Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-09
NATTONALISM...
Its Significance in Politics.
Something Of What We May Expect
Should It Succeed to Power.
A Party that Counsels Iis Members to
Make Themselves Proficient In
the Use Of Firearms
You Aid II?

parties are running dashed 10 all intents anc
purposes, the subjoined extracts from docu'
ments circulated in the west by the first-nan1ec
party must have a very important significance
TO the friends of law and order.
| From the tract entitled ssMeat for Men,
Issued by Pomeroy, Chairman OF the National
Committee for organizing Greenback clubs,
pages:
| "Let Congress, so soon as we, the people, car
| be heard in that heretofore UNANIMOUSLY corrnp'
body Of plunderers, declare that in order TO save
the American Republic, the bond must be
| burned, and destroyed even as slavery was
destroyed. That IL must be called in and retired
| In ashes, even as the greenback money mas
been taken in. That the bondholder shall have
greenback legal-tender, lawful money OF the
| United States for every claim he holds against
the United States. If he refuses this, then lei
| him howl II he wishes to- Let him rave, and
his financial damnation rest on his own dis
| honest head. We viii have no bonds OF any
kind issued by the government
| '.If this government OF ours will not protect
us, the tax x-paying people, then we owe IL no
allegiance. Ifit will not do this. 1t is bad. an
| infamous government, after all the people have
| done for il, and we had better unite The west
| and the south, secede from a Union that bene-
| fits only eastern bondholders, and let their
| dupes in northeastern States 20 into slavery TO
| the Legitimate brat of Republican borning and
| Democratic adoption. So IL is, eastern masters
| and money y-hoarders, that we sight the gun
| directly at your black hearts. Too long have
your political tricksters in both parties held the
hot iron of bankruptcy TO our backs Too long
| have you, by aid of knaves and hrelings, held
| us in the morass of poverty and the slough of
| despond. You can give us back the full silver
dollar-the greenback doliar-as a munitlon of
| peace and part of the government, or In 1880
| never rises a sun on the Republic as IL now
stands. You have lie,i TO the people. You,
August Belmont, Jay Cooke, John Sherman.
| Samuel j. Tilden, and all of the piundering
| bullion-baggers. You have torn down the
Constitution till II hangs only by one nail.
You have ignored the rights of the people. You
have turned the misfortunes of a war you pro-
longed TO your great advantage and the peoples
disaster, and you deserve TO have your bank ks
broken open, your houses plundered, your
| spoons and furniture stolen, your fI-gotten
gains wrested from you, your possessions con-
fiscated, and your northeastern States held as
appendages 10 a united west and south, hanj-
in-hand cooperating as the New America.
Give us back The money of our fathers. Give
us back the greenback money you have stolen
and burned. Give us, the people, the property
that belongs TO us who live by labor or you
shall be shorn of your power, despoiled of your
possessions, and left in the desolation you plan
for those you have so long planned 70 hold as
slaves.
CLEANING THEM OUT OF HOMES.
"Young men of the west and south, we can
clean all OF those eastern pirates out of homes
and the property they have stolen. We can
unite and whip them 10 reason and TO a compra-
hension of the right We can leave the coun-
try northeast OF the Allegheny mountains to
pay the national debt. We can unite and make
the southwest the garden of the world. We can
open the Mississippi river and float our billions
OF produce down its waters TO market We can
SEMI our surplus products 10 foreign countries
by way of southern cities With the proceeds
we can line the west ana south with new rail-
roads, open new mines, and make the east a
bowling wilderness, in which will roam tile
ghosts OF the witch-burners and of those Puri-
tans who made fortunes in supplying the sou h
with slaves stolen from the coast OF Africa
We can do all this, and you will take this for
your repast in the future If you do not
burn your ill-gotten bonds and let the people
live Organize Greenback Ciubs--wlth bayo-
nets in reserve. ~
From page Il, same tract:
"Citizens have been robbed of their equality.
Land has been robbed of its value. Labor has
been robbed OF its life Life been robbed of It's
reward. Every bondhoIder Is a robber whose
knife is an infamous law that was made to en-
rich a few at the expense of the many. Every
national banker is a robber OF The people In his
monopoly TO take from them double interest on
the bills he puts out, not one of which are re-
deemable In gold or silver. Silver has been
robbed OF its power to pay deots, and a result
OF your long continued robberies you have had
just one little sip of the hell-broth you have
been brewing this sixteen years for your dishon-
est selves -
From ''Hot Drops, - No. ?, pages:
"Now We warn you, you cowarily, sneak
ing dishonest, treacherous, false-hearted, avari-
cious, mercenary hireings of an eastern money
power, that we, the people Of the western and
southern States, including Pennsylvania and
all of New York west from the mouth Of tie
Hudson river do intend TO take possession of
the government of the United States, hurl you
and your bondho1dng element from power, and
create for you enough legal-tender greenback
money to relieve the general government from
its embarrassments.
REPUTATION OF EVERY BOND.
"We mean that the debt OF the United States
shall be paid in greenbacks; and right here we
inform you from the western pralries, that, so
sure God lives, If this question is not settled
by 1885, If the law then does not declare that the
bonds shall be paid in greenbacks exactly as the
soldiers of the United States were paid In green
back money, we shall never again ask for such
an issue of money, but will, from that hour,
strike for the reputation OF every bonded opli-
CATION of the government, and thus wipe ont
from existence every United States bond, ard
their holders shall have nothing. Put this in
absolute government 1t is government of
the people, and by the eternal II shall be a gov
ernment for the people, or it shall be smashed
into so many fragments that each separate State
will, in comparison, be a complete world.
From "Hot Drops, +" No. 4, pager:
"If the government Will not do this thing
then we, the people. in defence of our lives our
liberties, our homes, our families and all that
the future holds out 10 us promise through
the work of the founders OF the Republic, must
overthrow this government, repudiate all its
unconstitutional contracts, wipe out the In
debtedness of the United States, and commence
anew. Therefore we say to those who adminis-
ter the laws-pay the the bondhoders TO n e
uttermost farthing in greenbacks, full legal
tender money, and ever after hold IL at par
with gold, or any other material of which
money is made. Do .this, or we, the people
will be compelled, in self-defence, 10 repudiate
Won who are in Congress and the presi,e,,,.,
chair only as our SERVANTS IN renudia,a ro,,
and your unconstitutional promise-to teach
YOU who are our servants, and Won who are orr
plunderers a lesson that will last every one az
Won for all time TO come. >,
From "Hot props,, No. s. paee15.
.,Now. the eovernment has the absolute
mower To create money of metal mr. ma nor am, %
aec,are 4, lawro, money as,, ana creo % .,,, a.,