Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-12-22

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Millions upon millions Of dollars
worth Of United States bonds locked
up in the bank. vaults East, earning
golden interest. whllc bond aud bond.
holder lives in idleness.
Millions and millions Of bushels Of
wheat locked up ia the granaries of
tho West, being eaten by rats, while
the farmer is at. work, in debt, in
trouble, waiting for chance TO sell,
and for money TO pay little bills.
If the bonds were dragged out of
their hidding.places, transformed into
currency, and this money compelled
to earn It's interest, as laborers earn
their wages, the farmer could sell his
wheat and pay his dcbts-the Western
merchant could pay the Eastern mor-
chant-the Eastern merchant sell
more goods, empty his store, and call
upon all the manufacturing establish.
ments of New England, or elsewhere,
for more goods, more goods, until
there would be employment for all
who could labor.
The bonds locked up in the banks
of the East contribute nothing for the
support of labor or reward for enter
prise.
The wheat in the West, the produce
everywhere, is sold tosupport the ones
who raise tito feed the ones who la
Dor, TO go, in part, to support the
bond.
The bond was a necessity then. The
wheat is noe.
Military necessity called for the
bond.
National necessity now calls for its
taxation or exchange for currency
During the war they said il was
wrong for soldiers to stand guard over
the property Of those who warred
against the interests Of the country.
Now lre say it is wrong for laborers TO
stand guard over the bonds, which are
at war against industry.
Then Hey said, "Withdraw the
troops from guarding the Idle proper
ty of those who made their money at
the expense of labor"
Now ace say, Withdraw your legis-
lation from the defense OF bonds, er-
change prisoners, give us currency for
bonds, and we will give you prosperi-
ty instead of hard times. Nations
grow. What was duty then is a
crime now. The reaping machine de-
stroyed the rights Of the cradle-the
moving machine Of the scythe-the
railroad train of the emigrant-wagon
the telegraph of the carrier-pigeon.
The inventions of the past are left
by the roadside as progression marks
our nations course. The man who
owned and trained the carrier pigeons
demanded protection for his birds, and
pay for training them. We pointed
to the telegraph, and said-"Duty TO
the living and to those who are to
come, is our excuse Let the dead
bury the dead. The people are march
ing on y
In saving the nation we created
bonds. Let US not destroy the nation
that the bonds may live. They came
from the graves of our dead. Let them
60 TO their own graves, and let sprout
therefrom the green which shall re-
store life and beauty 10 the land, to
be followed by the golden harvest
which will follow.
Suppose all the bonds were called
in, and the tons upon tons of paper on
which they are printed bleached out
by legislation, and returned printed TO
currency. Is it wrong for nation to
redeem its notes what it has declar.
ed to be illegal tender ~
Anslcer II you can!
II greenbacks are legal tender in
part they arc in all. If legal tender,
they are good enough to pay interest
or 10 redeem bonds. If they are not
the Government lies! If made in
part so by legislation, they can be
made wholly so.
Give.us currency for the bonds, stop
the drain Of interest from the wheat.
bins of the West, the cottonm mills of
the South, and the gold.mines of the
territories and sundown slopes Com.
pei bondholders to set their funds TO
work as men do their cattle. Give US
money, and we will give you labor,
and prosperity everywhere.
We will give you money for our
bonds--refuse the exchange, and we
will give You the torch, the mob, the
bayonet, the revolution, and take
back your own IN Y Democrat.