The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-08-03
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iagmen. who are inclined 70 regau
Samuel j. Tilden as their friend Tia
was cheap bait which GOV Tilden fan,
out for the votes ef the workingmeu
when in his Albany speech, after BIZ
nomination, he said I'VE are al "a
boring men. Bot when they reat
the record Of his dealings with the
wofkingmen IN his mines ia the LAX,
Superior region, no workingman vii
bite at that bait. GOV. Tilden was th,
chief owner Of the New York niue, al
lsbpemiug, and was largely interested
IN the iron Cliffs Mining Company, o
! Negaunee. and the Michigan Iron
/ Company, Of Clarksburg. These are
the companies that flooded the upper
peuinsalar Of Michigan with their shin.
plasteFs, known as the iron currency,
4 Il was forced iuto circulation by shov.
ing II upon the companies wofkmeu in
! payment Of their wages. This dishon.
est currency, which Gov Tilden's com.
I panies forced their workmen to accept
IN payment for honest labor, was in
order to defraud the government ont Of
the tax upon paper circulation, issued
IN the form Of drafts, payable at aixty
aud ninety days after date, which
made II requisite, to fix the liabilities
OF the companies, that there should be
presentment, protest notes, etc, at
maturity. The only pretense of re.
demptlon was in "store goods" for
which, at such inflated prices as they
chose to demand, it was exchangeable
at the companys stores. In truth, il
was a wholly irredeemabie currency,
issued without authority Of law, and
without security Of any sort, and thou.
sands of dollars of il in amount now
utterly worthless are outstanding ia
Michigan to-day, Icing precisely SO
many evidences OF what the companies
swindled their employees and the hold.
ers out Of and Gov. Tilden added his
share Of it to his millions. while the
dshonored shinplasters drawn upon
his own secretary still abound 10 the
upper peninsular as samples Of what
Gov. Tilden means by honest cur
rency.
In 1875 his Michigan Iron Company
was put into bankruptcy, owing about
$50, 900 to its miners and laborers,
which remains unpaid Immediately
prior to the adjudication 10 bankruptcy,
aud when that was foreseen TO be inev-
table, Hon. Vim. Breiting aud other
high minded gentlemen interested in
the company, voluntarily agreed, upon
condition that the stockholders would
all join in that undertaking, to make ND
out Of their private funds the full
amount to pay the company's laborers
IN full. This arrangement failed, be.
cause one OF the stockholders refused
to enter into it after all the Others had
agreed to it That stakeholder was
Samuel j. Tilden. II would cost him
about 81 300 ont Of all bis barrels oil
money to do it In truth, il would |
simply have cost him the payment Of |
an honest debt to that amount which
was his pro rata share Of the companys
debt 10 its hands For that, too, I'M
der the charter OF the company and
the laws OF the State, be was legally
liable. But to get the money out Of
bin they would have had to 90 to New
York to sue him, aud, as he remarked
when this view Of ii was presented by
one OF bis honest co.stockholders who
10 pay the men their wages,
mot much was to be made by coming
50 far to sue" 1t is shabby cxhibi.
lion Gov. Tilden presents talking IN
iemagogic strain of himself as a labor
ng man, with his iron companies re
oudiated sbiuplastcrs. palnsed of upon
heir @orkmeu, still outstanding, and
gith the Michigan Iron Company's
lands yet unpaid, because he refused
o contribute toward their payment
be paltry amount for which he was
egally and morally liable, bat which
&c leaves them to get by law, If they
an. ltshows that Samuel j. Tilden.
aboling man, is as great fraud as
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