Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-17

Now, we don't want an unlimited
issue of legal tender paper. No man
docs; any man who does, simply is
making an "a double S Of himself"
We arc all in the same boat. We
don't want an unlimited amount.
Don't be alarmed, my editorial friend,
you will not be over-burdened with
it, but we should have enough to meet
the business demands of the country
and to pay labor and work. We say
this ystem of finance has turned loose
three millions of men in enforced
idleness. That system of finance is
causing more to-day--is causing more
strain on the country than the whole
rebellion. Two millions per day was
the cost per day, at the most costly
period of the rebellion. We are losing
to-day, by tho enforced idleness Of the
people three millions of dollars In
time of profound peace. We want
enough money to put these men to
work-to give them employment in
this unfinished country. There is
plenty to do yet. The savsges are not
yet subdued. The houses are not all
painted. You are working your fam
lilies "a you should not work them If
you were able to hire hands. You are
doing that very thing in every de-
partment of business. There should
be sufficient money to pay labor, to
pay for work. Nobody can get rich
by throwing labor out Of employment.
No nation can get rich by throwing
its people ont OF employment. 1t will
go into bankruptcy.
Now, young men what is there be-
fore you in prospect? Can the young
men get employment go that over and
above their subsistence they can lay
up any money? No; the young men
of to-day have no hope before them
unless they have rich fathers. You
cannot expect to accumulate finances
beyond your actual subsistence, and
you are not making any calculations
for marriage, or getting home of
your own. You can't do it. Your
finances will not justify it. You old
gray.headed men well know it. You
used to say, 'Son, you must learn some
trade, so that if you do not succeed in
any calling yon can follow your trade
But now ouse-carpen'ers are not do.
ing anything. Blacksmiths are idle
half their time, and 1t is SO with every
other trade appeal to any of them.
You cannot get your boys into the
trades. You are training them for
trsmps all over this country. I have
Just read in the Register of three hun
dred tramps started south and had
got as far a. Notwithstanding and
capturing train Of csrs-full grown
men with teeth and hair. They didn't
turu up ont of the ground like seven
teen-year locnsts. They were raised
by somebody. They were handled on
the knees of some father and mother.
1t cost something to raise them. 1t
cost seventeen hundred dollars as an
average to raise them. This is q new
thing, 1t come with the hard times
and it will 60 away and disappear
with the hard times, il you are gen.
erons enough to have system of fl
nances which will give employment to
the people of the country. We have
population of millioDs. In the near
future we will have population of q
hundred millions Of people. And just
think Of it. We are to have this iron
bedstead Of contraction Of the curren.
it, until you have reduced this pop
nlation to the condition they are in in
the old countries where the wealth is
in the hands Of the few. and what ia
done for them has got to be voted with
cannon. This will be the case unless
You have q system of finance, an es-
tablished institution of the country
free and untrammeled. Amy man to-
day unfaithful to our growing popula'
ton, and unfaithful to our mechanics
who are out of employment, and in
favor of going to Europe 10 ask how
many grains we shall have in on,
dollar, is a traitor to the highest inter
ests of the country and honest civili
cation. But there are men in this audi
ence will 90 and vote that ticket wheI
they know it isa monopoly entirely
for these men.
What difference in this party to
day and twenty years ago--when !
was the champion of the oppressed
and had q voice for the oppressed
but now you have it in the metropoli
tan journals of TO day that it is endeav
, oring to put them in the prisons of tn
country. ,ihere was q voice in tha
day, for the down-trodden and or
pressed; but now it is altogether dill
! ferent. Smsrting with malice an
, gangrene, coming out Of the struggl
, OF that day, they have turned to cal
T each other bad names. As said to day
we have got the spirit that they had
q transmigration of souls. The spirl
: which once prompted the republican
party, the same Ia with the greenbac
!. party to day, and saying how mucI
we shall have for labor-how much
q man shall have for his day 3 work--frse
+ ing them from despotism. You ono
r had the confidence of the laboring mel
' but now they are leaving you.
4 Itls not four millions of men we ar
). having emancipated, but fifty million
I Caucasian, and every other rsce-th
i. party which proposes to give labor il
v Just reward, and capital its just pi
:. tance.
n Now, gentlemen, there must be n
, conflict between labor and capital n
- nothing of the kind. But you hay
+ got il in your law that one class sha
r. receive gold, and in another law th'
the Treasury take another kind, an
" worse than all, that the soldier wi,
I his armless sleeve may march up
W the disbursing Office, and receive
pension in paper money; while II
=. man who clips his coupon, walks up
10 the paymaster and demands his pay
"a gold. Now, we greenbackers are o
C. upon that, and We will repeal it as sot
W as VIC get the power. This is 20
ht child and you undertake to defend
i. You will get down in the ashes If "
n do undertake to defend it.
p Now, if you expect to succeed
-. your efforts against oppression, it "
in not be by public speeches, but by int
IN vidual labor, by your work, by yo
,d influence upon your neighbor. No
va will you GO out from this to the ides
% October and work for the election
r.. men who represent your ideas?
so you will do that, victory is certain.
ia Even in this strong hold of reput
he canism in Iowa, you will see victo
IA, perchcd on your banners. or
90 greatly deceived. We have fonrte
sll hundred in our greenback club
ia Monroe county, clear majority o.