The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-07-31


Tur De,koJaey propose TO pay the bonds
in greenhacks after the greenbasksbays been
reduced to the worthlessness Of paper rags.
What do they propose to pay the green
hacks with
Or don, they propose to redeem the lat
ter at all When greembacks will be in the
hands Of the farmers, the merchants, the
mechanics the laberipg men. the pensioned
soldiers and sailors families-do the Demo
cracy propose to swim die all these out Of that
money?
We charge tbs Democracy with bringing
financial rnin on the American people. That
they only sgiiate plan that will ruin, and
that they don't show any way Of escape from
ruin after they have wrought it.
Do not the people see that Democratic fl
nancial policy works only EVIL. md that con-
tinually
Since the Democratic Convention al New
York put its greenback swindle into the plat
sorm-if that's what j, means gold has gone
up nearly five per cent. The gamblers and
gold operators are hence nearly FIVE per cent
richer in one month, as one of the cousequen-
ces of Democratic policy Are the laboring
men, are the mass OF the people also that
much richer? Not bit Of IL Just the re-
verse. The latter are, instead nearly just
90 much poorer. For goods and the articles
consumed By the laboring classes, follows the
price OF gold. The merchant adds to the
price of his goods the rise in specie, 80 does the
boot maker sifdsthe' hat rsker, and the mil
Ter, and baker and every trader. Democratic
policy has made the gold operators, the rich
men, nearly five per cent. richer during the
month Of July, but has it made our lAboring
people so much richer Is there any day
laborer whose wages have been Increased FIVE
per cent. since the meeting of the Democrat
ic Convention Il there any crippled sol-
der whose pension has increased Ave per
cent since the Fourth Of July. That FIVE
per cent. that the gold operators have been
made richer by, has made the laboring man
and the pensioned soldier, nearly five per
cent poorer, for it will stthe latter 80 much
more to hive. without any pfoportionate in
crease in wsg7s or pensions.
Laboring men, look TO your interests
The Democratic financial policy is chea.
and swindle, and you are tobe made the
chief victims Of it. The greenbaek swindle
BY summing up the price Of gold, makes the
gold operators rich, and makes you poar. It
reduces the demand for labor, makes the
cost OF living exorbitant, and oals gives ron
worthless paper rags 10 hnY WITH Il asth
greenbacks sixty cents Oh the dollar, yoaafe
net lble toget enough greenbaeks to buy GOLD
With. how do you expect TO get enough 70
buy gold with when the greenbacks shnil
only be worth five or ten cents on the dollar
Don't you soc that while the greenback polk
cv may harm the bondhoider. II will utterly
impoverish and ruin poor men
II like Grant, said German shoemaker
the other day. because he don't blow. He
minds his own business, and makes no fuss
about it. There are some men that blow and
blow, and are all the time telling what big
things they are going to do. and how they are
going 10 serve the people, and be economi-
cal and all that, and they turn ont just as big
rascals as any Of them. But Grant, he says
nothing about IL, but goes TO work and does
whatever he thinks ought to be done, and the