The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-07-07
GREENBACK SCISSORINGS.

Money Is only medium Of exchange.
Now is the time to push the National
party to the front.
When the Government bonds are paid
and burned the sun Of liberty will be
less obscured.
There are two ways to keep the masses
quiet. One is to crush them the other
is to make them free. Which shall it
be?
Every man who has ballot and fails
to use it in defense Of American liberty
is responsible if those liberties are
abridged.
Accept no mans argument as conclu-
sive on the money question, until satis-
fed ny careful thought that it accords
with reason and common sense.
We notice every hard-money man
grips greenback very tightly, and you
must render him just as much service to
get it from him rs you would If it were
"honest money!"
Labor is the foundation Of capital,
and the mother Of all civilization and
progress, and therefore has an eternal
claim upon the value and profits Of its
own productions.
We want to overthrow monopoly en-
tirely in this country--dig it up, root
and branch, leaving not 4 single vestige
to ever take root again in American SOIL
Nothing short of this will satisfy us.
How can the American people expect
stability and permanence in the COM
mercial world while gold gamblers,
spectators and national bankers control
the volume and rate Of interest for
money?
All through the last campaign it was
said the financial question was settled,
but rs soon rs Congress met they dis
cussed nothing else except the financial
question, and got only Us far rs the Re-
funding bill.
The basis of the greenback idea is JUS
tice to man-no favored few-no statutes
Of despotism that open the way by which
the few may reap where they have not
sown, or gather fruits from vineyards
they did not plant.
A French philosopher, being asked to
give definition Of true statesman, re-
piled that he was "a man who aimed to
do the greatest amount Of good to the
period Of time"
The National Greenback movement is
a revolt against the claim that in ordi-
nary matters the people can govern
themselves, but on questions Of finance
they must be kept under perpetual
guardianship, and be the wards Of rich
men.
| Hallam, writing Of the twelfth centu-
ry, says: Usury, forbidden by law to
Christians, was confined to the covetous
Jews, and. notwithstanding their per-
secntions and insults, they grew rich,
until in France, according to Philip Au-
gustus, they owned half Of Paris.
| The gold basis is in exact accord with
the moneyed and landed aristocracies Of
Europe, which build up the few at the
expense Of the many. hut entirely OPP
posed III spirit to the free institutions Of
America, which are supposed to look
after the interests Of the whole.
! No vote is thrown away when it is cast
against corrupt political parties, or to
express desire for reform i'll the Gov
ernment. Always vote for principle,
Il
though yon have to vote alone. and You
can cherish the sweet reflection that
your vote is never lost.-John Quincy
! 4idanas.
The liberal reward of labor, as it is
the necessary effect, SO it is the natural
symptom Of increasing national wealth.
The scanty maintenance Of the laboring
class, on the other hand, is the natural
symptom that things are nj \ stand, or
going decentralization Smith.
There are hundreds of thousands Of
pure and patriotic men in both parties
who are rendered wholly powerlcss by
the machine management Of each, and
who are politically enslaved by leaders
who secretly unite whenever n venal oh
ject is to bc gained by combination.
Nationals ! Talk about your princi-
pies. Illustrate them in the workshop,
in the stores, on the streets. ut home
and abroad. Wherever you 60 pro-
claim them, explain them, and urge
every voter to embrace, and. above all,
vote them, and victory will soon crown
your labors.