The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-08-17
Work of Reform Commenced
in Iho Right Place.

Work of Reform Commenced
in tho Right Place.
Leavenworth Daily Times.
The most hopeful indication Of a
speedy reform In the financial poll
cy of the country is to be found in
the fact that the people Of Boston
have at last got their eyes open to
the real meaning of "contrsction,
and are moving in favor Of green
backs. Below is copy OF circu-
lar that is being largely signed by
the working people of Boston.
The gentleman who sends this to
the Inter Ocean, says that In his
ward "there are three hundred
greenbackers, where three months
ago there were not over O Dozen"
The following Is the circular:
TO THE PEOPLE.
Times are hard; no work for the peo-
pie. Starvation, nakedness, and poverty
stare US In the face. What is the trouDief
Here it Is in q nutshell: II IL the destroy
ing OF the peoples money, and contract
ing OF the currency 10 suit the volume OF
ment, that has precipitated the country
into ruin.
The gold party are the money-lenders
OF the country. Specie payment Is q mis-
cradle device 70 ruin the business man
and enslAve the workingman.
Suspension Of specie payments is the
net into which the industrial forces Of
the country have been led nine times
since 1914, and ruin and poverty have
been the result each time. Between 1865
and 1873 with . greenbAek money the peo-
pie were prosperous. Plenty Of work.
Plenty OF business. Yes q large party
want US to believe that things were
wrong then, that We were not
really prosperous that things were on
false basis. But do not believe Il. The
same party again tell US we are on the
road TO prosperity now, and have been
since 1878. Let every man judge for hum
self or present prosperity compared with
the time OF which we speak. Under the
forced Into = state Of general bankruptcy.
Stop where you are. Investigate and
you will surely vote for greenbsck money
issued by the National Government, and
based on the nation'Swealth.
Remember, that between 1865 and 1873
greenbacks were the peoples money.
They gave rs work and all the comforts
OF life. Shall our government be admins
tered in the interests Of the few and the
people reduced to sIaVeryf
The foregoing circular contains 8
statement Of the case as strong and
concise as any we ever read. Eve.
rY line OF It is true. And the truths
Il states are not such as have to be
worked out by tedious theorizing
and labored arguments-but are
facts patent to everybody facts
which the people know are facts,
by their own experience. It con!
tains the only argument needed in
favor OF currency reH0rm-the SIM
pie statement that with greenbacks
limitation" II you please-the
people were prosperous, while I'M
der contraction the people have
been reduced 20 poverty, almost to
beggary. The contractionists pro-
nOunce this superficial argument,
but. they cannot deny that while
Greenbacks were plenty Verybody
was busy and prosperous--they
would like to have the people for
get this, but the people persist in
remembering It, hence the contrac-
tionists are forced 70 admit it. But
they insists that this prosperity was
fictitious, and that IL was necessarily
followed by hard times, in getting
back to . "gold basis'-Snd the res-
son why We must 20 back to q gold
basis is because that IL the basis of
the monetary systems of Europe
On argument which, II carried out,
could just a. well be used for max
ing our government q monarchy,
and our people serfs. Laboring
men In Europe work for ten cents
q day, but we don't want that sys-
tenn" introduced In this country.
The plain truth is, there is no more
reason why we should pattern after
the monetary systems Of Europe
than after the political systems.
The system for America is the one
under which Americans are most
prosperous, and experience has de-
monstrated that the most prosper
Gus era this country eyer expert
enced was the greenback era Had
the people at the time set their IA
ces firmly against every proposition
to contract the CURRENCY and
"come back to a gold bssis," that
era of prosperity would have con-
tinued indefinitely, and the real
wealth of the country would have
been greater to-day by thousands of
millions, but instead of increasing,
the wealth OF the country, under
the present policy, has been steadi-
lily decreaslng,-not apparently"
IS the contractionists cay, but absO-
lutely empty store-houses and idle
factories, rendered so by the gener-
al stagnation, have fallen to decay
hundreds OF thousands of men,
whose labor ought to be adding to
the wealth Of the country,-and
would be, under favorable none
tAry polieY-are living in enforced
idleness, in poverty and rags, aud
instead of adding to the country's
property every day, by their well
paid labor, are sometimes driven by
the desperation of want, to the
aimless destruction of property.
Experience Is dear school, but
lessons learned therein are thor
oughly learned; and experience
has taught the American people
that "contraction" and resumption"
are merely other names for q policy
TO enrich the money lender and i'm
poverish the people. It has taken
them long time to learn the lesson,
but they have learned It at last, and
when they next have an opPortuni-
ty to be heard on this subject, there
will be no possibility of mlsunder-
standing their verdict. .,,7.
A TImeIy Protest.
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A number Of the prominent citi-'
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