Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — Duty of Greenbackers. [ARTICLE]

Duty of Greenbackers.

Chicago Inter-Ocean. Every infeUtgent, observing, posted, ertSfl Green banker knows that there is no chnMedn this presidential campaign for Weaver to rtfe either at tbe ballot-box, or In tbe House of ■*- reeentatives, should there be a failure to e'-rt by tbe people. There is not one reaeonaMewn of contingency to bang a hope unon. BtftMm Greerbaokers, by adhering to their sjpaaaha electoral ticket, may beaHetortov some doubtful State or States into the k*rta off the Democracy, and thna succeed, tt may be, fin ’ •eating Hsneock in the executive chair <rf Ms Nation. That result would endangerfitewareprinciples for which the Greenbackers are tending, because tt almost certainly wunld lert to a new contraction of the currency, rtfeh would be brought about tn tbe followhsganma The party which electa a president nartmr secure* also a working majority ta tart branches of Congress. The Bemcoraas nan pledged, both by their traditional poltey artrt ’ their platform, to pass “a tariff for revanmn only;” and they assuredly will so soon aaflhre obtain complete control of tbe gevewaaanre. Such a tariff baa always been followed fry an cesstve importetioM. These hare rtart , against ns tbe balance of trade; dralmift many our specie to pay for a glut of foreign- Maa& disordered the currency on a coin baste: *mre> pel led the banks to require payment Wremre and to restrict discounts, a* measures tonaan themselvee; art made money scares, nrttkrt tbe evils which sneh a condition always rtnMfe Both at home and übroad this has mvaafeMfe been the case under “a tariff for revenue