New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-29
Tyr UPRISING IN MGHEE.


Where precisely "McGhcc East Tennessee"
is we are unable t. say. In the eazcttccrS and
ON mans it seems 10 be Of very great unm-
nortancc. BY diligont search We have dlScov-
c,od that i, is. or ought 10 be- in Monroe Coun-
~ Tom. an extremely southeastern por-
ton of that quite large and at times eAcltaoic
state Chattanooga We know about. III mas
a war record In The Times" daily paper
of that town which we have long known as
journal of much ability and great enterprise,
there is a report of n mcetlng-a mass meet
inc" so.caled which was held in McChcc on
the odd of July, 10 consider and take acton
on what has come to be known as the silver
ouestion." News OF this meeting reached
Chattanooga in time to be published III inc
Issue of "The Times of the 18th. That Is 10
saw the report of the resolutions adopted III
the mass meeting arrived in time. The speeches
and other proceedings have not yet appeared
They were doubtless sent in on later tram
there being. il we rightly remember. statute
law of Tennessee against carrying combliStihl's
and explosives on the same train. nc
Times" gives considerable space 10 the rcSo-
lutiors. which are Of II very fiery and ind"m-
table and won't -,tand-t sort. and adds To
them full column OF Icmonstiancc with
NC.h for going
The Mc(:hcc folks are almost a. much worked
IN about the financial situation aS Governor
Waite or thc Rcd Headed Rooster" or the
Rev. Mr.. Reed of Colombo. They have not
hccn vcr, conspicuous in the ongoineS of this
world Tor the last century or two but they
passed Just aS many resolutions. and rcN"lu-
tons lust rs dreadful in their scope and ten
dcucv aS though thc} were Contcmpor"nc1ll>
with Athens. or ~ commanding IN situation
rs Ilobokcn The resolutions start oil by say
ing in quiet way that they express the minds
of a ma,S-mccting in Concoulse a>Ncinhled
at Mcihcc Tenn this I'D day of July. lS9;'.
With this preliminary they >a} We view
with righteous Indignation the assembling 81
monomctalIic gold basis leagues - Formulate
plans 10 defeat the expressed will of the pco-
plc Of all parties ~ expressed in the late cIcc-
tons. for financial relief by folcing further
appreciation of the gold mint and a still fur
tncr depreciation Of all industrial products, and
consequently Of all legitimate industry We
do not know how the report of the assembling
Of monomctallic basis leagues" could have
tricllCd int, Mc(;hcc without having become
known 10 the rest of the world, but Mc''hcc
seems to have found it out and to have risen
into righteous ndgnation on account oi 1t.
And on the whole considering the intimate
relations Of McChcc with the worlds financial
centres while we suspend our aStonIshmcnt
that Mc(;hec should have got on" to this
assembling Of monomctalc gold basis
leagues Il little ahead of anybody, We freely
Al N.f, /, tuht in
lightcously indignant about it.
McGbcc proceeds after this preliminary to
say through seven resolutions that the gold
plutocrats" are "prCducng want and bank
rlptcy and cXtGItiOnatc usury throughout the
entire country the end of which is not yet"
and these things, they say, have "convinced
the long suffering ycomanry OF the country
that slfcty to republican institutions cannot
keep step with a graspng moncycd aristoc-
racy" They say that /" with a God given coun-
Try producing a surplus Of the clothing of the
world its meat and It's bread. with produc-
ton of nearly half the worlds output Of sill
YER and nearly onc-fouIth its gold having or
capable Of producing nearly every article Of
necessity or luxury, with an empire in terri
tory continuing forty -four distinct sovereign
ties, we 1dil 10 sec WHY VIC CdIlot lcplSldIc Tor
ourselves. without assistance from foreign ma
tional.tcs or their schoming syndicates." Then
NIcGhcc saws: awe desire to announce to all
that though quiet we are not sleeping, that
We are to-day douby determined upon the le-
forms for which we cast our ballots that we
expect every man TO do his duty, and call
upon all frecmcn who would avoid Shyocks
mortgaged homcStcads, pcnuIy and scrfdom TO
be UP and doing, and assist in loosenng the
grasp of the throat Of the Nation and people"
McGhce also favorS "a currency volume Of not
less than $50 per capita" so localized by
State boundaries that it can come ont or be
retired to its original locality as cXgencicS re-
ourc," and in one of the seven resolutions de-
scribes the currency in detail. One feature of
it is that it cannot be " cOnglomcratcd in n few
money centres" which, as will be readily seen.
is an extremely useful provision. Should that
kind of currency be conglomelated i'll one such
monetary centre as McGhee 10 one can tell
what the consequences would be. The "yeo-
many" might rise up.
Few things have happened in the last six
months that are more pregnant with possible
consequences to the civilized world than tho
action of the mass meeting in concourse as.
sembled at McGhee." The great question for
some time to come in monetary circles will bc