The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-07-10
THE FOLLY OF DEMOCR 1.ff6 ~ n,
CIAL POLICY.

THE rULt I or DE m0CRHff6bj ~ II.
CIAL POLICY.
There N, s1ever anythntxne itsoa16k
and criminally foolish and insane % tt
clap-tfab 6aadal lssie risA swAioA s4slyd
ers of the democracy hope to catch the votels
Of tho eoustrsisspecially No }alp<iseAlll
and the soldiers. Now We want fsborink
men and soldiers and voters generally, tb
understand just what tits The rebel Demd-
cracy propose. as
The Democratic doctrine of Greenhacksr
is pure and unmixed villaiu--if carried odt
it would utterly impoverish I'll laborins nan,
and all the crippled soldiers, the wido~A and
orphans Of soldiers who i've upor Govern
ment pensions.
The logic Of the Greenback policy 10 thio,
Ithat to depreciate and destroy the. cufrepv
values in country, helps the prosperity Ind
business Of that country. helps all cli6ses,
pnd especially helps laboring men, bud ti9se
who live from pentions. For inssshcs, lheie
ire about seven hundred million dollars If
sreenback money now in the country. It Is
IN the hands ofafasmaxa. -mAahAnics, met
chants. pensioned soldiers, day laborers ard
IRE like Now the Dsmocrscy nAiptAin y
their greenback policy that It is BEST for the
holders Of this money that they shall lose 4,
that the whole value Of il be wiped out add
np equivalent Be given than for il II doft
and in fact, the Democracy maintain that it
isbetter TO lose money than to keep it-that
ii Is better not to have money than to have
it, land ifthese propositions are not true, then
the Democratic greenback scheme III hmm
bug, q swindle and huge lie. / And it can-
not be said that we misrepreseht
this Democratic doctrine. Look at
it. There is seven hundred mil
lios; dollars OF greenbacks In the country
it is in the hands Of the people, it is their
PROPERTY 1t is to the extent that each one
holds it just SO much of what he is worth.
He exchanged his labor or his property for
It. You take his greenbacks and give him no
equivalent, and be is just that much poorer.
And isn't that just what the Democracy pros
pose to do? The seven hundred millions of
grcenbacks are worth sixty Eve cents on the
dollar. Every man, With brains above IN
oyster, knows that if, Is the Democracy pro-
pose, the volume Of sreslbsck' onrrency is
swelled to more than two bilIons OF dollss,
all sreenbaoks, The new ssd stAafold, viii
shortly come to be worth just nothing st III.
A man going TO market coslda' tcar1 hbdeh
monty IN his basket ID fiji thSsbsvk ekIwith
marketing, And tho Democracy don't ro
pose p give the holders Of sreenbscN any
substitute, that shall be- valsabie-- they pro-
pose that they shall lose the value Of them
fully AID entirely. here is the difference, as
to financial policy bstssen sAa sR4Dt lic Ans
and the, Democrats. The Republicans rto-
pose .omake the seven hundred. milic4 (ols
lars in Grsenbscks, which the people hbM,
worth ID the people, dollar for dolraf, seven
hundred million dolhes h-tdN. = The De
mocracyI propose to fAkA that &Sln hundred
million dollars, worth to the people, NOTHING
AT ALL. Will any sensible man say he pre-
fers the Democratic policy to the Republican
policy? s.