River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-02

do not come in with jokes and songs Lincoln,
the ,widoW-maker, is the joker and songster.
we Will next give some extracts showing the
same general spirit, and the manner in which
the present champion of Greenbacks treated
them at 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 power-for
suspension of sacred writs-for a Niger mi .enium
FOR tooTthtess currency-for ruined nation,--for
desoiate cities-fcr devastated aarms-for cotton |
stealing mIitiry expeditions-for million more
wldows--for ten million more orphans-for al 9TH
er draft-tors taxes on everything made or dug
LOT stamps-for tyranny, injustice and oppression.
Let us see if there are in all this north |
west any friends of the honest, statesman Ike, !
JOKING old Abe, the widow-maker and candidate
for reelection. Bless him for pilng mou tains of
axes upon us-for the STAN, we use--Jor the de-
probation Of oar curfency-for the poverty, ruin
and suffering In the land.
This 10 from an editorial under Gate of Au-
gust %, 1864. The grammar is very Demo
cratic:
Davis done away with specie and resorted to cur
f &c 70 regulate the finances Of the country so
Davis currency deprecated almost to worthless
ness. SO has greenbaeks.
Davis has ignored the constitution So has Lin
coin. To war against the Palladium of our iiber-
ties is treason. Davis had excuse. Lincoln has
one.
Here are few more specimens
Under Mcclellan and Democratic administra-
ticn the people will once be able to live as in
times past; on cheap coal, cheap -four, cheap cof-
fee cheap clothing, and cheap everything they
want. In other words, one dollar Of real money
aodu bug much four dollars in gTeenbacks-La
Crosse Democrat, October 3, S64.
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
hAlf-dollar pieces He said that as good a Demo-
cratic paper as ours was worth good Democratic
money. Much obliged for the compliment. There
is not much g Greenbdck" about tie Democrat zee
betiege.-Ib. October II, 1864.
Ever since he Qincoln) became president the
country has been in trouble. We once had gold
ana Siteer-Deraocrdttc money. now we have GREEN
backs, loorA only forty cents on the dOlLar-Ib, Oc
t0ber IL, 1864.
The Democrats told the people that the war
would last as long as there is Republican presi-
dent land icit0 and that the result of the
sion to power OF financial party, would produce
poverty instead of DISQUALIFICATION instead of
homesteads-100rthteSs money IN place Of gold,
tyranny in place of freedom, and at last revolu-
ton the entire north if there two terms of
Republican stealing incompetency, robbery,
swindl1ng, murdsring and mismanagement as has
10.
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 1-20
bonds as gold bonds
The treasury notes are recommended for peTnd-
,ent Investments their semi annual il terest will
be at the rate Of three-tenths per cent. per
annun, and they are convertible into six per cent
$50 gold bonds.
1t is now 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 disarranged our
finances. Let it remedy them. Republicans are
holding q. S. bonds. Let them hold them! In
FOUR YEARS FROM NOW so ONE ELSE WILL WANT
In the Democrat Of November 81, 1864,
after the election of President Lincoln, we
find this jeremiad and prediction that the
bonds would be repudiated and greenbacks de-
preciated ten to one in the course of a few
months:
The union of states is gone forever.
The south will never be subjugated.
revolution already ripe in the north will burst
with bloody fury st no distant day.
central and northwestern confederacy will
surely be es ablished.
The northwestern ccufeaeracy will join hands
with the south, regardless Of politics, for CONNER
cial interests.
The currency II the country will be worthless,
and the bonds now being held by the rich man,
free from taxation, and on which both interest
and taxes st be paid by the poor man. nil be re-
p1tdidted and the bonds themselves become Udtue
less as lcaste paper The debt of the nation will be
ignored Paper teiH be north ten dollars
for one Of gold before the 10th Of June, 1866.
In one respect, Pomeroy was then what he is
now-profuse in pretensions of friendship for
the laboring man. Now, however, he advo-
Cdltb pIlCos duu CuuIcuCy do
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 es, the perms nency of system of
currency which is flooding the country with bank !
bills 10 the exclusion Of sitrer and gold Do you
realize that goT paper dollar is north but 60 cents
DO you know that for eDery tpe1ty paper dottdrs,
yoU can get only fourteen dollars feorth 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 +" solid south" is maintained, must feel a
little strange if not good deal Inundated to
find himself in party which is led and con-
trolled by Brick" Pomeroy. Aparty that falls
so low as to come under such leadership cannot |
expect to retain the support of any intelligent
and patriotic citizen.
What is the Remedy!
From The New York Tribune.
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