The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-01-28
Are They all Insane.
coincidence of the Register

Correspondence Of the Register
was conversing some time ago with
an honest friend, when he made the
remark that he had visited lumber Of
points in Ohio during the last political
campaign in the interest OF Judge West.
| said that was sorry to learn that he,
workingmsn should be in favor OF the
grinding-down, crushing out financial
policy. This friend, this workingmsn,
This Blind csts paws tool of the idle capt.
tslist said that he would DO willing to
take up arms to uphold it and at the
same instant admitted he had not, nor
would not study the subject, and would
not talk on it, that no had never yet
met a greenback man that was not
crszy on the question; You are
all insane and won't listen
to YOU. Yes, we're all insane.
Paul was insane when no had by bis
irresistible logic convinced Felix OF
righteousness, temperance and a judg-
ment to come, but in a few short years
the world was compelled to accept the
Pauline doctrine, which for l,eCO years
has, and still holds swsy over the minds
of mon. John Brown was insane, when
with his nineteen mon, so few, he shook
the slave power from turret TO founda.
ton stone, yet half decade had barely
ELAPSED until millions Of well armed meE
were tramping over the same ground,
for the same object, singing peans Ms
they went to the soul of this insane John
Browns body which lay Wondering in
the grave, while his soul, in those
millions went marching on and
successfully accomplished the object for
which John Brown was crucifed.
Yes, we are insane because we are ter
ribly in earnest, because we know 1t ls q
life and death struggle between idle,
usurious, non.tsxsble, non-producing
capital and unsufersble tyranny on the
one hand, and productive capital and
labor and manhood on the other. And
becsuse this is so-and We feel 1t, and
know it 10 be so, and tell our fellow
workmen, and persist until We convert
them as recruits TO the growing army OF
currency reformers-we are called IN
sane. Get out When man once gets
the sreenbsck idea through his hair 1t Is
going 10 stick, and even If Satan should
appear in the garb of an angel of light,
he THE Greenbacker] will be found
firm as Gibrslter; courageous as
Grest-hesrt. And what is the green
bsck ides2 II is plain simple story,
simple SIS the old, old, story of the cross
The wayfsring man though fool can
not fail to perceive it, viz Call in the
1000 million Of bonds and burn them,
and issue to the holders thereof full Legal
tenders, (greenbscSs) st fsce value FOL
the same. A far better greenback by the
way then the bond holders paid Tor the
lords, then when these idle non-produc'
ing capitalists find that their wealth viii
bring them no returns unless they lnves
il in the thousand and one industries x
which our broad, illimitsble..and spsrel!
settled country invites, you bet they vii
invest, and in q few months We viii
start up with gigantic strides. Fur
mace fires long out will be relighted
sp,ndles long unused and rusted, vii
again revoive with unexampled veloc
lty. Mills, for many long, long day
idle, with grass snd weeds almost cover
ing them, will hum with renewed sctiv
ity in the ringing of thousand ham
mers, and the roar Of thousand er
gines. The sunken eyes of ssllow-fsce
mothers, from whom all hope has die