Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09

| Republican party-has done all 1t possibly
could do to secure an honest expression OF
| the great will of the people. 1hese
| are two reasons then, why am hepuoii-
can: First, believe nfree speech: second,
I want an honest vote. Can you trust the
psople of the South with the ballot box.
| Are you willing to let Alabama keep tn se
sacred treasure Alabama that cast IL 1870
about l63, 600 votes fer Tilden, but only
| little while ago cast a Democratic majority
of 81 000s Alabama to-day is a Republican
State if every man was allowed freely 80
vote his sentiments and you know 1t.
PAY OUR DEBT.
We owe to-day one billion nine mill
ion dollars Democratic debt. Democracy Is
the greatest luxury we ever afforded. We have
got to pay that debt. Why Ii we don't we
| will be eternally diseraced in the eyes of the
civilized world When our money is only
worth so cents on the dollar every American
falls 20 per cent below par. When our
money is at par, we are. When we cannot
paw our bonds we feel that We are dishon-
| ored people, but when our bonds bearing only
i uer cent are worth 10 in the market. We
feel proud and when we go to another coun-
try and see one of those bonds, that bond Ger
tides that an American Is an honest man.
Who are you going to trust to pay TINS DEBT /!
| that Is The UU6SktOu. W lAOlt 2AU you 'NAAaAsc
to trust with the honor of the United States
! Tie men who defended her flag viii defend
her honor. The men who tried to tear her
flag down will trample Americas honor be-
meath their feet Who is going to pay? The
| Democrats solemnly swore that We never
would pay. In the year OF grace 1873. stand
| ing in the
CENTER OF TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE,
The Democratic party IN every solitary State,
| with exception OF two or three of the New
| England States, in which it held Conven-
ton, solemnly resolved that the United States
could not resume specie payments. Wen,
we did. In four years, with the
Internal Revenue Department, we have col
! leeted of internal tax $500 COO, O0O at cost
| of about 3 per cent. This IN -FOUR years
During four years we have captured, de-
stroyed and libeled 1874 Illicit distillerles IN
| Southern States. Remember it; We have
ca ,tured and indicted 1904 Democrats IN
| Southern States charged with defrauding the
revenue OF the country. The Southern peo-
Die. resisting the Collectors OF Federal tax IN
| the last four years, have shot and killed 70
revenue officials and have wounded 90; ard
now in the Southern S5ates-thar IS, IN mary
of them-every revenue collector, every ON
Ger connected with that branch OF the Gov
eminent, is provided by the Internal revenue
Department with breech-loading rifle and a
pair of revolvers Are they the gentlemen 20
collect our revenues? viii you depend upon
them to paw the interest on 81, 400 OOO,O OO
and the current expenses of this Govern
ment? 1t won't do.
THE GREENBACKERs EXPOSED.
Then there is another thing we want: we
want good money, we want honest money. l
know there have been great many theories
! 7 EppUy that had
not a dollar himself who had not scheme to
make somebody else rich. These theories
were produced, of course, by the clrcun-
stances we went through-the war. We had,
as they say, plenty of money; that Is TO say,
we had no money; plenty of promises, but no
money; plenty of notes, but no cash; and
while we were sailing on a credit We sailed
well. and as long as | can buy al want on a
credit my family shall not suffer. we were
going into debt, and as rule 1t Is an exceed
| ingIy prosperous time in mans life when he
il Getting into debt. As rule it is an ex-
ceedingly hard time when he il paying this
debt Millions and millions OF promises were
issued. The result was that prices went up
lust in proportion as the value of the prom
ises went down, and that was
AT THE EXPENSE OF THE oREDIToR. GLASS.
Expansion is always at the expense of
creditors. and when the wheel OF fortune
takes a turn, and contraction comes, that is
always at the expense of the destor.
At the same time people claimed absolute
Justice would be done bat the trouble Is,
creditors do not mean the same. The very
man who was creditor, and at whose ex-
pense the imitation came, when contraction
comes may be debtor, and consequently
suffer both ways. We had vast and splendid
schemes for the future. We began to buy
! g. -lat- thatf he
frogs had held undisputed sway over since the
morning stars sang together. On paper we
| laid this land out into squares, avenues, boule-
wards. and were selling what cost $40 an acre
| for so foot and $50 foot, and all at once,
In 1878 the crash came, and all these lots re-
sumed. A fellow who had bought ON credit,
paving two-thirds down, found that the lots
would not pay the other third. Hundreds OF
thousands of men were ruined, and all at once
! they said, "What we want Is another lntia-
ton A; we want more money, and | never
heard one that was caught speaking on the
subject who did not say, ''If there ever comes
another initiation, you may snoot me" When
contraction came, certain men were left with
the bags to hold, and they were the men who
got up new financial theories.
FROM 1873 To 1879.
All the languages of the world cannot ex-
press what the people of the United States
suffered from 1873 to 1879. Men who con-
sidered themselves milhonsires found that
they were heggars men living in palaces,
surprising they had enough to give sunshine
| to the winter of their age, supposlng they had
enough to have all they loved in sffinence and
comfort, suddenly found that they were men,
dicants. They said during that
time, ' We must have more paper, and the
! Republican party said Let us have what
] Il fazrr ~ haN no %
money which no human being can create. l
| believe in gold and silver. believe in silver,
| because that is one of the great productions OF
our country, and when you add use to
| thing you add value to that thing, and l
want silver money; but | want silver dol
| lar big enough to be worth a gold dollar, if
YOU have to have it three feet in diameter. [
want honest dollars; honest dollars will make
| honest people; only want money that Is a
product of nature. No civilized nation, no
| barbarous nation, no tribe, however ignorant
| ever used anything as money that man could
make They had always used for money a
production of Nature. Some may say,
Have not some uncivilized tribes used
beads for money, something that civilized
people could make?" Yes; but savage
| tribe could not make the beads. Nothing has
ever been considered money among any peo-
pie on this globe that those people could
make.
WHAT IS a GREENBACK?
What is greenback? The greenbacks are
promise not money. The greenbacks are
the Nations note not money. You cannot
make a fat dollar any more than you can
make a fiat store. You can make promise,
and that promise may be made by such
| splendid man that it will pass among all who
know him as dollar; but it is not dollar.
/ The ereenback is only good now because you
can get gold for it. If you could not get gold
/ for it it would not be worth any more than
ticket for dinner after the fellow who issued
the ticket had quit keeping the hotel. When
| die, if l have dollar left, | want it TO be
good one. l do not want dollar that will
turn into ashes in the hand of widowhood or
in the possession Of orphan. Take a coin of
the Roman Empire-a little piece Of gold
and it is just as good to-day as though julius
Cesar still stood at the head of the Roman
| legions. ! want money as solid as the earth
on which we tread, as bright as the stars that
shine above us.
WHAT Is MONEY?