The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-09-19
Butler on Greenbacks.
Neg York sgar.

General, how do you find the outlook
;n Massachusetts, Massachusetts, ?''
The situation is encouraging,o said
the General, turning up that eye. 1.-THE
people have only to be thoroughly ia.
formed upon financial queatiohs, especi-
ally the Greenback theory, and nartv
lines and party prejudices viii fail to
hold them In check"
ARE not the two great parties in Aius-
sachusetts thoroughly disciplined and
accustomed to vote as conventions de-
tate 7" q n
"They have been, but are not now
many Republicans are of opinion that
the interests of their party in 1880 would
be subseryed by o Democratic majority
in the next Congress. Third party move
ments, or in other words, political move
naents of the people outside of ring in
fronces, Invariably succeed best in States
where one of the two great parties has 8
large majority. This is notably true Of
Massachusetts,, and the Gresn6ack vote
will, in my opinion, astonish even the
mist ardent friends of that moyement.n
but don't the people feel tue need OF
stable and sound onrrency?r
Certainly replied the General, ataud
that is why they want moro greenbacks
tho bc2t currency the country has ever
mad, or probably ever will have. The
people can't be made to understand why
reel estate itself should depreciate so or
same property suffer little OF no depreci-
alton. Nor can they be made 10 beIieve
tnaJ ponds should not be governed bv
the same laws which + / nave iJaused a
shrinkage in ell other .yalues.o
Isn't it unfortunate that your move.
ment 10 managed in so many places BY
bad councillors f'' s. - -.
That is e, contingency OF all political
or governmental reforms. When Whfg.
and Democratic politicians took hold Of
the old Abolition party and baptized it
.kepubiican, then, and not till then. did
lt become q power In the land. So its
will be with the Greenback party. which
Is destined TO swallow up, in my opiniotl.
perhaps both the others. / believe that
clear majority of all the voters In tho
United States, voting outside OF party
lnhuences, would sustain the Greenback
do you think the movement ia as
strong in Massachusetts as it is in the
West ana South II s IS .55.s
cannot tell; it may be stronrer.,,
He added musingly THE movement Is
elsher FARGO or . revelation. Z am
strongly of opinion that it will be The
tl have heard Speakers ADVOCATING re. ts.
sumption, 2 said .he reporter. s'trs to
teach the people what money IS hy show.
ing in one hand q SO coin Of the Dutch
Republic, and in the other d $50 note of
the late Confederacy, and ciairdiaE that
although both ReDnblics Are dead. khe
com issued by the 0ne Is at:::::: good. vshiIe
the note of the oth her is worthless How.
would yon meat has argument % NJ. &c
Ihe arguinens il worthless. Tcli.l
SHOW its falsity BY exhibiting notes oY
other nations whose Governments have
6een changed, as was that of che Dutch.
Repubiic, but whose notes are not god
always, The fault was not in the Con
iedetats money but ia the Confed dersS:ss
atseiI. Ihere Naa nothing in It.
| General, DO you think YOU are going
/ to ho elected Gnv6Flln. Of hsnssSchu.;
setts?n 81,
'That dspends.'' Hero tke eva turned
aronnd knowingly again. ~ hops aos
Strang things hnve happened. If tho
people could fully undorstaild tie iuiqui-
tous schemes Of bond IJuffI1ersI anu tkeir'
1 newspaper a llinst ltlsa !, aIllL would 90 by
] ne 81 anll1 slsSa Fi,i ~ sggT 81