Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-12-06

history to impress 8 lie upon the ten-
der minds hildren, and there are
those who teach such lies. shame q
Q Twenty.eight years after the civil
war, which terminated in favor st the.
government because, against the In
auence OF the bankers in Americas and
congress exercised Its consti-
tutional power to lssue legal tender.
paper money, relying upon the lapse
OF time and q hireling press to shield
them from the wrath OF an outraged
people, the gold standard money pow
or enters our schools.with this Mont
gomery history teaching that the ma
tion's greenbacks depreciated below
gold in general business trans actions.
The government could not have equip
ped an army and keep it in the field
upon the credit Of bankers. 1t must
have actual money every dollar Of
which would circulate among the peo-
pie at par, which the greenbacks have
always done as was we'll known to
Montgomery when he wrote the follow
ing base Misrepresentation:
''The paper, money called greenbacks
which the government issued during
the civil war, aud with which it paid
off q good share of its debt, was worth
less than gold, At one time the sum-
mer of 1851, it was worth so much
1ooo a Il r1s y II
in greenbacks to purchase as much as
q single dollar in gold would do.
That meant that at that time people
had so little confidence in the power
Of the government to do as it agreed
that q paper promise "f payment
stamped one dollar WAS worth only
about thirty.f1ve cents"
A more audacious lie has never been
uttered, and Montgomery could not
have been ignorant of its character.
There ia not man in the United
States, except those in rebellion, who
lived during the war and after, who
does not know that there was no other
money in circulation than the green
backs, and that every dollar passed
in all business transactions at it's face
value; that there was no deduction
from the face value of the greeubacks
at the stores, the hotels or in the pur-
chase of farm products or in payment
of wages. Their value was never
questioned except in the payment IF
customs, duties and interest on the
public debt. The principle of the pub
lie debt, up toahe passage of the pub
lie credit strengthening act, was pay
able in greenbacks. Up to that time
gold had been cornered by traitors
worse than Benedict Arnold and by
them sold as commodity because it
alone would pay duties on imported
goods. The bankers had purchased
the passage OF law enabling them to
rob the loyal people of the American
nation and they did it. Importers
paid them, by reason of that purchased
law, fabulous price for gold and ad-
ded it to the cost OF the goods, CON-
pelling the masses to pay incidentally
the premium the rascals had put upon
their gold, and to again get the same
advantage OF the producing and labor
ing masses, the same bankers and
their recruits are trying to get through
congress law making single gold
staudard-a law making gold the only
legal tender for the payment Of debt.
When that is done the premium on
gold will again 60 up and no man en-
numbered with mortgage can escape
paying that premium. This is what
Montgomery's History would teach
the children in our schools were it's
author truthful patriotic citizen and
author. II Is the duty of every honest
school board and every teacher to
Danish Montgomery's History.-Na-
tional Republican, Preston