The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-08-02

Ne Generation of yipers.'
We are bound TO pay the greenback
dett, not to pretend to pay it, or to
pay 1t only In part. We are bound to
pay 1t dollar for dollar. moi ninety
certs for a dollar.-N. y. Ecening
Pest.
The editor of the Post is either
scoundrel or drivcling idiot stool
pigeon and capper for pack OF thieves
Dses he not know that the govern
meEt is now retiring the greenbacks
ami not paying them at all and is it
net fact that the Post approves of
that policy and urges it on2 See how
it's done and how this prating fool
stultiiies himself: The government
| levies taxes payable in paper dollars
and receives the greenback in settle
ment thereof and then burns up the
| greenbacks. Now if the greenback
can be honestly paid only with gold
dollar, as the Post says, the govern
ment owes to the person paying the
greenback for taxes five cents, or the
premium on gold the day the taxes
were paid, for every dollar of green
backs so received and destroyed, 9TH
erwise the government is speculating
on its own dishonor. The debt the
taxpayer owed was not gold debt.
If he owed $1e0 Of taxes and had 500
i'll gold coin, he could sell the coin for
$l05 in greenbacks, pay his 500 of
taxes and have So left. Yet the Post
while insisting upon what it styles a
high standard of bonor, that the green
backs are a promise to pay gold, a
specific debt, overdue and pressing for
! payment, and which must be immedi-
ately paid. approves of the policy of
retiring the greenbacks received for
I taxes. 1t the premises of the Post be
correct, such an action on the part of
the government is precisely the same
as All individual scaling his own debts
or buying in his promissory notes at a
discount. The impudence OF the Post
and the whole crew of bullion claquers
shames hell itself. The greenbacks
arc in small sums in the pockets Of
the people ali over this land. They
know their character and their power.
Do they want them paid in gold? Are
they clamoring at the doors OF Con-
gress to be taxed for their payment? ?
Haven't they sense enough to know
that the grecnbacks are debt they
owe themselves and if paid in gold or
silver either, that they themselves
must be taxed to do it? Has not the
laborer of this country sense enough
to know that it is better to have a
I greenback dOffar with-which- ha-o.a..
buy bread and pay debts and taxes
and which costs him nothing in inter-
est, than to have nothing in his pocket
be one dollar more in debt, and be
taxed six per cent. annually on that
debt? There is no more sublime ex-
hibition of cheat and fraud in all the
history of chicanery than that prac-
ticed by the bowling devils that cry
out day and night for the payment Of
the greenback in gold. They know,
in the first place, that they don't in
tend to pay them, They know, in the
second place, that they couldn't be
paid if they desire it. They know, in
the third place. that the holders of the
greenbacks don't want them paid.
They know, in the fourth place, that if
paid it be done at the expense of the
men who hold them; and they know,
in the last place, that all their howling
is lying rusc to rob the people and
enrich the bondholders. If any such
crews of whelps had lived in the days
of Pontius PLATE, Christ would never
have come into the world to save
them, The standards of christian the
ology must be rewritten for there is
no atonement adequate to their SINS
I-Indianopolis San.
How Silver Was DemOnetized
The scheme to deprive our people
of tho uco Of tho c;lvnr lOlIara ac ln.