The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-12

sherman refund the lasl OF me O-ZU DOhOs
into coin bonds for thirty years, without a
legislative protest" And by this same little
transmogrication of the bonds, contrary 10
the original laws creating them,
and contrary to the provi-
sion OF the fourteenth amendment
to tho constitution Of the United States stipu-
lAting that they should not be "questioned;'
| Changed or altered, and contrary to their
pledges that they sh uld be paid, tho y were
suddenly converted into sacred coin bonds
and since this little hocus pocus arrangement
has been accomplished all this "long line of
statesmen have asserted them to be Sacred
coin contracts" quito as vociferously as even
the bankers and bOnd-holdeJ themselves
Mr. Editor, am writing history, and it be-
hooves mo to write the truth about these
things, else tons of thousands of living wit
nesses might rise up and question my history.
And now it is, generally, this 'long line o
statesmen" who, having now withdrawn all
pledges for the payment of any part OF the
bonds, tho repeal of the national bank acts
or the resumption Act, are again soliciting
the people to rs.eleot thsm, and begging
them to vote for military chiettan and q
national banker.
In your reply Of yesterdays date in the
HERALD to my article on the "RaVages of
the Boil Worms" you state that in 1868,
when the supplemental bank act was up for
cons Iteration, every Democrat, without eI-
coptioD, voted against it," This would be a
good argument for the Democratic party of
1863 but only renders more glazing the awful
detection of the Democratic party of 1880.
The HERALD also mentions other Republican
measures the Democrats voted against. The
HERALD will please make note that 1t is not
the old time record of Democrats for
which tho people and the GreenbAck
party Is arraigning the Democratic party to.
day it is its grieyous departure from its old
"tme.honored" principles that we condemn,
Allow mo TO present the true situation of
to-day. The awful departure Of the Demo
cratic party from its old time principles has
been going ON since 1868. In 1872 many saw ii
and wouldn't depart, In 1876 its dep rture
became marked and glaring, and still q
greater number refused to make the de-.
pArture, BY that time the Greenback party
tho rag baby" AS it has been derisively
Observation-Disclosures TO grow apace, and all
those true Democrats that wouldn't depart
towards the Radicals bankers and bond
holders camp, began to ill up its ranks, and
to-day, with its principles Enthusiastically in.
scribed on its bannsrs-the old timehonored
principles of true Democracy-eternal OPP
position to bonded debt and bank corpora
tons and all monopolies, as held by Jefferson,
Franklin, Madison, Randolph, Calhoun and
jackson; and like them we propose to abol-
ish all banks Of issue, and restore the issue Of
money to the government Alsno where the
constitution placed it, We propose to sub
stitute full legal tender Greenback paper
money, based upon the credit of the whole
people for the hybrid blackjack national
bank notes, and cancel the three hundred
and fifty millions OF bonds upon which they
are bmod, and so save the people twenty mil
ions OF taxes for interest on the bonds, and
thirty millions Of interest for the use Of their
notes ~ currency; and thu. destroy their
monopoly Of money which the government
magnanimously .gives them, and with it the
power TO control tho prices of our labor, cot
ton and other crops, and by thus having
monopoly Of monay they speculate ON eur
cotton crop alone to the amount of fifty mill
lion q year. We propose to repeal the fraud
ulent resumption act constructed for rich
men to draw the gold out of TIE treasury
when they want IT. but which poor men
can't touch. And We propose to pay
thirty millions moro of the bonds with
that useless pile of money that John Sher-
man keeps boarded in the treasury; and the
balance Of tho bonds falling duo in 1881 -
about $4,000, 900, with grosnback money,
mgood as gold, or the surplus revenues Of
the government. Thus We propose to relieve
the people OF about S200,000,000 of taxes
now paid for tho benefit of the exempted
classes, and to make good and useful citizens
and taxpayers of them, instead of tax con.
sumors. Surely these objects, aims and pur-
poses are sufficient to enlist the sympathies
and assistance of every honest man in the
United States who loves his country more
than party, who loves right and justice, who
loves his wife and children, or who reveres
the divine teachings OF Him who "spskS as
never man spoke
In lieu Of this, what does either of the old
parties offer usy To pay the bondss No. To
abolish the national bsnss! No. To lessen,
IN any way, tho grinding taxation that is
,inking us deeper and deeper into
poverty every day? No. To. furnish the peo-
Pile moro money with which to facilitate ex-
changes, trade auG commerce, and for the
payment Of labor, debts and taxes? No, no
But contrhrewise, the leaders of both parties
are proposing 70 destroy our present green
back money with tho Wow Of funding il into
more bonds to increase the peoples taxes and
to extend the power of the national bank
commune. And further, the leaders Of both
are proposing to refund the bonds for forty
years, and 50 pcrpetuate tho debt and taxes
And to veil and hide their purposes, are
stirring up the sectional strfes, hates and
prejudices of tho people and pointing with
pride" 10 their blood stained and black
financial records; and the people lured on to
their own uudoing by tho whoop of the
party hiboleths-Democacy and Republi-
csnism, are thus actually forging the
ihackles to bind themselves and their children
forever to . heartess and sculess moneyed
oligsrchy which only waits for a.
favorable moment to crown king, with y
titled nobility, an established priesthood,
Shermans, Bayard, Jay Gould, Belmont,
Vanderbilt, Scott, and the Rsverends Beecher
and Cooke are hoping and working-a fac
smile of the monarchies of Europe. But
the Greenbsck party stands in the way of
this programme. It's beacon-lights are kept
burning 10 every valley and on every hill
top in the land, displaying to the weary
toilsrs promise of redemption. Banker,
bondholders and the leader, Of both the old
parties are trying to kill it. but it won't die;
and Notwithstanding their combined abuse,
ridicule and jecrs, it moves steadily forward
to its purpose, that of breaking tho taxation
of the many by and for the benefit Of the
privileged few. 1t holds the keys to unlock
the, bondholdsrs' citadel, "thst the right to
make and issue money is SOVEREIGN nower