Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-26
The Greenback-Labor Party Addressed by
Stephen Maybell and 1.-THE Woman
In the Grey Ulster"

CISCO, who represented California IN the
Greenback-Labor Convention.
Mr.. MAYBELL
Said he was the only man who had been
elected to Office by the Workingmen's party
that hadn't gone over to one OF the old par
ties. The man who votes because he thinks,
is the one whom the politician fails to con-
troll, but they who vote a party ticket be-
cause they always have, or because their
fathers did before them, are of the kind the
politician calls his voting cattle. The men
with poor coats, who can't pay the rent, or
keep up business, exemplify the financial
situation. 1t is finance" that has reduced
wages from So to 81, made men poor and re-
suited in shipping Mongolians to the coast
to run out white labor Finance" is the
root of the question. When there is
PLENTY OF MONEY
| The article sells high, and when money is
scarce the price is low. Labor regulates The
product of the article, and the volume of
money regulates the price of labor. Let a
corporation control the volume of money and
say how much it shall be, and that corpora
ton fixes the rate of wages. The banking
corporations control the volume of money,
and year by year are absorbing the wealth of
the nation and the product of labor. In 1918,
| 1880, 1887 and 1857 there were money panics.
the people lost, and the banking corporations
bought in property at their own price. They
let out plenty of money and everything went
booming; then they suddenly ceased loaning;
contracted the currency, panic resulted
and, as no one could pay, they bought in the
peoples property. That was the way the
banks got up panics. Applause Neither
the Republican nor Democratic parties say
word in their platforms about the currency
ha ying been contracted from $50 per capita
to $40 per head. Applause
SINCE 1861
Congress has voted the bankers $3.50. OOO. 900
in gold notes. If all the greenback speeches
could be published Weaver would be elected
Some id fool says what's the use of paper
money, gold is better, it don't depreciate.
Why does paper money go down? There has
been and is paper money as good as gold, and
there was paper money that went down to l6
cents. The kind the Weaver party wants is
that of 1861, receivable for all public and
private debts. IApplause.l In 1860, when
the war broke out, money was necessary the
Cabinet asked the capitalists for gold and
couldn't get it, and the capitalists wanted to
lend it paper at six and leight per cent. inter-
est. But the Government said, if so, we can
have our own paper, and so the demand
notes were issued, $50, 100000 of them They
were receivable for all public and private dues
w all oIIcSG Couluil Iuhho IuOu6y OUT OF LlaC,
so the British syndicate devised a plan to
beat it. They got their men into Congress,
and the next issue of paper money
read Receivable etc., except for import
duties and debts due the United States Gov
erDment." The poor man had to take that
money but Wall street didn't. as the bond
holders must have gold. Greenbacks accord.
ingly fell until in July a. 1864. they were
worth only IS cents. Then the bankers with
S3S in gold bought 500 of greenbacks On
the other side Of the green back it read 'ex-
changeable for 6 per cent. bonds" so the
bankers took their 500 which cost them but
S3S and exchanged it for 6 per cent. bonds,
and thus they got 800 certain for $685.
Applause. Then they got bill through
permitting them to deposit the bond and get
$50 of gold notes to start national banks
WITH and thus was the greenback destroyed
in the interest of capital, and when the PEG
pie wanted to borrow they had to go to the
banker for he had all the money. Then by
THE RESUMPTION ACT
They locked up $3.50, 900, 900 to pay bond
holders in gold, and lastly they demoralized
silver and swept $3.50, 000, 900 out of circula-
ton and left nothing in circulation to pay the
worker with, and so his wages went down,
for if there is only $40 in circulation
how can two men get $40 each.
HtSS ulSu nO1O JSH bliltbUS OI DODub
and have drawn 81, 800, 900, 900 of interest
from the people, whe are slaves Applause
The Democratic platform talks about free
trade, and expelling Chinese. Suppose that
party wins, and drives out the Chinese and
free trade is the rule. The Chinaman had
shoe factory, say, here, with Cinnamon in it
at seventy-6ve cents day. They are driven
out aud go and set up in Hong Kong, at
twenty cents day, and, with free trade,
send goods here 20 per cent. cheaper than
ever to compete with the laboring mans pro-
duct here.
The Democratic party talks of
FRESHMEN AND FOREIGNERS RIGHTS,
And catches the Irish voters, and the Repub.
hcan party talks of the war and Americans, !
and catches the American vote, and they are |
all looked upon by the leaders as voting cattle |
| Applause. General Weaver introduced |
resolution i'll Congress to take the power of |
the control of money out of the hands of the |
bank corporations and place it in Congress, |
and Randall, the Democratic Speaker, for six |
long months refused to recognize him, and at |
last Garfield got up and called on the |
Republicans and Democrats to strange the |
Infamous proposition, as he called it, |
and they did. In San Francisco the Demo |
Gratis combined to crush the workingmen.
Oh ! out on this Democracy-no, not Democ- |
racy, but Hypocrisy, that is the party's true
name now-it is the party that stopped the
cry of the people with the gag law. The |
miserable skunk Democracy did that. APP |
plause. Are You going to free the country |
by the aid of that party? Why, that miser- |
able skunk, English, is drawing $50, 900 per
year interest on bonds, and taking the bread |
OUT or THE MOUTHS
OF starving children and women. Belmont,
I no IQU--a disnropa ta fha Il auri an fany,la--
did run the Democratic party as the agent Of |
the Rothschilds, and now they have got |
S. Hewitt at the head, who sold |
Tilden out to get Hayes in SO as to have John |
Sherman run the finances of the country in
the interest of the British syndicate. Zap |
planse. Who is Hancock? Why, he led |
more Democrats to bloody graves than any
Republican. Laughter He UPHELD the |
Democratic States rights doctrine, and for /
a fat salary fought Democrats who were lay |
ing down their lives for that doctrine lAp- |
plause.l With further review of the finan-
cial question, and prophesy that the farmer
who knows all about the proposition will net |
paint his legs, put a feather in his hat and |
dance and shout for Hancock and Garfield, F" |
the speaker concluded amidst applause.
OTHER SPEAKERS.
Mr.. Hodson next attempted to speak. but
after few sentences broke down and said he
was i'll. A. A. Vaninespoke next, and said tho
Workingfnen OF two years ago are the same
as now. They must have the labor party to
protect the Loor man. Ii Weaver is not /
elected he will at least have voice in saying
who is to be President by forcing the election
into the House. A year ago the Democrats
had a chance to come over TO the w. p c.,
but were too proud. They united with the
Republicans twice to crush the w. z. C.,
and would do it again. He exhorted his
hearers to unite with the Greenbaek Labor
party and not be sold out again to the De-
mocracy.
THE GRAY ULSTER.
MIR Jost then introduced 1.-THE Woman
with the Gray Ulster, Mrs. Annie F. Smith,
who had come to the aid of the suffering peo-
pie in San Francisco, and ministersd to them,
had served 81 months as a nurse in Union
hospitals during the war, and had given up
all 10 succor the destitute in California.
Mrs. Smith said she needed no introduction
TO the laboring people of San Francisco, but
was a stranger in Sacramento. Mr.. Maybell
had fairly and fully handled the financial
question. Her appeal was to the cousciences
of working people-men and women-and
that title ought to make them brothers and