Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1878 — Answers to Correspondents. [ARTICLE]

Answers to Correspondents.

“Gold."- Yes; Bro. Janies' rigliteous indignation was seemingly aroused at the allow tim e of SSOO 00 to ex-Trensurer Junes by the Board of Commissioners. He was. we understand, decidedly emphatic in his declarations that the Board shonld be “impeached, wrote a letter to the Attorney General, for an opinion on the right and propriety of refusing to pay the warrant. The warrant, we understand, was paid before the reply waa received, and Bro. James has been as dumb ns an oyster ever since. Possibly he is dumb founded witli amazement (?) It does make a dis ference with him whose ox he gores. "Remington." Yes; we believe a couple of your citizens did seek to have the Board of Cominissioners make an allowance to cover expenses incurred in following a horse thief into a neighboring state, bringing him back to trial, conviction and punishment. Que of said citizens was u township o’lu er. and we understand the County Attorney opposed the allowance on t he ground that there was no law txt compcl him to retain the office if he had no desire to discharge its duties. This was a most forcible argumcent. and we have wondered at times why the County Attorney forgot to interpose the same argument againt the claim of Bro. .lames' ox cx-'i'i'easurer Junes It would undoubtedly have saved to the Treasury SSOO of th*/ scaat earnings of a tax-burdened, toil-worn and Impoverished people.” ••Diosatisfitsd! ' Because, while Bro. James spews fortli his filthy slime at Mr. Boroughs, he does not dispute the legitimacy of his claim. - Nothing strange in that, lie can't dispute if.' The claim Is an aggregate of fees paid over by Mr. B. to the county, and which the Supreme Court | not. at Mr. Boroughs' instance however) says be longs to Mr,B. Ex Treasurers Platt and lleukle were henclitled by the same decisision. Bro. J. singles out Mr. Boroughs, and if lie can ”dnw phool” his intelligent readers his object, will be accomplished.

Hon. Wiii. Ol ton, President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, died in New York City Monday last. Some radicals will insist that money never was so plentiful. When compelled to face the tact the circulation of the country h; s been contracted millions upon millions, then they declare there is nothing with which to bring money into the laud—this, too, when they know there is mor.* now to exchange than there was when times were considered good, before th<‘Jaysof contraction, Bro. James, in the settlement table publishc ' in the Union last week, has the following under the head of remarks: “S2OO having been overpaid in 1877, the tuition fund drawn is now charged I against fund.” Now Mr. J., fire you indeed ingno- | rant of the fact that rhe “overpay- j ment alluded to above occurred in i 187-1, (not 1877,1, or are you seeking | to manufacture a littlcjcheap political capital? Which? James says that Mr. Scott’s report was not. before the Board of Covnty Commissioners, but that his bill was fhero all the same. Well, the facts are that the report | was made and submitted to the Board I but his bill for services was not, as [ any one may see by an examination of the records in the Auditor's office. But then there is nothing strange in Ihe misrepresentations of the Union: editor. It is the p orce of habit, and ! people wouid be surprised were it. oth ' erwise. Resumptic nists are exultant because a few bankshave been announced as paying gold--resumed. When we connect the action with the fact that John Sherman had just returned to Washing'on from a close consultation with said banks, it may as well be set down as a trick put in play by that old sinner with a view to end for the time beini’ the opposition of the people to his financial policy. We do not think the people will be deceived by’ lhe dodge. The margin between gold and panel’ one way or the other doe not affect them near so much as continued contraction and lack of money to meet the wants of trade. The llenssiviaer Zientnifi- rvieriing to tne true vltiiin Unit tin- gii-i-iili.-uk luireiicy a of republican device and origin, proceeds to taunt the party that produced and fathera it. too juatly, with dis Honoring, repudiating and depreciating its own ■ ’.lspriug, nil from seeming eynipuliiy lor the aoused ”rng babv.' if was finally adopted by the adverse party and its merit recognized. Tlt’i.i ia not wholly hut too ueury true, ami il has nearly nutted the republican ascendency. Valparaiso Vidette, llcpublie n. It was “adopted” by the “adverse party” because of a necessity created by the greed, mismanagement and dishonesty of radical proved, too, that it wtis a safer and better} issue than the paper circulation of state banks. Besides, more than one-half of the enormous public debt now hanging over the country can be attributed to stealings and speculations of radicals, encouraged, fostered and protected by radical legislation. I he public debt must be paid, the demands of trade must be supplied,— there is not and cannot be a sufficiency of tlyj precious metals procured to afford help and deli verenec. He nc< » the people look to and ask for the greenback, in this emergency. “Kesumptionists” and silver “denionetizers” may as well stanl from under. On Monday, in the Senate, Mr. Voorhees submitted an amendment to the substitute for the house bill to lepeal the resumption act reported by the committee on finance, Wednesday of last week, so as to strike out that portion naming October 1,1878. as the time when United States notes shall be receivable for imports, so as to lead that “from and after the passage of this act United States notes shall be receivable in payment for the tour per centum bonds now authorized bylaw to be issued, and for duties nn imports,” He also moved to amend the

substitute so ns to sti ike out October 1 1, 1878, as the lime when the volume i of said notes in existence shall not be canceled nor hoarded, and insert in litu thereof the passage of this actI A further amendment repealsimmediatelyall that part of the specie re- ' sumprion act authorizing the retirement of 80 per centum of United i States notes instead of on October 1, 'IB7B.

Ou lust Friday afternoon, says the telegraphic dispatches, five hundred miners and laborers met. near Pottsville, Pennsylvania, for the purpose of consulting and proposing plans to ask the authorities of the State to legislate in their behalf for immediate aid to enable them to provide for themselves and suffering families. The meeting was orderly. Petitions were signed asking the State to appropriate several million dollars and purchase iion and withhold it from the market for several years, so as to enable the iron interests to resume and thereby make a*demand for coal, or take any other prompt measures to create work in the region. Resolutions were passed requesting miners, laborers and workmen of other sections of the state to address the legislature on the same subject. Meetings are to be held throughout Mahoney valley by the working people generally for the same purposes. The apparent equality of greenbacks and gold affords no relief to the people. The wealthy, who hoard their money, alone are benefitted by it. So long as contraction continues distress and enforced idleness will prevail.