The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-08-28

production Of iron that leaves ~ fBrsAw pre
duction impossible until greater coneumpt3on
becomes possible; with provisions n such
are cheaper than before for ffty years; yes
because of our financial system, in every c1asS
an unheard OF extent, with banks locking up
their money in millions upon mtihons, and
A allowing I3 their customers, yho by our Imam.
them, to be ruined: the producing laborer
goes about the streets unemployed; and the
measure of value. Is q drug in the market;
and that which he raises to-day, produced BY
the sweat of his face. is without profit to his
We, the despised Greenbackers, offered-s
remedy for all this which no rejecting, keen
sighted business man will now say would mot
fifteen years proposed that instead Of issuine
Y. 3. bond which would be held by czptr
ony ana for s e sn
terconvertible bond at q low ratio OF inter.
est, to be issued by the Govcrnmenf, 60 that
his money in savings banks Tor trust companies
to be loaned out on margins or kiting stocks
and s! then 4 lost when he called for IL Thst bond
per cent interest, to be presented by the
holder at any time to the Treasury, and legal
est to that amount of the National debt
accrues to the Government instead OF being
paa BY Il fso% Of the
investor. one should be issued by the 6ovsFnrs
ment, and interest thereon begin.
Every fnancier knows that it is the odd nifty
millions withdrawn or put out that makes .
redundancy or scarcity Of circulating medi-
ufn; and is there man who dares say now
that such bond would not have prevented
the panic and desolation to business through
which we are now passing7
The time has come when the greenback 10
sustained by the Supreme Court as c0ustttu-
| tional currency against the opinions of the
paid attorneys of ever 1nancier Of the couu-
tEy: tEy. The time viii VII GO come, 4 the people e
OF It's currency OF Its throat, when such . sys-
tenn of finance as have sketched will give
ests of the country from the terrible 1uctuar
tions which the people now suffer.
The Republican party is bound hand and
foot to capitalized monopoly. The Democrats
| party is governed in Its conventions by 4
combination of solid South, from whence
! no laboring man, white or black, is delegat .
heard, and the political machine corruptiouB
of substantially single State of the Nortbs
and nominates its candidates, and holds fkem
| firmly In its grip if elected. x
How long will the precious ballot be left to
| and assert their power, or they may lose it
forever. Already the British party In this
racy, wear clothes which are imported. largely
without paying duties, because they feel that
an American mechanic can not make cloth
| good enough for them. can only be waited
/ upon by British servants, and cut their
i whiskers even, British fashion, SO as to appear
escn otRer Mhs the os.
i have the ballot, and thus the masses rule the
country against us?
The cunning of the monopolists and capital
| lists has taught them that If they can only
| keep the people of the country voting accord
ing to party lines, they then can govern the
evidence of this. it would be in the deciara~
ton ascribed to the. largest and eblest rail-
| substance, that when he had q Democrats
] Legislature to manipulate he wes Democrat,
ana Mss IS 10 ne
| his measures, he helped elect by his money.
but both sets of his members are Gould men.
Thus are the people played with and kept
apart by the Fetish, called party allegiance
o.s ever Doano 70 she cnar.ot "neels on snel oP
No monopolist cares which party wins. He
og eac psrty should
date whom he can control.
1 What then is the remedy for these SO mon
Democracy, repossess @ n themseives the i Of their heir
government, to make laws to protect their
own interests and Il to O. redress these great
gorge their robberies from the treasury
4 The cry has already gone forth: .n the
/ who vote for him will throw away their
votes" Be 1t so. The voter will do worse
than throw away his vote If he votes for
pressors without protest, IL by his vote ke
In framing your Electoral ticket, make .
fusion in all the States with the supposed mi-
nority. and make it upon Ihis theory not
that the friends of the other candidate are
viii VIII run n the the same Electoral ticket, provided
the electors who compose 1t are as they ought
to be, reputable men who will be bound BY
their honorable undertakings, which is all
there is that binds the Electoral College to
vote in any direction; and then have 1t agreed
divided in the Electoral College according to
the number of votes thrown for your candi-
date, and the number of votes thrown for the
other candidate on the same ticket. The
| number of votes which each candidate gets
will be known with substantial accuracy long
before the official count is made: Therefore
you will have every incentive to vote Tor
your candidate because the larger number 2s
, | votes you cast the more Electoral votes VIII
have And those who are voting for the same
Electors with you will throw as many votes a.
, they can for their candidate in order that he
shall have as large share of the Electoral
vote of the State as possible. neither in fact
voting for the candidate of the other. Thus
i ance of power.
Organize in every State, and present at the
polls an Electoral ticket, and support 1t with
s6op s6Sup asree to vote together for one ticket
! There need to be no great and expensive
j meetings You can vote together without Q
i brass band just as well as you can with one:
, Torchlight professions are an invention Of
!, your enemies to deceive You into following
, their banner and marching to their music
r and into not voting for your own interests
+ and the interests of your wives and your
5 (, children.
: In many states, if we exert our strength
i we already hold the balance of power In
e quite one hundred Congressional distr1cta
8 4 whether a friend of labor and the people, oI
3 the tool of monopoly, shall have a seat In Con
: gress. Let us organize, therefore, in ever
8 district, to see to it that no man goes TO Con
| gress from any district who is not with us and
n of us; strong enough In moral rectttude u
stand for the rights of the people "unawed b,
power and unbought by gain.
s Again. in balanced States make alliance
d with whichever of the other parties win choos.
!, so to do. Minorities naturally gravttat'
u toward each other. Give them some Stats
y officers and take others TO yourselves. uPoL
y same ticket. Be particular to see to Z tina
II your own friends sent to the State Iegts
a latures. There are many States where law
men, the farmer and the merchant aeains
e oppressors and monopolies, and II these vii
= stand together, they can get that protection
:, in spite of the monopolies.
7 = General Butler closes his address with.
statement of his grievance" that his counsel
a were rejected at Chicago. and the assuranc
- = that in their candidate they have one who vi
% need no defending, having stood the fire 10
~ peal to the Democracy of Massachusetts,
70 | stand by him now as it has done In the pas
,e There is also postscript, stating that ne ma
~ issued his address without waiting Tor Clevs
q q land against his own Judgment and by tn
at desire of many trusted, devoted friends.
y A New French Possession.