Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — The South and West Demand. [ARTICLE]

The South and West Demand.

What are the facts as to the demands made by the people of the Western and Southern States concerning financial reforms ? They ask that a national policy which has been steadily pursued until the country is on the verge of ruin shall cease. That the effort to bftng the business of the land and all its property values to a gold basis shall be abandoned. That an immediate end be put to tha. system of contracting the currency which has paralyzed trade throughout the Union, and they insist that Government alone shall issue the circulating medium. They ask that a reasonable amount of currency be kept in use, because it is simply impossible to dispense with it as we are now situated, even if it were ever advisable to do so. — Quincy (lII.} Herald.