Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-28
Armed Organization for Public
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Plunder.
Marion Register.
The following clippings are taken
from PomerOy's Democrat. The sig.
nificance of the utterance will be un-
derstood when it is remembered that
the author Of the sentiments is a
leader of the greenback party. We
have taken the pains to append the
date of each paper from which the
clippings are made, SO that any one
so disposed can verify their correct
ness. We ask honest, thinking men
to read and ponder these utterances:
Now we demand that the Govern
ment call its bondholders, to whom it
is in debt, up to its counters, and pay
to them greenback money in full for
all it owes them.-May 4.
In the organization of greenback
clubs we counsel every able-bodied
member of these organizations to be-
come as proficient as possible in the
manual of arms. In time of peace it
is best to prepare for war, and to pre-
pare for war is the best way in the
world to avert it. In every greenback
club there should be a drill master
that is in every club where members
are brave enough to stand at all times,
under all circumstances, to defend
their rights as citizens. This green
back movement is no boys play, and
the bondholders of this country, and
all their allies, may as well under
stand it to-day as at any other time
June 1.
We say burn every United States
bond. Wipe the debt entirely out of
existence. Pay it in that creation of
law known as absolute, perpetual
money of the country.-aJlaae1 /.
Now if this bondholding contract is
not Cancelled, closed and the debt paid
in greenbacks let it be paid in bayo-
nets. If the holders Of these claims
against the United States want metal
instead of money, in Gods name let
them have it; and let us who are of
the people, see that they have all they
want of it, and all this that the gov
ernment of the United States may
live and that its robbers and plunder-
ers may die. Where the law-making
power is vested in the people-where
every voter is an individual sovereign
of himself, it is not treason for us, who
are the people, the individual sover-
eigns, to command our servants to do
what we will have done, else we, the
people, are not supreme, and the
boast that we have a law of our own
making is a lie that it were time to
prick with steel.-J,ne 1.
Our correspondent wants to know
what we mean by urging greenback
clubs to familiarize themselves with
the manual of arms. We mean this:
The people themselves are the gov
ernment. They are the individual
sovereigns, the kings of this country,
who are their own lawmakers, and
whenever the government as admin
istered by a coterie at Washington,
deems it essential to strengthen the
army and commence the drilling of
troops with view to terrorizing the
people, it is time the people showed
their teeth and said to the dishonest
administrators of the rich mans law:
"Thus far and no farther can you 60
with impunity."-Jtoae %.
We advise every club chartered to
make an example of every officer OF a
club, and every member thereof, by
expelling him and elect
ing another man in his place, who
betrays the greenback cause or who
himself to an affiliation with
either of the old parties.-J,oe %.