The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-01-28

In the national banks we have the
best system OF banking this or airy
other country has ever enjoyed. Should
any of these national banks fail the
bill-holder is fully protected. IN fact
1t is not necessary 10 ever look into that
subject at all as a national bank note is
just as good after it fails as it was ever
before. Compare our present national
banking system with the banking sys-
tenn Of England and the contrast is al
together in our favor.
Why then this crusade upon the ma
tional bank? IL is 10 furnish political
capital for snch accomplished dema-
gogues and political combats as Tom
Hendricks and Messmore, who would
ruin the finances OF their country to
obtain political power. and inaugurate
a war on the national banks and revive
the old State and wildcat system of
banking from which Michigan suffered
so greatly in the early settlement OF the
State.
Messmore proposes that the soft
money Democrats and the Cireenback-
ers will pool their issues in hostility 10
our present excellent system of nation
al banks, to withdraw their notes from
circulation and issue in lieu thereof an
illimitable supply Of irredcemable
greenbacks. This is the Issue OF pelit-
ical fusion proposed by the Grand Rap
ids Democrat and other papers OF that
ilk as O proposed basis for pooling OF
issues between Democrats and Green
hackers.
Republican n-Greenbackers do you
want TO enter into any such fusion as
that proposed? We think not. You
are about TO see your beloved country
enter upon a grand era OF prosperity.
Do not therefore contribute by your
votes OF influence to stay so glorious
system Of finance az we are now enjoy
ing. Return therefore 10 the house
hold of the party which created the
greenback and redeems il to-day IN
gold. Return once more to the politi-
cal household Of your fathers, the party
OF Lincoln, Wade. and Chandler, the
party Of honest money, honest govern
ment, and protection 10 American citi-
zens at home as well as abroad. the
party which has made the greenback
and the national bank note as good as
gold, the party which now furnishes
the country with the Same currency
for banks, bond-holders, and the peo-
pie, one interchangeable in the other.
Remember further that oil the great
political reforms in this government
have been achieved hy the Republican
party. IL was that party that freed the
slaves, made all men equal and made
the suffrage universal. II is the party
of free and universal education, protec-
ton 10 American labor, the party OF
the perpetual unity OF the States, OF
frugal and honest government and OF
protection to American citizens every
where in this great country OF ours
No other party in the world has accom-
plished such great reforms in the same
space OF time as has the Republican
party in the United States since its ad-
vent to power In 1860.
The Democratic party has been tried
in the past and found wanting. II was
the party of notification, secession,
o-slaveryism, disunion, rebellion 10
whom we are to-day indebted for every
cent of our national debt. 1t is to-day
the party of mob law, ballot-box stuff
iing, intimidation and riot, klukluxism
and all kindred isms at the south.
Republican, n-(ireenbackers are you
prepared TO go bodily over such party
as the Democratic party with the
shameful record it has furnished 10 the
country
Pay no attention to the demagogical
sneers aud abuse which may appear
against Gen. Grant in Democratic and
guerrilla journals from time 10 time. -
The same class Of papers treated Abra-
ham Lincoln in 1860 precisely the same
way. Vet no president was more pop
ular among all patriotic Americans than
was the same much abused lincoln
So it is with Grant. A truer friend OF
Republican institutions and simpler
aud more unpretending representative
OF his conntry's people than Gen.
Grant does not live in this vast expanse
OF country of ours. Gen. Grant Is n
lover Of law and order, and believes IN
staple government and strict en-
forcement Of the laws wherever the flag
OF the country floats. lie would make
il quite as safe for southern Republi-
eau 20 exercise his political rights in
Mississippi as IL would be for son hern
Democrat TO exercise similar privileges
bere IA Michigan. So much for that
"bioody shirt" which Col. Messmore
says Gen. Grant always wears outward
~. Pay no attention, Republican
Greenbackers, TO such silly bosh and
talk, but now that the prating OF the
nags il about 10 begin, boldly come
forward and renew your old political
allegiance and vour errors and mistakes
will be forgiven and forgotten.
The national movement has died out
aud the Republican party aud not the
Democratic party ought 10 absorb It's
better elements. The Republicans
ought al least 10 receive back as mnch
strength rs it contributed to the green
back movement.
True Republicans of Allegan county.
let us all labor to convince onr mis-
guided political brethren who become
ensnared into the greenback movement
OF the error Of their ways aud re-
ceive them back into the ranks OF the
party from whence they had temporar-
| ily strayed. Resumption il not only
successful but best, right and pTactica-
bic. The general belief OF the ultimate
redemption OF the greenback in coin Is
what gives il the greater part OF its
value. Making paper a legal tender
gives il paying value, but not pnr-
chasing value. The best money or cir.
culating medium is that which people
are willing 20 take, requiring no law TO
! force il into sirculation. These are the
principles Of finance which govern the
financial and commercial world and
they are true to-day when enunciated
by Zachariah Chandler as they we're in
Jackson 3 time when Old Hickory was
fgthing for honest money.
Return therefore, Republican Green.
hackers of Michigan 10 your old politi-
cal fold and pay no heed 10 the spa.
cious promises OF the party who would
place the government OF the United
States In the same position OF repudia
tion with that Of the Democratic States
Of the South where Democracy, repudi
alton, and klukluxsism go hand and
hand together Allegan Journal.