The examiner., 1882-04-01
TO GREENBACKERS.
Remain Firm and Work on.

mere conflict for spoils. The warning of factions, to the.dispassionate observ- CT, is but the dance of death to those who trample beneath their feet every patriotic impulse of justice and honor. Statesmanship that seeks the advance ment of the best interests of the re- public, seems to have become forgot ten art, and those who now revel in the places once filled by tho honored dead. make but mcckery of the hope of Washington, the dream of Jackson and the faith of Linclon. Our national capital, once the home of greatness, patriotism, justice and goodwill to the whole people, has b 9come scene of da zling corruption, @ play house in which is staked and lost the honor of those to whose care are confded the interests of the people. So lost. that from the executive down through every department to the petty page, corrup-. tion, venality, greed and gain at all risk, has supplanted every instinct of better nature. So potent and conta- gious is the atmosphere that virtue may struggle for 8 time, but it soon becomes g victim to the contradictions that rule at the seat of government. Place and power make slaves of those wko gain it-and servitude of the pe ople's will is no longer the mark of honor to our public men-this duty is forgotten, and servitude to corporate money interest of the world and allied despotisms seems the sole aim of those the people send as their representatives to Wash ington.
 Robbery by day in places high and low, and bacchanalian revelries by night has become the occupation of those who sit where statesmen once held sway. As the thoughtful mind be- holds these things the question comes. how long will an outraged people look supinely on these mad betrayers of their trusts and not demand halt? We have faith in the masses, but we warn them that soon they must shake off party bias, and no longer be slaves to broken promises and unrealized hopes, but must become conscious that the conflict of parties has become conflict for office and perquisites growing out of office. That the best interest of the people are sacrificed upon the altar of monarchial finance and it's auxiliary corporate allies. That if they do not arouse from their lethargy and break the force of this growing power fed by the servants who betray the people, this power will completely throttle the F epublic, and naught but 8 revolution, the dream of which makes the thought full shudder, can break the chains inn perialism is slowly but surely forging around the liberty nurtured at Valley Forge and chartered at Yorktown.
 While we look upon the false who do not serve the people, we as an organiz- ation should avoide the Gaint or sus- picion of willingness to barter princi- pies for rlace. If we remain firm, spurning alluring temptation from with out, and punish the evidence of false- hood within, we present a haven which the unrest and dissatisfied will surely seek when the warning factions so dis intregate that all pretense of cohesion shall be in vain. -s
 Let us remain firmly by the flag, as we stand upon the broad principles of justice, principles which when clothed with statuatory power will anchor the republic so securely, environ it with shield of ''justice to alp so effeetually, that enemies within or without may dash their waves of destruction against its foundations in vain.
 If we, too. standing upon so broad and just platform, seek to sell our birthright in our infancy, the hand of progress in the advancement of great economic questions will be turned back. Though the voting evidence of our strength may as yet be small, the truths we teach have permeated the minds of the masses, even of those who have not yet severed the chords of party bias that bind them to political putrifaction. If we but present clean hands and untainted faith in the cove nant of our principles, our voting strength in the day of disruption will be augmented by 8 power for good, whose potency will sweep the miscreants from places where they have so long fattened on the bartered industries of the nation, made of the places once filled by statesmen charnel-house, sold manhood integrity for spells, enacted statutes to rob labor of it's just rewards that spoilsmen and their mas- ters might revel in luxury.
 Waver not from the position we have taken, and we shall command justice and respect from our enemies; falter, and the people will exclaim there is no honest effort, and where shall we look for justice? The pains, the labor we have given to the organization from which sprung the Chicago platform must not be bartered away by design. ing or mistaken friends-and though it | may seem egotism, the principles of economic justice that underlie the Ma tional party organization we believe to be the hope of humanity, and the off 1