The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-04-17

the-lollar men.
Because they demanded the suppression
Of the national bank currency. they were
abused and ridiculed upon general princ-
plies.
Because they advocated the rights of
labor. they were denounced rs blood
thirsty communists
Because they demanded the repeal of
the resumption act, they We're called luna
ties and idiots
But time has passed away For eight
years the work of education has been
going on A few congressman have been
elected. A few hundred newspapers have
been published A few hundred speakers
have been talking Thousands Of private
individuals have been talking to their
ncighbors
What has it accomplished
First, il has 80 completely changed the
sentiment Of the people and the policy Of
the government that the grccnback money
has been preserved 50 far-and in all prob
future It has driven the very party that
tried to destroy the greenback money to the
extremity of denying that it ever advocated
such Il policy II has made the Republic
ans themselves go back on the nttcrances
of It's own finance ministers, Bristow,
Boutwell,, Morrill, Sherman and Folger.
The resumption act. which was gotten
up for the double purpose Of destroying
the grcenback and contracting the currency
was virtually repealed hy the act Of May
81, 1878. rcissuing the greenhacks as fast
as redeemed. BY that act the back track
was taken on the famous utterance at Gin
cinnati, mo step backward in the policy
of resumption.
Silver was remonetized-and the people
never knew that it had been demonetized
till SO informed by the Greenbaek party.
The accused policy of perpetuating the
bonded debt has been completely knocked
in the head 4 .debt-paying mania" has
been substituted for the bills of Wood
Democrat, and Garfield. Republican, re.
funding the debt into 4o-year bonds Such
a complete summersanlt was never seen be-
fore. II is Il complete about face And
to the Greenback agitation will the people
OF a hundred years hence be indebted
for freedom from "A national debt created
in the war Of 1861. To the Grecnback
party are the little children of to-day in
debted for the fact that by the time they
begin to work and pay taxes the bonds
will be wiped ont Of existence.
And MS TO the national bank currency
the banks are already beginning to look
around for place to jump. They already
see that the days of national bank currency
are numbered They see that the only
! contest left is Il contest between green
backs, and wildcat money. Well may
the bank corporations gnash their teeth
and howl in rage at the Greenback party.
BY its agitation of public questions the
/ Greenbackers have created such an anti
monopoly sentiment that already the PEG
) pie are beginning to ask what they shall
i do to be saved from the clutches OF thu
. railroad robbers and usurpers
) For wears. Greenbackers demanded
| "more money" And they plainly tolt
) the people that 'more money" was til,
only remedy for the hard times. In 1877!
the balance of trade began to bring. II
Q money; the back pension act took hun
$ dred millions out Of the treasury and pu
e it into circulation; the banks began to dis
5 count notes more literally. In othe
d words, there was an imitation OF sevcra
a hundred million dollars, and behold. wha
mighty change! As if by magic, tn
1 great army Of nborcrs found work. mill
: started up. workshops were opened, tn
i bankrupt courts closed, the sheritf's bus
mess was cut down Prosperity returne,
a when more money" came--and not III
Meu.' 1t verified the predictions of til
il Grcenbackers.
IS II has accomplished all these materia
l. results and more too 1t has taught tn
|: people that one Of the greatest evils Of te
e day is that Of obeying the crack Of th
II party lash II has taught them that ind
II txnatnce in political affiliations is the onl
l guarantee Of political freedom and ofiicia
purity.
= But the agitation will continue. till b
k and by the people will find that it