Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-10-26
SOME NEW Issues.

proper recognition of this fact would
have prevented the advent of many q
new partye that has struggled into
life, only to live brief day, pass away,
Ind have written on its tombstone:
As ] was so soon done for,
What was begun for.
The indications are strong that two
important matters, at least, whether
they reach the importance Of issues
or not, will soon be presented to the
country, along with those We already
possess, in the Mormon puzzle, the
Tariff question, and that nightmare Of
the ordinary party manager, the
Temperance issue"
The fact that the government has a
large accumulation Of money in the
treasury with revenue largely in ex-
cess oflts expenses, has already drawn
the attention of the people TO the fact
that there is no economy Ill paying In
terest on debt with all this revenue
and all this money lying idle in the
treasury. Either the debt must be
paid, the revenues cut down, or the
interest on our bonds reduced to a
nominal sum only.
If the debt is paid, our present
banking system will be. wiped out,
which might be calamity. Besides,
we have nothing, as yet, to take its
place. 1t is not likely the revenue
will be greatly reduced, unless the adj
vocates of free trade should gain power,
contingency altogether improbable
in the neat future. We have long be-
lieved and present indications all point
that way, that the time would soon
come when, in order to retain the Ma
tional Banking System, our financiers
will be compelled to accept a gov
ernment bond without interest as a
basis for their operations. We notice
that the very men who fought the re-
duction of the government bond to
three per cent, are rapidly coming to
the conclusion that a new issue of long
bonds at two per cent to replace those
soon to mature would be a desira-
bic thing. Whenever the time comes
that the government bond, with but a
nominal interest, stands at par as a
basis for our national banking system,
the dream of the greenbacker will be
realized, not, perhaps, in the way he
expected or hoped, but practically at
least, for it would be equivalent to the
government issuing its notes. The
trouble with the greenback theory was
that 1t offered no tangible or practical
method bv which to furnish the coun-
nv a circulating medium. at least not
such method as would inspire. public
confidence. In its mad and reckless
onslaught upon all bonds and banking
systems, it fought against the demon
strated experience of ages of commerce
and trade, and deprived Itself of the
only and absolutely necessary machln-
cry of carrying out its theory of fnan-
ce.
The other question likely to come
up is the land question. Millions of
acres of land subsidies gwen to railroads
conditionally, have been forfeited by
noncompliance with the terms Of the
grant, and ought long since have been
conveyed back and opened up for set
tlement. Immediate forfeiture of un-
earned land grants" says the Washing
ton Post, twill be the maxim of a
good many statesmen when congress
convenes." 1t is certainly time, for the
public domain is rapidly disappearing,
and hencetourth should be guarded
jealousy, to1 the actual settler.
Enthusiastic Prof. in Physics, discuss
ing the organic and inorganic King
doms: "Now, if l should shut my eyes
so-and drop my head -so-and
should not move, you would say was
a clod! But / novel leap-I run
then what would you call me 2" Voice
IN the rear: ga clod-hopper." ''Dis.
missed n'-Ee.
"Ho, chum! Say, how is it that the
Prof. does mot see that fellow copy
from his note book, right in class s'
'Oh,he is contemplating higher things"
"No, it is because the Professor did not
about note books, and
[iocaglly conclude"
THE SUN its Constitution. its Phe-
nomena, Its Condition. By Nathan
T. Carr, Ii. d., judge Of the Ninth
judicial circuit of Indiana. Fitz-
gerald, publisher, 20, Lafayette Place
New York. Price, postage free. IS