Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-19

troduced late in the session, will IN
doubtedly pass at an early day, anC
secure to the state fully $4,000 acre:
of land.
Thus you have a brief resume o
my attitude upon the leading issue;
which confronted Congress during it
last session. What is to confront u
in the future-what of public affair."
to- day? Peace and prosperity ar,
ours if we will. Under the wise anC
patriotic policy Of the Republican par
ty, this nation has been saved, but a
such great cost and suffering, that lIk,
the resuscitated drowning man, w
sometimes feel it had been easier haC
we died outright. But now life ant
health are restored, and We have rea
son to be exceeding glad W. are up
on the threshold of new and perma
nent prosperity. and if We can but sent
to the rear the disturbers ef publ,
confidence, we shall rapidly 90 forward
and surely become the richest, the
best, and the happiest people Oh the
face of the earth After eighteen
years Of fiction and fuctuation of mon
ey, with its inevitable disasters. W,
are again restored to an honest, stable
money standard. Gold and silver
which fer these years have been the
stake of gamblers and Shylocks, arc
to truthfully measure the value O
wheat, Of labor, Of land Stability OF
values and soundneSs Of trade will re
establish confidence, and capital will
come out Of its hiding places and risk
investment "Greenback 5, Of which
there are three hundred and forty SIX
millions outstanding, are consecrated
and bequeathed to the people for al
time as money to rank with gold and
silver, by being exchangeable therefor,
thus insuring the country against con
traction, while avoiding the evils oil
imitation. The national bank note, OF
which there are now about three hun
dred and twenty-four millions, redeem
ablc.in greenbacks, will &C under our
free banking system, as balance
wheel to regulate the valume OF cur.
rcncy according to the demands OF
trade. without disturbing its purchas-
ing power. Coming ont Of the
scourges and disastrous consequences
Of war, we have another peril threat
ening US. Reputation in its mildest
name, but unmasked by Kearneys and
Buffers, it is communism of the worst
type. Under the guise Of virtue this
political harlot is, by turns, as suits
her insiduous purposes, trying to Sc
ducc both of the great political parties
to her vile embrace. BY her false
.pretenses she has caused many 'sgood
men to go wrong" She says to the
iaborer, and we in this section are all
laboters, "toil not, /" ''by the sweat of
your neighbors brow shall We cat your
bread" 70 the masses she says,
'.burn the National bonds, destroy cap
ital and divide by force the Accumulate
ed frnits of honest industry" Under
our system, the laborer OF yesterday
becomes the capitalist of day. La
Dor and capital are mutually depend
ent, and the man or party which seeks
to divorce or antagonize these essential
factors to human prosperity, is guilty
of moral treason [ respect the hon
est greenbacker who seeks to maintain
the Y, S. legal tender note as money,
and his theory that the government
shall issue all the currency, if accom-
plished through an amendment of the
constitution, Us at least debateable.
but the proposition to force the labor
or and crippled pensioner, or anybody,
to receive as money irrcdeemablc paper
called fiat money absolute money,
or what not, is an outrageous insult to
the intelligence of the American PEG
pie Get the behind me, Satan"
Kearney and Butler have unmasked
this monster, and however fair the the
cries and pretenses Of this new party
have seemed heretofore, thee is nc
longer any excuse for Intelligence and
honesty to hngeF with er tolerate it.
As for myself, I hold that we have the
best currency the world has ever seen
a national credit of which every true
and loyal citizen should be proud, and
now what we want is peace, cessation
of national strife and agitation.
Rather than that suspicion should
attach to me as consorting or sympa-
thizing with this hcresy and sin of re-
pudiation and national dishonor, | a
thousand times prefer defeat.
This and many other SUBJECTS [ may
further elaborate during, the campaign,
but this occasion does not require it.
| conclude by again thanking you for
the honor conferred on ne.