Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-10-16

SOACAdA HIu LIE III WHICH
the present champion of Greenbs cks treated
them at a time when the imperious necessity OF
war obliged the government to issue them
This IS from his paper of August 9th, 1864:
Shout for Abraham-for taxes-for Fort La
Fayette-for the draft-for usurped pover-fol
suspension of sacred writs-for niger mi leniun
for worthless cltTTency-for ruined nation~-fo1
desolate cities-for devastated farns-for cottoI
wldows-for ten million mere orphans-for anoth
er draft-for. taxes on everything made or dug
for stamps-for tyranny, injustice and oppression
+" Let US see if there are in all this north
west any friends of the honest, statesmanlike
joking old Abe, the widow maker and candidat,
for reelection. Bless him for piling mouutains o.
taxes upon us-for the STAN, we use-f0T the de
probation of our cUrrency-for the poverty, ruiz
and suffering in the land.
This is from an editorial under Gate of Au
gust %, 1864. The grammar is very Demo
cratic:
Davis done away with specie and resorted to cur
T T2 to regulate the finances of the country s.
Davis currency deprecated almost TO worthless
mesa. So has gTeeTbdc rs.
Davis mas ignored the constitution. SO has Lin
coin. To war against the Palladium of our hber
ties is treason. Davis had an excuse. Lincoln ha:
one.
Here are few more specimens
Under Mcclellan and Democratic administra.
ton, the people will more be able to live as in
times past; on cheap coal, cheap flour, cheap cof
fee, cheap clothing, and cheap everything they
105H bug mach four dollars in gTeenbGcEs-L0
Crosse Democrat, October 8, 1864.
LIKE OLD TIMEs.-Dr. Fox, of La Crescent
came into the counting room this morning and
subscribed for the Daily Democrat, paying in ad-
vance for the same with handful of bright silver
haIf-dollar pieces He said that good a Demo-
cratic paper as ours was worth good Democratic
money. Much obliged for the compliment. There
IS not mach " GTeeabdck" about the Democrat ace
beyieUe.-Ib. October IT, 1864.
Ever since he Lincoln) became president the
saa111lf 1rx-I boo,
and siLUer-Deneocratic money, now we have green
oqcs north only forty cents on the dollar-I6, Oc-
tOber II, 1864.
The Democrats told the people that the war
would last as long as there is Republican presi-
dent dd 1t 1Ctt and that the result of the access
sion to power of a financial party, would produce
poverty instead of plenty-degolation instead of
homesteads-1CoTthteSS money IN place Of gold,
tyranny in place Of freedom, and at last re7olu-
ton over the entire north if there two terms of
Republlcan stealing, incompetency, robbery,
sWlndlng, murdsring and Encouragement as has
characterized the widow-maker's administration
In the same number the 7-30 treasury notes.
which the Greenbackers now assert were part
of the currency of the country, are thus spoken
OF as permanent investments and the $40
bonds as gold bonds
The treasury notes are recommended for pernsd-
neTt Investments, their semi annual interest will
be at the rate Of seven three-tenths per cent per
annum, and they are convertible into six per cent
$50 gold bonds.
1t is now q standing complaint with men
like Pomeroy that the bonds were bought at
less than their par value in gold. Here is the
way he wrote of them at the time the govern
ment was selling them:
The Republican party has disarraDged our
finances. Let it remedy them, Republicans are
holding z. S. bonds. Let them hold them! In
FOUR YEARs FROM NOW NO ONE ELSE WILL WANT
TO!
In the Democrat of November 81, 1864
after the election of President Lincoln, we
find this jereniad and prediction that the
bonds would be repudiated and greenbacks de-
preclated ten to one in the course of few
months:
The union of states is gone forever.
The south will never be subjugated.
A revolution already ripe in the north will burst
with bloody fury no distant day.
central and northwestern confederacy will
surely be es ablished.
The northwestern confederacy will join hands
with the south, regardless of politics, for CONNER
cial interests.
The currency of the country will be worthless.
and the bonds now being held by the rich man;
free from taxation, and which both interest
and taxes must be paid by the poor man. 0iI be re-
p1td1dted and the bonds themselves become UaL1te
Tess as aCaSc papeT The debt of the nation will be
ignored. Paper aCiU be north ten dollars
for one Of gold before the 10Th of June, 1885,
In one respect, Pomeroy was then what he is
now--prOfuse in pretensions of friendship for
the laboring man. Now, however, he advo-
Gates high prices and deprecated currency as
favorable to the laboring man. In the period
Of high prices and deprecated paper. he ex-
pressed precisely opposite opinions, as in this
extract from his paper of October %, 1865:
Why is it, laboring men, that you will directly
aid, by your vo es, the permanency of SYSTEM of
currency which is flooding the country with bank
bills to the exclusion Of SLIDER and gold? Do you
realize that gOar paper dollar Is a0orh but SO cents
Do you know that for every t1e71ty paper dollars,
yOu get only fourteen dollars north of clothes
groceries, or any article you may purchase?
We might continue similar quotations from
the same source indefinitely, but these will
suffice. Their author is the chairman Of the
Greenback state committee of Wisconsin, and
at the head Of the Greenback club organization
of the United States. He is striving to verify
his prediction that the war debt would be re-
pudiated. That is the meaning and purpose of
the platform which he drew and had adopted
at Watertown demanding the immediate pay
ment of all the government bonds in green
backs. Any man who voted for Abraham Lin
coin, who supported the union cause during
the war, and who is now opposed to state SOW
ereignty and the " shotgun policy by which
the "soid SOUTH is maintained, must feel
little strange if not good deal Inundated to
find himself in party which is led and con-
trolled by " Brick" Pomerov. A party that falls
80 low as to come under such leadership cannot
expect to retain the support Of any intelligent
and patriOfic citizen