Year: 1878




An Appeal to Greenbaekers.


We call upon the honest Green
hackers of the Northwest to mark
Well where they are being led by the
Pomeroys, Carys, and open repudia-
tionists OF New York. Ohio and Mis-
souri,.


The platforms adopted by the So
called National Greenbackers OF those
States demand the calling in and
payment of all government bonds
In Treasury notes.


That was not the platform OF the
Greenbackers OF 1876, led by Peter
Cooper. 1t was not the platform OF
the Greenbackers OF Ohio, or Illinois,
or Iowa, or any other State. The
National Convention of Greenback-
ers last year repudiated Brick Pom
eroy and his financial schemes, but
they nave been taken up by the
States first mentioned, and there is
determination to crowd these pestif-
erous and revolutionary doctrines
down the throats of the honest and
fair minded Greenbackers who have
hitherto shrunk from and denounced
them. Will the latter be forced into
an espousal of such principles? That
is the important question.


The appeal OF the Nationals OF New
York is an appeal to the dishonest
sentiment OF mankind. 1t can be
successful only by demonstrating
that the majority OF the people are
incapable OF resisting the big bribe
which is offered for dlshonor. We
use the word "bribe," for il the prin
ciples OF the New York Nationals
should prevail, debts would be easily
paid, and the man who Is weighed
down by obligations would have little
further difficulty In meeting them.
1t is, therefore, bribe that is offered.
When we reflect that millions OF vo-
ters in the country are involved, many
OF them helplessly in debt, and that
millions OF other people, from the
ranks OF unemployed, lily paid. or
dissatisfied workingmen are ready to
join them in any scheme promising
relief, the outlook is certainly ugly.


1t is time for honest men to come
to the front, and the Inter Ocean ap-
peals to those who have individual
and national honor at heart to con-
slider well whether their political as
sociations are calculated to encour-
age this stab at national integrity,
ard this scheme 20 distract and un-
settle the whole financial business OF
the country. 1t is idle to disguise
the truth. The issue is to be made,
not between the other parties and the
Peter Cooper Greenbackers, but be-
tween those parties and the New York
repudiationists. In such a fight We
ask those Greenbackers OF the West,
who have heretofore acted with the
Republican party, IL it is not the part
OF wisdom and patriotism, aud. in
deed, OF absolute duty, to turn in
with that organization which has so
long struggled to uphold both nation
al honor and national supremacy, and
vote this rascality project down.


That there has been unwise and
unjust financial legislation, the Inter
Ocean believes i'm common with those
it now addresses. 1t has protested at
these acts as they have protested. 1t
has, also, had other causes OF CON-
plant against individual Republicans,
as witness the unfortunate Southern
policy OF the administration; but can
we afford to abandon our homes and
look for new ones simply because the
servants we have engaged prove in
competent or worthless? The part
OF wisdom is to retain possession our
selves and oust the Improbable help
we have unfortunately employed.s.


The great mass of Republicans IN
the West believe in greenback iegs..
tender currency, and in the policy u


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