The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-10-17
NATIONALTSM.
Its Significance in Politics.
Something Of What We May Expect
Should It Succeed to Power.
A Party that CounseIs its Members tc
Make Themselves Proficient In
the Use Of Firearms-WiIl
You Aid It?

/
ments circulated in the west by the frst-named
party must have a very important significance
| TO the friends of law and order.
| From the tract entitled "Meat for Men, ~
| Issued by Pomeroy, Chairman of the National
| Committee for organizing Greenback CLUBS,
| page9:
| "Let Congress, SO soon as we, the people, can
| be heard in that heretofore UNANIMOUSLY corrupt
body OF punderers, declare that in order to save
| the American Republic the bond must be
| burned, and destroyed even as slavery was
destroyed. That 1t must be called in and retired
in ashes, even as the greenback money has
| been taken in. That the bondholder shall have
greenback, legal-tender, lawful money of the
| United States for every claim he holds against
| the United States. If he refuses this, then let
| him howl If he wishes to. Let him rave, and
his financial damnation rest on his own dis
| honest head. We will have mo bonds of any
| kind issued by the government.
/ ,,If this government OF ours will not protect
| us, the tax-paying people, then we owe 1t no
allegiance. If it will not do this, 1t is bad, an
| infamous government, after all the people have
| done for it, and we had better unite the west
| and the south, secede from a Union that bene-
fits only eastern bondhoders, and let their
| dupes in northeastern States go into slavery to
| the illegitimate brat of Republican borning and
| Democratic adoption. SO 1t is, eastern masters
| and money-hoarders, that we sight the gun
| directly at your black hearts. Too long have
your political tricksters in both parties held the
| hot iron of bankruptcy to our backs. Too long
| have you, by aid of knaves and hirelings, held
| us in the morass OF poverty and the slough of
| despond You can give us back the full silver
| dolar-the greenback dollar-as munition of
| peace and part of the government, or in 1880
never rises a sun on the Republic as it now
l
August Belmont, Jay Cooke, John Sherman.
| Samuel j. Tilden, and all of the plundering
bullionbaggers. You have torn down the
| Constitution till 1t hangs only by one nail.
You have ignored the rights of the people. You
| have turned the mis1ortunes of war you pro-
| longed to your great advantage and the people S
| disaster and you deserve to have your banks
| broken open, your houses plundered, your
| spoons and furniture stolen, your ill-gotten
| gains wrested from you, your possessions con-
| fscated, and your northeastern States held as
appendages to a united west and south, hand
in-hand cooperating as the New America.
Give us back the money of our fathers. Give
us back the greenback money you have stolen
| and burned. Give us, the people, the property
| that belongs to us who live by labor or you
| shall be shorn of your power, despoiled of your
possessions, and left in the desolation you plan
for those you have so long planned to hold as
| slaves.
| CLEANING THEM OUT OF HOMES.
| "Young men of the west and south, we can
! clean all Of those eastern pirates out of homes
| and the property they have stolen. We car
| unite and whip them to reason and to a compre-
| hension of the right We can leave the coun-
| try northeast of the Allegheny mountains to
pay the national debt. We can unite and make
| the southwest the garden of the world. We can
| open the Mississippi river and float our billions
| of produce down its waters to market We can
| send our surplus products to foreign countries
| by way of southern cities. With the proceeds
| we can line the west and south with new rail-
roads, open new mines, and make the east a
| bowling wilderness, In which will roam the
| ghosts of the witch burners and of those Puri-
| tans who made fortunes in supplying the south
with slaves stolen from the coast of Africa.
| We can do all this, and you will take this for
| your repast in the near future If you do not
burn your ill-gotten bonds and let the people
nets in reserve. -
From page II, same tract
| "Citizens have been robbed of their equality.
| Land has been robbed of its value. Labor has
been robbed of It's life. Life has been robbed of its
reward. Every bondhoIder is robber whose
knife is an infamous law that was made to en-
rich few at the expense of the many. Every
| national banker is a robber of the people in his
monopoly to take from them double interest on
the bills he puts out, not one OF which are re-
deemabe in gold or silver. Silver has been
robbed OF its power 10 pay debts, and as result
of your long g-continued robberies you have had
Just one little sip of the hell-broth you have
been brewing this sixteen years for your dshon-
est selves -
From "Hot Drops" " No. 2, pages:
"Now we warn you, you cowardly, sneak
ing, dishonest, treacherous, false hearted, avari
cious, mercenary hireings of an eastern money
power, that we, the people of the western and
southern States, including Pennsylvania and
all of New York west from the mouth OF the
| Hudson river, do intend to take possession Of
the government of the United States, hurl you
and your bondholdng element from power, and
create for you enough legal-tender greenback
money to relieve the general government from
its embarrassments.
REPUTATION OF EVERY BOND.
"We mean that the debt of the United State,
shall be paid in greenbacks; and right here w,
inform you from the western prairies, that, 81
sure as God lives, if this question is not settled
by 1880; If the law then does not declare that thu
bonds shall be paid in greenbacks exactly as tn
soldiers of the United States were paid In green
back money, we shall never again ask for sucl
an issue of money, but will, from that hour
strike for the repudiation OF every bonded obli
CATION of the government, and thus wipe ou
from existence every United States bond, an
their holders shall have nothing. Put this i,
your pipe and make the most of It'll Ours is a.
absolute government. 1t is a government G
the people, and by the eternal IL shall be a gov
ernment for the people, or it shall be smashe
! into so many fragments that each separate Stat
will, in comparison, be complete world.
From "Hot Drops, No. 4, page7:
, eff the government will not do this thine
then we, the people, in defence OF our lives, ou
liberties, our homes, our families, and all ths
the future holds out to us as a promise throug
the work of the founders of the Republic, mu.
} overthrow this government, repudiate all Al
, unconstitutional contracts, wipe out the il
debtedness of the United States, ana commene
I anew. Therefore we say TO those who admin,
ter the laws-pay the the bondholders TO Il
uttermost farthing in greenbacks, full lega
tender money, and ever after hold IL at ps
with gold, or any other material of whic
money is made. Do lthis,- or I'VE, the peopl
will be compelled, in self-defence, to repudia
you who are in Congress and the PRESIDENT
. chair only as our servants-to repudiate yc