The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-10-02

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any other money in the world. sher-
man talks Of 'irredeemable" paper.
Who cheated the people into irredeema.
BILE paper? He and bis fellow plotters.
Our notes we're exchangeable, that is, re-
deemable in bonds. Knayes cut the tie
and left them irredeemable. l call the
Republican party In it's alliance with
Wall street, the swindling party.
THE PUBLIC GOOD SUPERIOR TO THE
CLAIMS OF THE FEW.
Burke said (recognizing) that there is
a faith due to the people as well as to
the holders of public securities: 1t is
to the property of the citizen, and not to
the demands of the creditor OF the state
that the original faith of society is ped
ged. The claim of the citizen is prior in
time, paramount in title, superior in eq'
uity." Forgetting this the Republican
party broke the pledge which made
greenhacks exchangeable with bonds,
cheating the people out of millions that
thew gave the Shylocks. Secondly, they
ordered the bonds, which Sherman said
in the Senate 1869, we're payable in pa
per to be paid in coin. Swindle No. 2,
Of some $500 900 600. Thirdly, they de-
monetized silver, and left the bonds pay
able in gold alone. Swindle No. 3,which
robbed the people of hundreds of mil
lions more, to fill the pockets of the
Rothscbilds measure, if you can, the
impudence of such party-the Plck-
shifts Of politics with their hands in
their neighbors' pockets, boring their
victims all the while with the everlasting
chatter, about "public honesty" y
| think the GreenbaCk party has been
thus far uniformly victorious, and thus
GAINED POINT BY POINT.
l The party demanded the remoneti
cation OF silver, 1t is done, and the
step is not likely to be reversed,
2. We claimed that the Greenback
should not be DESTROYED, but reissued.
The Secretary of the Treasury, who was
in his usual chronic state Of perpIexity
and bewilderment, gladly submitted to
this mpulsion-indeed, welcomed our
victory. Thus the derided "Rag"-tbo
dishonored "Rag"-is the National cur
rency to day, and is likely to remain 30.
3. We asserted that, if the GreenbaCks
were made receivable at the Custom
House, and for all debts due the Govern
ment, Coin and GreenbaCks would be
equal in ninety days, and that this was
the proper step to be taken.
For this we begged, argued, and petit
toned three years ago. Then we got no
attention. Now, the Secretary without
law or authority, has ordered this step
to be taken, and Congress is about to ap-
prove what he illegally did, Without
this step resumption would be impossi.
BILE, or very dangerous, if possible. And
without this help, resumption would be
failure.
THE NEXT STEP FORWARD.
With these three victories behind US,
we now advance to the next outwork of
the enemy. The next point to attack is
Bank issues Of currency. Put only one
line on our f4g-"No State or National
Banks of Issue" Let the Government
issue all the currency the nation uses
The people will never be safe until they
remove this overwhelming temptation
from the pathway of public men. While
banks rule business, make or mar mems
fortunes, plunge a nation into disaster
or lift it into prosperity at their will,
such men as Sherman will always eat any
past utterance, assume any new profes
sion, deny or assert, stand on honest feet,
or kneel in Infamous submission, as the
money power orders or allows. The
shareholders once held us bv the throat
Now Shylocks grasps us with fercer
grip. Ifth:s Republic ever joins its pre-.
decessors in the grave, no soldiers will
throttle it; no usurper will ever betray.
Gold will buy its leaders and cheat the
people into chains.
Yours cordially,
WENDELL PHILLIPS,