The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-01-27
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CHICAGO DETROIT AND CINCINNATI.
JANUARY y, 1872.
Horace Greeley on Finance and Tariff.
III, True ROad % the Presidency.

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low rate IF interest for our consols, etc,
and he says TO effect this We propose to
advertise and sell fifteen hundred millions
uf IA Su consols from time to time, for the
most they will bring, and redeenning our
skies and hves with the proceeds. He
gives 1t out as his opinion that this change
could be made at a cost to the government
Of not over five per cent.
Over six months ago, in my letter to the
Savannah Republican, giving southern
and western Democrats a hint how to crap
PIE With the Bank Rings and other monopo-
lists htrcabouts. who at that time controlled
and used the National Democratic party t.
Promu,a their private c;.,ls and keep the
Republicans IN power, thereby to perpetu-
ate the series of monupohes of bank, bond,
railroad and land swindles To their own
benefit and the coUntry's ruin, | advised
the people, and the southern and western
Democrats especially, to cut loose from
these numbering rings Of New Y ork and the
East. suggesting the way, as follows.
How shall We meet these men, save our
country, restore the Republic and the pow
er where IL Justly belongs The way is
clear One SINGLE plank made Ia tat those
which the Republican leaders have been
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ponunts vii do the work But this savin.
plank must Ne brought TO the surface now,
not siN months hence 1t must be shown,
exhibited u the people now-its character
explained its bearings canvaSsed and
when the Democracy of the South and West
shall make II known that they will never
give 1t up. victory is sure. OF course they
viii have "a change New York leaders.
This vii he easy, as then the motive for
past leadership vii not exist and they will
drift t. open afiiatiun with those who are
under such lasting obligations to them.
Let the leaders and press, the patriotic
Democrats II the South and West, now
openly avow their firm determination, when
III power, q Fay of the present q per cent.
5-2u bonds. and To enable them to obtain
the means to do this, declare that they will
issue fifteen hundred millions of fifteen
hundred millions If 40 years bonds. bear
ing interest az the rate Of 3.65, principal
and interest payable in gold, and free, il
necessary. from taxation, and put these in
the market aud sell them for what they will
bring. ami with the proceeds pay Of the
Insurers.
This purpose would be met with 2 howl
from about 3 per cent. Of all the ropula-
tIou. and all their prustItuted press. hut re-
JoiyIng viii til the hearts of the other o. "
] said III that letter that the financial
policy Of the Labor Reform party was per
Itot Was truly Democratic. | say 50 To-
dly. and would n5t FIR one moment prr-
..sa On qualify ur change it. All these
twists and tursions nj Presidential candi-
dates lu their slow approach to the truth
only eufuses. The Democratic PARTY Al
ONO i--r year put 1t sIuarvly in their plat
form. ANN the manly and uutspok,n defense
oi 4 by Thomas Ewing, Jr, has never
-tvrft I.et. En man u press in Ohio. or
ailah ,r, Use. has attempted to answer that
argument This gallant young Democrat
VI the NJ gst would have been Governor Of
Ohio bur for the corrupt use of money hy
these rings and their agents against him. /
There "a a future, and We wait its develop (
mont.
II ~ uut just w himself or his readers on /
the tart IF Horace Greeley to discuss the /.
tariff question, leaving out this element II |
cheap money. The financial and tariff I
questions are parts Vt one whole. and can
Hnr bc separated. ~ one knows tins bet 7.
ter than Horace Greeley. Yet whoever saw \
AN article in the Tribune discussing these !
questions together : or in the World. the 4
Evening Post, or the Chicago Tribune I
Why Is this There is but one answer
The advocates IF high tariff ami all Hhu 4
ignore or skulk this element Of cheap mo I
nev are not our friends they are monop"- |
lists, the advocates or Apologies II mnn"p- Z
oles, their confederatcs and associates ~ 4
the robbery and they know As well as We de- I
that this high rate Of interest established I
by these rings who have So long controlled /
the National Government makes the high |
price 81 everything in tins c,.dntiy. All not /
the mere difference IN value between cur
rency and gold. That pretense has been
echoed by the Tribune and all those subsi- !
dlzed presses for ten years past, while all
discussion of the real cause of high prices |
has been studiously avoided and withheld
from the people all this while but it can
not always Last. Educated by suffering. all
classes are beginning To inquire the cause Of
our national decay and now we trust Hor-
ace Greeley viii advocate the Just tariff
system described in the platform Of the
National Labor Union in connection with
our true financial system, which together
will insure all the developing interests of
our whole country on vantage eround equal
to that Of our competitors abrOaa
We would say to Horace Greeley forget
that you are the most noted candidate of
the people-that the devious ways and
shifting quicksands Of modern politics is
no road for an honest mans way to the
Presidency to-day. Place yourself square
with the people against monopoly and
every form Of public plundering Go back.
If may be, to the period when - be an ac-
cepted candidate, the honest patriot would
hide nothing either by silence OF other sub
terfuge trust in God and the honest peo-
pie, and enter the fight with all your might.
Don't forget to cease your hostility Il 10
man 5 suffrage that is coming and YOU can
not prevent it, and to remove all s,ctariar
education from public schools, and restore
harmonious cooperation for the comming-
ling and popular education Of the rising
generation. Help us to establish lust and 1
proper Civil Service Law, which shall cut /
to the quick and reach from the White |
House to the wood chopper or gate tender |
III the public yards. Help US to relieve an ,
classes. You know that to-day there ar |
in this city thousands Of sober, intelligent.
able business men, idle and helpless. who. /
under just and true system Of finance .
adapted to our republican form If govern
ment, would find capital seeking their tai
ents in honest enterprise. You know that
the revolution which ten years Of this fatal
system has brought upon the country il full
OF deepest significance, imperiling every
thing sacred and dear to us as a nation
You see capital everywhere drifting-vhen
moving at all-into corporations and cen
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