Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-05

oOiuS SAS"O many VI enSAAA WY 49,
divide up the grief and it will not 60
hard on any one of them
Another principle set forth in the
platform from which we quote is that,
"there shall be no further issue of gov
eminent bonds" That is in perfect
keeping with the former part of the
proposition. Having paid all debts due
from the government to others in gov
eminent shinplasters, let all future
debts and obligations be paid in non-in-
terest bearing, irredeemable rag curren-
cy, whether it is worth one cent or twen-
ty cents on dollar. But this is doc
trine too absurd for anybody but a
greenbacker to entertain moment.
Next, this party demands ''the repeal
of the National Bank Act" &c. Yes,
that is about as sensible as their former
demands" Do away with bank cur
rency, every dollar of which is worth
SO IL cents in gold, and substitute in
its place kind of money with no certain
value. but which would be utterly worth
less if the greenbackers could have the
thing they now ask for. While there
may be some things to change IN the
present banking system, and it may be
true that banks are certain monopolies
that have an advantage over poor men,
VIC cannot see the peculiar advantage
of taking away the particular kind of
currency they now use, and compelling
them to adopt another kind. Some sort
of a banking system will exist, and poor
men will always be compelled to pay the
banks certain discounts, and certain
moneys for the privilege of doing nee
essary business with them. If this
system is bad thing, all any one need
to do with banks is to let them alone.
1t is, in our judgment, far better to try
to remedy the evils that may exist in
this banking system, than to undertake
to destroy and build something that has
not been tried. There is no way, short
of downright stealing, that poor men can
appropriate the money to their own use
which other men have put into banking
institutions, and as long as money is
unequally distributed, the large portion
of US who do not have it must content
ourselves to get along without it, or pay
somebody for loaning US the same. The
destruction of banks will not help our
case, but such thing might do us great
harm.
The last doctrine in the greenback
platform which we quote, is that, ''the
increasing poverty of the working classes
is attributable in great part to the
monopoly of the soil, . therefore
we demand the creation of land limita-
ton laws" This means, that no man
shall own above certain stipulated
number of acres-a doctrine too absurd
to need word, were it not for the fact
that there are great many people in
the world, who more readily adopt an
absurd notion than a rational one. To
illustrate the fallacy of this "plank" in
the greenback- commune platform, let us
apply it to one of our country towns in
which the large share of property hold
ers are farmers and land owners. They
own from building lot to thousand
acre farm. There are few poor men,
mostly foreigners and aliens living about
the town that are too poor to own ar
acre of land, even if it can be bought
, for five dollars. The law, as prepared
by the commune system limits LAND
, owner to, say, fifty acres. The land il
, divided up among the owners in fifty
. acre lots and it turns out that largt
. part of the land IN the town must chang,
owners those having large farms mus
{ divide up according to the rules arranged
e for that purpose; if they can sell tn
surplus we'll and good, otherwise it re
( verts to government, or is given t.
Y communists, and other lazy rakes.
s 1t is easy to see the folly and injus
e tice of any such doctrine. The sam
). thing carried little further says tina
s no man shall be possessed of above
+. certain amount of money that Their
n shall be dividing up of property rea
3 and personal. Now this is just wha
II the commune desires and when green
n hackers, communists, socialists and tn
|. other dangerous sects that now infes
It the county get into power, then look OF
n for all their present platforms deman
+ and for much more that will bring harl
d and destruction to the prosperity an
q peace of the county. 1t is time whe
9. honest men should come to the front an
S. demand that every ism which is dishoI
D. est and incendiary shall be stamped GU
!
The Morrisville Citizen puts GEE
CIRCUITS name at the head of its column
like little man, and says, editorially
u circuit made most gallant fight ar
~ won against the heaviest odds. He hs
Re Bradley Barlow, one of the best car