Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1877 — Getting Edusated Up to It [ARTICLE]

Getting Edusated Up to It

When the government first issued tht greenbacks, tlio most bitter enemies of the paper money were the Democrats, who said the country would beTuincd. The country was not ruiued, however. The Republican party was Ihe friend of the greenbaek, and it has been growing into value ever since the failure of Democratic eflort to destroy the “faith of the government." Now there are some Democrats who claim! that the Democratic party is the only friend of the greenback.—Girard (Kan.) Press. Senator Morton once likened the De'itiok cratio party to people who ride In caifriages backwards: they never see oVeci* until they pads them.— Onion.