Western Kansas world., 1888-09-15
UNION LABOR DOCTRINES
r,. Ppu Text of Hon. j. w. Ady's Law
,snce Address, Upon the Plans, Prin-
cipIes, Doctrines and Fallacies OF
the Union Labor Party.
The New Party's Koran, "ihe seven FL
papcial Conspiracies"-Ihe Union La
bor PlstfoIm-A. j. streeter'
Presidential Candidate.

Hon. J. w. AGy, OF Ne"loH' 49,
following address upon the principles ana
aims of the union labor party, at Lawrence
September G:
Friends and Fellow-Citizens
IT'S no easy task to shoot pigeons IN big
for: or to writs an enduring epltapn on a
sand bar. And 1t is certainly not loss ar
duous task to make an effective argument
against party that has no history but lts
,Ia,form, no assets but discomfort, ana no
nro.nects except such as are to be derived
from possible spread of temporary lnsanl-
ty among the people.
hold in my hand very remarkable docu-
meut. It is entitled ''seven financial con-
spiracies which have enslaved the American
people." The title is incomplete. 1tshouid
add these words, sin which diabolical plots
Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses s. Grant were
the star Williams"
The seven conspiracies discussed, are
seven laws, which find stated IN union
labor journal, as follows: Kindly note the
dates as 1 read:
LAWS OF FINANCIAL DEATH.
l. The law putting two exceptions IN the
United States notes, (greenbacks) passed
February %, 1862.
.. The national banking law, passed
March %, 1868.
8. The law authorizing the contraction CT
the currency, passed March 6, 1862, -.
4. The act to strengthen the public credit
ESQ called,) passed March 10, 1869.
rTElz - fnr76 10
passed July Ia, 1874.
6 The act demonetising silver, passed
March II, 1873.
Z. The resumption act, passed January IA,
1864, to be consumated january, 1879.
You will observe that all these laws were
passed in the presidential terms of Abraham
Lincoln and Ulysses s. Grant, two men OF
immortal mold, and whose honor and
patriotism the American people hold above
the reach of the noisy demagogues who now
seek to revile their blessed memory.
AsI progress will read few lines here
and there from this little book-the seven
conspiracies. It is edited by woman.
don't know why. Perhap, there was not
man in the party who had sense enough to
write book. Or what is more probable,
this work fell to the woman. on the same
principle that all other work that can't be
done with the jaw, such as milking the COWS,
uoWluS thC pOtdtoeo, ohA osASA SNSA
uses, fall to the help-meet of the leaders of
that party. Anyway, this book is their
koran. And they vaguely hint of dissent
mating the doctrine therein contained In the
same way that Mohammed did his doctrine,
with the sword, if need be. l serve notice
now that they had better confne their hos
tiities in the future, as they have in the
past, to the drygoods boxes at
the corner grocery and to such vagrant
H,as ohanno fn lnhf fnN the
Quid of dog leg that keeps up the circulating
medium of their salivary glands. Ruder
acts are liable to develop into dangerous
form of hempen quinsy, like that with which
August Spies ct al, were recently affected.
Concerning the exception clause in the
greenback this little book, after referring to
a convention of bankers held shortly prior
to the passage of that act, says:
''There is left no room to doubt, but that
the conspiracy perfected at that convention
resulted in that infamous exception clause
on the greenback."
Now / condemn this statement as false
and empty defamation. What proof of
any conspiracy is offered? None except
that some bankers had convention some
months before the act was passed. But
what proceedings were had at that conven-
thought on this question does not appear.
Yet this is evidence upon which
these wild eyed declaimers declare
that there is no room to doubt
that the magnificent men who were at the
helm of state in 1862, conspired with shy
lock to cheat an 1plunder the American peo-
pie.
But who were the conspirators. A lot of
bankers thirsting for gold, and eager to
make it out of the misfortunes of their
country-so the author would have you be-
lieve. But with whom did they conspire?
With the American congress-with Sumner,
and Morton, and Conkling, and Fessenden,
and Chandler and a host of others, who,
while living. wore the white flower of q
blameless life," and whose names and men,
ory, now that they are dead, are woven in
stand as far above the wretched ISLANDERS
these political ghouls and vampires, as the
heavens do above the earth.
But what was 1t these men conspired to
do? Why, to put into the greenback ''that
infamous exception clause" by which itwas
provided that they were "legal tender for
all debts, public and private, except duties
on imports and interest on the public debt"
Now the cardinal rule of all fair criticism
is ''that all scripture shall be read in the
light of the circumstances under which it
was written"
Intellectual coroners seem to be on the
and post mortem wisdom is al
ways plentiful and cheap.
But let Us remember the circumstances
under which this exception was written in
the greenback and see if We can't find some
honest purpose for its being there.
Under the revenue tariff of 1876 the bal
ance of trade was against us for period of
fifteen years. The result of this was that the
gold of California, as fast as it was coined,
was drawn OF from this country into Eu-
rope In payment for imported goods.
When the republican party came into
power it found the devastating flames of
OWL war already lighted from Delaware bay
to the Rio Grande.
1t found ten great states in rebellion, and
in them 5000, COO of people, of whom ,5OO,-
GOO were fighting men, all sworn to tear our
flag from the sky.
1t found them organized with a govern
ment, an army and the navy ready to put
their threat into execution.
1t found this conspiracy everywhere COM
promised with and already half way tri-
umphant.
1t found our arsenels sacked, our treasury
empty, and our credit ruined throughout
the world. Something must be done,
and the awful question was, under
these circumstances, What can We do?
Where was this wrangling termigant
then? Perhaps If this modern Partincton
bad been there then with her mop, she