The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-09-12
VOL. %.
\ PARTY WITHOUT A COUN-
TRV

The history OF the most wretchcd man
ever conceived in the imagination of the
novelIsts is told IN the story Of "a Man
Without country" No nationality ;
no land that he could S,ill his own, no
part of the human family in whose
achievements he could feel pride; no flag
and no home. But what is the Green
back party now but a party without a
country? Ii il has u hope, il is that the
United States will meet disaster. Bad
crops here, prostration of industry, clos
ing of shops and mills, multiplication of
tramps, filing of poOrhouses and jails,
increase of losses and of suttering-these
are the only arguments which can help
the Grecnback party. lfthese fail, the
party goes 10 the bad 1t cannot shout
for iov when the credit of the United
States improves, for that is an argument
for Sherman and the Republicans. 1t
cannot see with pleasure the crowding
Of outward-bound steamers with the
rich products of our farms; that helps
To fill the treasury and the banks,
and 10 make resumption success.
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. far
mers for the first time tread acres on
WHICH no IiiOIlGdgt lies, tilGI anu hOlliCH
sleep for the first time in homes they can
cali their own, and all this brings de
spair to the heart of the Greenback adj
vocate, for his country's disgrace and
misery alone can save him from con
tempt.
1t is party without country, and a
party without n future. No one sup
poses that the elastic industry and enter
prise of Americans can long be kept
down. Sooner or later there must come
again such grand prosperity as this coun-
try has thrice enioyed-prosperity such
rs has never yet dawned upon any other
land. When good times come, the Green
back party dies. Every breath of hope
for the country is to that unhappy party
more deadly than the blast of the siroc-
co. Its possibility of future existence
rests upon the failure of American gen.
ius, energy, patience and manhood-that
is TO say, il has no right 10 hope for Il
future at all.
TO such 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 schoOlboy should be able
to disprove, AS to abuse ofthe power of the
treasury lot the DSneHt OI puDllc crcul-
tors, 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 as that
which il now enjoys Wretched rymes,
insulting TO their intelligence as TO their
taste, are sung in their hearing us the
battle songs of IL party which would re-
vel in the country's misery, if only the
country would be miserable. The grand
prosperity which sends the blood bound
ing with new swiftness and vigor through
all the pulses of trade, means hope to
every body else, but death to the Green
back demagogue.
Where is the man who wants to tie
himself To party that is doomed To die
Il disgraceful deaih? This country is not
going To ruin. The splendid courage of
its people, tried for many weary years,
has proved victorious. Royal good faith,
aud the manhood and pluck TO make
good every pledge. have placed this coun-
try high on the roll of fame. The men
of today 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 10
the work and the triumph of the Ameri-
cans of today. But there is one unhap-
py MANTLE Greenbacker He is
wrcichcd because his country is prosper
Gus, and knows that disgrace awaits him
because his country has escaped dishon-
or.-Ncw York Tribune.