Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-08-30
Some Pungent Questions.
a Blatherskite in The Tolls.

Blatherskite in The Tolls.
Gen. Sam Cary, the National Green
back champion, recently delivered
speech at Lansing, Michigan, in the
illogical, incorporate and uncandid style
peculiar to nearly all the leaders of that
party. The Republican Of that city re-
piled to it and asked Gen. Cary to ans
wer the following searching questions,
J which, as they expose many Of the fall
lacies and Misrepresentation of fact
inculcated in the Greenback party in
Iowa, may be read with profit here:
In asking men to forget all their old
party ties and listen to you as American
citizens only, don't you come as the
hired advocate of party which binds
its members with pledge that $ if
National does not wish to vote his own
ticket, or any portion thereof, he shall
not vote ticket of either of the old par
ties?" Do you call such despotism from
a dark-lantcrn caucus, such letters on
freedom Of elections by the name of re
form?" Did you ever hear of anything
quite so mean since the old Know
Nothing lodges excluded men whose
fathers happened to be born outside of
the United States?
Why don't you preach to the Nation
al party to repudiate its bad leaders
such fellows as Brick Pomeroy, Walter
II. Shupe, Moses w. Field, Sam Cary
and others?
You say it is no matter who brought
on the rebellion and who is responsible
for it's evil effects; all war engendered
passions ought to cease" Why then do
you begin new war on capital and stir
any money and engage in banking, by
calling them old cusses, "pinching
old Shylocks, " hard money fools, rob
bers of the people" frauds, cheats and
swindlers, "coupon-clippers, living on
the earnings of the people, cancer ON
the body polite" deeply to be abhored
tools and pimps of corporations, mon
cy power with its grip on the threats of
Democratic and Republican leaders"
causing the commoton of civil war, OF
reputation and revolution? Do you
consider this and similar language fit
for political discussion in the interest Of
reform" especially when you are con-
demning passion and animosity?"
What proof have you of there being
100000 unemployed laborers in this
country, degraded into : tramps' by the
gnawing Of hunger and the distress of
their families? DO you know enough
arithmetic to perceive that this is one
starving tramp to every twenty-three
persons? That if you tell the truth,
Michigan has to-day 10000 of these
wretched creatures, jackson county
1000 of them, and the city of Lansing
$50? Where are they and who are
they?
What proof have you that there are
100000 more men only half employed
in this country, and 100000 more who,
if they were to be sick one month, would
see their families forced into the poor
houses? Do you know enough arithme-
tic to perceive that 5000, 600 of idle. or
half employed, or almost destitute la
borers make about three -fourths of the
whole working force Of the country
Do you pretend to say, seriously, that
only one man IN four and q quarter in
the country has any permanent labor or
business to perform? (The total num-
Der of able-bodied males of working age
is estimated at 9,000,00O) Is this a
true picture of American society to-
day?
Don't you know that gold and silver
in bars will buy just as much property
; as in coin? Don't you know that if the
Government stamp should be all filed
off gold eagle, but the filings saved,
you could buy just as much property
with it as when it was perfect?
Don't you know that before there was
any mint in California, the gold dust
was weighed, as your gold eagles were
weighed (you say in London when you
wanted currency for them? In short
: don't you know that the government
; stamp adds no value to money, but
simply certifcs to the value already in
it?
Did you ever know man to lose a
dollar by his confidence" in national
bank kills?
Did you ever know man to refuse
national bank bills for any property he
had to sell
Did you ever know interest or ex-
change to be as cheap under any other
system as at the national banks now?
When you say that ''greenbacks and
national bank notes cannot any more
exist together than freedom and slavery
for one of them has got to get out OF
the way" don't you know that green
backs and national bank notes have ex.
listed together for fourteen years, and
that for six years past the difference
between them has not averaged $50
100000?
When you say there are 100 national
bankers in the Congress Of the United
States, don't you know it is false? Can
you name twenty national bankers in
that body? Can you name ten? Can
you name even five whose business is
! national banking?
Don't you know that this falsehood
was told three years ago by Moses W
Field, and that he has never yet given
the names Of these national bankers, MOI
attempted to do so?
When you say there was never q
, bank established under Gods footstool
based upon coin, that was not cheat
and a swindle upon the producing class
and never will be one" do you refer to
France, the Bank of Germany, the
,, Scotch banks, and the gold banks OF
l California?
Do you know so much more about
/; banking and finance, and the producing
classes as to set up your blackguardism
against the steady confidence reposed
in these banks by 125,000,000 people
one -eighth Of all mankind, and the most
! intelligent, industrious and enterprisin9
races. too?
If these specie bottomed banks, some
of them established for ages, had been
frauds, cheats and swindles on the
producing classes all the time, would
: not production have been stopped and
;. those countries all have grown poor in
stead of rich?
When you refer to France as being
whipped by Germany, and issuing 81
600, 100000 of greenbacks to set hel
people at work to earn money to pay
for the whipping don't you know this
, to be false? Don't you know that
France issued no grecnbacks at all-not
2 a dollar of Government paper currency?
Don't you know that she authorized the
Bank of France, private corporation
to issue notes beyond her immediate
, ability to redeem? Don't yon know
E that in the worst times Of the war they
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