Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-30
Prospectus of the Grant County
Greenback


Greenback.
The Grant County Gyeen5ack Central Com
nsittee 10 patrons and Subscribers of TIE Grant
County Greenback
Fellow>Citizens Of Grant County and the Sd
Congressional District of Wisconsin The
"Grant County Argus" the exponent of our
views and policy as political party, without
our consent, appreciation or approval has been
sold with its subscription list to the Democ-
racy. AS Greenback men and voters, entrust-
ed with the solemn duty of fulfilling our mis-
sion to our country and our countrymen in
Wrestling the political power from the two
old political parties-that have well~nigh
brought the labor and producing classes to
the verge OF bankruptcy and ruin, and to the
support Of an untaxed, moneyed .aristocracy
In America, as Grcenback men we protest
against the sale and transfer Of our manhood,
principles, political education and Reading to
the hands of political party whose record has
been upon the side Of slavery and against
freedom--a party participant in defrauding
the people out Of the elected Chief Magistrate
of the nation; and while we concede r. b.
Hayes fraud upon the people, we condemn
the further spending the peoples money in in
designations to make political capital tor the
Demoratic party for 1850. For upon no living
issue or measure Of public policy are the DEM
ocratic and Republican parties antagonistic
they both are in favor of resumption and hard
money. Our line of duty is in devotion to our
honored Greenback currency that saved the
nation 10 its hour OF peril. A currency hon.
ored IN the law by our lawmakers is as good
as gold. currency founded upon the basis
OF our entire national wealth; currency by
which 70 American citizen ever lost dollar;
currency that has bequeathed to France
prosperity, enabling her to rise as by magic
from her prostration by the German war;a cur
rency that, had it been allowed to circulate
among the people and not converted into
bonds, to draw interest from the people, would
nave left US acompetitor in the race of nations,
for prosperity and greatness-tbe loss of which
has filled our land with poverty bankruptcy and
beggary and to which cause alone can be at
tributed the present depressed condition Of
our industries. To paper thus devoted to
the interests of the producing and working
classes, currency reform, equality of taxation
and political honesty, we invite the former
patrons of the "Grant County Argus" The
Committee will at once wait upon you solicit
ing your continued patronage for paper that
will find resting place in the hearts and at
fectlons OF the people devoted to the interests
OF the masses of the people and not the inter-
ests of any political ring.
Grant County Greenback Central Committee
May 81, 1878. JOHN Bate, Chm.
EDITORS NOTES.
"To paper devoted to the interests
OF the producing and Uorking clrsses,
currency reform, equality of trTdtion,
and political honesty, we invite" Mr..
Bate means the HERALD. lie can
not find a paper in all the kingdom
of man 80 devoted to the interests
here named. He cannot find an ed
itor in America who has sacrificed
so great a portion of his life in la
boring for these causes as the editor
of the HERALD. He must m can the
HERALD. The Committee will W ait
upon you soliciting your continued
patronage for" this paper. Thanks
to the committee. Mr.. Battle has been
travelling through the county telling
stories as TO how the HERALD has
been losing circulation and the Ar.
gus gaining-stories that he knew
even less about than he docs
"currency REFORM" but now that he
finds the latter collapsed and the old
HERALD stronger than ever, ain the
hearts and affections OF the people,
devoted to the interests of the mass
es," we rejoice that he turns about
and "solicits continued patronage"
Yes, he means the HERALD. No 9th !.
er paper is established, no other pa.
per can BIO established in Grant
County to which these words so fit
tingly apply. But there are some
rather pretty sentences in Mr.; Ba.
ties Prospectus that show him to be
as blind as bat on currency re-
FORM" In fact bat-blindness is the
affiiction.of his school of politicians.
They can see better and make bold
err dashes in the dark than in the
light. He thinks tho currency be
wants has bequeathed to France
prosperity. The most stupendous
trial of that sort of currency France
or any other nation ever had was
the John Law experience. 1t put
the nation into bankruptcy and ruin.
1t put all the wealth in the hands of
tricky aristocracy and made pau
pers of the laboring and producing
classes. Frances success in handling
the debt of the last German war was
owing to her improving upon the
model presented her by this country.
In this country shoddy politicians
have opposed the Government in
backing its currency with specie,
thus keeping final payment in doubt.
In Frapce, frst and last, every dol
lar of paper is backed by unequivo-
cal specie promise. Opposition is
not even though: of. The honest
greenbackers OF this county are sim
ply deluded on this point as they
we're on other points by the lies OF
Careys and Pomeroys. By thus i'm
proving upon the model of this coun-
try France has managed her debt a
little better than we have, but as TO
her people rising by magic" it is
nonsense. There is more squalid
want among her industrious people
than here.
Equally in error is the "Commit-
tee' as to the question of currency
and interest. Had the currency been
"allowed to circulate among the PEG.
pie and not converted into bonds to
draw interest from the people," 1T
would have left US, &c. The "Com>
mittee" want the currency and the
bonds in the shape they were in 1866
we presume. That year we paid
$133, 067, 741 interest. The present
year We pay lees than $95, 100000
By the conversions into bonds ard