Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-09-06
"If Green Is the Complexion Let 1t be
Green

prefers the greenback money to any
other. Because it favors the green
back and because it wishes to save
the greenback it proposes to put and
keep men in Office whose opinions are
valuable and whose integrity can be
relied upon. There are many good
men in solid old Grant in a state of
| mind just at this time to be easily in
duced to sell their birthrights for
messes of potage. A week ago some
of the best men of Grant county were
''taken in" by set of impudent light
ming rod peddlers. Politicians are
attempting to play tricks upon the
same class of men and they are likely
to have greater success than the light
ming rod men had. 1t may surprise
some of our readers but it is our
reasonable conviction that the ring
leaders in the so-called greenback
movement would be the last men to
adopt the measures they pretend to
advocate. OF course we have not
reference to such men as John Bate,
Goodpel Lamson or even G. w. Lee.
The moneyed aristocracy of this ma
ton have for the last four or five years
looked forward to the time when the
greenback policy of this nation was
sure of adoption. The state of Ohio,
in 1875, settled that question in the
minds of any who have looked care
fully into it, It is true that Hayes
was regarded as the representative OF
hard money and Allen the representa-
tive of soft money, and that the form.
err was elected. But there was an
other element that weighed with the
majority-the small majority. They
feared that giving the State to Allen
that year, would be giving the nation
to its enemies the next year. There
were multIples of that majority in the
ranks of the Hayes party who were
soft money men. And Hayes him.
self-what words have we of his that
have come down to us with golden
ring? No, we put it down here in
black and white that we fully believe
the Presidential chair will never hold
another man as likely to sign bill
passed under greenback policy as
r. B. Hayes. If while he is Presi-
dent Congress votes to repeal the re-
sumption act, to restore "the dollar of
the fathers" to pay off matured bonds
in greenbacks and to abolish the Ma
tional banks, Hayes will sign every
act. And we are ready to say Amen
to the whole proceeding. Now, is
not the HERALD a greenback paper?
But while all this may be done and
is likely to be done by either the Re.
publican or the Democratic party, it
will never be done by those who are
pulling the strings in the new green
back movement. Trickier Satans
than they are never coaxed Adam to
eat an apple. There are men of
wealth who do not want silver remon-
cited nor bonds to be exchanged for
greenbacks. If they can raise $780,
900 to bring Lloyd from Europe to
hoodwink our Congress they can
send out Carys to divide people
who, otherwise, were coming to an
inevitable result. When men are
undertaking 'reform" by means of
doubtful propriety, when their sharp
est points are Whitfield out of misrep-
reservations, when they set up men
of straw to knock them down for the
amusement of deluded spectators, they
are not the right kind of men for 'ssol,
id" people to put confidence in. We
happen to know personally some of
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the men who arc most active in this
new movement where it has made the
greatest Roadway. They are the.
worst men that can be picked up in
their counties. They are the kind
whom any man may know arc pur-
chasable with either greenbacks OF
gold. In few instances they have
met in County Conventions where
they knew they could not elect tickets
Of their own, and have made tickets
by selecting the purchasable men on
both the opposing tickets. Is that
way by which good is to be accom-
plished?
We trust that in Wisconsin this de-
ception is ended before fairly begun.
It is a shame that men of good sense
sometimes let tricksters make play
things of their slow judgement. Why
cannot men see that oceans of green
backs or oceans of gold cannot make
times better unless there be some way
for the oceans to be made to flow in
currents through every mans peck
cts i? 1t was not the greenbacks that
made better times while the war
lasted. The war put them in motion.
4 war would soon make money flow
freely again. Shall we invite it? Are
not our men, after all, complaining
without cause? Is it the sufferers who
are now trying to turn our world up
side down? How many are there that
are starving or in danger of starving
that have joined greenback clubs ?
And are there not men hungry for
work and hungry for bread all around
them j? If men who have plenty are
making this trouble for the benefit Of
the sufferers, could they not accom-
plish the good object in more direct
way by dividing what they have with
the sufferers?
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