The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-03-06
National Greenback Address.


The following address was issued by
the Greenback members elect at their
meeting in this city to-day:
To the People of the United States:
The National Greenback Representatives
elected to the Forty sixth Congress, feeling
have met in consultation and deem 1t proper
to advise you Of the results. The need Of more
perfect organization engaged our serious at
tention, as against labor and capital invested
money-loaning interest is elaborately and
thoroughly organized. This gigantic power
embraces the National Administration and
Legislature, the machinery and leadership of
more than two thousand National banks,
forming banking system yet In the infancy
of its power, whose operation has transferred
the control Of issuing and regulating the vol
where the Constitution vests 1t, to these cor
porations, whose directors are not RESPONSE
BILE to the people. Back Of this organization
inspiring and controlling It, is arrayed the
colossal money power Of Europe. 1t has con-
trolled Legislatures and executive officers,
largely subsidized the press and endangered
the purity of the judiciary. By means ofusury
and appreciation Of the value of money by
contracting, 1t has absorbed the accumulated
wealth OF the Nation and gained mortgage
upon the productive power Of the future. The
Indebtedness Of the people, private, corporate,
municipal, State and Nation, is more than
the entire property Of the country would
bring in money. This Indebtedness expresses
the immense capital gained by money
brokers. Through the terrible pressure of
its annual interest. productive and COM
mercial energy have been paralyzed and the
masses of our people have been plunged into
a condition of increasing poverty, want and
misery which is embittering them to q degree
Of the of
the money power have sought to blind the
people to its spoliattons by charging their
distress to their extravagance; by false
clamor for "honest money" and by the prom
Use of a speedy relief through the resumption
of specie payments. What they call resump-
tion has come, but the distress intensifies and
the prospect under their policy darkens, We
have reached dread crisis. 1t is the mission
of our party to meet this crisis and avert
the measureless ruin It threatens. To do this,
we must overthrow the powerful and en-
treEched banking system, and restore to the
Government, where the fundamental law
late its value and determine its volume; we
must stop the increase of the Understanding
Indebtedness; and, as speedily as possible, In
cancel that which has accrued; we must Sc
cure q volume of full legal tender money equal
to the demands Of prosperous productive en-
terprise.
Ours is a gigantic task, and only by united
efforts of those who suffer can we accomplish
it. We were fully convinced that separation
from all parties whose leaders, machinery and
press are mostly alueu WltQ the money power
Is demanded. Impelled by this conviction,
we have resolved to act together In organizing
the next House Of Congress, that We may bet
ter secure such Legislation as will accomplish
the desired result. We are assured that
enough members entertaining our views have
| been elected to hold the balance of power.
We purpose to WELD that power for the sole
purpose of embodying our principles in law.
We call upon you to unite in precinct, city,
town, county, Congressional district and
State org rganizations for the same ends. We
also invite all Greenback and Labor Clubs, by
whomsoever organized or chartered, to place
themselves In communication with their re-
spective county and State organizations and
through them with the headquarters of the
National Executive Committee at Washing
| ton, D. c.
We earnestly caution suffering against all
who seek to inspire to disloyal acts or even
threats. The treason would be madness be-
cause the ballot is In our hands.
The Administration Is what the votes Of the
people have made 1t, and within two years
| they can change 1t by the same peaceful
process. We seek relief only through the bal
lot. The future is full of hope. Our party
| has gained more than a million votes within
| the last year, and we are assured from all
| parts of the Nation that the momentum which
! gave us that UNPARALLELED advance Is SO in
| creasing as to make success in 1880 certain.
| Therefore let not the suffering yield to des-
pair, nor the Justly indignant resort to vio-
| lence.
1Sigpedl GILBERT DE LA MArYR,
| Chairman Committee on Address.