Year: 1879

question, but the word "greenback" has a
magical effect upon them. They are
with any party that promises more green
backs.


Hon. B. +. BUTLER will be nominated
for Governor of Massachusetts on a
straight grcenback ticket this fall and be
elected too. He will be the best Cover
nor Massachusetts ever had.


GEN. PIATT, greenback candidate for
Governor of Ohio, estimates his vote
will be from $4,000 to 100000. The
greenbaCk party in Ohio is largely organ
lied in clubs and can be definitely esti-
mated and relied on.


GREENBAcK men at LeadviIle ought to
provide some place where they can hold
their meetings without molestation from
the authorities. A meeting was broken
up there lately by the arrest of the speaker
for obstructing the sidewalk.


IA FRIEND in need is friend indeed!
Let the people remember the greenback
horse that carried us safely across the aw-
iul chasm Of secession, and not cross HIM
with the breed of animals that run away
when the rebels fred on Sumptcr.


The clear.sighted, honest hearted
greenbackers cannot review the situation
on the financial issue in Maine and else
where without feeling that there is an at
tempt being made to shadow the glory of
the money of the people" and to belittlc
the services it rendered the country in
its hour of greatest need,


MONEY needs not to possess value in
itself, for all the function money can per-
form is to certify that the bearer has per-
formed service to the human family and
is entitled to receive the valve of his labor
in something he may wish in exchange
for it. A paper bill will do this better
than coin.


GOLD, silver, nickel, copper, platinum,
tin, iron and all other metals which have
been used as substances upon which to
stamp money are inferior for that use to
paper, because coins are too heavy to carry
upon the person and too heavy to remit
by mail III quantities above few dol
lars. Heavy and expensive to express and
unsafe to freight.


SPURIOUS coins are not so easily detected
as spurious bills. 1t is difficult to de-
tect false material or short weight IN
coins. Coins are sand-papered, filed,
Clipped, sCraped, bored hollow, and filled
with lead, eaten with acids, and punched
for the sake of the metal which can thus
be stolen from them. Grcenbacks are not
subject to these ills.


Two wrongs will not make one right.
The enrichment OF the bondholder seven
hundred million dollars, is no argument
for the enrichment Of silver miners by Il
like amount. Then why single out the
silver producers and make them privil.
eyed CLASP Are there not privileged
classes enough already? 1t is the de-
crease, not the increase, of the number of
these classes that justice TO labor de-
mands.


Now the business view of the whole
matter'is this: So long as silver is coined
into money, let it be done by the United
States for the benefit of the people. Ii
they will insist on paying eighty.three
cents per dollar, let them have the seven
teen per cent. profit in the form of re-
duced taxation. Or let the government
repay the silver men as many dollars in
money as they deposit dollars worth of
bullion.


FIFTY years ago free trade was pre-
scribed as the remedy for industrial de-
pression now protection is prescribed for
it, and it is possible that the nation may
blunder on century yet before it dis
covers the cause of its periodical break
downs, and applies the true remedy. 1t
will go from free trade to perfection and
rice rerSd many times before it will dis
turb that which supports SO nicely its
splendid aristocracy.


AT the beginning OF tho war the bank
ers had about one hundred millions Of
gold. There was in the country say one
hundred and fifty millions. With this
sum, they played shuttle-cock between the
custom house and treasury until they real
lied two thousand million dollars in
bonds, on which they get one hundred
millions interest every year, doubling Their
original investment annually. i pretty
good thing wasn't itp How long shall it
run with section 3693 of the revised stat
utes at the service of the people2


IT is claimed that "honest money"
must cost its owner its value in labor.
Gold is then not "honest money" for a
man frequently digs from the earth mug
gets or stumbes upon Jumps at the sur
face, worth (by fat of law more than all
the labor he could perform in three life
times; another accidentally discovers a
league of quartz from which he gets mil,
lions, while he elucidates the power of
capital over labor by hiring the labor per-
formed at his own prlcc to work out the
gold. The world would be happier if
never another coin would be stamped.


IL the farmer cannot sell his crops to
good advantage, why should he not take
them to Uncle Sam and have him put his
stamp on them and thus raise their ex-
chapgeable value seventeen per cent? And
if the farmer has the same right as the
miner, then why not the mechanic and
every other producer? Is it not clear that
this proposition to enrich few silver men
for all time is class legislation the worst
formp Why coin silver at all when legal
tender paper has all the power to pay
debts that legal tender silver can have?
The making of silver into money gives it
this power. The making of paper into
money gives the same power to paper.
Now if paper money will serve all the pur'
ooses that coin money will serve (and