The Portland daily press., 1878-05-13

money for Massachusetts and Moo York. Such
platform wood satisfy every body We Good
sweep the country from ocean to ocean, from
the lakes to the gulf.
Ishood se1ess to our legislators that they
~s'tait tne question Nv copper dollar. Specie
payments kin be manetaned easier on duble
'nSn on single standard, ergo: they kin be
nane1aned easiest on triple standard-gold,
silver and copper. Copper wuz the mummy of
the Constishun. 1t is a universal and intertu-
nashunal munny. 1t hez an intrinsic valoo.
Saucepans, kettles. ornaments and sich are
maid of copper. It is much more abundant
than either of the other preshus metals, so
called. If the bondholder objects to green
Dacks pay him in copper. Copper wuz used ez
com wen the infamous "Act to Strengthen the
Pubic Credit' wuz passed in 1869. Let us nav
the holders of nashinal secooritles accori lin to
the sperrit and letter of the contraet-in coin of
standard value, wich is copper.
L would sejest free coinage uy eopper. Let
mints be established in all the principal cities
and towns. Let every man who hez copper
talk it to the mint and get it coined into dollars
or deposit it iu bullion aud talk out certificates
OF deposit. Let the copper dollar be full legle
TENDER, wood hev it consist of 100 ounces of
copper to preserve the decimal ideer. Now ez
copper is wusth about ten cents pound this
wood give US dollar with an intrinsic yaloo
Nv about 62 cents.
Ihls wood give the currency stability, and
wood free US from the raprooch of cutting
loose from all established precedeuts. would
seJest that Government invite internashinal
action on the copper dollar
would also sejsst the following platform ez
covering the hole ground:
PLATFORM
Immejit repeel of the Resum ption Act,
government to isshoo money direct to the
people to the amount of $50 per kapiter yearly.
Abolish the Nashinul Banks.
C0nd. g. gold, silver and copper) to enter in
to the crculashen to give the currency elastici-
ty and stability.
Greenbacks to be maid a full legle tender.
Ths circulating mejum to be isshcod aud pro-
tected by Government and not by monopolies
chartered by the United States
Southern war claims to be paid in green.
backs.*
-, Let the Dimocracy espouge the cause. Let
the Dimocracy North and South, East and
West unite on the above platform. Give usa
currency based on the faith and credit nv our
hasnen-ez deep ez our rivers, ez broad and
poundiess az our prairies, ez majestic ez our
cataracts. Let the men who fit under the stars
and bars, and the patriots who fisd to Canada.
once more close up their dessimated ranks and
grid on the armer and give battle to the ShyIocks
and gold bugs. Methinks l see new era. a
dawn NV better times, return nv prosperity
opening fur our beluved country, wen the
scars Nv our last fratricidle war shell be all
heeled over with greenbacks, when the nashen
shall agen be ranked among the nashens NV
the world.
The gubbernatorial election in September
puzzles me. Last fall we put up Republican
and Capitalist, and we wuz beeten terribly.
Ii we put up Republican the Bourbon Dino
Gratis won't vote for him. If we put up DIM
oerat the soft.munney Republicans will repoo-
dlate him. If we put up Greenbacker the
hard-munny Dimocrats can't stummick him.
Wot shall we do? feel like exclaiming with
the immortal Shakespeare:
Bubble, bubble care and trouble,
Democrats are always in peck of trouble"
am in quandary.
Yours hopefully,
DEACON HABAKKUK JUBBs
sUv course this platform kin be varied for various
localities.