When Congress has once coined money and regulated the value thereof. and contracts are based upon it. the right to pay according to its terms can not rightfully or justly be taken from the people. and Senators and Representatives who deprive them of that right will have unpleasant explanations to make to the men whose burdens are increased by their vote. It is simply an attempt to repeat the legislation of 1869. and the same pretenses are made now that were made then. An honest dollar for the laboring man was then. as now. held up as the patriotic object of those who repudiated the greenback. as higher wages to labor is claimed to be the prime object of all the patriotic combinations of monopolists and machineowners. who tax us all 46 per cent. under the present protective tariff and yet hire the cheapest pauper labor they can import. It is the wolf guarding the lamb. tewspider the fly. and the hawk the sparrow. I propose to test this question in the light of the facts furnished us by our Treasury officials.
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