Year: 1879




drawn by the government on society for
the amount of its face, for anything in the
market that the holder may desire


This Is sheer nonsense. The Great
Creator of the universe never sent man,
woman or child into the world to suffer
from want Or die of hunger. And any
system or policy that leads thereto is false,
pernciOus and damnable.


THERE is something wrong when every
industrious man cannot find plenty to do
and earn sufficient wages to support in
comfort and educate properly the wife of
his bosom and hs children, vouchsated to
him in the beginning of the Almighty.


Now look out for movement along the
whole Shylocliim front for the rcmcneti-
zation Of silver and the retirement of
grcenbaclls. Nothing else will make re-
sumption permanent" says Big Wig he
hind his gold speCtacles and gold-headcd
cane. He's right. That would do it, if it
was not impossible. But YOU will let him
have his way again?


WHILE the bankrupt law was in force
there were l03O0j bankruptcies in the
United States. A Boston journal has re-
viewed and analyzed these figures, and
shows some interesting facts. Relatively
to population, Massachusetts had the
most bankruptcies lone to every 1907 and
Maryland had the fewest tone to every
9Oi of population, Virginia ranks next to
Massachusetts, and California is third,
Connecticut is sixteenth on the list.


SCENE IN THE EDITORIAL ROOM OF \
"GREAT' DAIIN.-PoIitical editor to
chief; Il do not see how can avoid
mentioning the Observation-Disclosures party in
my article on Maine All right then,
ifyOu cant help it. But don't mention
them as still existing in any other State;
and mind you | will bounce any man who
puts in the paper that ugly truth that they
polled over IA million votes last Novcm-
Der.


He is knavc or fool who speaks of a
state Of comfort, happiness, education and
progress for working people as state of
inAatiOn-a condition in which they can.
not and ought not to remain. That is the
true condition for working peoplc-thc
condition which Nature and Natures God
point out and for it all faithful Green.
hackers contend, and we honor them there.
for; while for the knavcS and BOOBIES who
cry out imitation 1--WE must of ne
cessity get down to hard-pan,' ETC.. we
have only contempt and pity.


The New York Sta" informs us that the
Grecnback is an "Amcricmn notion" But
because it is on y motion he mtcrs that
it cannot grow INTO a system because the
"any other nations have it not. Ah m-
deed! If it were brought along to us
clothed in VICTORIA 5 petticoat, or the tas-
sci Of BISMARCK fur cloak, or any royal
ruRan stamp upon it at all, it would he
an induccment TO boutwell, and all the
abOutwclls to take it in their arms and
hug it to their hearts. But being only an
american notion" that makes all the
difference


EVERY now and then you may hear
some BOBBY say, "Oh, there's no sense in
increasing the currency. That would give
only fictitious prosperity. We would have
to get down to hard-pan some time!"
This is what the gold-mongers say, and
this is what those who take their opinions
secondhand repeat. They assume that
the normal, natural proper and necessary
condition of the workingman and the pro-
duccr is one of hardship, privation and
suttcring-the bedrock, the hard-pan of
low wages, want of work, poverty and
starvation.


NINE trampS were turned out of the
jail at West Chester, Pennsylvania a
few days since and told to move ON. The
majority of these tramps of to-day were
industrious wOrkingmcn not long since,
but who, thrown out of employment in
their efforts to find something to do. Ee-
came tramps, and are at once under the
ban of society, so to speak The author
tiles kept them little while where they
could warm and keep from starving. and
then told them TO 60 out and forage fol
themselves as do the rats, wolves and
dogs, and all of that which has lfe and
which must have food upon which to sus.
tain lite.


MORE than fourteen million dollars were
paid into the treasury, yesterday, for 4 per
cent. bonds. As no provision has been
made for canceIling an equal amount of
SIX per cents, the net result of the dav s
subscription will be an addition of Sl45,
900 to the interest on the public debt for
the next three months But Mr.. Sher-
mans pet banks will be likely to make a
much larger amount than that in profits
upon the additional deposits of govern.
ment funds they receive from the sale OF
bondS--Chicago Times, Jan. 26


And why not increase the public debt;
That IS what you and other absorbers Of
the profits of industry have for years
labOred to secure. Why do you now OBJ
ject to the continuation of that infamous
system whereby the money OF the country
can hide itself in untaxed bonds? Per.
haps it is because You have been compelled
to start down hill by mortgaging your
property for 100000, as business falls off,
that you object to piling up the public
debt, but you should not permit private
interest to tint your editorials.


Is IT not time that the law-making powe,
ofthis country was doing something to at.
tract the wealth of the country to the mat
tor of producing property, thereby en-
poying hundreds ofthousands of men and
women who would gladly work could they
obtain employment. Hundreds of mil
lions of dollars of money, or of wealth are
now locked up by some kind of trick Of
Legislation, drawing support from indus
try to the support of idleness. When the