Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1877 — A MASS MEETING? [ARTICLE]

A MASS MEETING?

Tn th© interest of the I. D. & C. BR will be held at the Court Hnus’s.' to inorrow. The President of th' Rind .rid other prominent railroad men \ ill be present. Let there be a full t tendance. All the plans for the new State House, before the Commissioners, have been rejected by them. A Kentucky newspaper says that . n investigation of the State records i how that not a single man or woman in the whole common wealth is undei ihe present laws legally mairivd. It is now claimed that Toxas has a population of 1,750,000 f and the wis> prophesy that by 1880 its will ha w more than 2,ooo,ooo—thus giving tin State twenty representatives in Con gross. West, the radical candidate for Governor of Ohio, says !;<■ ii<itlui ants contraction nor inflation, but wants matters to remain ju-t as they re. Under this theory, we suppose, if a man gets his fingers into a .steel trap he should leave them there. Texas is virtually giving away her public lands. The head of a family ■ ■an get 160 acres for the expense of the patent and survey, amounting to about sls. By this it is expected that a tide of emigration will set in rapidfy for the Texan border.

Real carefully the article on first *?p<tge of this paper under the caption of “The Bank Reserves.” It is a complete refutation of the declaration of shat arch deceiver, John Sherman, Returning Board Hayes’ Secretary of the Treasury, to that monI ey is plenty—vast sums lying idle foi want of the productions of industry to put it in circulation. Sherman is violent advocate of contraction and i< sumption. Let resumption, under the radical policy, come, and every man in debt will become a bankrupt.