The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-10

pubic misery. Strikes are below the dlgnI-
ty of American workingmen. They belong
TO another country and to other institutions
than ours. Our remedy is the ballot.
Communist is the word of reproach applied
TO workingmen who see wrong In existing
affairs and believe in remedying them, as
'abolihonist was the word of reprosch
hurled at the men who struck for freedom
in the earlier DAYS of tins generation. The
same men who called the reformers of other
days abolitionists are calling the reformers
of to-day communists. Communism in Eu-
rope Is the desperate protest of the down
tr0dden ana oppressed, aud finds its vent in
violent demonstrations and vain endeavors.
Here such course is unnatural. Our peo-
pie have in their own hands the power to
mold their condition. All they need is
unity and organization and they will con-
troll. The legislation of our land hes for
many years been exclusively in the interest
of the rich and the few. Because these few
were rich, consequently powerful aud united
in purpose, they send their representatives
to make laws by the aid of the votes Of the
betrayed people. Seven years ago intro
duced a bill 10 have the money of the coun-
try IN the hands OF the government and not
in the hands of corporations and Twas beaten
by eight votes, if [ remember Alright in the
house. But in the majority that beat me
there were more than sixty-fiye bank direc-
tors and presidents each of them voting in
mems votes. You workingmen do not send
men to represent you"
Mr.. Butler then reviewed at length the
circumstances under which in the hour of
national necessity, the greenback came into
being, and the means by which capitalists,
when 1T was at its lowest value, were enabled
to convert il into interest bearing aud nom
taxable bonds, together with other special
legislation for the benefit of the capitalists
since that time, the formation of national
banks, etc., all tending to undue initiation of
the wealth OF the rich, and the shifting OF all
the burdens OF taxation on the poor He
protested against being called a repudiator,
saying that although the bargain with the
capitalists was an infamous one, we were
fools enough to send men to congress who
would make It. and we should pay the PEN
atty by making good their agreement.
From this he proceeded TO consider the
peculiar course of legislation in Massachu-
sets affecting Der savings banks. Then he
said: II hold that every man who has an
honest employment, in which he gives the
best thoughts OF bis mind, or the best labor
OF his hands 10 earn support for his children
and himself, is g laboring man, q working
man. The man who, by the exertions of his
father, or some other relative. has inherited
wealth, and who does no work beyond clip
ping coupons from bonds to be paid By taxes
levied on workingmen, / call a capitalist.
Do you say there are no such men? There
are plenty of them. Let me give you an
illustration OF them. There IS IN New York
a club called the Tally-ho club. 1t is COM
posed of, can hardly guess how many
members, because they never invited
me TO any of theil entertainments,
but think they have ten, four and
six horse teams, coaches, and they drive
them on the high road between two palaial
hotels. with fine looking man set up be-
hind the coach with tin horn, or in this
case, believe it is brass bugle, for what?
And who are they? They are ali young men
OF great wealth, of great literary culture, all
graduates of colleges-all men who have no
other employment on earth but to spend the
income of their Inherited wealth. And all
they can find TO do is to play coachman day
by day for the fun of the thing. They toll
not, neither do they spin; they are men of
class that is growing in this country, and
they are, in my judgment class
plause.] They are men that have moth
ing to do on earth, and do it every
day. Every man in this country should
have some regular, steady employment, for
the good of his fellow men, and the more
money mau has the greater is bis response
bility for the proper employment OF that
money in some industrial or other enter
prise for the good of his race, and for the
men who do not do that the workingmen
ought to vote 10 bring about a law ID make
them do il. If / had my way. if had the
power in the city of New York, as once had
Tor short time, would set that class of
men to doing exactly what they have shown
they are fit for. driving Broadway omnibuses
from in the morning to at night so that
they should have enough of playing coach
men,"
The general also reviewed at length the
history of the continental money of this
country tracing the cause of Its decline in
a Tod 4hn ia
zionist, and said of the opponents OF the
greenback party: They are willing to sell
all the bonds and substitute all the railroads,
and do everything else that can be done with
money obtained on interest bearing bonds
of the United States. My proposition is
that we should issue $500, OO0, 600 in non
interest bearing bonds of the United States
to settle the unemployed laboring men of
the United States upon the public lands of
the United States" [Great applause
No more notes of the United States could 4
be issued, he went on TO say, than the peo5
pie chose to take and If they bear no int
est those which are issued involve the coy
try in no debt. Defining a greenbacker
said: IF you find a man in the commu
that goes for the good of the nation az az
a few, that man is a greenbacker; if yoI
a man that wants just legislation and
for the interests Of the workingmen
labor, that man is greenbacker.
term which covers everything Just and
Us the word abolitionist once covered
man in favor of human freedom.
find a man that wants special
leges, that wants to live on the earning
others, that wants to get an advantage
his neighborS, that wants others to paw
taxes, that man is not greenbscker. III
on the opposite side. A man Is a gre
hacker who believes that the intelligence
the many is better foundation for the &
eminent OF great country than the intell
of few, who believes Ihatth governme
Is for the many and not for the few, and it
the fault of every one Of you If you leave
for the benefit of the few any longer. A
II you do so, you and your children al
your children's children, and mine, will f
themselves slaves to the few IN the worst
governments. an aristocracy."
A Religious View.
The Interior.l
The price of silver continues to declin
orr legal tender dollar now only heiOp worf