The examiner., 1882-01-28
Divide and be COnQuered.

Divide and be Conquered. l That there is a great change coming over the minds of the people throughout the least interest in ascertaining the drift of popular ideas at the present time. This awakening must certainly be attributed to the influences of the Greenback- Labor agitation; and now the Anti-monopolist coming forward to "Second the motion, > as it were, brings the question squarely be- fore the people.
 The little sprout planted ln 1877 at Toledo is growing to be giant of the for rest, and soon it's mighty branches will o'erspread the whole arena.
 But some there are, we are sorry to see, who imagine they behold an unhealthy growth in the tree and would therefore hamper and retard that growth.
 The Hon. Jesse Harper, chairman of the National Greenback party, has issued a call to the people, to send their delegates to national convention, the time and place of which shall be named, when 5OO,- 900 signatures are secured.
 The invitation is extended to all who can affirm as follows: '"rhat the two ruling parties have lived beyond their period of usefulness, should be overthrown, and that the interests of the people demand the upbuilding of new political organization, pledged, to destroy sectional strife, to pay promptly the public debt, to reduce the taxes and expenditures, to establish the unlimited coinage of gold and silver, to substitute legal tender government paper for bank issues, to overthrow corruption at the polls, and in representative bodies, to secure free b Hot and fair count, to controll by law and bring into subjection to the interests of the people, all corpora tions and monopolles which have corrupted the public service, and by combination and extortion have established absolute dominion over money, over transporta- tion, over invention, and over land and labor."
 On this call or invitation, our greenback contemporaries are already showing signs of division. The particular clause at issue seems to be that in reference to the un- limited coinage of gold and silver. While we must admit that there is plenty of room for an honest difference of opinion on this point, yet we also desire to recall the at- tentiOn of our friends to the cardinal motto of Denis Kerney, '.Pool your issues.''
 There other points besides the un- limited coinage clause that we might ob- ject to if being captious, but let us ask ourfriends eohen sOas there ever c Dlatforma of principles of aay ConUention, State or National, 6y the Gree,s6ock Labor Party Cor any other) ttzt oU could endorse
 One thing is certain, that if we are to have as many parties as we have individual opinions, we might as we'll stop just where we are, make no further resistance but let the monopoly whale swallow us in peace.
 Though we may disagree upon minor and perhaps nonessential points, that should not deter us from uniting for the over- throw of the common enemy, the enemy to the peoples progress; for if we do not unite, then none of our doctrines will ever come into existence, and surely the poorest of them is far prefera- able to anything that is likely to come from either of the called democratic or republican organizations.
 As to the fears expressed by some, of the capture of the National organization by any party of designing knaves in the grab of reformers, all the reply we have to make is, that he who imagines, that the noble little band who followed the inde- pendent standard raised by James B. Weaver in 1880 can ever be kidnapped or caught asleep by political burglars, must indeed be a political fool.
 That there is certain prejudice or dis like of the greenback party existing in the minds of many honest people we must admit. This of course is due to the misre- presentations of the old party organs. It is very natural to think that it could not be otherwise. These people will not come into such an organization, even though they are heartily disgusted with tho way in which things are going; but if they will come into one against which their preiu- dice have not been aroused, and work in