The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-09-19

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town and plantation in this Congress
sional district is beyond all precedent.
The Greenback meetings are simply
numerous and immense. Old cam
paigners say that they surpass IN
magnitude and enthusiasm the great
demonstrations of 1910 and l846.
There can be but one result. Laid
will be overwhelmingly elected to
Congress. bangor (Me.) Com~scrcidl.
AS to how money should be redeem.
ed, the Clean IN. Y. Record says that
"All that we claim has been amply
demonstrated by our present only
partial legal tender. We have been
doing business with it the past six
teen years. Have the people been re-
ceiving it all these years because
they expected it to be redeemed in
gold! Have they ever asked the Gov
eminent to redeem it, 1t has paid
thousands Of billions of debts. Did
the creditors receive it because they
expected to get gold for it! No! they
received it because it would In turn
pay their debts. as the sovereign
power had so ordained. Does this
not amply prove that il is law which
makes money and gives it power to
circulated
The slogan of the Greenback bears
of Oxford county is heard in one con-
tinual growl from the SacO river to
Canton Point. Old farmers adver-
tise Greenback meetings by "hOller-
ing" from hill to hill. AS you pass
through the country you often see
farmer standing in his docryard
preaching Greenback doctrine to his
next neighbor, one quarter or half .
mile away. And you hear the same
slogan come out Of the woods where
| the men are peeling bark. The far
mers' wives who have got tired Of
raising turkies and drying apples 10
pay the bondholders' tax have set
their tongues a running, and the
Greenback women are rs thick IS the
Greenback men. Every Republican
lawyer IN the county, beside law
yers from other counties, are on tho
stump to check the uprising of the
people, but they have no more effect
than dam of mad and rolling stones
to stop the Androscogin river. Far.
mers and workingmen start out on
their own hook. call meetings, and
make speeches behind the lawyers.
who find in gathering their harvest
that the grass is sadly tangled down.
l-Chase's Me- Chronicle.
Few in the movement understand
the issues at stake as well as Mr. b.
H. Ferguson. of Troy, N. r.. and he
has the faculty Of telling what he
knows in an understandable way. In
the course Of recent speech he said:
81 want to ask you a ccnundrum
la mathematical question. But let
me present these statistics: in IN adj
ditiOnal report find that all tho coin
minted at all of the United States
minis since 1893. or 81 years, was H.
2oO, OOO, 600. The interest paid by the
people during the last fifteen years
has been 1,6o3, 854, sol ,l3. The
bonded debt Of the nation on the 30th
of June, 1873, official, was 81. 760, 1885,
$50. The interest paid by the people
in Is years exceeds all the coin pro.
duced in "a years, 3406 .854, oo1 ID.
The bonded Indebtedness Of the m
ton exceeds all the coin produced By
400, 735 $50. Now for the cOnuDdrum:
How long win it take the United
States to pay its bonded debt and thu
interest IL the excess Of interest In Is
lyears exceeds the coin profit of q
!. yenrs BY 1lOo, 06z. 0OI. 13l"