The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-22
OUR ANokA CORRESPONDENT.

The Greenback that is to be,wil1 be differ
ent thing from the Greenback that is 1t
should read. "The Treasury Of the Uuited
States by an Act OF Congress, issues this ONE
DOLLAR bill, and make it FULL and the
ONLY LEGAL TENDER for all debts, dues, taxes,
customs, and demands of every name and
nature. All salaried poStoffices will receive it
on deposit and give therefor demand note
to A. B. or order, with use at per cent. "
This with letter, number, date, signatures,
and all other devices to prevent counterfeit
ing, will make the Greenback dollar the
worth its face in gold, or anything else.
The Greenback now vastly outweighs all
other reforms before the country, or which
can come before it in importance. Laying
aside all questions OF doubtful disputation, let
US aim, as the first thing, to RESTORE financial
prosperity, and set the wheels of industry
going. "-PETER COOPER.
A Washington correspondent says he is in
formed by the Treasury Department that
there are now fully two millions in counter
felt coin in circulation. We have no such
trouble with the worthless" Green backs,
and very few bad counterteits.
The act of Congress remonetizing silver de-
clared that the silver dollar should contain
than this to the silver dollar are counterfeit,
then all the silver coin in circu lation are
such.
Can government expect its people to be
honest W hen it sets them fragrant example
of dishonesty in imposing on them silver
coins as money, claiming for them the in
trinsic value of 100 cents, when they are
worth only S5X.
The public debt statement for June last
shows a total of debt and interest of -, 292,
6l0,493 This is over $5l per capita, and if
wholly paid up with greenbacks would be
just about the circulation the country needs.
We owe-everybody owes-every man,
woman and child owes, over SOL; for this is
the amount of the public debt divided by the
40, COG, 900 Of our population If the working
men be but one eighth OF the total population
then every workingman owes $4Oo. If every
family average five persons, then every fam
lily owes 1856. The interest on this enormous
debt accumulates much faster than the wealth
of the country increases, and in a very few
years it will take every dollar the country is
worth, both of real and personal estate, to pay
it. If not paid NOW, it will be repudiated and
wiped out by tremendous revolution in the
near future, with wal, bloodshed, and suffer
ing unequalled. The Greenback system pays
it at once, yet leaves the MONEY IN OUR OWN
HANDS TO USE !! 1t pays the debt, and allows
you to KEEP THE MONEY
eff crime is to be measured by the misery il
produces, the act of taking from our people
their money, and converting it into interest
bonds must rank as one OF the most unjust
and Cruel acts ever known to any civilized
LEGISLATION PETER COOPER.
/CoNUNpRUM:-"Why is Senator Blaine
rocking the rag babye'-Chase's Chronicle
Can't say-glve it up. Perhaps he will tell
us W hen he visits Minneapolis. The baby is
certainly very healthy, and don't need rock
ing.
promise to pay" because it will not be a
note, but absolute money 1t will pay its
face everytime it exchanges hands, and W hen
not needed for that purpose it Will pay tw hen
deposited in postal savings bank tor gov
eminent demand note on interest. 1t will
always be better than gold.