The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-09-24

The tramp says property is robbery,
aud so SAYS the man who organizes the
Greenback clubs through the country
III there is q young man here who don't
expect 90 have a home of his own, a
wife of his own and children OF his own
he ~ n poor chap indeed, but il he does
when he gets them he must remember
that property is robbery, and that the
tramp will ask him to divide. Don't
understand me 10 assert that Green
hackers, as a rule, wonld indorse any
such doctrine as this, but their leader
does. These political tramps are tho
worst kind of tramps we have TO deal
with. Tell me how you are to get
money without working for il? The
Greenbacker saws make fiat money;
but how are you 10 get "fiat' money
even unless You have something %
sell? lou must mean some other pro-
cess OF getting the fiat money, for yon
can get plenty of good money now IL
You have anything 10 sell. Supposing
we made and distribute 81 To each per-
son, the tramp wouldn't have enough
for half days drunk. Suppose we
make and distribute 81 10 each person,
lhe tramp wouldn't have enough for a
half DAYS drunk. Suppose we make IL
/ Sl0 to each, IL wouldn't last him n
week, and onlo pay the third of the
price OF cne speech of one those politi-
cal tramps. III we are 10 issue n "iat"
/ dollar, We might as well make every
4 one a millionaire and done with II. The
/ cry is, call in the bonds and pay them
off, aud you propose To do this in a pa
per which promises nobody nothing
I and payable never. About 500, 0s0, 900
1 OF our bonds are held in England,
\ France, Germany and the other ma
tions of Europe. Do you remember
/ that Gen. Jackson threatened TO make
war upon France il she didn't settle up
/ the small account of five millions due
/ the citizens of this country? Every
civilized nation will always see TO il
/ that the rights Of its citizens are held
sacred 10y other nations. Any attempt
/ 10 pay our bonds now held in foreign
countries other than rs We have agreed
would bring us TO the cannon's mouth
of every nation in Europe. If you are
ready for this and have fully counted
the cost, go on and issue your "fiat"
money and call in the bonds.
! There are other reasons why this is
an important campaign. The South is
/ a unit for initiation, because il will fin
ally result in reputation. There is
not one Of them that has not, in some
manner or other. TO greater or less
| degree, repudiated their State debts.
They want the North 20 become ms
poor as the South was at the close Of
the war. j have in my possession a
I list OF rebel claims aggregatng least
$500, 600. 900 which they yet expect TO
see paid. You condemned me for writ
ing what is known az the chandler
blood letting letter, but think You
are satisfied that / knew what / writing
about. IL is hard to make people be
lieve these things, hnt here is a copy
Of petition written by DR. j. T. Foard,
Of North Caroline, aud being largely
circulated in the SOnth.
To the Senate ant House NJ Representative
of the nited States.
We. the citizens oi the United states. most
respectfully petition yoar honorable bodies 10
enact "a law ~ winch all Citizcus OF every
section 81 the United States, may be paid for
all their property destroyed for than bs the
governments aud armies OF both sides curing
the late war between The Statcs. Ia bonds
paying per cent. interest per aunum. ma
turing Within the next 100 wears
And We also petition that all soldiers. nf
other legal representatives 81 both armies
aud every section. Je paid Va lund ur public
lands Tor their lost time limbs and lives
while engaged iu the late unfortunate conflict
aud wc will ever pray, etc.
This $50. .000. 600 Of claims which
have spoken are not moieiy Of what
We may expect 10 come mp from the
South in the shaae Of the Southern Pa
cific Railroad project, the Mississippi
levees, and other similar schemes.
We gave the South 32,000,0 900 acres Of
the choicest lands for the improvement
of the MISSISSIPPI River, which they
have sduandered, and now ask us to
make these improvements.
There is. fortunately. snag in the
way Of the allowance Of many Of these
claims. The rebel archives which /
purchased in 1872 is that snag. Par
ties having charge of these documents
first asked ~, 900, 900 for them, but fin
ally came down to $4,000. An
amendment, the import Of which was
known only 10 myself and two other
members of Congress, was gotten
through for the purchase of these ar
chives, and in getting those which were
in Canada. / finally had to deposit in
my own name SO, 900 in bank for their
payment before we succeeded in getting
them across the lines. The rebels
don't like these archives, for they have
been the means Of defeating hundreds
Of thousands OF their claims, and only
last week two sovereign States OF the
South, North Carolina and Mississippi,
demanded the return OF portions Of
those archives.
There is another question OF impor-
tance. All 1 have 10 say Of President
Hayes is that he is as legally the Pres
ident Of the United States as was
George Washington. The Potter Com
mittee was instituted for the purpose
Of the REORGANIZATION OF this country.
In January, 1877, there was a little
man sitting in the Presidential chair
who was intercogated as 90 the inangn-
ration, aud who said that whoever was
declared elected would be inaugurnted,
and so that hundred who were 10 have
been ia Washington 30 have Witnessed
the inauguration Of friend of theirs
didn't come 20 Washington. They
knew Grant was in the habit Of shoot
ing bullets. IL that Potter Committee
were really in search OF fraud there
was one man IN this country who could
have given them an immense amount
of information on the subject OF fraud.
Why didn't they send for me? could
trace every fraud Of the last election
to No. ~ Gramercy Park, in the City
Of New York. They were afraid they
would get more fraud than they
wanted.
This new party says both OF the old
parties are corrupt and they are bound
to have no afiiliation with corruption
and fraud in any form. Whenever you
hear a man declaring all the world dis
honest but himself, better keep both
hands on your pockets. for such man
will steal.
What has tho Republican party done
worthy Of death? What did they find
when they came into power? They
found the army powerless. TIE navy
scattered 10 the four quarters of the
globe. We had neither arms nor am
mnnition; aud we we're without credit,
aud vet the Republican party grappled
with the most formidable rebellion the
world ever saw. II established onr
credit and the nation. i doubted the
I legality Of the Iegal-tendcr act, but, as
| told a brother Senator now gone 90
bis long home, ! was ready 10 vote FOR
I anything needed 10 save this nation -
I II is unlawful under ordinary circum.
starces 90 take human life. bat I am