The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-07-18

Six months. in advance, 0
his children I'D himself, is q laborine
m IN. wOrkingman. The man who,
by the exe:tions of his father, or some
other relative, has Inherited wealth,
and who does no work beyond clipp-
ing coupons from bonds to be paid BY
taxes levied on working men, call q
capitalist. Do you say there arc no
such men? There are plenty ofthem.
Let me give you an illustration of
them: There is in New Yorksa Club
called the Tally-ho Club. It is COM
posed of, can hardly guess how
many members, because they never
invited me to any of their entertaip-
ments, but think they have ten, four
and six horse teams, coaches, and
they drive them on. the high road be-
tween two palatial hotels, with fine.
looking man set up behind the coach
with tin horn, or, in this case, be-
lieve it is brass bugle. for what !?
And who are they? They are all
young men of great wealth, Of great
literary culture, all graduates of COLI
leges-all men who haye no other
employment on earth but to spend the
income of their inherited wealth. And
all they can find to do is to play coach-
man day by day for the fun of the
thing. They toll not, neither do they
spin they are men of class that il
growing in this country, ana they are,
in my judgment a class that ought to
be squelched. [Applause.l They are
men that have nothing 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 fejlow-men, and the more money
a man has the greater is his response
bility for the proper employment Of
that money in some industrial or eth
er enterprise for the good of his race;
and for the men who do not do that
the workingmen ought to vote to
bring about q law to make them do II.
If had my way, if had the power
in the city of New York, as once
had for a short time, I would set that
class of men to doing exactly what
they have shown they are fit for
driving Broadway 0mnibuses from
six O'Clock in the morning to nine
o'clock at night, SO that they should
haye enough of playing coach-man.
The General also reviewed at length
the history of the Continental mon,y
of this country, tracing the causes Of
its decline in value. He repudiated
the tern. Of inflationist, and said of the
opponents of the Greenback party:
.sThey are willing to sell all the bonds
and subsidize all the railroads, and do
every thing else that can be done with
money obtained on intcrest-beariug
bonds of the United States. My prop
osition is that we should issue $4C0,.
C-oOC } in Notwithstanding bonds
of the United States to settle the un-
employed laboring men of the United
States upon the public lands of the
United States." Great applause.
No more notes of the United States
could be issued, he went on to say,
than the people chose to take, and if
they bear no interest those which are
issued involve the country in no debt.
defining q Greenbacker, he said: eff
you find a man in the community that
goes for the good Of all the nation as
against few, that man is Green.
backer; if Won find a man that wants
Just legislation and goes for the inte-
rest of the workingmen and of labor.
that man is q Greenbacker. 1t is
term which covers every thing just
and true, and the word Abolition once
covered every man in favor of human
freedom. If you find man that wants
special privileges, that wants to liye
on the earnings of others, that wants
others to pay his taxes, that man is
not Greenbacker. He is on the op-
posite side. A man is Greenbacker
who believes that the intelligence of
the many is q better foundation for
the government of q great country
than the intellect of q few; who be-
lieves that this government ls for the
many and not for the few; and it IL
the fault of every one of you If you
leave it for the benefit of the few any
longer. And il you do so, You and
your children, and your cbildrens
and mine VIII find them.
selves slaves to the few, In tho worst
of Governments, an aristocracy."