People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-02-07
LINCOLN'S BLESSING.
THE ADMINISTRATION PLOT
TING TO DESTROY 1T.
The Greenback Which Saved the Union
Endangered by the Money Power, Of
Which Abraham Lincoln Warned the
People.

President Lincoln wrote to Col. Ed
mund D. Taylor Of Chicago, December,
1864, as follows: (See Pen and Voice,
Page 4O4)
MY DEAR Col DICK: 1 have long
determined to make public the origin
of the greenback and to tell the world
that it is one of Dick Taylor's crea,
lions. You have always been friendly
to me, and when troublous times fell
upon us and my shoulders, though
broad and willing, were weak and my
self surrounded by such circumstances
and such people that | knew not whom
to trust, then said in my extremity,
81 will send for Col. Taylor, he will
know what to do. r.
think it was in January, 1862, on
or about the 10th, that l did So You
came, and l said to you, "What can we
do?" Said you, "Why, issue treasury
notes, bearing no interest, printed on
the best banking paper. Issue enough
to pay off the army expenses and de-
clare it legal tender" Chase thought
it hazardous thing, but we finally &C
complished it, and gave to the people
of the republic the greatest blessing
they ever had-their own paper to pay
their own debts.
1t is due to you, the father of the
present greenback, that the public
should know it, and l take great pleas
ure in making it known.
How many times have laughed at
your telling me plainly that was too
lazy to be anything but lawyer.
Yours truly,
A. LINCOLN, PresidenH
The greatest blessing the people
ever had to be destroyed by usurers.
Who wants the greenbacks de-
stroyed? Nobody but the fellows
against whose encroachment Abraham
Lincoln warned the people of America
in the following language:
"As result of the war, corpora
tiOns have been enthroned and ar era
of corruption. in high places will fol.
low, and the money power of the
country will endeavor to prolong its
reign by working upon the prejudices
of the people until all wealth is aggre-
gated in few hands, and the repub-
lie is destroyed"
Away with golden calf worship.
Let us worship our own wives and
children awhile.
Our own country and our own
credit.
The nations rulers must be made to
hear the the voice of the nations peo-
pie.
The bankers have better facilities for
expressing themselves, as they own
the big newspapers and the leaders of
congress-
No doubt some of the ignorant pup
pies in congress take the expressions
of these men to be the voice of the
American people, but that is because
the money power monopolizes the
floor.
Let the people raise a point of order
and put in a few words for them
selves,
There is not an intelligent farmer or
laborer in the United States who
wants the greenbacl1s destroyed.
And yet congressman are tumbling
over each other in the effort to save
the country" by doing just what ma
jority of the people don't want them
to do.
The bankers boast of having Sc
cured the passage OF the first "resump-
ton" act, which came so near swamp
ing the whole country.
And the act they now propose Is
even worse one.
How long will the grandsons of rev.
dictionary heroes consent to be treated
like spoiled children?
If we don't rise and make ourselves
heard soon it will be too late to settle
the matter peaceably.
Are we patriots or calves?
WlX HuPIcT WAC UItIpn