The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-02-17

Between the spring Of 1864 and the
spring Of 1867, the national banks took
S4l3, ,0OO, 600 in bonds, and in bank notes
$3.50. 600, 0OO-and gave the United States
for this $763, ,0OO, 900, 8107, $50, 900. So
that these capitalists, by lending their
gold credit to the Government Of $l97,-
25O,OOO, got their money back and
clean profit Of 1856, 750, ,OO0.
Tn the same gentcel style of hard
money larceny, by running gold up to n
maximum Of 2S5, and national repndia-
ted credit down 10 the minimum u 80,
our q, GOO, OO0, 600 bonds realized the
Government but 81, 900, ,O00, 900. Thus
demonstrating that by making gold
scarce the capitalists have already made
Us pny 81, ,O8O, ,O00, 600 for the 81 300, OO0,-
600 they condescended to loan us, and
that we still owe them 81, 300, ,0O0, 900, or
$500, ,OOO, 900 more than We originally
received from them.
Not sati.ied with having thus robbed
the taxpayers (the bond nobility pay
no taxes), now that it is discovered that
even the repudiated greenback Of 1864
is better than the gold Of 1864, and
bears . premium over gold in the money
markets Of the world, the same sconn-
drcls who forced the Senate to change
the greenback from full legal tender
to repudiated ra9-baby, at > cost of
more than "a, 0O0, ,0OO, 600, now that their
credit has killed the power Oi gold to
create scarcity, would kill the green
back. Their cry to-day is that this SOW
ereign Government, this supreme power
ccnstitutionally endowed, and by the
necessities Of sovereignty, in the judg-
ment Of the highest tribunals Of the
states and OF the nation empowered 70
declare whnt shall constitute its legal
money---has no power to make it,
money . legal tender. Through this
sham, this slander Of good sense, this
belittling Of sovereignty, the hard-money
6hylocks Of the money markets, uniting
with the National Bank Association and
all the usurers OF the land, have formed
. combination to force the withdrawal
Of the Rreenback. Thoy would force
this withdrawal to force their specie
power OF creating scarcity and
money famines, that they may again
revel in the feasts Of gain, and glnt
their greed out Of the misfoftnnes Of the
people. This is the exact object. The
Funding bill was to be the first step in
the huge infamy by which they hoped
to deceive and enslave the people.
We are warned by the crimes, by the
follies, by the shaves, Of the past: We
are warned by the IS, OOO, ,OOO, 600 OF the
property Of the rich shielded from TAXA
ton; we are warned by the 5000, 600
laborers forced into hunger, idleness
and despair by contraction by the
foreclosures which drove hundreds Of
thousands from their homes, by the
bankrupt people, by the suicides, and
by the graves Of the unfOrtunates, to be
on our guard.
The shout Of prosperity is echoed
from bankers, brokers and usurers TO
lnll reformers into repose but to sleep
is to awake in letters.
The greenback is the money Of the
people; the people must protect it. The
battle in Congress over the determined
efforts Of the representatives Of bankers
and capitalists to fasten the Funding
bill atrocities for the benefit Of a privil-
eyed nobility exempt from taxes, is
meeting with the determined opposition
Greenback doctrines have awakened into
action.
Let there be no abatement, no back
sliding, no evasion Of duty. The mis-
sion Of the Greenback party has but
commenced, it has aroused the people to
discussion. It has forced Congress into
rebellion against bank dictation, but the
national debt, national banks, exemption
Of the rich from taxation, railroad mon
opolies, telegraph swindiers, land job
bing, the aristocracy of privilege and the
old nomadic political servitude of women
are still before us.
The future is ours, let its reforms be
worthy Of the light which heralds it and
Of the reasons which illuminate ita
| duties. STEPHEN d. DILLAYE.