Year: 1878

BILE to the opinions of all. however
absurd and inconsistent. yet we shall
not hesitate to call the wrong state
ments of the subsidized press just
what they are in plain English LIES !;
for their editors have the facts before
them, and every perversion must be
willful.


If we were already perfect it would
be impossible to obey the apostolic
command to "grow in grace" so if we
never read any thing but what accor-
ded with our our opinions. it would
be impossible for us to obey the other
part of the injunction, to ''grow in
the knowledge of the TRUTH Read
ers should bear this fact in mind. We
don't expect any one will think as we
do on all points, and we offer our opin-
ions only as food for thought, and
material for investigation.


The mechanic and day-laborer be-
ing the larger part of our population,
should receive as much consideration
from congress as the bondholder, yet
every congress for many years has
legislated for the interests of the
latter and never once for the former.
Every dollar withdrawn from circu-
latiOn increases to the benefit of the
bondholder, and any effort to afford
general relief by adding to the cur
rency he denounces as imitation.
Well, if imitation will put clothing
upon our backs and bread in our
houses, if it will start the wheels of
industrial enterprise, and give en-
ployment to labor, for humanity s
sake, let us INFLATE! Shall the gov
ernment legislate for the bondholder
alone! Strange as it may seem, such
is now. and has been for many years,
the course of legislation; and any at
tempt to change the system produces
Il general howl in all the money,
stock, and exchange markets in tn e
country.


What we do want is that laboring
men should have their rights. of
which. in ameasure they have been
indirectly deprived. They should
have the right to clothe themselves
decently, to be able to earn enough to
live on comfortably, to educate their
children respectfully, and to embelish
and beautify their homes to the ex.
tent that the just rewards of their
industry would warrant. In the eve
of statutory law they have thes
rights, but that law is a sham so Ion
as the law of existing circumstances
proscribes them from the exercise of
these rights. They have the entire
burden of taxation, or nearly so to
carry on their Over-laden shoulders,
while the rich buy exemption from
taxation. The Greenbackers demand
that all species Of capital should be
taxed equitably, thus tightening :.


burden upon industry. and enabl ing
It's cohorts to live more like men. The
Greenbackers demand that the bonds
of all kinds shall be called in and
paid. at the earliest option of the
government. that the enormous drain
OF interest may be stopped. that a
sufficient volume of money may thus
be placed in the hands of capitalists
which must be used in business en-.
terprlses, or lie idle and profitless, to
employ all the now idle labor of the
country at living wages. and to enable
people to pay their debts on a fair
basis, and thus save the results of
their labor in former years. We be.
lieve in undoing evil legislation. that
the rights of the whole people may be
subserved and that no class of indi-
viduals may get more than their lust
rights. We believe in replacing the
national bank circulation with a full
legal tender paper money that shall
be based. not upon bonds. but upon
the present basis of the bonds them
selves, ri-. the entire credit of the
nation. These are the chief princi.
pies of the Greenback party, which is
1.-THE greatest good to the greatest
number, and equal and exact Justice
10 all. r. THORNTON.