Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-04
Party " iihout a Country.

The history of the most wretched man
ever conceived in the imagination of the
novelist is told in the story of a Man
Without Country" No nationality; no
land that he could call his own; no part
of the human family in whose achieve
ments he could feel pride; no flag and nc
home But what is the Greenback par
| ty now but party without country
| If it has a hope, it is that the United
States may meet disaster. Bad crops
here, prOStratiOn of industry, closing OF
shops and mills, multiplication of
tramps, filling of pOOrhOuseS and jails,
increase of losses and of suffering
these are the only arguments which can
help the Greenback party. If these fail,
the party goes to the bad. 1t cannot
shout for joy when the credit of the
United States improves, for that is an
argument for Sherman and the Republi-
cans. 1t cannot see with pleasure. the
crowding Of ou.wInl-bound steamers
with the rich products OF our farms
that helps to fill the Treasury and the
banks, and to make resumption sue
cess. Gold comes hither by the millions
and the Greenback party shudders
There is prosperity for the country, but
death to the party. Debts are paid
farmers for the first time tread acres on
which no mortgage lies, men and women
sleep for the first time in homes they
can call their own, and all this brings
despair to the heart of the Greenback
advocate, for his cOuntry's disgrace and
misery alone can save him from con-
tempt
1t is party without country, and a
party without a future. No one sup
poses that the elastic industry and en-
terprise of Americans can long be kept
down. Sooner or later there must come
again such grand prosperity as this
country has thrice enjOyed-prosperity
such as had never yet dawned upon
any other land. When good times come,
the Greenback party dies. Every
breath of hope for the country is to
that unhappy party more deadly than
the blast of the sirOccO. Its possibility
of a future existence rests upon the
failure Of American genius, energy, pa-
thence and manhOod-that is to say, it
has no right to hope for future at all.
To such a party as this young men in
this country are even now asked to join
themselves. Flimsy falsehOOds are told
them of the suffering existing some
where else, when they point to crowded
barns and busy workshops near at hand.
Stories that a schOolboy should be able
to diSprove, as to abuse of the power of
the Treasury for the benefit of public
creditors, are paraded before them.
Banks and bankers are attacked by men
who know that the country never yet
has seen any other banking system SO
good us that which it now enjoys
Wretched rhymes, insulting to their iE-
telligence and to their taste, are sung in
their hearing as the BATTLE songs of a
party which would revel in the coun-
try's misery, if only the country would
be miserable. The grand prosperity
which sends the blood bounding with
new SwiftnesS and vigor through all the
pdlses of trade, means hopeto everybody
else, but death to the Greenback dema-
gogue.
Where is the man who wants to tie
himself to party that is doomed to die
disgraceful death? This country is not
going to ruin. The splendid courage of
its people, tried for many weary years
has proved victorious. Royal good faith
and the manhood and pluck to make
good every pledge, have placed this
country high on the roll of fame. The
men of to-day greet each other with good
cheer because the nation has kept its
faith, and reached the solid rock of spe-
Gle payments. The men of generations
| hereafter will look back with pride to
the work and the triumph of the Ameri-
cans of to-day. But there is one unhap-
/ py man-the Greenbacker. He is
wretched because his country is prosper
Gus, and knows that Disgrace awaits
him because his country has escaped
diShonOr.-N. Y. Tribune.