Show connecticut FINAN CIERING the Il hartford artford courier in it ita peculiar ly new angland Un gland nd patriotic tone pays tile great and lively west Is indebted to connecticut to tile iho amount of over a hundred millions of dollars tills torf 7 M west would like to pay ti it if nt at all 11 II amit with th that are riot not bor worth moro more t lhnn I 1 ian we nali c western delegaL ed may leave all tho ilia party conventions it if they choope to do so and con consider a fis fail arnt dollar of more than ihan the cause of 0 but let it I t them rest assured asui 4 that they cannot lie hoat a t moro more bunda lit in this region of thin KH it unless the word coll cold lit Is wainly plainly printed in them and principal payable in sold old such little jabs as that do not baily disturb western people who are fighting Ight ln for cor a principle but at the same time it conio comes in bad grace braxe let uy us bee away back in the war times connecticut men bought government bonds at 33 1 ac on oil the dollar and paid for or them in green greenbacks backs it it cost they bought on oil the understanding understand ln that they would be paid back in the samo money that they had invested after the war on a specious plea that by bir making those bonds payable lit in coin the th government credit would bo be improved the law was finally passed and they were made payable in coin uy by this time the green backs had increased to 62 23 2 ae 3 bo the had doubled even it they had received their pay in greenbacks green backs but when they their wie weis made payable in coin then they had increased 2 DO 00 per cent A little later by a hick which the gentlemen in connecticut never objected to silver was de Il hence ellee all those bonds had to bo be payable in gold and that thai doubled them once more the situation then was that m vant hat cost fias was waa worth on the market a round million and ahe million data paid in gold eold hail had a purchasing power of just juat tw twice ice as much as tile original money so in point ot of fact act those connecticut gentlemen are exacting from the tax paye payers of this country for the originally invested in the meantime they have collected in interest so we see thu that for one thaid of oc a million dollars invested in the old days daya they their will get tour four millions 0 ot f dollars now or what Is the aamot thing twelve dollars or one that kind ot ing gives tile the people tile tho idea that the men of 0 connecticut are not doing very badly in this world and it they bought bonds enough and sold bold them to supply the west with their real original investment only amounted to between eight and nine millions million s those are the kind of 0 men that aro always sensitive about getting their pay in the iho be best beit it money of the world but notwithstanding that notwithstanding that the real money ot of this country has haa nearly all been drawn to NOW new england and two or three cities on the atlantic SO seaboard aboard outside ot of new england there la Is no talk ot of repudiation in the west there never has ha been hut but thero there lit la strong tall ot of silver however wh when on that Is 13 dono done we hivo have no DO idea that it will stirly to anything except contracts fiade after the pas passage ago ot of the law in that case what harm cun can lo be done to new england it if she still 1111 can cali exact her interest and her ter principal in gold wo do not expect connecticut to bo be very gracious to tho the west but it ought at least be decent because the west lias has fuini furnished shed Connect connecticut le ut more moreon of a market tor for what hat her artisans pi produce loduco than she lias has had from all other sources combined |