Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-19
A BURNING LETTER.
THE UBIQUITOUS REPUBLICAN MEA-
SUReS EXPOSED.
sfr. Swami IN an Open Letterto MI i''
Shows Up Truths which All
Should Know.
CHARLESTON. w. Va, Sept. 10, 1890.

Sir,-I find in my letter-box this MORN
ing circular in these words:
1.-The House OF Representatives passeu
the TORY bankrupt bill July "a. 1890. Inc
Senate Committee on the judiciary re-
ported il fayorabIy on August %, lo'o' ~
is now No. 1887 on the Senate calendar.
"EpBrrr HOUSE,
'WAsHISoTos. ID. O., August y, 1881.
NV Dear Sir,-please write at once ~
the senators from your State ana huoh
others as you personally know. and a.A
thor political and personal frlehds W
write and urge them to support ana secure
their early consideration OF the LOFTY
bankrupt bill, and TO the representatissss
Of the House to see the senators IN Denaii
Of it," &c.
And your circular goes on 10 urge me 70
do all can 10 promote the passage oil TINS
righteous bankrupt law as you term II.
This circular no doubt is sent TO many
thousand citizens, not one IN MY "a
whom have probably read 50 much as q the
head /" of this your Tory bankrupt DILL
coScocTED IN SFAgY.
Your circular is sent insecrete. | wrote
you postal in answer. and IN that postai
] say 1.-THE Tory bankrupt bill ~ con-
cocted in infamy, is swindle, and VINO
ever has voted for it ought 10 be polltl-
cAlly held accountable" and TO gratlfy you
I also wrote to Senator Kenna and SAID 20
him in a very brief postal " that every
man who voted for Your bill ought TO
be anathematised with all the curses OF
Pope and statesmen, for it is sin against
the Ten Commandments. as well as against
the genius Of Liberty" So having
answered you under my own name IN pr,
vate. will now answer you IN public. ana
let me first say: They who send out clrcu-
lars to get the people TO endorse OF ap-
prove bills before Congress- prove they
are trying to make up public approYal
when there is no approval, and are always
acting TO promote some swindle or mea-
sure Of Outrage.
Your bankrupt bill, sir, provides, among
other things. that debtor who fails to
pay debt of $50 or more in SIX months
after demand. or who fails TO pay ludg-
ment against him for $50 or more IN about
six months, or rather If tho execution Is
returned not satisfied, shall be declared
bankrupt, his property seized by the
United States marshal, his body dragged
before the court, there to answer every
question asked him 10y that class OF laW-
yers. always engaged in such work. VINO
share in such nefariOus plumber. and then
and there to make full discovery OF every
dollar due him sc. Your bankrupt
law further provides that II man
makes a deed of trJst to secure a
debt to good creditor. or 10 provide
for home for his family. however honest
his purpose, and the court should declare
the deed constructive fraud, he shall be
declared bankrupt ETC., and you IN a
Christian community IN this age are send
ing around circulars to get Christian men
10 aid YOU in this iniquity. and your party
in Congress, calling themselves the KepuD-
lican party forsooth. have enacted TINS law
in the lower house and your Senate com
mittee have recommended that IT become
a law. and YOU, sir, the ostensible but not
the real author of this bill are sending
around circulars TO honest men urging
them TO do what they can TO influence the
Senate Of tho United States to mako TINS
bill q law.
wANToS CRUELTY.
Now. sir. have read diligently the his,
tory of all the nations of the earth. as WEI
as their religious and moral teachings. /
am familiar with the acts and dongs OF the
kings and ruling powers of all these ma
tions. as well as with the despotism OF the
the Roman emperOrs from the reign OF the
human monster 1iberius TO the end OF
Imperial Rome. whence humanity and
Justice had fed from Rome to fnd
shelter under the banner OF Alarcok.
| have read the inhumanity and bru-
tality Of the little villains OF the
Dark Ages calling themselves earons,
princes, &c, and have nowhere. In any
of their laws, edicts, DEGREES, ukases, or mr.
mans, found anything comparable N wan
ton cruelty and inhumanity TO your TORY
baukrupt bill" IL is the cold, crafty,
heartless. and cunningly-deyised scheme
of Insurers, bankers, mortgagers,. &c; TO
sell out the western people and all other
debtors and buy their homes Tor song
and then convert them into tenants-to
make an Ireland in America. II this Dill
becomes a law il will cause more suffering
and woe than ever the irish nave suHer-
Gilmore than our great war.
TIE RURoUs TARIFF.
Rut sir. il Is in perfect keeping with
everything that has been done by your
CONGRESS and caucus Of imbeciles and ia
collins under the administration Of your
prince Of Pharisees. Mr.. Harrison, himself
uuder the influence of the Murat Reed and
tbe Robespiere Ingalls, and other Jacoblns,
without the prOyoCation TO be Jacooins,
who would under the pretoxt OF protect
ing American manufactures destroy the
foreign commerce of this great and NOBLE
people. Yea! you would, under the
miserable pretext of protecting our agri-
cultural products against foreign aSrl-
brought here, close the markets OF
the world to the grain, meat, &c,
of the Great West and throw back
on the hands of our farmers. 3OJ,-
Gao. 900 of their products yearly without q
buyer. without a market, Is you would
under the miserable and covert pretext OF
the Lodge election bill to secure what you
call "a free ballot and fair count" at
the South take not only from the south
4. 1 oil tha ffrenf eanfrn9
of nopulatlon in the North the right 10 say
who should OF should not represent them
in Congress. For you propose TO give 10
the Federal judges the appointment OF
what Won call inspectors OF electlons,'
or some such name, who shall have the
power to say who shall or shall not be the
members from every congressional district
in every State, let the people eject whoever
thew NAV. and while you are plying TINS
pharasaiical and selt-righteous game.
PURELY PARTISAN.
You have admitted by way Of showing
your keen sense of justice, and that for
purely partisan purpose, SIX new states
into the Union with an aggregate .popuia-
ton of some coo, 900, each one OF which has
the same and as potent voice as West
Virginia with SOC, 900, and all of which com
biued have as much voice IN making the
laws and in making treaties, &c. as the SIX
States of New York, Pennsylvania, Massa-
chusetts. Ohio, and Illinois, and Missouri.
with an aggregate population OF some
thirteen 10 fifteen millions. You can see
the wrongs done to few thousand ne
groes by tissue ballots, but you can't see
fbe Injustice of giving to those six barren,
wild cat States the same political power as
those six great States. Oh, no! You
would by law put nine great southern
States under the domination OF negroes
and rpet-baggers-a miserable set OF
ontcasts from the North-as you have
bv law nut the whole American peo-
nla $4,000. OO0) at the mercy of the
Twelve senators Of these SIX States,
holding as they DO the balance
Of mower In the United States Senate.
This is one of the ways IN which you
nroye your sense Of justice, your. states
manship. and your phllanthropic love for
az 000 900 of people. Yea, truly, the great
aud enliehtened States of New York, Penn
svlvania Massachusetts,, Ohio, Illinois,
and Indiana, with half of the wealth OF
America and 100000 OF people, have no
more voice under your statesmanship IN
sbauine the destiny and laws OF America
than six wildcat States with wealth ana
ponuiation not equal to that OF the little
mountain State OF West Virginia.
Your bankrupt bill, your tariff bill, ana
your election bill are each and all irauus
on the people, and if any OF them become,
law the Republican party should ana VII