The Portland daily press., 1878-05-13
[For the Press.]
Jubbs on the Finanshal SitOoasIlen.
BUcHANAN's CORNER, MAINE

BUcHANAN's CORNER, MAINE.
Gentlemen oftbe Editorial Corpse:-
Times is CROWN harder and harder. OWN
to the efforts OF the Shylocks of Wall street,
and the bloatid bondholders backed by a sub.
sidized press, the currency hez bin contracted
to sich feerful extent, that bizness is pros
trait and room stares us in the face. But.
thank Heven, the people is gittin educatid
they are gettin ther Use open. They kin see
rift in the Clouds ez the principles of politikle
economy begin to be better understood and good
greenback literatoor. disseminated among the
masses.
We wuz all hard-monsy Dimocrats of the
Andrew jackson stripe, at the Corners, until
few weeks ago. Israel Newell, who hez bin
at work in shoe shop in Auburn, got out of
a iob and come home. Israel enjoys the proud
distincshen of bein the first to promulgait the
Nashunal doctrine at the Corners. He got us
in the grosery one mite, and fggered out how
corrupt legislashen he'd rooiued the labrin
class, and the people who owe debts,-which
incloods most everybody at Buchanan's Corner.
1t burst upon US like a revelashen, That the
caws of our troubles wuz OWN to the way the
helm Nv Stait he'd ben manipoolatid the last
sixteen yeers. "Look at Secretary Sherman
said Israel, che is good specimen NV the men
whom the Republican party elevatid to offs.
He wuz very good general, but he amt no
fnanseer." This remark awakened train of
that in my mind.
OF course the currency hez been contracted
Wat makes it so much harder to git money
now, than it was a few yeers ago? The
rich Is CROWN richer. aad the poor is CROWN
poorer. The laborin man is ground under the
crooil heel of the capitalist Wat the Govern
ment shood do to give immeiit relief is to
isshoo greenbacks and distriboot EN- per kapiter
smong the people-so that poor men who hez
the most children wood git the most benefit.
1 hev he'd several talks with Israel on this
subtle, and fndlthat he is sound on this goose
and greenbaek to the kore. "Rspoodiation,"
said he, "is word never to be menshuned in
this lattitood. Pay the bloated bondholder in
greenbacks."
Solon Chase of Turner, wuz invited to de.
iver one Nv his powerful speeches at the Cor
ners, and wen he he'd conclooded his remarks,
Greenback Club wuz formed; of wch am
the President We meet every Wednesday at
the grosery store, and discuss the currency
question. At the last meeting the following
resolushen was presented:
Wareas, the present deploorable condishen
Nv our country demands immejit attenshep,
be it
Resolued, that the Nashional and Dimocratic
party Nv this State unite in ther choice for
candidate for Governor at the September cleo
ton.
This wuz my ideer. Although Greenbacker
am Dimocrat. In the words of the poet:
"You may braik Won NAV shatter
Ihe vase II you will;
But some trace of the Dimocrat
VIII linger there still.'
Not that luv the Nashinul party less, but
luv the Dlmocratic more. Shall ws aban'
don the arty Nv Jefferson, and jack
sen and Buchanan and Robert Toombs
and Andy Johnson aud VIM. Tweed for new
organizashen and launch our frail bark on un-
tried seas? No. Les take the moo party under
our wing, as it were. 1t is a small egg now,
but it may hatch out a powerful chicken.
Let us look at the sitooashen in phiosoph-
icle way. Rite or rong the idee is goin to win
The Dimocratic patty must straddle They hev
done it before; they kin do it agin
Besides the cry Nv Frod is plaid out. Peeple
are Citing tired Nv the word and demand soma
thing moo. This crying Frod and doom nothia
iz like shakin a red rag in the facs Nv a blind
bull. You may keep up powerful shakin but
ez long ez he can't see the rag it don't do no
good.
Let the Greenback and Dmocras elements
unite. Lat us pat up man who il neither
Greeuback nor Dimocrat hoiey, ez we did ia
1877 when the lameuted Horace Greeley wuz
our standard bearer Let us hev simple
platform in 1880; Greenbacks and Repoodia-
shen for the West and south; Greenbacks and
an!i-Rspoodiashen TO Moo England, and Hard