The Greenback Movement of 1875-1884 and Wisconsin's Part in itE. B. Usher, 1911 - 92 pages |
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... paid in good faith , according to the original contract , at the earliest option of the Government , without mort- gaging the property of the people or the future exigencies of labor , to enrich a few capitalists at home and abroad ...
... paid in good faith , according to the original contract , at the earliest option of the Government , without mort- gaging the property of the people or the future exigencies of labor , to enrich a few capitalists at home and abroad ...
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... paid us for our labors , during that five years , three thousand millions of dollars , well earned and ungrudgingly paid . During the war we prospered , in spite of the waste and devastation of war , because we were all employed in a ...
... paid us for our labors , during that five years , three thousand millions of dollars , well earned and ungrudgingly paid . During the war we prospered , in spite of the waste and devastation of war , because we were all employed in a ...
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... paid one - third of the debt ; paid a thousand millions of dollars that the present generation did not owe , and in doing so have reduced our- selves to bankruptcy , beggary , idleness and want . The Secretary of the Treasury monthly ...
... paid one - third of the debt ; paid a thousand millions of dollars that the present generation did not owe , and in doing so have reduced our- selves to bankruptcy , beggary , idleness and want . The Secretary of the Treasury monthly ...
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... paid than the other . One of these , we find , is worth 107 cents on the dollar in gold , and the other 87 cents . Here is a difference of 20 cents on a dollar in their value , and why ? It is not from their quantity , as their combined ...
... paid than the other . One of these , we find , is worth 107 cents on the dollar in gold , and the other 87 cents . Here is a difference of 20 cents on a dollar in their value , and why ? It is not from their quantity , as their combined ...
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... paid with them , and they had a fondness for that kind of currency . The Republican State Convention , which met September 11 , 1877 , was influenced by the fear that if it put forth a truly Sound Money platform it would have a ...
... paid with them , and they had a fondness for that kind of currency . The Republican State Convention , which met September 11 , 1877 , was influenced by the fear that if it put forth a truly Sound Money platform it would have a ...
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Page 13 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 31 - All money, whether metallic or paper, should be issued and its volume controlled by the government, and not by or through banking corporations, and, when so issued, should be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private.
Page 31 - That the right to make and issue money is a sovereign power to be maintained by the people for the common benefit. The delegation of this right to corporations is a surrender of the central attribute of sovereignty, (void) of constitutional sanction, conferring upon a subordinate and irresponsible power absolute dominion over industry and commerce.
Page 35 - States on these roads should at once follow default in the payment thereof by the debtor companies; and at the foreclosure sales of said roads the Government shall purchase the same, if it becomes necessary to protect its interests therein, or if they can be purchased at a reasonable price; and the Government shall operate said railroads as public highways for the benefit of the whole...
Page 35 - Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people.
Page 33 - We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation.
Page 33 - We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the general Government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations...
Page 35 - We demand tbat bona-fide settlers on all public lands be granted free homes, as provided in the national homestead law, and that no exception be made in the case of Indian reservations when opened for settlement, and that all lands not now patented come under this demand. We favor a system of direct legislation through the initiative and referendum, under proper constitutional safeguards.