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National Greenback Monitor from Wichita, Kansas • 1

National Greenback Monitor from Wichita, Kansas • 1

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ji -r TENDER i-LPXJAL IT A finTAlT4 lOITTOII I Ml II 1 II II Ml 1 IN ill.xUllii.JJ POOP FOR AM, DKBTS-PPDWO AND PKtVjtTB, -ABSOLUTS HOMELESS AND MONEY FOE THE MONEYLESS LAND FOIl THE LANDLESS, HOMES FOB THE NO. 37. WICHITA, KANSAS, SATIIRI) A Y- AUGUST, 23, 1879. 4r EDITORIAL CLIPS AND Pay the Bonds Immediately. Waco August 23rd.

1879. TiaAi(KfrM()nT(m .1 Publishers. Issued every Thursday, at "WICHITA Our Platform, Adopted May 2, Editor are'aware that there are some good Greenbackers 1. The greatest good to thg greater who are opposed to the immediate pay- TEKMS OF sruSCRII'TION. Hient of the bonds, but say pay them ac Five moil Mis rn bonds to be isued; and that it is the duty of the government to issue its money in such amounts and no more, as shall enable it to pay all its existing debts.

You cannot find but one act of oongress from 1860 to 1870 but what would have allowed the bonds to have been paid off in from one to ten years, and all payable in lawful money, except the ten-forties of 1864, and the five-twenties of March, 1864, which only amounted to $400,000,000, that was payable in coin. So you see that the whole bonded debt could have been paid four Ope year uo l' V1UAIIJ.V IX All VANCE. 7Il)VERTm" EATESr Locals, insertion, per line Advertisements, single insertion, per liue, 5 ets. One eolnmii, one year ..00,00 One liulf eolunui, one year. 30,00 One fourth column 1500 Business card 5'0o 2.

Economy in the affairs of the local, State and General governments. 3.. The regulation and reduction of fees and salaries of all offices from President down to the lowest county or township office. One term only, in every office where a reduction of salary is not made. 4.

A re distribution or a re-issue of currency, so as to release the bonds and greenbacks from th grasp of (he bond' holders and hoarders of money, and place the currency in the hands of the laborers, manufacturers and producers of the country. cordirtg to the contract. Now I do not faish to cause any division in the ranks, ut shall differ with such persons, for the sample reason that it is just what the bondholders want, in order to complete thair work of destruction. By getting the bonds to run thirty or forty years, drawing per year, gold interest, then theyare fixed, and we are slaves; and any man that will set down and figure carefully will find that in twenty -six years and two months, at the ra6 cf interest bein paid ted States bonds that the; whole farm, mechanical, and personal property of M. UALDKRNTON, A 11 A I.

A Office, in Centennial hloek, over Alloy's Shoe store, Wichita, Kansas. i. KUGOLES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Will practice in State andJFederal Courts. oniee, oyer Farmers and Merchants' Hank, Main street. Wichita, Kansas.

the United States would be absorbed. years ago, just as well as the government paid its soldiers during the war, and paid just as the government agreed to pay it; but no, the National bankers, bondholders and Republican party had not made money enough out of the war yet, so in 1870, the Secretary of the Treasury was authorized to issue $1, 500,000,000 of bonds payable in coin, interest and principal. These bonds were issued under the funding act, to take up the bonds that had matured and that should have been paid in lawlul money of the United States in the place of ten-fifteen and thirty year coin bonds. More anon, M. E.

Moruan. Now I for one them immediately, and further, I do not believe it is right and just to be any more patriotic to the bondholder, or as much so, as to 5. Anti- monopoly, that is, against railroad, bank, patent right and all private, corporate, or partisan monopolies. 6. Other qualifications being equal between candidates in tie favor the soldier in preference to the "conscientious citizen." 7.

Better encouragement and increased patronage, to home manufacturers and home industries, and a higher recognition of the merits of industrial pursuits. the Jjayonet-holder; and if the govern-uient'can break its c6ntract with the 1 1 i soldier, it Hs a perfect right to with the bondholder, and if you remember 1 U. ALLEN, At. Physician Surgeon. Office over Mathews' Drugstore, DourUs Avenue, Wichita, Kansas.

TV B. IlfiNTZ, M. JPhytofc and Surgeon. otlice over Farmers' and Merchants Bank. Residence, 1st door north of Turner Hall, corner 2nd and Market Street, Wichita, Kansas.

LEONARD, I). PHYSICIANEAND SUK(E0i, SjKM'lal attention gives to diseases of tho ye, also (diseases peculiar to females and children. Oflice Main street, first brick north of Woodcock Bear's drutf store, Residence on Water south of Douglas avenue, Wichita. yy N. MCLAREN', Attorney and Counsellor afLaw, Wichita, Kansas.

rw.jc iii Dagncr's Block. In 187b the Republicans called the Greenback party the tail to the cat. In 187i), in Ohio, Democrats call the Greenback party the tail to the Eepublioan cat. You have no doubt heard of cruel boys tying cats' tails together and letting them fight until there Jras nothing left but the tails. "Well, when these two tails are tied together it will be but a short time until there will be nothing else left but the tails.

