Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-19
GENERAL BUTLER,s ADDnEss.

N oN
 show that the anti-monopolists and iaborers
 can expect nothing from either of the two ! great parties, and then goes on as follows. E REPUBLICAN, LEGISLATION ON FINANCE. \ In the matter of finance there is nothing
 to hope from the Republican party any more
 than from the Democratic party. The bank CTS and capitalists of both parties uniting to- ' gether have controlled for twenty years the financial legislation of the nation. And the Fesulta What have we just seen2 With money enough in the country for all it's
 wants; with no substantial drain from abroad; \ with an accumulation of wealth such as the | world never has seen; with a crop of corn \ and wheat almost untouched, and another
 one about to be garnered; with stock of pe- \ troleum already produced sufficient for the
 consumption of the world for year; with
 nearly years stock already produced of cot \ ton goods; with more than six months stock ! of woelen goods as they will average; with a production of iron that leaves it's further K production impossible until greater consump- tion becomes possible; with provisions in sueh abundance that the means of sustain
 ing life arc cheaper than before for fifty years; yet, because of our financial system, in every
 class of business, endorsements and fail \ ures to an unheard of extent, with banks \ locking up their money in millions upon mil \ lions, and allowing their customers, who by \ our financial system have been made depend | ent upon them, to be ruined; the producing \ laborer goes about the streets unemployed:
 and the farmers wheat, which with our fath- \ CTS was measure of value, is drug in the II market; and that which he raises to-day, \ produced by the sweat of his face is without \ profit to his industry
 II GREENBACK REMEDY FOR FINANCIAL ILLS. \ We, the despised Greenbackers, offered a | remedy for all this which no rehecting, keen | sighted business man will now say would not N hox-a haaT, aff fr7o1 1,,
 more than fifteen years ago proposed that in \ stead of issuing a United States bond which \ would be held by capitalists only, and for the purpose of securing bank currency only,
 Congress should make an interconvertible | bond at a low rate of interest, to be issued \ by the government, so that any man might \ invest in 1t instead of placing his money in \ savings banks or trust companies to be loaned out on margins on kiting stocks, and then \ lost when he called for it. That bond bear \ ing three and sixty-fve one-hundredths per cent. interest, to be presented by the holder at any time to the treasury, and legal tenders to be issued for it, and thus the interest to that amount of the national debt accrues to | the government instead of being paid by it from the taxes of the people. And then when another bond was desired by the in vestor one should be issued by the govern ment and interest thereon begin. | Every fnancier knows that it is the odd \ fifty millions withdrawn or put out that makes a redundancy or scarcity of eircula- ting medium; and is there a man who dares say now that such bond would not have [ prevented the panic and desolation to busi- ness through which are now passing? \ The time has come when the greenback is \ sustained by the Supreme court as a consti- { tutional currency against the opinions of the paid attorneys of every fnancier of the coun- try. The time will come, if the people of this \ country can get the clutch of monopoly of it's II xx-Ioa \ of finance as I have sketched will give free ' dom to the industrial and business interests of the country from the terrible fluctuations which the people now suffer.
 WE WANT NO CANAL BUT OURS ACROSS THE IsTHMUs.
 It will he observed that put in my plat form plank against the construction of Panama ship canal without the consent of the United States.
 l hold such canal in time of peace de- structive to our commerce. San Francisco has become an entrepot of goods of which the products of American industries form a large part for distribution over the western coast of North America, which commerce we control. Make this canal and Eng land dominates that commerce, as she now does that of the western coast of Central and South America.
 In time of war, with the Panama canal open, England seizes it by her immense navy
 
 whole Pacific coast. This she cannot do now because she owns coaling station nearer than the Sandwich Islands, from which it will be quite impossible to supply blocka- ding fleet.
 Our three systems of railroads across the continent, when run in competition and not in collision, can carry our productions to the western coast cheaply enough, and in that case, at least, the freight will be paid to our own citizens.
 So in peace or war we must control that canal.
 The Republican party has done nothing to protect the interests and dignity of the coun- try in this behalf, and the Democracy refuse to promise even to do anything! THE PEOPLE GET NOTHING FROM THE OLD PARTIES. Experience, the best teacher, therefore es- tahlishes the fact that commerce, the indus tries, the laboring man, the anti-monopoGst, the greenbacker, the farmer or other small producers, all of whose interests are identi- cal, can get or hope nothing from either or both the present organized parties
 The Republican party is bound hand and foot to capitalized monopoly.
 The Democratic party is governed in it's conventions by 8 combination of a solid South, from whence no laboring man, white or black, is a delegate, and where the aris- tocracy of capital alone is heard, and the po- Etical machine corruptions of substantially a single State of the North which confederacy dominates it's platform and nominates it's candidates and holds them firmly in it's grip if elected.
 THE PEOPLE THE GOVERNING CLASS.
 What then is the duty of the classes of men just enumerated in the coming national electiona They, by numbers as well as intel ligence-for everybody knows more than anybody-ought to be the governing class es under the theory of our constitution. They stand in the social, business and other relations to the class of men in the old parties who believe they are of right the governing class, and who, in fact, by the control of party and other maehin- cry are the governing class, as did our fathers in the time of the revolution to the clergy, the officials and offshoots of British aristocracy who claimed to be, and believed they were, the governing classes.
 DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENcEl
 You have the power to make this gov ernment your government as did your fath- CTS. This can only be done by acting to- gether Be not deceived, stand by each otherl Let the people unite for the good of the peoplel To prevent such union has been the policy of the leaders, monopolists of all shades of opinion, enemies of the people, who, while they join together in fact in control of the government, claim to belong to different parties. You know that it makes no difference to you whether one set of them or the other is in power, no burden on the people is frightened, no monopoly is crushed.
 WHOEVER WINS, THE ROCKINGHAM GETS
 oNY CURSE.
 Whichever party carries on the govern ment, laboring men and women are per mitted to enjoy only the benefits of the primeval curse 'EIn the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" You enjoy none of Gods bIessings Why not? You earn and ,-,l, all an 41a4I I,or aj,e &<~ man, save the air we breathe. They are yours in the sight of high heavenl Stand together and just share of them is yours. In other lands the just rights of the peo- pie are only to be got out of the hands of their enemies and rulers by the bayonet and the bullet. But in America as yet, thank God and your brave fathers, the bal lot, the freeman's shield and sword, is left to you and you if you stand together protect yourselves against all oppressive, unjust and purchased legislation, which burdens the people and undermines the free institutions of your country.