User talk:Noelbob

Something written by my great-great-great grandfather about the Greenback Party:

Letter of Acceptance Boston, Ohio

Sept. 24, 1877

R.G.Thomas, Secretary Independent Greenback Committee, Akron, Ohio:

Dear Sir: I received a formal notice through a member of your committee of my nomination for Auditory of Summit County, accompanied with the request that I accept. I might premise by stating that I have identified myself with the party of the people. We have in our midst a great monied oligarchy who are devoted to the policy of contracting the currency of the country so as to unsettle values in every industry in which our people are engaged.

We have a ruinous banking system which presents the anomaly of growing rich on what they owe, while the poor man labors from early dawn till set of sun to pay interest on his indebtedness and keep his family from exposure to summer heat and winter storm.

Again, we have two kinds of money; one for the rich, another for the poor; and as we are presented no remedy for these great wrongs, by either of the great parties of the past, the only alternative left us is to join hands with the Independent Greenback Party, who principles are in accord with the general welfare of the common people, engaged in a common cause, hoping to perpetuate the blessings of one common country. The nomination which you have tendered, I accept, and will assist to the extent of my humble ability in perfecting an organization in this country which has for its object, along with the general result, the driving of the money changers from the sacred temple which our fathers sought to erect at an immense cost of blood and treasure for the oppressed and toilig millions of this and other climes. If elected, whatever of additional influence it may give me, shall ever be exerted in behalf of labor; as every pulsation of my heart beats in harmony with the working men of our country, whose energies when wielded, as they are, by strong arm, intelligent mind and resolute heart, constitute the only and unfailing prosperity of a great republic.

Respectfully, Lewis F. Cargould