The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-12
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ADDRESS
fthe Executive Committee OF The
National Greenback Labor Party TO
the Voters OF Ohio County, West
Virginia.

The Voters OF Ohio County, West
Virginia.
The Executive Committee OF the
Greenback Labor party OF OHIO county
deem it proper to submit to you brief
statement of the prospects OF the party.
1t is natural, if not inevitable, in the
formation and growth Of new party,
gathering its converts and recruits from
all existing parties, that differences OF
opinion should exist, and that it should
take time to become acquainted with
each o.her, to harmonic and consolidate,
and be able to work under the new ban
ner and the new leadership. That, as is
the case with an unorgsnlzed army
of citizen volunteers, a few cam
psicns must be lost before we are
able to utilize our full strength, is in
evitsble.
The growth Of tho Republican party
was afflicted with everything We have
had to encounter in the lire OF divisions
and defeats. 1t passed through every
discoursgiDg incident Of development,
from infancy 20 power, which we are
now experiencing. 1t died finally, many
times, according TO the estimate Of its
enemies. A great many prescriptions
and panaceas were exhausted to effect its
everlasting quietus. But 1t would not,
and did not die, or consent TO be quieted,
until 1t had done its appointed work;
since which time, no earthly fate can
prevent its dying, as fate has so de-
creed.
We must expect to be assailed by all
possible enemies, avowed and dissvowed.
We must expect to be prescribed for, to
be reported dead; to be betrayed by pre-
tended friends, to be digraced by rOgues,
demagogues and political schemers from
the old parties; to be pestered by fools,
blooG-suckers, and bsbblIng idiots.
We have had, and still have, the usual
run Of these affections, and expect to
have them IN the future. But from these
we have nothing to fear. Our real dam
ger will come wnen IN the near future
we shall have become the dominant Ma
tional party. Then the demsgogues, po-
iticsl scoundrels and COnsplrstors will
flock to our ranks. Attorneys and agents
of the European boudholders, corporate
monopoists, contractors, bankers, job
bers and rings of all sorts, like the pres
ent Republican Secretary Of the Treas
ury, will come over to US in shoals, III
regiments and baltalions. From these
hypocrlical and unprinclpled enemies Of
the Repablic, and only these, have we
reason to spprehend real danger. Such
men have destroyed both Of the old par
ties. Ii is for US to guard our organiza.
tion against these demagogues, and we
cannot begin too soon.
The Nstonsl Green back and Labor
party now agree unanimously IN prefer
ring currency independent Of bonds,
because this would avoid interest and Sc
cure equal taxation. We further agree
that ali bonds should be paid rs soon ss
possible, the interest stopped, and the eI-
emption of bonds from taxation repealed.
That no more bonds should be issued.
We believe that the bonds and bond cur
rency under control OF ShyloCks are the
chief instrumeutsllties for absorbing the
surplus earnings Of labor by the idle; Of
fixing the value OF products, ard raising
of money joboers and monopolists who
produce nothing. To the end tha! the
currency NAV not be thus used, We pro.
pose that under the Constitution the Con
gress shall provide tor It: control in the
interest and for the use Of the people,
without q tasis of Interest bonds. and
without exemption from taxation. Upon
these principles we are unit, or nearly
90, throughout the nation.
We deusnd the fullest protection to
American industry, and the abolition Of
contract prison lsbor.
We are charged with beng Commu-
mist. and sgrarisns. Communists are de-
fined, by those who make the charge, as
men who favor division Of property
without regard TO ownership or who
earned it. Property ough. to belong to
those who earn it, who produce it. Il
these definitions sre correct, John Sher-
man, VITO now stands for the Republican
psrty, snd who constitutes the resldum,
or sugsrIDg OF OF thst psrtv, and August
Belmont, who stsrds tor the Democratic
party, are the great leaders Of the
European commune n this coun-
try, and thei- followers and adler
ents are communists. They represent Indi-
vidusls, corporations aud classes in
Europe and America, who have absorbed
most of the wealth OF two continents, but
who never earned s dollar; who have OBJ
tsined possession OF the resi- estate and
personal property OF the world by prscti.
cal communism and sgrsrisnism; By
fraudulent and iorcibie distribution of
property to themselves, which bss been
earned by the working masses.
The mesus employed have been stand
ing armies; hered!tlry land titles; eI-
emp;ions from taxation. roya. grants;
TITLES of nobility; mODspolies in trsdei
monophes in manufacturing; govern
mental subsidies; ultsxed inIeresl-besr-
ing bonds; conIol OF the circulating