The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-11-01

you 10 not Dufn your lll-gOIJeQ DQnQS
and let the people live. Organize Green
back clubs-with bayonets in reserve.
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"Now we warn you, you cowardly,
sneaking, dishonest, treacherous, false
hearted, avariciOus, mercenary hifelings
of an eastern money power, that we, the
people of the western and southern
states, including Pennsylvania and all
of New York west from the mouth of
the Hudson river, do intend to take pos
session of the government of the United
States hurl you and your bondholding
element from power and create for you
enough legal-tender greenback money to
relieve the general government from its
embarrassment. We will offer this
money to you, because it will be what
the law in its power declares to be q le-
gal tender Tor the payment of a debt.
And this, you home-robbers, murderers,
pilferers and deniers of the rights of in
dustry to live in a land of liberty; you
can take this Greenback money and put
1t to use paying your debts-you can
hire it when you have it in abundance
to those of US in the western and south
ern country who are in debt and who
negotiate our lands and our labor for
this legal tender money that we can pay
our debts with; or you may know that
the next move will be at your expense
The government shall issue the green
back money. Mark what we say in be-
half of the millions of labOring people
in the United States who have too long
been held in slavery by most infamous,
unnecessary, unlawful, unconstitutional
masters.
We mean that the debt of the United
States shall be paid in greenbacks, and
right here we inform you from the west
ern prairies, that so sure as God lives, if
this question is not settled by 1880; if
the law then does not declare that the
bonds shall be paid in greenbacks ex-
actly as the soldiers of the United States
were paid in greenback money, we shall
never again ask for such an issue of
money, but will from that hour, strike
for the reputation of every bonded obli-
CATION of the government, and thus wipe
out from existence every United States
bond, and their holders shall have moth
ing. Put this in your pipe and make
the most Of it! Ours is an absolute
government. 1t is a government of the
people, and by the eternal it shall be a
government for the people, or it shall be
smashed into so many fragments that
each separate state will, in comparison,
be a complete world.
Now, what we do demand in the
United States is an abundance of this
legal tender CREATION OF LAW, so that
when the people wish to go out of debt
they will not be Obliged to part with all
of their possessions, their lives and their
liberties to obtain a little, of that of
which they are entitled to all they need,
for the profitable carrying on of business.
Ours is government of absolute power.
From the adoption of the constitution it
had the power to CREATE a legal tender
money to pay every dollar it OwedI AS
fast as the government found itself in
debt it had the power TO CREATE money
to pay its debtsi Therefore it had no
more need, in common sense or in equi-
ty to the people, to borrow one dollar of
money to pay interest upon, sucking the
profits away from the people to pay it
out as interest, than Almighty God had
need to hire world when he had from
the first the absolute power of creation !"
If this government of ours will not
protect us, the TAX PAYING PEG
PIE, then we owe it no allegiance. If
1t will not do this, it is bad, an infam-
GUS government, after all the people
have done for it, and we had better unite
the west and the south, secede from a
Union that benefits only eastern bond
holders, and let their dupes in north
eastern states go into slavery to the
brat of Republican borning
and Democratic adoption.
In the issue of Pomeroy's Democrat,
of June LIST, we have the following advice
given to the Greenback clubs:
"In the organization of Greenback
clubs, we counsel every able-bodied
member of these organizations to become
as proficient as possible in the manual
of arms. In time of peace it is well to
prepare for war. In every Greenback
club there should be drill-master-tha
Is, in every club whose members are
brave enough to stand at all times, un-
der all circumstances to defend their
rights as citizens. We, the
people, are in rebellion against the I'M
taxed nobility of this country. We, the
people, propose to have our rights,
and by means of the ballot, if
possible,-bY the bayonet, if we must"
We give the foregoing as specimens
of the kind of stuff the Pomeroy and
Kearney wing of the National Green
back party are giving to the people as
arguments" to induce them to turn
Greenbackers. We are not saying that
the Lyon county Greenbackers endorse
these sentiments. We do not believe they
do. But we do say that they are in bad
company when they train with a party
that permits Dennis Kearney, Ben But
Ter, Brick Pomeroy, Sam Carry and 9TH
ers of like ilk to be among its leaders.
The Greenback party of Lyon county
numbers among its followers some of
our very best citizens. But we cannot
help thinking they are making a great
in abandoning the principles of
the Republican party to take up with
the fiat, absolute created money delusion,
and in allying themselves with new
party containing SO many incongruous
and disorganizing elements as the pres
ent Greenback party.