The Delta independent., 1889-03-05
Communication.

Yeoman in full and can only allude to some
of the mistakes of the "printer's devil" with
my former communication.
Really, l did not write, that it was suppos
ed every granger and anti. .monopoist in the
state would vote for Wolcott for U. S. Senator,
though it appeared in p,int and was thus
rendered quite inconsistent and ridiculous by
emitting several words from my S.
The charges first made at Delta and rehash-
ell Paonia against the U. l.. party remain
ehtircy unproven at both places. They were
emphntically denied at Delta by printed card
siguei by eisvea of the U. l.. party (instead of
half dozen as stated by Yeoman.)
But after all it seems on careful glance at
his last letter, there is no difference political
principles between us; he says he concufs with
the principles of the u. l.. party as laid dowa
in its platform "and further on repeats that
he was favorable to the U. l.. party and
advocated the principles it embodies but never
renounccd his allegiance to the Republican
party" l am really glad we agree on essenti-
al principles and only differ as to the way
and means to their accomplishment. "a name
is but an empty sound" and / care not what
careful and depend not, for long period of
years, for sympathy and assistance of any
party whose chief leaders persstenly ignore
or reject those principles, candidly feel Yeo-
man has fallen into that error, the same as
millions have done before. Yeoman greatly
over-sstimates the fidelity and love that even
the republican party has shown to the Union
soldier; having been one l can speak from
experience in the spring of 1862 greenback
money became legal currency of our govern
inent but before then and up to that time there
was a large Union Army OH land and'sea who
had an enlistment contract with the govern
ment that they would serve our country three
years or durin. the war for small nominal
wages IN coin, as that was the only money Of
our country at the time those contracts were
made. So say the government was legally
aud morally bound to pay such soldiers for
the full term of such service and contract, in
money of standard value. But the grand old
party SO called even with the "silent soldier
a. chief executive would never allow that to
be done. The greenback was made a Grip
Piled money on purpose to pay of those SOL
diers, and those same bills as they passed into
the centers of trade were caught by sharks
and usurers when they cost on an everage of
so cts. coin on the dollar; they were exchang.
ed for U. S. bonds, dollar for dollar and in
1868, an act was run through congress declar
ing 1t would be dishOn0r to pay even the
principle of those bonds in the same kind of
money, the sharks bought them with; and so
they passed that law twisting the payment
;,t, Iat ,rh ti a a,u
yet chief executive, they refused to have their
bonds paid in silver and so altered the con-
tract again. We know too we'll the rest of
the story,-how this usury and bond-combina-
tion is grinding down the toilers OH the one
hand aud turning out hundreds of millionairs
and monopolists ON the other.
There have been some smart mon who
thought they'd COMPEL one or the other of
the old parties to take up reform measures
that would check-mate these shylocks, but
these financial schemes ran most of the lead
ing papers-so called and the machinery of
both old parties and so have politically killed
every one who has opposed them, especially
| within either of the old parties.-They first
ignore and finally defeat them with money.
There is ex-senator Van Wyck Independent
Republican, x-member-congress Tom Ewing
Independent Democrat and Ralph Blamb
Ind. Rep. congressman-who goes out with
this term ofcongress, because he made too able
speech year ago showing canclusivly that
this government has the legal as we'll as the
moral right to pay some 500, 1000, 10000 of
bond now at par and SO pay ont the surplus
in the treasury, which SO worries both old
| parties. The necessity tor the u. l.. party is
manifest when we see so many cases like this.
There is Yeoman striving to support its prin-
cples through the Republican Party, and a
brother scribe Hoosier, tries to support the
same principles through the Democrat Party
and thus they cancl and kill each others
votes in these opposing organizations.
| ! am glad Hoosier does, at last declare THE
U. L. principles are very good" and he scolds
me for stating he opposed those principles.
But only said he opposed one of them (wo-
man-sufferagc)
Now rs the editor says no ono is interested in
these matters and don't want to publish much
more about them. Can't we arrange to meet
| at the NJ .und school house or somewhere on
Rodgers mesa and discuss the same to our
| hearts content?
| UNION LABOR.