Year: 1876

: makes us all throw in our share /,


support the Government. and every


body does throw in except Tilden, a,


far as heard from.


/ Now then, We have some men among


us who say that the Government car


make money. If the Government,
can make money why should ii col


lect taxes from us? Why should il
not make all the taxes it wants? WHY
should ii not make all the money il
wants, take the taxes out, aud give the
balance to us? Why should this Gov.
ernment, IL il has the power to max.
money, collect any money from the
peop.e? But they tell you that this
Government has the power to put its
sovereignty, impress ii upon piece
of paper. Ifthe Government has that
power, it don't take any more SOW
ereignty to make 81 bill than it does
to make 81 bill What is the use OF
wasting sovereignty on 81 bills: What
not have $40 bills9 What is the use of
wasting sovereignty on $40 bills: Why
not have 500 bills: Why not have
81 100000 bills, and everybody would
be millionaire nj once. lfthe Green
back doctrine is right, that evidences
Of national Indebtedness are wealth, =
IL that is their argument,-whyn not go
another step and make every indi-
vidual note legal tender. Why not
pass law that every man shall take
every other mans note: And then |
swear we would have money plenty.
| No, my friends, II promise to pay IA
dollar is not dollar, no matter if that
| promise is made by the greatest and
most powerful nation on the globe


The promise is not the performance
An agreement Is not an accomplish
| ment; and there never will come a
| time when promise to pay IA dollar is
as good rs the dollar, unless everybody
knows that you have got the dollar
and will pay it whenever they ask it.
The Democrats ought to pay every
cent of the National debt. They lost
the suit, aud ought to pay the costs.
They commenced the war. and they
ought to bear the expenses, but We in
our patriotism are willing to pay our
share, but we want them to pay theirs.
We want no more imitation. We
simply want to pay our debts as fast as
| the prosperity of the country allows
il, and no faster. Every speculator
who was caught with property on his
hands upon which he owed more than
the property was worth wanted the
game to go on a little longer Who
ever heard of a man playing poker
who wanted to quit when he was the
loser. He wants to have Il fresh deal.
lie wants a new sight, and don't wait
any man who is ahead to jump the
game. 1t is SO with the spectators in


this country. They bought land, they
bought houses, they bought goods, and
when the crisis aud the crash came
they were caught with this property
on their hands, and they want another
imitation. They want another tide to
rise that can sweep this driftwood into
| the middle OF the great financial
stream. That is all. Every lot in this
city that was worth 5000, and that is
now worth 5000, o,-you know what is
the matter with that lot? 1t has been
p.,I Il


that is what is the matter with that
lot. Every man who owned property
that has now fallen 80 per cent, that
property has been resuming. If you
could have another imitation to-mor-
row, the day that the bubble should
burst would find thousands of specula-
tors with property on hand owing
twice as much for il as the property
was worth, and they would ask for
| another tide i'm the affairs of men, they
would ask for another initiation, and
what for? To let them out, and put
somebody else in. We want no more
imitation; we want simple, honest
payment of the debt, and to pay it out
of the prosperity of the country.


But, says the Greenback man, we
never had as good times as when we
had a plenty of greenbacks. Suppose
4 farmer would buy a farm for $4,000,
| and give his note. He would buy
horses, carriages, wagons and agricul-
tural implements, and give his note.
He would send Mary, Jane, and Lucy
to school. He would buy them pi-
amos, and send the boys to college, and
would give his note for the interest,
and the next year wonld give his note
again, and finally they came to him,
and said, 1--WE must settle it; we have
taken your note as long as VIC can; we
want the money Why, he would
say to these gentlemen. II never had
rs good Il time in my life as while l
have been giving these notes. | new
er had "A farm until man gave it to
me for my note. My children have
| been clothed as well as anybody. We
have had carriages; we have had fine
horses; our house has been filled with
music, laughterand dancing; and now
why not keep taking these notes ~
| And so it is with the Greenback man
He says, "When we were running in
debt we had a jolly time. Let us keep
at it," But my friend, there must
come time with imitation, the point
must be reached, when all the Gov
ment notes i'm the world would not
buy one pin--that all the Government
notes in the world would not be worth
last years Democratic platform.
have no fear but what every solitary
greenback will be redeemed. But my
friends, we will have some trouble do
ing it. Why? Because the debt is a
great deal larger than it should have
been. In the first place, there should
have been no debt. If it had not been
for the Southern Democracy there
would have been no war. it had
not been for the Northern Democracy
the War would not have lasted one
year. When we put out the green
backs, the Democrats went to the mar
kets in the world and swore that we
never could redeem that paper. They
stuck to it until during the War gold
went up to 29O. What did that mean.
1t meant that the grenback dollar