The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-09-08

impossibility of obtaining such finan.
cial assistance as you often need, on
such terms as you are able to bear, il
leading TO the lesertion of the coun
try and the concentration of popula.
ton, wealth and pauperism in oui
: towns and cities which are becoming
centers Of trade and capital and re.
ducing the country districts to state
: Of vassalage. III the banking facili.
ties you hare a right to demand, arc
afforded, you will soon be able to sus
tain yourselves and attain that degree
Of prosperity your industry and econ
omy entitle you to. IL our present
banking system can be so modified as
to meet the wants Of all classes of our
people in constitutional and legal
manner, and at the same time our f.
nances placed on a more stable basis,
less liable to the arrangements hith-
erto experienced, tho general pros
perity would, we think, be materially
promoted.
BY suggestion and discussion this
end may be attained and il is with
the view Of accomplishing some good
in this direction that we have thought
proper TO offer what we have to say
at this time on this subject.
You will never accomplish any
thing unless in the pursuit of what
you need you are diligent and per-
sistent. You know what your most
pressing wants are; formulate some
system for your relief and present it
to congress. IL may not prove TO be
altogether unobjectionable, but it
may lead to the development Of some-
thing better.
The present popular unrest which
finds its expression in strikes and tr-
multuous violation OF law and order
will ere long acquire a power Of re-
sistance government will find difficult
if not impossible to repress. This
state Of things is rapidly progressing
to its point of elimination in Eu-
rope, and in this country stands as a
menace to law and order, but our
Democratic form of government be-
ing more IN sympathy with the peo-
pie renders us comparatively secure.
1t must not be forgotten however
that the natural wants Of our peo-
pie know no compromise. Poverty
when widespread and extreme finds
the final expression of its misery in a
total disregard Of all the restraints Of
law and order. These are facts our
rnlers should ever bear in mind and
seek by all proper and possible means
to avert. The accumulation of vast
wealth in the hands Of the few and
the increase Of poverty among the
many is certainly a great misfortune
to any country, but when it comes to
be seen that the policy Of a govern
ment tends to the further aggrandize-
ment Of the former and to the i'm.
poverishment aad degradation Of the
latter, the time cannot be far distant
when some great popular upheaval
will seek to rectIfy the evil. Honest
labor should receive its Just reward,
and our government should see that
the beneficence of its power is shared
equally as possible by all classes Of its
citizens. All class legislation, either
direct or indirect, should be studi-
ously avoided. The injurious fea-
lures of our present tariff are now
pretty well understood by the people
and will be no doubt soon corrected,
but onr financial system is not so
clearly defined, and but few Of onr
people, comparatively speaking. have
either the time or opportunity TO en-
able them to understand its details
and the operations of those who have
so familiarized themselves with its
movements rs TO be able to avail
themselves Of its possibilities to en-
rich the few at the expense Of the
mary. Here is a factor Of untold
evils to our people, and the more
dangerous because not readily recog-
nized. We have been moving along
for so long a time in the same old
groove and have become so accustom-
ed to its ups and downs that we have
never for a moment doubted its per
fection or discovered that there may
be a better way. Population has so
increased and commerce has become
so extended that through the facili-
ties afforded by steam and electricity
the world has become as it were one
neighborhood, and we are as y nation
much more readily affected by the
legislation of other nations when at
variance to our interests. This is
our situation to-day in view Of the
recent action of England in regard
to the demonetization Of silver.
II has certainly increased our em-
barrassment In the settlement OF this
silver problem, and should teach ne
that necessity II possible OF placing our
monetary system on such basis as TO
be unaffected by the action Of foreign
nations.
The decision OF the supreme court
of the United States, commonly known
ms tho legal tender decision confirming
the right OF congress 10 authorize the
issue Of legal tender notes may be made
potent m the solution OF some of the
most perplexing difficulties In regard
TO our financial system.
The people win always be satisfied
with the promise Of the United States