34 cents on the dollar. Where were the other 66 cents? They were slandered and calumniated out by the Democratic party of the North, and every time you workingmen blister your hands to pay a debt, take off the blister and under it you will find a Democratic lie.

A Country Full of Kings.

I want the power where somebody can use it. As long as a man is responsible to the people there is no fear of despotism. There's no reigning family in this country. And when any man talks about despotism, you may be sure he wants to steal or be up to devilment. If we have any sense, we have got to have localization of brain. If we have any power, we must have centralization. We want centralization of the right kind, The man we choose for our head wants the army in one hand and the navy in the other, and to execute the supreme will of the supreme people.

But you say you will cross a State line. I hope so. When the Democratic party was in power and wanted to pursue a human slave, there was no State line. When we want to save a human being, the State line rises up

ike a Chinese wall. I believe when one party can cross a State line to put a chain on, another party can cross it to take a chain off. "Why," you say, "you want the Federal Government to interfere with the rights of a State." Yes, I do, if necessary. I want the ear of the Government acute enough and arm long enough to reach a wronged man in any State. A government that will not protect its protectors is no government. Its flag is a dirty rag. That is not my government. I want a government that will protect its citizens at home. The Democratic doctrine is that a government can only protect its citizens abroad. If a father can't protect his children at home, depend upon it, he can't do much for them when they are abroad.

Think of it! Here's a war. They come to me in Illinois and draft me. I say to the Federal Government, "You told me I owed my first allegiance to you, and I had to go to war. Now, I say to you, You owe your first allegiance to me. and I want you to protect me!"

The Federal Government says to me, Oh, you must ask your State to request it."

I say, "That's just what they won't do!" Such a condition of things is perfectly horrible!"

If so with a man who is drafted, what will you say of a volunteer? Yet that's the Democratic doctrine of Federal Government. It won't do! And you know it!

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Some Laughable Remarks About Money With

Illustrations.

They say that money is a measure of value.

'Tisn't

So. A bushel doesn't measure values. It measures diamonds as well as potatoes. If it measured values, a bushel of potatoes would be worth as much as a bushel of diamonds. A yard-stick doesn't measure values. They used to say, "there's no use in having a gold yardstick." That is right. You don't buy the yard-stick. If money bore the samé relation to trade as a yard-stick or half-bushel, you would have the same money when you got through trading as you had when you begun. A man don't sell half-bushels. He sells corn. All we want is a little sense about these things.

We were in trouble. The thing was discussed. Some said there wasn't enough money. That's so; I know what that means myself. They said if we had more money we'd be more prosperous. The truth is, if we were more prosperous we'd have more money. They said more money would facilitate business.

Suppose a shareholder in a railroad that had earned $18,000 in the past year should look over the books and find that in that year the railroad had used $12,000 worth of grease. The next year, suppose the earnings should fall off $5,000, and the man, in looking over the accounts, should learn that in that year the road had used only $500 worth of grease! Suppose the man should say: "The trouble is we want more grease. What would you think of a man if he discharged the superintendent for not using more grease?

I said, years ago, that resumption would come only by prosperity, and the only way to pay debts was by

labor. I knew that every man who raised a bushel of corn helped resumption. It was a question of crops, a question of industry.

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An Amusing Story.

You Greenbackers are like the old woman in the Tewksbury, Mass., Poor-House. She used to be well off, and didn't like her quarters. You Greenbackers have left your father's house of many mansions and have fed on shucks about long enough. The Supervisor came into the Poor-House one day and asked the old lady how she liked it. She said she didn't like the company, and asked him what he would advise her to do under similar circumstances.

You're prejudiced," said he. is ever prejudiced in their "I had a dream the other and went to Heaven. Lots A nice man came to me and Says I, 'From Tewksbury,

"Oh. you'd better stay. "Do you think anybody sleep?" asked the old lady. night. I dreamed I died of nice people were there. asked me where I was from. Mass.'

"He looked in his book and said, 'You can't stay here.'

"I asked what he would advise me to do under similar circumstances.

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'Well," he said, "there's Hell down there, you might try that.’

"Well, I went down there, and the man told me my name wasn't on the book and I couldn't stay there. 'Well,' said I, 'what would you advise me to do under similar circumstances.'

"Said he, 'You'll have to go back to Tewksbury.''

And when Greenbackers remember what they once were, you must feel now, when you were forced to join the Democratic party, as bad as the old lady who had to go back to Tewksbury.

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Money and Yardsticks.

A thousands theories were born of want; a thousand theories were born of the these people said after all; is only a measure of value, just the same as a half-bushel or yard-stick." True. And consequently it makes no difference whether your half-bushel is of wood, or gold, or silver, or paper; and it makes no difference whether your yardstick is gold or paper. But the trouble about that statement is this: A half-bushel is not a measure of value; it is a measure of quantity, and it measures rubies, diamonds and pearls, precisely the same as corn and wheat. The yardstick is not a measure of value; it is a measure of length, and it measures lace, worth $100 a yard, precisely as it does cent tape. And another reason why it makes no difference to the purchaser whether the half-bushel is gold or silver, or whether the yardstick is gold or paper, you don't buy the yardstick; you don't get the half-bushel in the trade. And if it was so with money-if the people that had the money at the start of the trade, kept it after the consummation of the bargain-then it wouldn't make any difference what you made your money of. But the trouble is, the money changes hands. And let me say right here, money is a thing-thing is a product of nature—and you can no more make a "fiat" dollar than a fiat star.

fertile brain of trouble; and "What is money? Why it