The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-12-23
To the National Greenback Lab Orers
of the United States.

Comrades We have met the second Bull
run of the war We have been defeated,
but have preserved the identity Of the Ma
tional Greenback Labor party, and we
must now rally once again to meet the foe.
Let no honest freeman doubt, but to the
front and organize at once. Let no one
say Eve can't" but say by the Great
Jehovah we will
"Eternal vigilance is the price Of libsr-
ty." Let no Greenbacker be discouraged.
The God Of justice is with us. Gird on
the armor Of truth and go into the battle
with determination to win. You are
free to-day, but unless the people rally
for the maintenance of the underlying
principles Of our Government you will
not remain free, and your children will
hold yon responsible in the future if you
remain dormant now, and permit an ar
ristccracy to be reared upon the ruins Of
civil liberty.
The recent election result in tho tri-
umph OF party more corrupt than ever
before held the reins of Government. A
party that is anti-republican in its tenden-
cies, aristosratic in its design, dishonest
in principle, and dangerous to the great
Interests Of our common country. Never,
since the days when our Revolutionary
sires rallied for the overthrow of the min
ions Of George III, has there been high
er, or holier call upon the patriotic men
Of America than the present. Therefore,
fellow Greenbackers do your duty, organ
izs in every school district, circulate your
Greenback papers among the people, 60 to
work 10 secure new converts, ask your fel-
low men, whose interests are the same as
yours, to lay aside their old party predju-
dicss and join US in throwing of the yoke
that is being fastened upon the country
and which will render their children
"Hewers of wood and drowers of water
to race Of aristecrats unborn.
The will of the people is the law of the
land. Ask no favors, but demand as a
right, that the Government shall be ad-
ministered in the interests of human lib
erty, in the interests Of labor and in the
interest of equal rights. equal taxation
and equal representation.
Lest when our latest hope is fed We taste
of our despair.
And learn by proof in some wild hour how
much the wretched dare"
Let US all unite in one common cause
and do our whole duty in the coming con.
tiict between the aristocrats and the peo-
pie, scorning anything like fusion with
our foes. We must arraign, as false tc
civil liberty, all those who uphold or ad
vocate the continuance OF class legislation
in our national Government. and force on,
opponents TO a full, free, and fair discuss
ion of the questions which most
nearly concern our welfare. Let us re.
solve firmly, that we will never submit tc
a condition Of affairs that shall force so,
100000 of freemen to pay tribute to les
than ten thousand monkey kings, created
by unjust legislation. And upon tn,
broad basis Of the Chicago platform
adopted Jand 9, 1880, we began the cam
paign for 1884, pledging to each other Fl
delity TO its great principles. And in tn
National Greenback Labor party of tn
United States pledge myself, in the fu
ture as in the past, to be found in tn
frant, battling for those principles whicI
have made ours a happy country in tn
past, and if continued will insure to futur
generations that priceless boon-Liberty
CHAs ROBERTS.