The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-12

county deem it proper TO submit to you
4 statement Of the present condition and
prospects Of the party. 1t is natural In
the formation Of = new party, gathering
its converts from all sides, that differ
ences Of opinions should exist, and that
Il should take time to become acquainted
with each other to harmonic and cor.
solidate. That We will be whipped at
first Is to be expected, but as we sung in
1856, when the Republican party was
evolved from chaos-aiter each recurring
defeat
"Beneath thy skies, November,
Beneath the chilling rain,
Around our blLEtng camp nra
We close our ranks again"
The growth Of the Republican party
was afflicted with everything we have
had to encounter in the line Of divisions
and defeats. Il passed through every
d~iscouraging incident Of development
from infancy to power. It died many
times according 70 the estimates Of Its
enemies, but 1t would not, nor did not,
die until il had done its appointed work.
That work has been done and there is no
necessity for the party living any longer.
The spoils of Office are all that keep II
together. Our National Greenback La.
Dor Party must expect to be assailed-to
be reported dead-to be betrayed by its
pretended friends and disgraced by
rosues, demagogues and schemers from
the old parties, and TO be pestered BY
fools and babbling idiots. We have had
the run Of these Affections but have
nothing to fear; u real danger will
come in the near future, when we
shall have become the dominant Ma.
tional party. Then the demagogues
and conspirAtors will join .
forces. Attorneys and SCENTS Of bondhold.
srs, .monopolists, contractors, bankers,
brokers, &c, will come owe TO Us in
shoals. From these hypocritical and IN
principlsd enemies OF the ~workiugmAn,
and only these, have we reason to appre.
bend any real danger. Such men have de-
stroyed both the old parties. 1tis for us
TO guard our organization against these
demagogues, and We cannot begin too
soon. The National Greenback Labor
Party now agree unanimously in prefer
ring 8 currency independent Of bonds,
because this would avoid interest and Sc
cure equal taxation. We further agree
that ali bonds should be paid as con as
possible, the interest stopped, the exemP.-
lion Of bonds from taxation repealed, and
that no more bonds be Issued. We know
that the bonds and bond currency under
contract Of usurers are the chief instru-
m~entalities for absorbing the surplus
earning Of labor by the idle; Of fixing the
value OF products and raising and de-
pressing the markets in the interest Of
many iobbers and monopolists who pro-
duce nothing. To the end that the cur
rency be not thus used, We propose that
under the constitution the Congress shall
provide for its control in the interest and
Tor the use Of the people without s basis
OF Interest, bonds, and without exemption
from taxation. We demand the fullest
protection to American industry and the
abolition Of convict labor. We are charg-
ed with being Communists. Communists
are defined BY those who make the charge
as men who favor = division Of property
without regard to ownership or who
earned il. II this definition Is correct,
John Sherman, who stands for the Re
publican party, and August Belmont,
who stands for the Democratic party, are
the head and front Of the commune In
this country. And their followers are
communists. They represent individuals,
classes and corporations who have abb
sorbed most OF the wealth Of two CONT
nents, and who have obtained possession
OF the real estate and personal property
OF the world by practical communism and
agrarianism-by fraudulent and forcible
distribution Of property to themselves
which has really been earned by the down
trodden working classes.
The means these real communists have
employed have been the divine right Of
kings, standing armies, hereditary land
titles; exemption from taxation; royal
grants; titles Of nobility, m%onopolies In
trade; monopolies in manufactures; gov
ernmental subsidies; untaxed interest
bearing bonds; control Of the circulating
medium; usury and corrupt legislation.
II there are two Communist In this
country who are dangerous, men who
above all Others deserve to be hung or
| shot a. traitors and enemies OF the He
public, John Sherman and Gus Belmont
should hang first. II there are any Ger
man, French or English Communists In
Europe who are enemies Of human socie-
" and Of men they are the representa-
tiyes OF the house Of Rothschild, ostensi-
bly, engaged in banking in London, Paris
and Berlin, and not the poor working,
h%alf.stAryed masses Of men and women
whose earnings are taken by fraud and
distributed to these money hogs BY the
hundreds Of millions annually. The
money power and the political power oil
the world have been engaged for centurie.
in robbing the lAborer Of his hire and
distributing Il under the blood red Gag o.
Communism TO the luxurious idlers and
titled aristocrats who never earned and
are not rightfully entitled to 4 cent.
These are the men and classes who are
dangerous to society and to civilization
and not their poor victims who have beer
robbed and enslGyed. These human VAN
pires are not confined TO Europe, they arr
organized In this country; they are rep,
resented BY the men named above and
many Others; they control the finances o.
this country; they issue untaxed interest
bearing bonds; they have brought. tho
country to bankruptcy BY robber taxa
lion, and 70 the verge Of revolution BY
their iniquities. The cry Of communism
aVainst The National Greenback Labor
party is the cry Of stop thief BY the thisl
himself. According 10 them all work
ingmen are GInternStioualistS" or Com
m1nists when they begin TO work tor
themselves, and cease % work for CAPT
talists exclusively. The oppressors o.
the laboring man resort 70 any and ever
means TO destroy all attempts on theii
part 70 organize for self protection, ant
no GlAndsr l. TOO base for them 70 eircu'
late against rs. We are luuGtcS because
We exercise the too long dormant tAlen,