People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — LINCOLN'S BLESSING. [ARTICLE]

LINCOLN'S BLESSING.

THE ADMINISTRATION PLOTTING TO DESTROY IT. The Greenback Which Raved the Onion Endangered by the Money Power, of "Which Abrahim Lincoln Warned the People. President Lincoln wrote to Col. Edmund D. Taylor of Chicago, December, 1864, as follows: (See Pen and Voice, Page 404.) My Dkab Col. Dick: I have long determined to make public the origin of the greenback and to tell the world that it is one of Dick Taylor's crea tions. You have always been friendly to me, and when troublous times fell upon us and my shoulders, though broad and willing, were weak and myself surrounded by such circumstances and such people that I knew not whom to trust, then I said in my extremity, “I will send for Col. Taylor, he will know what to do.” I think it was in January, 1802, on or about the 16th, that I did so. You came, and I said to you, “What can we do?” Said you, “Why, issue treasury notes, bearing no interest, printed on the best banking paper. Issue enough to pay off the army expenses and declare it legal tender.” Chase thought it a hazardous thing, but we finally accomplished it, and gave to the people of the republic the greatest blessing they ever had—their own paper to pay their own debts.

It is due to you, the father of the present greenback, that the public should know it, and I take great pleasure in making it known. llow many times have I laughed at 3 r our telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer. Yours truly. A. Lincoln, President. The greatest blessing the people ever had to be destroyed by usurers. Who wants the greenbacks destroyed? Nobody but the fellows against whose encroachment Abraham Lincoln warned the people of America in the following language: “As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of t’he people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed.” Away with golden calf worship. Let us worship our own wives and children awhile.

Our owu country and our own credit. The nation's rulers must be made to hear the the voice of the nation's people. The bankers have better facilities for expressing themselves, as they own the big newspapers and the leaders of congress. No doubt some of the ignorant puppies in congress take the expressions of these men to be the voice of the American people, but that is because the money power monopolizes the floor. Let the people raise a point of order and put in a few words for themselves. There is not an intelligent farmer or laborer in the United States who wants the greenbacks destroyed. And yet congressmen are tumbling over each other in the effort to “save the country” by doing just what a majority of the people don’t want them to do. The bankers boast of having secured the passage ot the first “resumption” act, which came so near swamping the whole country. And the act they now propose is even a worse one. How long will the grandsons of revolutionary heroes consent to be treated like spoiled children? If we don’t rise and make ourselves heard soon it will be too late to settle the matter peaceably. Are we patriots or calves?