The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-10
Ben Butler on the Greeback Cues.
ton and the Silver Bill.
Paving Taxes to Furnish South America
with Silver Coin.
BEN GOES FOR EN-.

New York Special 29th.
Gen Ben jamin F. Butler yesterday i'll con-
versation with reporter in relation tothe con-
dition of the country said: This European
war means something. Now | apprehend a
little different effect in this country from it
from that entertained by some of the press. |
don't believe it will help us much. True it
will send upthe price of breadstuffs, provisions,
leather, vessel materials, &C., but your labor
ing men at simply supporting pay will have
to get higher pay in order to buy hour and
corn. That means an increased price for
labor. and when that comes again our man
ufacturers cannot compete with those OF other
lands. Watch things and see if it isn't ?
Then there's another. There'll be a
DEMAND IN EUROPE FOR GOLD.
THEY'LL pay more for it than it's worth here
and our stock will go there. That means a
higher price for gold and the greenbacks
which is payable in gold, will go up too. Or,
in other words, property securities will de-
preciate still further Why, even to-day
New York won't sell for enough to pay its
mortgages. Your banks dare not foreclOse,
and where will further depreciation lead us
How are we going to resume specie payments
pardon me-gold payments in 1879 nnder
such circumstances. There Is little cloud
bigger than a man. hand now, but 1t will be
big enough pretty soon. Something has got
to be done, and
THE PEOPLE WON S STAND POOLING.
They have been fooled long enough Why,
two wears ago Stewart Woodford stumped
Ohio for Hayes urging such pretty sham and
fraud as this''-and the general took five
cent piece from his vest pocket ana heia I'M II "
between his thumb and forefnger. This
was Woodford's fraudulent argument while
stumping Ohio for Hayes. He would take a
silver dollar from his vest pocket, and hold
ing it UP say This is the money you want
This is real money. You don't want rags,
and yet Woodford knew that that silver dol
lar wasn't money any more than bushel OF
it. Then
OUR sHREwD FINANCIERs
in Washington ran in debt 800, coo, 900 to put
out silver small change, which has beer
bought up, twelve millions oft, understand
and sent to South America so that the people
are paying taxes to give South America silve
coin | don't need to tell you what my ide'
of the remedy is Everybody knows that
believe in interconvertible bonds. lam fathe
of the idea. By the way, | read something
this morning on What shall the people d,
with their stampss' That's sound. That
good doctrine Just my idea. Chase was tn
only Secretary of the Treasury who had tn
shrewd ness to see that bonds OF small demon
nations dealt out
DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE,
without brokers' percentage added, woul
be eagerly taken Thousands of people W oul
be glad to put their little $50 or 100 into sue
bonds But no; there must be syndicates an
big blocks of 100000, and little percentage
here and little jobs ther,
somebody's nest to feather But I've drifte
from my subject. That war is going to max
gold resumption difficult. Oh, there'n /
plenty for Congress to do aside from politics.
$50 you think there will be something polit
ically to be done ~
The Geneaal said smilingly, Just wait an
see Pm waiting"