Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1878 — What It Means. [ARTICLE]

What It Means.

The scheme of the so-called national grerabackers means tho dishonor of the country. . It means the repudiation of onr national obligations. It means the unlimited issue of treasury notes which from their volume, must sink to comparative worthlessness. It mean* the defrauding of every man wbwis unfortunate enough to hold a demand against a' neighbor. It mesas the swindling of the pensioners of the country by paying these wounded aatesans in notes comparatively valueless. It means such an unsettling of values, such a revolution in finance, each an absolute change in all our business methods and manner of estimating property, as tosirike at the very foundations of the government, and alarm all save those who have nothing to lose and . everything gain, and who know no rule of action hut selfishness. We once more ask the sensible greenbackers of the west if they can afford to contribute to the success of this giginti: •chemo of confiscation, confusion aad anarehy*—