The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-10-18
A Greenback Idol Shattered.

| Judge T. A. Bland of Washington, D. c., is
one of the simon-pure, unadulterated, all wool,
| yard wide Greenbackers. He is scholar and
a gentleman and also an author of more or less
note. The fates threw him in Ben Buffers
company, and in 1878 Judge Bland took the
stump in Massachusetts for the then enthusias-
tie Greenbacker, speaking every day, save
sundays, for almost five weeks" "During
that time" says Judge Bland, a had the pleas
ure Of reading the speeches of the General, and
| also enjoyed occasional brief interviews with
| him. The result was that came to regard him
as the abIest and most thoroughly representa-
tive advocate of true financial reform in this
country. He seemed to me heroic champion
of liberty, equality and justice" Inspired by
| his contact with this great and good man the
| Judge determined to write biography of But
| Ter, and with the latter's not unreuetant con-
sent did 50. We have never seen the book, but
that it was audatory in the highest degree may
be taken for granted. The author now feels
called upon to apologize and explain to the pub
| IIc and has done so at length in letter to the
Boston Herald. He says: II am now fully con-
vinced that, instead of being as then thought
pion of the rights of the people, Gen. Butler is
! az ambitious demagogue; corrupt politician,
who would not, and does not hesitate to sacri-
flee the interest of the publicto his own person.
al and private interests and ends. This radical
change. in my opinion of his character, has
| been forced upon me both by more intimate
| personal acquaintance with him since | wrote
his life md by his political career since that
time" There is no need TO follow Judge BANDS
trenchant review of Buffers political turpitude.
| 1t is recalled how he openly insuted and gnor-
t "d the National Greenback party of Massachu-
| >ett>, which rendered him Il nomination last
year, and accepted the nomination of the Dem
ocratie State Convention on ticket made up
wholly of Democrats. Then, continues Judge
Bland
lie camr out with letter of acceptance, in
| which he put himself squarely on the Demo
| cratic platform, and told the Greenbaekers that
| ''thrlr iahor> i'll behalf of the greenback were
| dNn'.' HIS purpose in giving utterance to this
| lHdpable faISrhood, which no man knows better
| lhtU Gen Butler is falsehood, is evident. 1t
| W"> to kill the National Greenback party of
| Massachusetts and make the Democratic party
| administration of its estate for his benefit. He
! l. g. political traitor and parricde, who after
| lolnmg with others in the effort to build up a
| party of the people that should check the
| selfish schemes of the bank corporations and
| "lhcr munorOSts, attempted to Strangle the
! "!M| b" had helped to nurse into life and vigor,
| ahd sell ITS trcss corpse to its deadly foes in
| exchange for few thousand hard money Dem
| orFatlc votes. Judas Iscariot sold his master
| Tor - pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold be-
/ 'rayed the patriot cause for British gold and Il
! commits ion IN the Kings army. Jefferson Davis
! turned traitor TO the Union through motives of
| base ambition, and Benjamin f. Butler has be-
come traitor to the cause of justice and the par
| " ot the people; and for this treason the Dem
| ncrats of Massachusetts, with the help of few
| thousand di>atlected Republicans and honest
| trrrrnbarkcr>. who could not vote for the Re
| publican candidate, and who did not fully com
| prrhcni the reasonable action and language of
Cen Butler made him Governor of Massa-
| chll~rttN. ih" one sentence quoted above is
| >uttirieut when anayzed, to prove him Il trai-
! tor and L parrcide. Your work in behalf of
| the grcenback il done"
This statement is further characterized as suit
terly false and baseiy iytreasonable' Though not
| pertinent to the subject the account given of
Buffers attompt TO defraud his biographcr of
his copyright makes more complete the reyis-
ed port%it of the ex-Greenback leader In
conclusion lhc biographer SAYS: THE Life of
Butler was not my first book, nor is it the last
have written but it is the first for which |
have felt called upon to apologize, and shall
treasure tine lesson of this humiliating expert
encc 50 carefully Il, to avoid in the future Il
similar oturo.'
In hi testimony befort,thc Senate Labor
Committee in New York, Mr.. Joseph Mcdil,
editor of the Chicago Tribune, said that in his
opinion the chief cause of the impecunious con-
dition Of thr aboring men in this country was
their own imVroyidence. They no not know
how to save What they earn, and their condition
will never be amy better until they are taught
to be more thrifty and saving. Their tendency
To waste. he said, was far greater than their
power To save. They spend too much of their
earnings for intoxicating drinks and tobacco.
Nh. MrdilI said that he never knew aborer to
make any progress who spent his earnings in
that way. Ii, made the astounding statement
that thu aborjng population of the country an
nualIy >lout in drink 800 900 900 and at least
$4,000 000 more in tobacco and cigars. The
amount lbu> spent he argued. would be sutii-
cjcnt to provide each laborer in the country
with i, nome. aud the interest Oh it would an
nualIy pay a the rents OF the wage workers.
Il Mr.. Mrdi.'~ figures are correct they are
abour IL strong m argument in favor of tenn
ir,l;tnrr as has ever been presented from pulpit
Or lecture platform.
The rcycuuc returns for the first quarter of
the present fiscal year are now 50 complete that
Il fair estimate can be made concerning the ef-
feet of thu Now tariff and internal revenue law.
buring the quarter ending Sept. 30, the fllling
~ Inst
wear wa, ~gll11Sl: in internal revenue re-
ccjpts, S9,.i-.523; in receipts from m>eelIa-
nrujt> sources, -, 7133,5l2; q l)ta falling OIL of
%I9.-I~O0o. From these figures it is safe to cs-
Inmate that bc cgislution Of the last Congress
provided for tax reduction of from seventy
five to one hundred millions of dollars annual
~, Wet rh4 democrats are camoriug for re-
opening Of m, tariff question on the ground
that the revision act has not eS,cnod the bur
lrn> Of taxation.
The .Nltbrop Publishing House, Chicago, has
in pres. to he i>-ued Nov. 1st, THE Merchants
and Tourists Guide to Mexico" 1t will con-
tain about l5o pages of reading matter, and
seven raiIroId maps, showing the finished and
unfinished lines of the various railroads up to
the present time. This will be Il timely and
useful publication, as Mexico is now attracting
much attention a> a new field fer American en-
terpri>r and SKIN. The editor is member of
the NJ Nir;rn Society Of Natural History, spec
al agent of lhr Mexican Government. etc., so
that the utmost accuracy is assured. Orders
for this publication will be received by G. l..
| Mexican, Manager Guide Department.
} Petroleum v Nasty philosophers on the po-
tical question IN its connection with temper
anc":
II hey noti>t that DimoTisy and religion
don't work very we'll togethere When Dim
ocrat gets TO wcarin clean shirts TeSeTly alluZ
, consider he is on the high road TO Republican
i>n, and the site NV Il Dimocrat in a prayer
mretin would till me with alarm. Our best holt
i, the gin mills and beershops. We hev alluz
he'd EN- and alluz will"
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