The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-20
ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE!

eve clip the following from the Green
back Banner Now is the time to organize
Greenback Clubs. Let the friends of the
cause be up and doing. An organized cl"b
in every township will afford the people an
opportunity to meet often and discuss the
merits of the greenback policy. Let one or
two persons be designated to deliver suita-
BILE addresses at each meeting, and in this
way the most valuable latent talent will be
developed. This will inspire an ambition
to study all the points thoroughly, aDdsthe
result will be that every .''clodbopper"
will be prepard to meet nd combat the
thread bare arguments and ridiculous fall
lacies of the ring politicians. 1t must be
remembered that this is war of the Peo-
pie aga '7st the Money Power-a war for
he rights of forty millions of freemen
against the usurpations of an Aristocracy!
For the benefit Of all persons who desire
70 organize, we redeem our pledge to fur
nish the following, which should be copied
into book and signed by all men who can
subscribe to s1d 'indorse the doctrines il
teaches:
BRIEF OF THE PRINCIPLES
Iavolred IN the Platform Of the Great National
| Independent Greenback Party.
The public domin is the property of the
people and shall not be distribu ed among
spectators nor corporations.
| 4, nroon~sr ooJ zoo,.;+;o,
whether owned by persons or by combina-
tions shall be exempt from taxation if any
is taxed.
Since the nation is in debt, the nation
has credit. That credit should be used as
the basis of a uniform, universal circulat-
ing medium, by which the citizen may
produce and distribute, prosper and export
and eventually restore coin to this nation
now being drained of it by the opposite
process Of converting our greenback mon.
ey into coin bonds and selling them abroad
thereby enalaving labor and forever max.
ing coin payments impossible.
The legal tender greenback must be made
full legal tender, capable of paying dutie
on import, and interest on the public debt
3 when it will at once rise to par with gold
: as is proved by the original sixty million
1 issued which possessed that power equal,
. with gold, and always maintained them,
. selves at par with it.
The silver dollar, as coined whsH tn
Government bonds we're originally issuet
: must be restored, SO that the Government
e which is the people, can pay its debt aecor
8 ding to the contract in the bond before i
q was repudiated by the boDdholders, in tn
Act Of February, 1873, wherein they pri
vately got congress to discontinue its coin
age, and afterward ts enact that those al
/ ready coined should no longer be lega
e tender, the object of which was to compe
r the nation to redeem bonds in gold, whicl
: were redeemable eitherin gold or silver o
greenbacks. This is to remonetize silve,
AS all money is the creation of law, an
. arbitrarily affects all property, whateve
N the law creates as money must stand a
ID part Of the power that created it; otherwis
J. all property is at the mercy of the legisAp
n tors enacting in their own interest.
The Resumption scheme culm.iSating i
the Act of Jan. 14th, 1875, Which has a.
10 ready taken ten millions of dollars in. prof.
q erty from its rightful ownera by foreip
y pretended specie payments through Eetirin
and canceleing the legal tender money
,r the people, must be. Immediately rePeale
- otherwise the nature of the fraud CALL i
! consequential. damage.
" All monetary and other Acs4 ,Aa,'
ON the principle ofeqoal lfght, .mpi
'r law shall be rescinded, this = pe'ore
to erty as wellas people. = case o, pr
of act confers al ariaIass ne ha"onai %
of only in nsme, j. Atlc prerogatlve'
u ment, ifitsas> is the duty of Cove
bilIa Of oxss. <s people, to issue his {
no au,S> lit for value received, and it
II. div, Jrity to delegate the power to
p -Iuals or corporation; there fore matt
Il bank bills are unconstitutional and
gal, I'D those who emit them must rede
and banks shall do business either "
nus Greenbacks or with coin.