The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-30
ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL PARTY
TO the People of New HAMPSHIRE:

70 the People Of New Hampshire:
In severing u connection with
existing political parties it is fitting
that we should state the reasons that
1mpel us to take this step, as we'll as
che remedies for the wrongs we
suffer.
The people are naturally conserva-
tive and never break old party ties
and mass themselves in a common
cause unless goaded by some great
and long suffered provocation. Ages
OF history Illustrate the truth that all
great reforms must pass through
three stages; ridicule. argument and
adoption. The van of the National
Greenback column has already passed
through the shadows Of the first
ordeal, and the cause is emerging
into the broader and purer light OF
the second, while the third is plainly
prefigured in the next presidential
election. 1t is we'll that the leading
organs Of both oldhparties are drop
ping the habitual sheer and ridicule,
with which they met this great issue
and are beginning to regard the
''NatiOnals" as a '.reality which it is
foll-- to belittle." Standing upon
this second stage of our progress and
cheered by a royal Roadway towards
the third, we ask the people Of New
Hampshire to honor our cause with a
thoughtful and candid consideration,
being fully convinced that they will
join it in its ultimate adoption.
Neither Of the old parties dare hold
<iAI- dada "~ I9~r a.. 1-1k r.
truth for vindication. Each OF them
strive to exaggerate what little vir-
tue they possess, by setting it up
against the black record of their Op-
%pOnentS.
They have outlived their day, the
issues that called them into life and
the results they were organized to
achieve.
On most Of the great questions of
the day each of them are either blind,
neutral or hopelessly divided against
themselves. On the money question
however which o~verlays all others,
and in which the leaders have a sharp
private interest, they are drawn so
close together that their pocket books
touch in a thrill of common selfish
ness.
In the last presidential election it
Is L well known fact that Hayes and
Tilden were equal favorites with the
monopoly and money power of the
country, and that those powers die
tated their ca%ndidature. Neither of
them was popular with the common
man because none Of them was the
choice of the common man. Both of
them stood false to their country land
If a national presidential convention
were held tomorrow there is not a
party that would dare nominate
either Of them.
Both parties are controlled by the
magnates of the money power and
dare not, if they would, endorse the
cause OF the people against them.
In our distress thousands of strong
armed men sprang up from the mine,
the plow, the forge and the workbench
and stood forward under the old flag
through battle storm and sheeted
flame. They were the first to put on
the blue. and the last to take it off.
They remember little of those terri
bic years save that their rulers priced
their blood and valor at an average
coin equivalent of seven dollars a
month and are now taxing them out
of their little homes for the food, the
clothing and the wages they then re-
ceived. The soldier has begun to
think and 10 read the story written
in his sears.
The people are beginning to realize
that at the time of our dire need and
- ~t.A..,A,- .lk a,lt,N1Jn- COT -l,a1
tered in luxury and ease, beneath the
crimsoned Tgis of our arms. and have
grown rich and great at their expense
by a system Of legislation that inevi-
tably makes the rich man richer and
the poor man poorer. 1t is an &C
kuowledged fact. that since the
original measure authorizing the $40
bonds. every monetary act of Con-
gress has been passed for the sole
purpose of giving the b~Ondholder
more than we agreed to give him
under the original contract.
When the government called for
means TO prosecute the war, the
bankers called 4 meeting in New
York and refused to lend the govern
ment money at any terms;what money
they did loan the government was
loaned 1T Il double interest, and they
had no mercy on the government until
it brought them to their knees by the
issue of its own currency in green
backs.
In 1861. the government by its
constitutional power created 4 full
legal tender paper money was receiya-
BILE for al debts, dues and demands"
that money has always remained at
par with gold and was subjected in
foreign countries to the same dis
count only as our coin SGT, 200. 900 of
this currency was issued. More being
required, a ring was formed and the
government influenced into mutilat-
ing the currency and making it con
vertible into bonds,s sc that they could
fatten on its fluctuations and convert
it into bonds as it came into their
possession through the channels of
trade, but the largely increased vol
ume of money did not come into their
possession as fast as they wished. 1t
found its way into every avenue of
business andEtimulated the industries
Of the country to an extent never be-
fore thought Of. It is needless to