The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-08-09


DE iaues of lle money power ia ne
sneeiag boay q American nfar
and p enable gigantic u-ury and
gulizcd robbery % surk tho bIood n
every American .adu-t,. ,ok -
first gfcai -.ep when in authorizing
legal tender scay in lsG2. ae
gfeeubaek-ihe i'nno. .al and elorou
grecuhack-wasd'se.m eliminated aga
and degraded ii ihe money marfe
81 the world by being made uonres
able for duties on impoi- and lar 81
ierest on bonded debt OF the Un'td
States. IN al the aunal- of nations
no financial measure was ever mors
wilfully wicked in conception aud de-
sign, nor more FAR reaching. oppos-
sive aud destructive 10 the righis of
labor in its results than this.
The scnatordeclared this act enabled
the ~bulionists" of Wall street 10 real-
lie a property in naked speculation
with the bonds and en-. fency Of the
nation of nearly one thousand MILTON
dollars.
The laboring people havG been iou
patient, too forbearing. do not be-
licve any other people on the glohe
would have submit ed, unless restrain
ed BY force, 70 the monsisous act of
Congress Of March, 1869 BY one dis
honest stroke Of a dishonest pen, guid
ed and held by the dishonest leaders
OF a gseat parry, The debt which lalo,
has to pay was swollen - pes cent
Tho great bulk or our bonds, the
tive weu;ies, were payable ia greene
back aud the authors Of the act 81
March. 1869. were false whon they de
clarcd that t.oy were payable in com
The speaker then quoted at lcnel
liom the speech of Senator Beck en-
this subicr,, On March l3 last. y
also quoted The letter written by laiu
Sherman iu lsGs tud rcsursected hy
Beck. wherein sherman said "ttlihk
the bondholdpr violates his promise
whom he refuses 60 ,ake ,he SAME k.ud
Of money he paid To- bis bonds
VIM. asked ;he speaker. -hor'l n0s
the grcenback, w Ga its glotogs hls-
tory and with al the crimes commit
ted and attempted against it by ihc
Republican party, come to The front
at this time, aud at an times, when
the interest Of the Iaboriug GLASSES ar,
under consideration
Branded at It's birth with the bar
sinister as bastard in the field OF cur
rency; persistently siigmat'aed and
caricatured a. a rag baby, born IN a
founding hospital without any known
parentage for years denounced a. a
dishonest money, fraud upon the bus
iness aud commercial world, yet il
stands to-day in every state in the
union with its head as high and it's
purchasing power as great as the
brightest gold that ever flashed FROM
the depths Of the earth.
II is true the Republican candidate
for president suggested in 1868 that
an idiot asylum ought to be erected
for believers in the g.cenback; for
you my old greenback friends, aud for
me. believed in the greenback then
aud do now, aud I take my place
alongside Of you under General Ilar-
rison's sweeping in'olleraut brutal
criticism and denuncirtion
l did so zen years ago When he pour
ed out his scor Tul wrath uponu~, and
was wei content with the result
He canvassed the state in 1876 as the
candidate Of rs party for the senate,
as id a. the cane 'date mine, and
the people Of Indiana decided by mon.
than 10000 maio...y on the popular
vote for members of the legislature
that he was nearer a financial idiot
! than / was, that I sh0lld go back l.
Washington and leave him at honie