They will be tied in November 1883. Kansas Times LAW 0 A KJ FFICE. the government agreed to pay the soldiers in gold, rhich it did not do, but repudiated You may ask ho it ftot around its promises to pay the in gold coin; I will tell you it done just as Ipropose to with the bonds, created Gnsnback money nader the law, declared this money to bo a full legal tender, lawful money, the same as gold or silver coin in its poWef fc pay and say as it said during the war, that while republic endures, this greenback money should endure, as the money of the people and never betaken from them, except as taxes, or till other property was given therefor. Now if the gdvernment has- any favorites, lei it be the soldiers who- fought the battles not the bondholder's whom we are no wtse indebted to onfy for thievery and rascality, who' never leaned the government a dollar without getting a bond for three, and then want their; interest ia coin. Now kind friends, if our government will protect and uphold such a bet of thieves and robbers, who have never done anything but lie, cheat and steal, in order to de II A KR1H HARRIS.

1 I A. gTANLE A LL, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. in stjlte and Federal Courts. Collections promi)tly made. Office, over T.

II. Lynch 's dry goods store, on Douglas avenue. Starving Emigrants, Cambridge, 10---A pitiful case of destitution presented itself in this place yesterday evening in the shape of a family of ten persons' who were traveling eastward in a one horse wagon, and in a wretched condition, possessing hardly enough clothing to cover their backs, and with no food to satiate the pariga of hjlnger. One of the number, Drucilla White, a widowed daughter; and mother of children, the youngest being but fiftejk months old, had died a few miles of here, and they had come i to t6wa seeking a decent interment ait the hands of our The name of the family was Carr, and their home was in Page County, Va. They were on their way to Indiana, and had only got as far as Columbus when the baby took sick, and with the hope of ariving at their native place before death 1 should ensue, they retraced their steps.

They were cared for by our town au- thorities and the baby decently buried. The Mormons. The Mormon question is assuming' a serious aspect. Some of the Heading' Mormons, angered by the proceedings against polygamists, bare undertaken to stir up a mutiny among the "saints," and to urge them to make an appeal ta arms, and drive away of the "Gentile" paper and 'alt who'are unfriendly to the "peculiar ot Utah. The attempt to toake fcVc' ble resistance to the federal authority1 will be likely to result in th5'-8pdddyh The largest kind of a Grant boom has been started in Texas.

A minister named Graves has started a church in which Grant figures as an anti-Christ. He is to be elected President in 1880, and finally conquer and rule the world and then comes the millenium. The church'is said to be rapidly increasing in numbers. This is the worst case of boom of which we have heard. Ex.

J. W. Nichols. Noah Allen, Notary I'ub- U. lie niil 1nt.irt YICJIOLS ALLEN, AT OB KEY'S AT LAW, Will practice in Sedgwick and adjoining conn- iimuinuu giveu 10 collections.

Main WIchita, Kaxvah. W. A.KirHEV. cI richkv I HOUSE RICHLY Frowietors. This rioiiMo is situated near tho'denot Is According to the showing on the records of this city and county there has been an overproduction of mortgages.

A larje number of men, women and children are inconsequence flying the flag of distress. Many of such persons voters have been fooling away their votes and losing time by following old partyism, until! old party legislation has caused theii ruin. Ind. Sun. pottvenient to the( business pari cf the Terms $1,50 per day.

1872 TKY Uj. prive us of our liberty, and then protect them because they are bondholders, then abuse ti soldiers who fought to save'the union, by repudiating its contract with them and pay them off in what the bondholders call a lying promise to pay, I for one am ready to take up arms again and put all upholder of such villainous acts under the sod. I shall do all in my power to put down the bondholding aristocracy, first the ballot, next the bayonet and shall go for the immediate calling ia of all TJai ted States bonds and payment of them The Workingmen of this city, have met and passed resolutions wiping-out of this "relic of ba'rbatism," obtain obtain which has been Dermited to a principal and interest in legal tender foothold in the wilderness and is draw A. N. Demixu.

A. A. GliKXK. TREMONT HOUSE. DEMINO GLENN, Wl( JtlTA, KANffAS.

Housejtirst chws. Charges reasonable. Good Sample Ilooin for Commercial MVm. Fret' Bus to and from all trains bafcirage trahs-erred free Daily Stage to the south and w. VAiZEYlroUgE I A vediif.liiiidJdoor from Depot, Wichita, Kansas.

finis House. lilierally patronized by citizens of Sumner county, sis well as other nortions of thf State, has been carefully reflttea Inside and tL ach bed bein furnished with tlie best and latest si vie of springs. Ivstomers oth old nd new, wil! I aft'omefflatod. at our Hcl'il In A. Ua, ITvprieior.

.1. A. t': i k. lawful.greenback paper money of tho ing to itself all the corruptions of the old world ind the new. Leavenworth 1 tW.

against old partyism as it pertains to the Republican faction. What are they going to do now? If'they join the Democrats, they gain nothing. Let them come over where all Workingmen legitimately belong in the Greenback-Labor Sun. Shape was tho chief deceiver in the GreenVack buioe3. United States and every ''dollar of such issue of legal tender lawful money, to be protected by the government, as at It is an easy matter for eome men to par with other lawful moneyi' gold or silver coin, never to be converted' into tell more tnan tney Know, ma msny tends of any rate or class aai nortara afe thus led into error..

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