The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-07-25
BEN Blu TIER.
Significant Address to the Workingmen
OF Massachusetts.
Some Pertinent Conundrums Propoundsd
and Their Solution Attempted.


Some Pertinent Conundrums Propoundsd
and Their Solution Attempted.
HIS FOURTH OF JULY ADDRDss AT
NEWBURYPORT.
The great Greenback meeting
which is looked upon with considera-
lille significance as to Ben Buffers DO.
htical future with that party, was
beld here to-day. There was a tre-
mendous throng, and the speech of
the day was made by Butler himself.
He was introduced as the man who
dared thousand newspapers. Butler
began by asking why. in land where
all the eastern section had it's store
houses bursting with the products of
industry, while the west was over
loaded with the neoessaries of life.
should the people be starving us we'll
as having to go naked. If the reason
was found we could apply the remedy.
lie alludec to the great railroad strikes
last year. and accused reporters Of
having miSrepresented the strikers,
whose movement did no good. Strikes
for higher wages did no good, and it
was beneath the dignity of American
Worklngmen to strike for higher
wages.
The word communist had been ap.
piled to the movements of working
men. Communism in the Old coun-
tries was IL protest Of the people
against the wrongs of the ruling class
eS. and was characterized by murder,
violence and destruction of property.
Communism has no business in this
country, because every man here had
a remedy, us he could control the laws
under which we live by the ballot,
which was the only weapon. The
WOrkingmen, if united, would control
the destinies Of the nation. They
could take the state government of
Massachusetts, into their hands and
carry 1t on for twenty years for their
own benefit.
Frequent elections were necessary
for the preservation of our liberties.
WOrklnGmen were divided on the POI
lltlcal dogma, because Of somebody in
the west or south. They should unite
and stand together, and then they
would have control Of the national
government, which, instead Of being
run in the Interest of IL few, us in the
past, would be conducted for the good
Of the whole people.
Seven years ago he said he intro
duced III congress Il bill to have the
money OF the country IN the hands OF
the government and not in the hands
81 corporal IONS, and he WAS beaten by
eight votes. in the majority that
beat him there were siNty-hve bank
presidents and directors. and voting
Tor his own interest, and who were
sent to congress 10y Worklngmen. He
said he had nothing to coneal. and no
interests to promote except those of
all present. The difficulty was not in
the want Of lail. Dads and cheap trans
portations, and not in over-production
on either continent. The latter as
Scrtlon was not true. when we con-
slder the needs of the shoelesS and
hungry, who, If supplied. would eX-
hauSt any surplus. Wheat was being
sent to Europe to feed the hungry
mouths there, it passing the mouths Of
the hungry here. In Europe the hun
cry could pay for the wheat they eat.
while here the hungry could not.
That was the trouble.
Our enterprise was stopped, for the
it was more profitable lor the capital
list to put his money. IN the present
state OF the nation finances. into
government hands. National finances
had been managed that accumulated
capital WAS not taxed. At the begin
ning of the war the government mad
10 have money. and depended upon
gold and silver. 1t issued its own
money, and that money. greenback
money. tor while maintained itself
at par, then it went down because
there was doubt about the credit nt
the country aud the result of the wax
1t went down, down Uudtr the pnOr.
nous issue that had To be made to
sustain oar armies, and because our
credit WIS doubtful. We had no bales
OF cotton TO lodge as collateral secure
ties with the bankers oi Europe, rs
had the ContcderacY. ana therefore
our loan went down lower than theirs
The money Kings had control. and
put into thlS war measure two pro-
visions. both OF which made that
grand old man ThaddeuS stevens shed
tears rs he came from the Conference
room OF the confederate committees
The first was that that money should
not be received by every BODY for ev-
cry thing. 1t was made receivable
for the blood of our soldiers. for the
tears OF the widows. tor the groans OF
the orphans. for every thing but in
terest money of European bankers.
and tha- must be paid in gold. ard
therefore 1t went down to thirty cents
on the dollar; and there was provis-
ION that 1t might be funded in per
cent. gold-bearing bonds and brought
up ut 90 cents on gold-bearlng bonds
1T lUu cents or the dollar-S6 for the
use OF $50: 4 hard bargain.
He said he was beaten in this dis
trlct because he dared to take the
stump and say that the bargain WAS
that these bonds should be paid in
greenbacAS precisely what was paid
for them. But for the honor of our
country we are 10 pay Sloo for $50.
and In 1860 that act W IS passed-one
OF the most Ubiquitous acts ever nae.
Ell since God allowed a legislative =.
sembiy To meet. He voted against Il
almost alone. spoke against il alone r.
1869. He believed that thare Wa. -