The Portland daily press., 1879-08-26
Two Greenback Forgeries.

| The American laborer must make up his
| mind, henceforth, not to be so much better off
| than the European laborer. Men must be con-
tented to work for less wages. In this way
the working man will be nearer to that station
of life to which it has pleased God to call him.
-Neac York DVorld.
The above paragraph is again going the
rounds of the Greenback press. Its latest
appearance we have noticed is i'll the Calais
Times. To the Times and all other papers
which have published the paragraph, we
commend the following emphatic denial
made by the World when the Ner Era pub
lished the forgery last year:
A correspondent in Portland, Me-, kindly
sends us word that the following sentence, at
tributed TO he World has been published in a
paper called the New Era, in that city, and in
other of what he describes as the "Greenback
papers" in the State.
''The American laborer must make up his mind,
henceforth not to be so much better off than the
European laborer Men must be content to work
for less wages. In this way the working man will
be that station in life to which it has pleased
God to call him.
We are a trife tired of "branding" this par
ticular calumny which is of Importance to us
solely because those who propagate it do SO
with intent to misrepresent not only the World
but the Democratic party We have more
than once explained that no such sentiment
was ever expressed in the World, and that the
original inventor of the paragraph was delib-
crate liar, who manufactured it out of words
and phrases culled with intent to lie out OF diff
ferent parts of column in this journal. Ii
the New Era is edited outside Of a penitentiary
this notice will bring it to decency. If this no.
tce fails to bring it and all others whom it
may concern to decency it may become neces-
sary to show them u better though harder
way.
The Neae Era has not yet been brought to
decency, or had not on the 18th of July of
this year. 1t also on that date published the
following item which other papers have cop
led, purporting to be an editorial opinion of
the New York Times:
'.There seems to be but one remedy, and it
must come-a change of ownership of the soil
and a creation of class land owners on the one
hand and of tenant farmers on the other
something similar to what has long existed in
the older countries of Europe.-N. Y. Times.
While the Neav Era was publishing this
made this denial:
The Washington Union quotes from
''Western paper" q statement purporting to be
an editorial utterance of the Times to the effect
that there must come in this country "a change
of ownership of the SOIL and the creation of
olaSc of landlOrds on the one hand and of fem
acv farmers on the other" After previous ex-
plantations of this extract, which have been
travelling around among Greenback and LA
bor Reform organs for more than year, it
should hardly be necessary for us to repeat that
no sdcn m was to eTgn Ties ro
ed article on this thesis did appear on the sixth
page OF the Weekly Times among other gem
eral topics OF agricultural discussion ANY
Western or other paper which credits the
Times with the responsibility 1of the opinions
expressed in that article IS simply guilty OF
Yet the Greenback papers continue this
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Willul misrepresentation "ha' iai'n
can be placed in the statements of papers
that tbus w;lfnllv lie9
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ma 'oohu Doniooi" "'io P'poi, 'iio A'i0ii-
mond Dispatch, has only words OF approval
for Tho murderer of Cant Dixon r. saws.
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a,eicies We spoaA u ney az ASSUME In:' 1:
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uale, yiiousn ne was no oahuiua'e, anu 'Ia1
tne Rner ~ tad Is Mthi & .IGugn .h he
hanging of the two men found Suilty by a iury
of Northern editors will satisfy these presump::
1dGus sraat au tbr M wt content o,,a'
On tho other hand the Atlanta Const;tu-