihe ana character
nod lao ,vtru mloney should be de
Nd 5 "u.'uo. "sency ol me people,
orosi, ,,'i,;3Ij 100 s sGu ceftiilcatcs OF
,bIe tbo v.ns,, ~ 9eooile az val
nd nntas "'''' '''i % h"uN oil Eng |
nr,r,,,,,, -
n,,,. wv ''Nu > ''RsE' !
ga 10, IL ever occur to you that Cult |
us ihaiedictions fell with crushing /
rec upon all those against whom =
ey were dlrected by the malignant {,
Sdliian' Saddest fortunes have fol- h
Wed all who Were connected with his
'sst, trial and execution. With his a
est breath he called down heavens $,
hgeance upon them, and 1t comes in d
eso SHAPES when Judge Cox pro- ct
. !. me last words OF the doath b,
It,ehco, Gniteau, with demoniacal 81
,'iBhlty written In every lineamcnt o'
his hiurderous face and in his rlnr- IL
(, devil sll eyes, said: "God Al OF
shty viii curse every one of Won &c
nave eo-operated in bring til
about this result and then m
IA an Internal leer and denoniacai as
:, he added, land don't Won furpn, eff
In
lstrlct Attorney Corkhill WA Gu
OK down by the death of his al he
ale wife, and ut the same ti,no &c
" Hobbs wife died. Then Sur eli,
-iencral Barnes, one of Garfleldis Or
-neys, and an important witno.a ciq
INST Guiteau, soon followed (ipi,nn, ia.
he grave. Then Mr.. NobIs tal
her of the jury, stepped down aud di.
into infinity. Another ne y r anu do
Is faithful physicians il now an III
ate of n lunatie ASYLUM nan, rg p,, an IN,
hia. Another OF the inrors wi
igned to st. Eli2abe,h,o IS nm
for the insane nr p aHa 49,
.wcnty years older Than n J,,ss
teau's trial was bepun' ua "nei
ar recovered from The ef,s,ta nus io
and anxieties to which ha ",
eeted' DR.. Hamilton of New York
daa,,, 'S y, ny disease, almost
cont ~ .uuse Tofter, assistant II
self nbr I",eau, ms never been sci
. ~ JI'SI"iS, sihce The trial. sta
ed s,a,o eo'a, Ionhrmed invalid, tiv
/ D.',"a,i a henry, Bailifl' to
i oon. ,u,'se McEiiresil, and even hol
perr' we PRISON van driver, rca
~ oar; s arson, the guard of the his
" n. t Ivy aii LOST their Offices. the
.er a., , auiteau's spiritual an,
\. &c. mas been lihelsd in
Y fos ~ GRAY OF the Utica. Lo,
mi, ~ an witness against "a
i h, a zen shot and almost con
y ~ N oNiiea,' pals in in as
ex nar,s lm nc another of Gre
Ihe py,a ,'s oeen dragged down on
~ eo,n,, ~ legislative investi- tria
= Nshhuittee lOf alleged ,nolfa, i 80,