Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-06
POLITICAL MCgqDIARIsM.
i Few Specimens Of Green.
back Literature.

0aCK LITERATURE
We suD)oln lew extracts from a series ct
documents called the "Greenback Library"
distributed from the headquarters of the Ma.
tonai 0feenoack party at Chicago, snG wide-
ly circulated through the country. Every in
telligent voter can appreciate the dangerous
tendency Of such frenzied and passionate ap-
Peals to class prejudice and sectional hate.
When such sentiments are industriously pro-
mulgated among the ignorant and unrefecting
members of the community, it is time for good
citizens to unite, and sustain the cause of pub
lie credit, national honor, and social order.
REGULATE, OR SMASH THE GOVERNMENT.
Now we warn you, you cowardly, sneaking,
dishonest, treacherous, false-hearted, avaricious
mercenary hirelings 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 possession 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 endorsements We will offer this money
to you, because 1t will be wha, the law in its
power declares to be legal tender for the pay
ment of debt. And this, you home robbers,
murderers, pilferers, and deniers of the rights
of industry to live in land of liberty; you
can take this greenback money and put it to
use paying your debts, you can hire it when
you have it in abundance to those of US in the
..l k1~v~> yhoA doI,f
and who negotiate our lands and our labor for
this legal tender money tina; we can pay our
debts with or you may know that the next
move will be at your expense. The Govern
ment shall issue this greenback money. Mark
what we say in behalf of the millions Of labor.
ing people in the United States who have too
long been held in slavery by most infamous,
unnecessary, unlawful, unconstitutional mas
tiers.
PAY WITH GREENBACKs.
We mean that the debt of the United States
shall be paid in greenbacks, and right here we
inform you from the Western 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 exactly
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
obligation of the Government, and thus wipe
out from existence every United States bond
and their holders shall have nothing. Put this
in your pipe and make the most of it Ours is
an absolute GoSe,nm<,4. 1t is Government
Of the people, and by the Eternal it shall be a
Government for the People, or it shall be smash
ed into so many fragments that each separate
State will, in comparison, be a complete world.
THREAT TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT.
In the face of these truths and defence Of
this living principle pertaining to the Republic,
we demand that the Government at once exer-
else its legitimate constitutional power, and for
the beneht of the people recall that money
which has been destroyed and create enough
more thereof to pay every bond in full, thus re
lieving the people from the payment of interest
for the support of the idle, untaxed, pernicious
aristocracy that is now, as it has been from the
first, trespasser upon the rights of man.
If the Government will not do this thing,
then we, the people, in defence Of our lives,
Our liberties, our homes, our families, and all
that the future holds out to us as a promise
through the work of the founders of the Re-
public, must overthrow this Government, re-
pudiate all of its unconstitutional contracts,
wipe out all the indebtedness of the United
States, and commence anew. Therefore we
say to those who administer the laws, pay the
bondholder to the uttermost farthing in green
backs, full legal tender moneys and ever after
hoiio ii al par with god, or any otner material
of which money is made. Do this, or we, the
people, will be compelled, in self defence, to
repudiate you who are in Congress and the
Presidential chair only as our servants-to re-
pudiate you and your unconstitutional promise
Ito teach you who are our servants, and you
who are our plunderers, lesson that will last
every one Of you for all time to come.
WE MUST PAY NO MORE INTEREST.
Let this be the law; NO MORE BONDS.
No more paying <v<n one tavtAing Of interest
BY onr United States Government. Let men
who use money pay interest, or let it draw no in
terest. No more demonetizlng of silver, buying
gold, burning greenbacks and issuing bonds,
but a complete restoration of the greenback
dollar to its place as factor in trade and COM
MERGE Burn the bonds. Bounce the uncon
stitutional national banker in all that relates to
the issuing Of money or currency. Let all the
issue of money be out Of the loins, under the
stamp of the Gov<,nmenf of the United States
The people must pay no more interest for what
their cam Government, thereby THEM
SELVES, can create under the law. As the
2.eenbacks were burned and used as base for
5ond-, now le: the bond. be turned and used As
base or bottom for gyees6aek MONEY, the
MONEY OF THE PEOPLE, that shall
be as sacred, as lasting. as eternal as the
Government itself. 1t IS better that the
Government dx,n tie bonds and declare every
dollar of gre=nback money to be reissued and
paid out for them to be legal tender, Aayf1l
dollar, to endure as such so long as the Gov
eminent endures, than to rob tie people of all
their rrOl1fc from ind Eor he a,,puovt