Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-30
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
The Contest is Between Bate and
Hawkins.

The Contest is Between Bate and
Hawkins.
To the Editors of the Appeal:
II is well known to all the readers of your
paper in this county that l am an uncom-
promising Greenbacker. l am opposed TO
individual, State and national Indebtedness,
for debt, of whatever nature, is a soulless
cormorant, filling its bottomless stomach
day and night on the earnings of producers.
[ hold that the productive industries of the
country pay all debts, private and public,
and that all interest charges of whatever
character are saddled on production and
taken out of the hard earnings OF producers;
hence the higher interest charges and the
arger public debts are, the greater the bur-
den will be TO the producing classes; for, as
interest charges and public debts go up,
wages and the price of productions go down;
while manufactured articles and all other
articles not manufactured, but held in the
hands of spectators, go up. l am oppose
20 refunding the State and national debts at
any rate of interest, for / regard any
rate of interest a robbery of the toiIing
masses, who have it all to pay without re-
ceivipg any of the benefits. 1 am opposed to
the power given to national banks and all
other large moneyed corporations. l am
opposed 10 that system of tariff that ilches
from the poor man 50 to give to rich cor
porations, while only 81 goes into the public
treasury.
am opposed to granting the public lands
TO any corporation whatever for any pur-
pose. am in favor of homesteads for all,
cheap money for all, remunerative employ
ment Tor all, cheap and good government for
all, equal protection to life, liberty and its
pursuits of happiness for all, the greatest
mount of freedom consistent with law and
order for all, more uniform and practical
system OF free-school education for all, the
same pay for the same services for all, and
nard times stint and slavery for none All
of which could be done if we could get legis-
iative protection all along the line of pro-
ductive enterprise and by retiring national
banks, repeating all tariff and internal
revenue laws, paying the national debt with
the currency that created it, repudiatiDg all
bogus State and corporation debts, and issu-
ing to the people and for the people an
ample amount of money TO circulate free of
interest among the people, to keep constantly
employed at good wages all the labor in
The entire county in the various avenues of
productive enterprise.
l hope you will excuse the length of this
part OF my article, as j wished to put myself
fully on record as a Greenbscker, for all who,
in this county, thst have fattened as Green
hackers since 1873 have gone back to the
flesh pots of Egypt. o! shame, where is thy
blush? OF greed of cfiae, whittier art thou
tending? o! double-dealer, watch thy cards,
for the tempest is gathering South, North,
East and West that will sweep the enslavers
Of men from high places and power.
/ wish to say to the Greenbackers of Shelby
county few things touching the pending
contest in this State. There is but one ques-
ton in State politics before the people, and
that is the State debt; hence no reason for a
bird or fourth party nominee to distract
or make useless division of the people upon
false issues or sentimental politics. The
question is, to pay the State debt az settled,
or not to pay it; for the door is closed, locked
ANA barred as to any and all other PROPOSE
lions, until what has been done is set aside;
and If the State debt is all funded before the
next Legislature convenes it Is settled for all
time to come, unless the bondholders volun-
tarIly sgree TO another shave; hence any
other proposition differing from the condi- |
tons Of the present settlement is to delude |
The m asses and insult our public creditors,
for whatever proposition may be made |