Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — An Impossibility. [ARTICLE]

An Impossibility.

If there wore eight hundred or a thousand million of dollars in gold in tho government vaults, well guarded with law, so that it would stay there, —dollar for dollar of tho paper currency,—there is scarcely a person in the whole country who ‘rituid-U oppoao a apocic basis for the currency at once. The people do not oppose what would be fair, and possible, on this subject, but they do oppose dishonesty and mex-e pretense atspecie resumption, because it is impossible of accomplishment, and tho fesumptionists know it as well as others. The people oppose this dishonest raid for resumption, not only because it cannot be accomplished, but because it is prostrating and destroying every industry iu the land; sending thousands ol industrious meiuabjciiad... u> begor starve. When they cite the facts and figures to show that the thing cannot be done, and point to the evidences ol ruin around us which the foolish attempt at resumption has wrought, the people are not answered with argument and reason on the oilier side, but in derision. Tho greenback currency they favor, and which paid our soldiers andnatted the..naXbin, is-dmiounoed-as “rags.” Of course it iff about all tho answer they can make. The thief and the scoundrel use the bludgeon to escape when all lawful measures have been exhausted, and so when they have no reason to oppose reason aud argument with, these resumptionists imitate the thieves and other scoundrels. There is not a single one of them, Jtiflh jpor low, who have bcei( able to point out any method by which honest resumption could bo reached, even to their own Balisiaction, and yet they hound on this resumption raid and6oheme of confiscation and ruin, meeting with the arguments of the blackguard all opposers whom they cannot buy with their money. —lndiana Farmer.