Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-18

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| party and repealed honest advisers. He
alone came to think himself a great
man.
Few sensible men believed on the 4th
| of March. 1893, that any one could ever
| make Cleveland S administration respect
able. but unless President Harrison soon
| quits deyoting ali his time to office seek
ers and looks after the interests of the
people he will accomplish that result.
/ ENGLISH INFLUENCES AND POLICY.
The real power behind the throne
which causes nearly ali the suffering now
| complained of, can be traced directly to
English influence in causing silver to be
I demonetized throughout the world i,
| thereby reducing the volume of metal
money Gne-half from what iS always had
| been and should continue TO be while
gold or silver are used as money, and
English influence over those who make
and execute our laws, whereby the vol-
ume of our legal tender notes, green
| backs, have been contracted until nearly
all of them have disappeared from use.
In speaking of England we speak of its
ruling element, its aristocracy, its poll
cies; not of the body of its people, whose
blood was mainly instrumental IN estab-
fishing our free government and now
leads the enterprise and intelligence of
the world.
England is che chief debt holder of the
world She wrecks governments and
corporations TO obtain their obligations at
low prices, and then cries for small
volume of money that she may get more
of the products of the world as interest
on her investments. She fills our boards
of trade and exchanges with her agents,
who put down the price of American
farm products by selling each crop a
hundred times over against the one crop
American farmers labor to produce
She feasts our fiunkies who visit her
shores and corrupts and debauohes many
of our public men and newspapers. And
why? Because, with all her boosted
wealth and power, she would be bank
rupt in three years without our cotton to
carry and manufacture, and her people
would starve in one year without our
bread-food and provisions to live on.
She represents the same selfish aristo-
crazy she did when, our forefathers Ie-
belled against her then unjust exactions.
She remains now as she was then, our
worst enemy, and must again be met as
she was then on shop principles, which
control all her public and private acts.
NEW PARTIES
Hazard, in his circular to American
bankers, intimated in the strongest pos
sible terms that the idea of greenback
money issued by the government must be
gotten out Of the way. What better or
more effective plan could be adopted to
accomplish that result than to abandon
the name of the Greenback party, whose
chief purpose it was to make greenbacks
the domestic currency of the country.
We know that many honest Greenbackers
entered the Union Labor and other new
parties, thinking they could still be good
Greenbackers. But the absurd idea that
the government can Issue money for the
whole people based on the land or other
property of private individuals as advo-
Gated by that and some other parties has
utterly failed to make an impression on
the Intelligence Of the American people,
The utter failure of trying to wipe out of
existence the National Greenback party
by calling it the Peoples party in 1884,
and of the subsequent parties that have
tried to supplant 1t without bearing its
name or advocating the sound financial
doctrines on which it was founded, have
been demonstrated, when those who have
been so active in getting up new parties
during the past few years learn that I'M
der the constitution as decided by the SUI
preme court, congress can issue bills of
credit, or make money for public pur-
poses only and make such money legal
tender, and that our volume of money
can be increased in a thousand ways and
to any reasonable amount that would
make business prosperous, and that all |
the people in every country are Compel |
ing with all their mind and mussle to get
all they can of that money, and that it's |
volume in use depends on the amount |
they can each have. Much progress win |
have been made on the SUBJECT of finance, |
but this is not the time to discuss these |
questions. True Greenbackism amounts
to religion with thousands of honest men |
in this country, all of whom must here
after act with the National Greenback
party, or cease proclaiming themselves
GFeenbackers.
INVITATION.
Those !ATho favor distinct American l.
policy regarding its finances, who be-
lieve that full, legal tender notes,
green backs issued by the government
for value received in promoting the
general welfare, constitute the money
which marks our advancing civilization
make the best money the world ever
saw and should become the permanent
medium of the American peo-
pie, the life of whose free government
hey saved, and that a party bearing
heir name should be perpetuated to
leep these great truths constantly be-
;ore the people. Those who believe
With the prophet of old, that ''money
all things and that no
,ther reform can be wisely considered:
Tor honestly determined until the great
wrongs brought about by bad
egislation have been corrected fand the
money question forever settled in the
interest of the whole people. Those who
gree with these views and are will IS
ng to act in accordance with the spirit of
he resolution passed by the continental
congress; IN 1873, viz: not to eat, drink,
year nor use anything manufactured in
treat Britain, IfSr after one year, trade
With anyone who deals in goods brought
lere under the British flag; those who
viii pledge their sacred honor to hereaf-
er work faithfully to build up the Ma
ional Greenback party and to carry out4
IS principles, objects and purposes, are
to meet in their respective
tates and congressional districts, on or
efore Wednesday,, September 4, 1899, {
nd appoint one delegate and one alter