The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04


!. the revolution ushered into France.
It took but few years to drive Bour-
bonism forever from the throne.
The people, once educated, could no
longer be kept in the dark. They had
become land-holders, voters. They
learned to create their own money,
and they would not give up the right.
ana France has to-day the largest
financial independence of any people
on the sace of Gods earth. No mon
eyed oligarchy controls her finances,
no Wall-Street gambler dOles out her
money, no foreign power controls,
regulates, or interferes with her cur
rency, her circulation, or her financial
policy. Her system is French; it IS
liberal as France. It is the creature
of French faith. The Frenchman
believes in France. He trusts her as
his hottest life, as himself; no oil
garchy of usurers and no foreign
bOndholding ShylQcks tell her when
to contract or when to expand.
Until ITO in America, and 1880 in
France, what is known as the people
had nothing to do with money.
France has perfected herself. and is
independent. The United States,
more under the influence of England
and of English capital than under her
own control in finances, has almost
insensibly become the slave of English
finances. We have been her custom
ers, she has trusted us. We have
been poor, she was rich. We were
developing a land stretching from
ocean to ocean, from Alaska to Key
West. We thought it easier to bor-
row than to create what is called mon
ey. We know how to create wealth;
we know how to borrow, and we bOr-
rowed. Our progress was so grand,
our wealth accumulated so rapidly,
that we did not stop to see that we
were subject. at any day, to be made
the victims of English arrogance.
Her money lords had us by the throat.
War came on; gold was exhausted;
silver there was none. We had to
have money or become doubly slaves
slaves to slavery and slaves to mon
ey. Then, in the hour of our trial,
light broke in to brighten the gloom.
Mind went to work; genius put itself
in motion. The nation asserted it.
felt.
THE GREENBACK WAS BORN.
The chains of the tyrant money
kings were at last broken. We were
independent. But no despot gives up
power without a struggle, ahd over
the New Hope all the mad energies
centuries, of power. all the despotism
of capital asserted their right of guar
dianship. They tried to kill, strangle.
SANDER, and libel the child of the ma
tons necessity. Yet it lived; it
grew in strength. its veins seemed to
swell as with the waters of the Miss
issippi; it walked as if it had the pow
er of the EugenluS which drank their
morning dram in the Atlantic. their
evening cup from the lakes, and stop
ping OH the Missouri for cooling
draught to step onward to have their
six-day march in the waters of the
Pacific. 1t was young Hercules, fed
by Liberty. Yes, the Greenback was
a badly-kicked urchin; Shylock hated
him, Wall st. said, "Kill him :"
Lombard st. said "Choke him !" Jay
Gould and the Red-Shield Representa-
tive, Belmont howled at him. The
Tribune cried Rag Baby, the Herald
fat-bellied old tyrant who lives on
usury, said "It will make money easy.
it must be murdered Then came
the national banks, with their $780,
900, 900 of annual plumber, and orga.
nized their trades union of bankers
to cut its throat. But "Stop!" says
the west. 1--WE have a word to say
about the Greenback boy; we say you
shan't murder him, he shall live, he
shall be our boy And why not!
What has this child of the rebellion
done for the United States! When
gold and silver were locked up by Shy.
lock, and Wall Street said: .sLet the
government slide; it shall have no
more money of u.s." And Lombard
Said: NO. Not dollar to save lib.
erty, but here is cash for the bonds
of the Southern Confederacy-to kill
liberty" The Greenback baby said:
"Stand by me. and l will give you
strength, will feed your armies. I
will pay your bounties, I will build
your railroads to the Pacific. l will
create an American policy for Ameri-
ca. will make the power and proper.
.. ty, and land and strength. and respon-
slbility and honor Of the people a
money for the people. so that the PEG.
pie can fight their enemies. be free
from usurers, and Independent OF
English capital or German money
shavers. And the Greenback baby
has grown into the American Her
eules. He has done all he promised
10 do. He has struck down his enc
mics. one by one. by honesty. He
has killed gold. which the red-iisted
villains the Rothchilds employed ia
murder him. He has breathed new
life into silver as one of the grand
products of labor and sent it as legal
tender To confound the enemies OF
liberty. He has put the tfunder-like
J tread of the people in marching order
TO tread out the infamous legislation
hy which gold WAS to be tyrant. and
specie payment law of force
Above all. it has been honest and ha:
never cheated a human bsing ont of :
D dollar. bat radient as liberty. strong
I as K Pluribus Uauln. he has stood nj
r and fought the battle of American
: nationality against all her enemies