The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-13
VIVA, a Greenbnck Man Says.

Ga WHEELING, November II.
Correspondence OF the Register.
The editor Of the InteLligence1' taxes
avery occasion to throw slurs at green
back men, calling them, in some instan
ces nv name, as when on last Friday ne
said aWould not Lsidley, and epe71 Al,
bert Wells stand appalled, at the idea OF
having So OOO,OO0O00 of greenbasks
sdost in the country" Then he goes on,
and instead of employing arguments
against the idea, calls names. don
believe the editor of the Latstt1ge'lceT
knows anything about the subject. he
quotes to us the example OF France, and,
in So doing, fails to realize that he has
Given us a handle to hammer has WOOD
en- head Yes, let US look at France:
Five or six years ago Germany whipped
her like blazes and compelled
her to pay 1,OOO,OOO,OOO OF
dollars for doing il; that was rather
tough, but France paid it like little
man, and then went to work and issued
naner money and made 1t full legal
tender for all dues, public and private,
and the result Is tua[ " HAto 60 "
nations of christendom are In the slougn
of dependency from hugging the specie
basis idiocy, France, with her bluebacks,
GAY and festive, is dancing on the sunlit
heights of Beulah. Germany, England
and the United States are the serViie
,ools of Rothschild, and "shent per
shent," huggipg the specie basis iooiery
and set of "old clio" hook-nosed money
hogs that would cruelty the Bon OF
God slresh are allowed to dictate
TO lis Americans (who have IN their In
nocent simplicity supposed that they
were the freest, and the bravest, and
the brightest of mankindl the sort oil
money that we may by their sutferance
use. There has not been an ac' relating
to finance passed by our National leg'S'
lature for the last fifteen years that mas
not been slimed all over with the trail OF
the serpent and we the freest OF the lree
and the bravest OF the brave, are sucu
commandment fools that we don't see II
Blindl blind! blind! Even Albert
Wells would stand appalled," BAIL TWO
thousand million of dollars would only
be fifty dollars per capita. France MAJ
over that. Laidley and Wells would mo-
stand appalled,, because 1t woul(
disenthrail millions of our fellow Work
men. Give tramps chance, and save
money Tor the men who invest /: IN Dlas
furnaces Set all to work and MAKE
things whR. We want healthy motiot
to sail in a balloon, as it were-tor 1t Ii
infinitely preferable TO lying on tn
broad of our backs in stsgnsnt WAGER
sutfecating and dying for the want o
pure water and fresh air. what make
the yellow metal money? The govern
ment stamp! What makes the green
back money! The stamp of the govern
ment. They are twins-one is as goo'
AS the other, and blamed sight better
Would Archie be such greenhorI
rs TO demand OF the b. u U. X. II
that they should put ss much bras
in the check for his trunk as Woul'
be equal in value with his baggage
| hope not. but that is what the logic o
these hard-pan soft hands leads to, Whei
they pirate about intrinsic value; ant
ninety-nine out of hundred do no
| know what intrinsic means, and all ina
these pudding heads can do against thu
greenback idea is the calling OF name
ard telling of lies. l defy one and all Il
advance one single argument against tn'
repeal of the resumption act, the remon
citation of silver, the repeal OF the nc
creating national banks, or paying tn
| bonds IN green backs.
ALBERT l.. Wells.