Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1884-04-03
To the Members of the National
Greenback Labor Party OF
Pennsylvania.

Gentlemen The chairman Of your
State Committee asks your immediate
and earnest attention 10 the necessity
Of making the proper arrangements 10
send full delegations Of your Ablest
men 10 the National convention Of the
party, which will meet at indianapolis,
Ind, on Wednesday, the 2sth day Of
May, 1884. The importance of this
Convention cannot be oyerestimated.
In this connection it may not be amiss
to call your attention TO some Of the
magnificent victories which you have
won for your principles in the eight
years struggle since grand old Peter
Cooper was nominated at indianapolis
in 1876.
First. Your fight against a permanent
bonded debt has been the cause Of every
reduction OF interest on the bonded
debt II low rate Of interest is a de-
sirable matter, the low rates now pre-
yailing are due to you.
Second. Your fight against a porma.
nent bonded debt has forced the party
in power 10 apply part Of the surplus
revenues TO the payment OF the debt,
and put that terrible incubus upon pro
ductive industry in the way OF prompt
and permanent s1tiugiishment.
Third. When you prevented the
funding of the debt under the Wood
fifty year bill or the Garfield forty wear
bill. you compelled Secretary Window
TO refund the bonds then due at the
pleasure Of the government. The pay
mcnt OF more than two hundred mil
lions Of those bonds ia the last three
years, and forcing that money into the
channels Of business, has alone been
the means of preventing another and
worse panic than that Of 1873, and put
in process Of extinction the National
Banking System-A system lam"ntcd in
his latter days by the late Chief lustic"
Chase, a. his great error.
Fourth. Your persistent eight year.
warfare against the theft OF the public
land. has at last compelled both OF the
old parties TO pass through the House
Of Representative a measure looking tu
the ecovery TO the peopl" of a l-rg'
portion Of IN" land donated to crrpora.
tions 10 violation of the right. Of the
individual citizen and of the conFilu-
tional command to promote the public
welfare.
Fifth. By your votes in 1876 and 1877
you compelled Congress to pAss the act
known a. the Fort Bill vetoed b.
Hayes but passed over his veto maxim .
the present volume OF greeubacks part
of the permanent money OF the country,
and by the provision to reissue them,
practically doubling their volume, and
TO rcmonetize silver and make 1t full
legal tender. The effect Of this act " a.
to make our silver available "a monev,
and practically add a thousand millions
OF dollars TO the business Of the country
aud making the boarding Of money nm
profitable. II Was this act that relight.
ed your furnace fires, set your splndlcs
in motion, and gave employ yment 10 the
millions Of honest wofkingmen Eho
had been ,ramring the country in search
of labor.
The growth in population and pro.
duotion Of the country has tecn so
great that the volume of money IN the
channels of circulation Is totally inside.
quaie to carry on the domestic eXchang
sat profitable rate. Every reduction
in general prices Of commodities. and
every reduction in wages has been
the unconscious CRY of business for more
money. The effort to make our present
volume OF currency answer by spread
ing the rate Of wages thinner on the
bread Of less steady labor, coupled with
the starvation 70 biSiHeIJ pohcy of boarding
nearly one.fourth Of the total volume
OF money in the United States Treasury
has brought about its logical effect. and
i G. - . L.
Of the country out OF blast. one.third oi
the spindles rustiug in idleness, one
third Of the skilled and unskilled labor
Of the country unemployed and eating
up their past earnings. with a cry OF
distress rising from every msnufactur.
ing and mining district and the army
of unwilling tramps making the false
conditions visible with shiriless backs
and empty stomschs by the million,
and every monopolistic, gold basis de.
votee screaming "oyerproduction' ct
the top Of his bent.
In view OF these conditions, and the
persistent attempt OF she Democratic
party in Congress to reduce wages 20 per
cent, more by reducing the tariff to that
| extent. and the statement by Henry
Clews. the leading Republican banker OF
New York that the wages Of labor mus,
he reduced 33 per cent. to enable us 10
fight the pauper labor Of the world in
the markets of the world, your duty Is
plain before you, and your chairman
earnestly asks you 10 begin II at once by
making arrangements In your different
districts to send full delegations of faith
ful and able men to the Indianapolis
convention.
At this time II would be we'll to call
the attention Of our workingmen 10 the
fact that Just az they have abandoned
the only party (the National Greenbaok
Labor that ever made their prosperity
The base and supsrstrueturs Of its plat.