Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-07-18

schoolboy composition. Take out
the resolution on the salaries of office
holders and the others are as silly as
if they had resolved on uncomprom-
ising hostility to the unequal distribu-
ton of heat and cold over the earth.
and that different distribution
should be enforced according to orig
inal contract. The following is the
platform entire:
WHEREAS our country is Justly alarmed at
the deprecated values of property, paralyzed
industries, suffering pauperism and restitution
which are due to the financial legislation of
congress; therefore we organizing independ-
emily of the Republican and Democratic par
ties, and known as the National Greenback
party do resolve:
That we declare our uncompromising hos
tilty to the bonded system of our government
Indebtedness, intended to bind us and unborn
generations in chains, and favor its prohibi-
ton by constitutional amendment.
That we favor the calling in of all United
States bonds, and their payment principal and
interest, agreeable to the original contract
should be provided for and enforced.
That the coinage of gold and silver should
be placed on the same footing
That the greenback dollar should be made
full legal tender for the payment of all debts
and by the government received as absolute
| money at par.
ihat the government alone should Issue
money as circulating medium for the people,
and rot delegate the power to issue it to Ma
tionai Banks.
That all kinds Of property owned by ndi>
vlduals or corpora tons should be taxed alike
That we demand reduction Of the exhor.
pitant salaries OF office holders to reasonable
recompense for the labor performed on lev.
ell with what is received in privat e life for like
services, not taxing the people to make public
oihces prize to reward party favorites.
That we witness with pride the uprising of
the people, especially the laboring and pro-
ducing classes to unbind with the ballot the
| chains wit which intolerant capital and class
| legislation have bound them, demanding equal
representation and equal taxation and that
every man without distinction of race or color
IN proportion to the property he owns should
pay a tax to support the government under
which he lives.
That in just laws rightly understood, and
not in standing armies, lies the safety of the
Republic.
AS to the first of these resolutions, it
is not long since the Gre enbackers
paid man $25 a day for
telling us among other foolish things
that national debt was national
blessing, and wanted bonds for every
man. As to the second the Republic.
can party has been calling in United
States bonds and paying them &C.
cordrng to the original contract, as
fast as possible. In spite of such
crude apothegms as that a National
debt is a National blessing, and in
spite of both tho verdant and the vi.
cious attempts at depreciating the
National credit, its success in paying
off has already reduced the annual
burden of interest and other taxes to
the amount of $40, 100000. As to the
third resolution an "equal footing" is
precisely what the leaders Of the
green.uns defeated in Congress and
don't want. Whenever a silver dol
lar is just equal in value to a gold
dollar its coinage by the operation of
law is necessarily on an equal footing
with gold. But this cry of equal
footing was started by men who own
acres Of silver beds. It's adoption in
their way would give them IL cents
to the dollar for their silver, at the
expense of the people, more than they
now get, and would have the addi-
tional effect of again driving the gold
all into Wall street. The next reso-
luton wants the greenback to be
absolute money at par" How cab
solute money" can be anything else
but at par, is problem suitable only
for green arithmetic. AT par with
what with silver with bonds ?
with gold What Next, the
government alone does issue the mon
ey of the country. A bank note is
not money. One single mans refusal
to accept bank note as payment
would have more effect on the finan-
ces of the country than all the conven-
ton Nominations in the Union. If it
be true that majority of people do
not want bank notes, that majority
could drive them out of circulation in
two weeks without the help of legis-
lation or the wind of blatherskites. II
the Greenbackers are in favor of tax
ing ali property alike, g. in proportion
to the property he owns" then he is
not in favor of a just distribution OF
political burdens. One man has a
farm worth $4,000. This year il
may profit him nothing. Another
man has bank that may be worth
$4,000. His profits this year may be
| $4,000. These green 'uns say tax
them in proportion to the property
they own. The more just way would
be to let the man who is profted pay
the taxes. One man has farm worth
| $4,000. The floods or Legislation
destroys his crops this year and be
makes nothing. Another man has 8
saloon worth $500. He has plenty O
patrons and clears 10 the year $500
These green 'uns say, tax the farmer
a fixed per cent. on $1,000, and III,
saloon keeper the same per cent. OF
| $500. The last plaak in this little
siruoture.is automatic. unjust law
rightly understood, "and not in stand.
ing armies, lies the safety Of the Re.
public" For instance make .jus
law rightly understood that the In,