The daily gazette., 1880-12-01
THE GREENBACK PARTY.
For the Gazette.

EDITOR OF DELAWARE GAZETTE -
Having just got hold Of your paper,
dated the 16.h, have not had an op-
portunity until now of thanking you for
the considerate remarks made therein.
Truly there is no good reason why all
the public papers should not be open to
an intelligent discussion Of important
political Issues, as long as they are con-
Quoted in a proper spirit aud in a man-
ner not burdensome 10 their columns.
What other more important function
can our public journals fill in Govern
ment "of the people ?"
Your remark that the GAZETTE has
never taken any stock In the Greenback
party may be true; but that, as you ad-
init, does not matter, l am not asking
the use of your columns especially as a
Greenbacker, but for the ventilation of
| pending practical questions, and IN this,
we trust that you and other good cIti-
zens may join. If in so doing we should
find ourselves slipping unto the plat
form of that much abused and poorly
understood party, as the only one that
seems willing to sink dead issues and
investigate pregnant present wrongs, it
| will neither be their fault nor their mis-
Il
| fortune.
| If we remember rightly, you were,
Two years ago, In favor of restoring our
standard silver dollars, of which the
people had been deprived by the tricks
of the same unscrapulous power that
The GreeDbackers now oppose, and we
will therefore expect you to aid In sup
pressing the second attempt, now for
i ahna IQ ..f
tion's legitimate resources for the benefit
of the hol ders of gold and U. S. bonds,
and in the interests of that overgrown
monopoly, the Bank of England.
When, however, you remark "the
Democratic party is well settled in its
views of the currency" it makes us
smile. Really, my dear sir, it seems to
us rather disingenuous, if you will ex-
cuse the term, it is one of our charges
against the Democratic party, Ga stand
ard bearer in which you have so long
beem that 1t has "fallen from gracen
and ignored its record. We have al
ways considered Thomas Jefferson, An
drew Jackson, Thomas ii. Benton, John
Z. Calhoun and others of that ilk, as
representative democrats. Thomas JEFF
ferson said il: 1913, "bank paper must
be suppressed and the circulating me.
dun restored to the nation, to whom il
properly belongs"
Andrew Jackson, aided by democrat.
Of his day, destroyed the U. S. Bank a.
dangerous power in representative "
government. Thomas Ii. Benton (abou
1889 said "the Government ought no
TO delegate this power If it could. L
was too great power (the control of th,
currency to be trusted to any bankin,
company whatever, or to any authorit,
but the highest and most resp 1nslbl
which was known to our form of gov
ernment."
J.C. Calhoun, about the same time
expressed himself, in substance, to tb
same effect. and these, with many othe
representative Democrats which Nigh
be quoted, have made a record for you
parry, strongly against allowing the don
nance of bank corporations. At mi
time we have Bankers ASSOCIATE OF
representing u gigantic system lof ban
corporations, compared with which th
old U. 5. Bank was infant, so bold an
Outsp0ken, so entrenched in power, tn;
the New York Tribune, an organ of ia
Gould, avows openly the fact, that al
association can now "control Congress
The Hon. L. b. Bayard, as chairman
, the Sei ale COMMITTEE on Finance, h
assumed to be leader in the financi
policy of :he Nanon, and is considert
| by many representative man in
party. He said in his New York speec
Sept. 23rd, 1880, III have seen itscharge
that the Democratic party were foes
the National Banks. The platforms of IL
party contain no such suggestion, an
admit of no such construction" Hov
my dear sir, do you construe these di
crepancies, when you make the clai
alluded to; and by which are we to
guided in our estimates of your par
procliv vities-by j efferson, jackson, Be
ION, Calhoun and their compeers, or
Thomas +. Bayard of Delaware?
Show us that your party can be trueto I'll
| principles and practices of its earlier aI
better days. Show us that it can ca
aside the mere greed of power and pla,
and as a representative of true democr
| cy deal fairly with all men-the hiq
aud the low, the tich and the poor. Sho
us that you can strike hands with IL
disciples of the lamented Lincoln nj
and his Compatriot5, In saving COVER
ment "ot the people, by the people al
tor the people," and we can all join l.
gether in one grand effort before 1t is tC
late.
In the name of common sense and bus
ness principles, if "there is now supe
abundance of gold and silver" as you r
mark, why is it not proper, as one ste
: forward In the right direction, TO III
that "superabundance" IN paying off, a
it will pay, OF the pubhc debt, instea
of retunding that de ut and perpetuatir r
the in crest burden? Even If you shou
take more than that ''supera bundanct
You say exists, or take it ali, there are abul
dant experiences of history, anclen
modern and present, combn ng VIII
abundant testimony OF wise economis
of our own country and elsewhere
prove that better, cheaper and moi
stable currency can readily be provide
in its place. Truly,
JOHN g. JACKSON.