Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-11-27
JUSTICE TO THE UNION soLnlER.
Just Who nrc Responsible for the
wrongs TO be fsighted Up.v

yember 18th appeared an article headed
Wrongs Righted Up" "Do Justice TO
the Union Soldier" The writer signs
himself 20. A."
Now ii understand the writer, he ia of
the opinion that n great reformation has
taken place In politics under Republic
rule. But the writer has got the thing 80
badly mixed mp into conglomeraied
mass, that IL is hard TO get at The true in
tcni oil hls meaning. Not that wish TO
lind fault with his mode Of writing, for lie
tells many truths.
| True the government promised the
soldiers SIG per month, and bounty of
l6O acres Of land, but did not give them
either. They lied and still persist In lie
ing. Grant vetoed bill to give each
honorably discharged soldier 100 acres of
land, and also bill equalizing the sold
iers' bounty. But signed many.a bill to
give soulless corporations millions OF acres
OF our public domain, thus making dis-
tinctions between the soldiers and corpora
tions IN favor OF the latter.
As to paying the soldier off with pur-
posly deprecated currency on an average
worth but fifty cents on dollar and
making them receipt for 100 cents, ia too
well known by all TO be doubted in the
least. II was conspiracy on the part of
few Wall street money gamblers to spec
ulate of the blood of our comrades.
E. g. Spaulding, OF Buffalo, New York,
who was chairman on the ways and means
committee, drafted the greenback bill and
it passed the first house February 25;h,
1862, a full legal tender for all debts and
dues both public and private, but when it
reached the Senate it was besieged by a
band Of bankers, brokers and money shaw
ers who induced the Senate TO stab the
bill in the back with the words, except duties
on imports and interest on the public debt.
| These Shylocks, as Thadius Stevens,
that grand old comoner OF Pennsylvania
called them, had accomplished their devil
ish design. With this exception IN the
greenback they could make corner on
gold and sell it at their own prices. They
had virtually made two kinds Of money,
one for the soldier in the field defending
the life OF his country, and the farmer,
mechanic and the merchant and the other
kind OF money (gold) for the banker, the
| broker and money changer. And these
saints Of hell, wearing the robes Of heaven
to serve the devil in, did make a corner on
| the gold, and ut one time dollar in gold
would buy S2.S5 in greenbacks, and il
averaged (gold) fifty-one cents above
greenbacks. The Spanish buckaneers, with
skull and croas bones at their mast heads,
never committed a crime 30 great or rob-
bed the merchant ships Of one-half as
much MS did these modern highwaymen of
the nineteenth century. So long as the
parties who are in power refuse to make
restoration of this fifty per cent. steal just
% long should the soldiers consider them
their enemies and parties TO the crime. 1t
ls but justice To the soldier even at this
late date to make up this fifty per cent.
robbery, as have said in previous art
icle. II was cold, premeditated job for
the purpose of robbing the soldier and
doubling the cost of The war in order to
bond the country that a few may live in
luxery and ease while the toiling millions
are taxed to support them.
20. A." says the government acting for
the people lied. He must be a little off
his base. 1t was not the government act
ing for the people that lied. 1t was the
party then in control OF the government
that lied to the soldier. and according to his
version will all go to bell with the rum
sucker. In Democratic Republican gov
ernment the people constitute the govern
ment and the party in power are the SER
wants or trustees of the people, and they
should be held 10 strict accountability of
their stewardship rs an individual acting as
a trustee or guardian.
"The Republican party oyerhauled the miser-
able budget of rag currency with which we paid
off the Union army and gave us greenbacks
good for dollar in gold, dollor for dollar. This
removal of rotten rags from the currency was a
and rft tlaa - 49,
grand old party is dead or should ever die. its
memory will be enshrined in the hearts of the
american people, at least for two deeds-the
best currency in the world"
Again" o. A." ia on the rampage, as
the above paragraph plainly shows.
Does he know what he is saying? Who
made the rotten rag money? Was it not
the Republican party then III power?
Did they not allow the vampires OF Wall
street, New York, and Lombard street,
London, 10 stab near III, death the green
back-"except duties OF imports and in
terest on the public debt" This stab de
prived the greenback of its monetary
power. That is what mace the rotten rag
a budget Of rotten currency. 1t could onl,
perform part OF the functions of money
as a legal tender. Gold and silver could
only pay the duties snd interest. Hence
a corner oil gold as Keen, OF Chicago cor
nered wheat and put mp the price nf il.
II was pure speculation. A dollar in
greenbacks would buy as many postage
stamps, pay M mucl, taxes ani WA full
legal tender with the Two exceptions, n
grll. Duties paid in gold made NIL i'm
ported goods very denr, and omr l,um.
goods Went ny in price the same as gold
went up, and our volume of currency in
snI I'M IL
were placed aide by side with each As
legal tender they were equal, with The two
exceptions above. The overlaulling OF
the greenback was when the Repnhl can and
Democratic parties had robbed the prodnc.
ing classe- 10 their hearts conteni, aud had
fully Satisfied their cnpaciu,,s greed fur
plunder-not I'LL then did they say there
shall no longer he difr.nce belwrru
gold and grcenbacks. The fiat went forth,
and there ceased TO I'c any more difference
and Mat fat remored tie rotten rag from, Me !
currency, III 20. A." is I,lea-ed to call them.
(And ! am panied to hear him call then,
such, # he be II true American citizen and
drew from hi- mothers breast the love of
liberty and the hatred Of oppression) as
they stayed with the uniform. OF blue, while |
gold, the idol Of neathen superstition, |
skunk 10 the rear NJ the first sound OF war
ana Ind itself AZ close as a bat under a |
bark until peace WAS declared. Was that |
a great act OF the Republican party was
1t not AN objectionable crime To have
placed them thnsy The stab was what
made them rotten and almost worthless,
IA they had been stabbed nearly to death
and their vitality nearly gone, hence de-
composition.
Bni they were good enough to pay the
soldier and to hire him TO shnke the
bloody shirt. But not good enough to
pay The bond-holder. So says 80. A."
Not in just 30 many words, but he calls il
the grand old party, which il very good
proof that he uplolds 1t in its past acts.