People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Greenbacks Doomed. [ARTICLE]

Greenbacks Doomed.

For years past have the reformers watched the slojwly changing complexion of the United States Supreme court. They have noted that with every shift, a hard money or single gold standard man has been elevated to that position of autocratic dictation. They have long warned the people that plutocracy was after the last barrier before gold despotism—that is our greenbacks. Significant to this the Philadelphia Record last week says: “With the income tax swept aside by the Supreme court, one heritage of war times and lax construction of the constitution has been thrust into the rubbish heap of dead statutes. But the work of the recovery has not yet been accomplished. Until the Supreme court shall reverse its legal tender decision, there will still be left the seed for a new crop of mistakes and miseries.” Every president since Grant has made war in his messages on our legal tender greenbacks and the people might just as well get ready to give up their "right to coin (issue) money and regulate the value thereof,” for all that lacks a decision now is the bringing of a test case. Money that saved our nation in time of war and blessed It in recovery, good-by! The people love you but you stand in the way of gold, so you must go to “the rubbish heap.” Good-by!—Oklahoma Representative.