The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-09-08
To the Members OF the Farmers All
aHce and AgrlcuIturists Generally.

congratulate you on a prosperous
condition of the country. We have
reached q period in our history
where abundant crops fail to repre-
sent thriving condition of the
class that produce them and this
has become so serious an evil as TO
demand your intelligent and earn
est consideration. We are at pres
ent confronted by combination OF
circumstances that has embarrassed
and deranged every department OF
trade and industry. Nature has
done much for us and had we done
as much for ourselves we would
this day have been the most pros
porous nation ON the face of the
earth, but we have failed to profit
by experience as we should, and in
our mad haste to get rich we have
brought trouble OH ourselves.
There has been too much exlrava-
gance, individual, state and nation
al. Our national expenditures for
years past have risen to profigacy,
and this too at a time when the sum
of our national debt which has to be
paid by taxes wrung from the peo-
pie has amounted to billions. Have
you nothing to say on this subject t?
Do you propose TO submit TO this
betrayal of your interests without
murmur Of expostulation ? Are our
law makers your masters or your
servants2
Money has been said to be the
root of all evil, but the want of it is
the devil and that is the trouble to-
day. Our finances which constitute
the life blood OF trade and industry
are deranged, and we are i'm the
midst of a financial involution that
is being felt all over the civilized
world. In business, confidence is ev-
erything and any want Of it in re-
gard to the stability of our circulat-
ing medium is sure TO be followed
by the most serious conseq dences.
Banks are being closed and bank
vaults locked. Our money mongers
have tied up their money bags and
taken to their heels, leaving Shylock
IN undisputed possession Of the
bourse during this his harvest seas
on. This is the condition i'm which
we find ourselves placed at this
time, aud Of all classes OF our peO-
pie those who constitute the farming
and working classes are probably
the most Immediately and seriously
affected and most deeply interested
in having this nightmare removed.
In our national legislation your in
terests have not received the consid-
Grafton they are entitled to and es-
pecially is this true of our banking
system which has subjected you to
immense losses in the past and as
Mt present conducted does not afford |
that measure of relief the farming
and laboring classes should receive.
In this as we conceive your condi-
tion may be materially improved |
and you should earnestly and in
telligently seek such relief as you
may be legally and constitulionally
entitled to through national legis-
lation. Your interests have been
overshadowed by those Of other
classes which have from time to
time diligently pressed their de-
mands and when necessary backed |
them by the commanding and Sc
ductive influence of money. There
is no time for delay. Other inter
ests are at this time struggling for
precedence and unless you are dill
gent you will certainly be left to
the tender mercy of shylocks and
money scriyeners who have become
of late almost as plenty as autumn
leaves.
AS congress has assembled to con-
slider the silver problem and revise
the tariff il is hoped no time will be
spent in unnecessary discussion but
that such relief as can be afforded
by wise and judicious legislation
may be promptly rendered.
Our commercial interests are so
blended with those OF other nations
that we do not see how we can af-
ford to disregard altogether their
wishes IN the solution of this silver
nroblem. We cannot afford TO
shape legislation exclusively in the
interest of our silver miners to the
detriment of the public interest.
There can be, we think, no doubt |
OF the fact that the exclusive use OF
one metal for the purpose of coin
age is preferable to that of two of
UNEQUAL relative value and for this
purpose gold undoubtedly possess
es advantages over silver except for
subsidiary purposes. If other ma
tions insist on the exclusive use Of
cold il will be incumbent on them
to show that there is sufiiciency
at command for the purposes OF all
nations; if not how the deficiency is
to be supplied and how a change
can be accomplished without touch
ing with a rude hand important in
tereste. AS circumstances have
compelled us to undertake the solu-
tion of this silver problem, will II
not be well to settle it If possible in
the common interest of all CONNER
cia nations ? BY SO doing we think
the interest of this nation will be
best conserved.
We do not want cheap money.