Show greenbacks Green backs vs G gold old Green greenbacks backS for soldiers gold fr for home he H e folks r 1115 though although 1 the state senate or of cal california ifor lila by tile aid of copperhead votes has declined decline to pass the bill to repeal tho specific contract law of last session tile lie newspapers keep 1 lie be file and california is in a ferment over the idiol pi opposition dilio secretary cluse has ached to members of the declai declaring ing the law now on the statute book to he be in contra antion of the policy of the he government in its efforts to suppress the ic bellion and biging it its s repeal pat ties seem to toe be ranging ra n dg tham f K ires on platforms for or against the repeal and it 13 s strange to see some of the most plo pio eminent gentlemen heretofore in the front rank of republicans leans assuming positions antagonistic to tiro tile administration on the 1 vital question of national c ati ency it is difficult to say what bat NN will ill bo be the result of this contest but it is to be hoped tb it the loyal men will lango iange themselves on the side of their countey and throw no obstacle in tile tho way inay of the government in the prosecution pi cutIOn of falc in war ar against ri ainest i ic eb bellion ellion will the kleis ci for a gold currency who declair that all the business of california is based on bat 1 I money and who repudiate to a cei tain extent uncle sams greenbacks Green backs bear in mind that Cali fornias haidy antl and patriotic sons who u lie enlisted in the volunteer forces now i caeli c their more mere pittance in the currency which california spurns and by her action is c cv cry day depreciating will the lights of the soldiers sold icis eis be i in the midst of this contest to save california bioni it what bat is fei med a depreciated paper currency if tho opponents of succeed in maintaining their position it is to be hoped that consistency and a sentiment of ordinary justice pill vill lead them to the claims of the california now set ving their W u litt inn bei ever that country needs their barong arms when the soldiers eis of the column of utah enlisted their names in the roll of their defend defenders ets and for a tiina line afeei N only was it held out to tile them that they would be to participate in tho the active c scones of the war ivar on the potomac ro tomac but they paid their small monthly allowance ingold in gold coin coln for nearly two years how ever they have bare received nothing but T treasury treasury notes whose iv lose market value has ranged ran ed filin 75 73 cents down to the price of 65 cents on the dollar the california senate has decided that treasury notes are not and shall not be the of the state that their public officers ceis from goi governors and judges down to constables and porters may demand Ic imand and receive their stipend in hard gold and that all shall be placed on an equal footing excepting alono alone the soldier ii who bo left libnic ionic and ft friends ends to serve his country in its hour li ur of need I 1 she practically sas that depreciated paper is not good enough lor for her sons at home but for tile the soldier on the btttle bittle field or in the desert wild it is ample by her own course in ing the file national curi cn ncncy ency in A which her troops lie aie paid silo she still further farther depreciates and lessens the iho apty pty of her sold icis unselfishly ung elfishly doing their duty abi oid the I 1 ely least that the pati and good sense of the california can do is to fortl forthwith inith pass an ac aci from the treasury an alnO amount to co cov er the depreciation of ti Tica masury sury notes dating duding the past t vo voy ysais cais that b has as av an enraged at least 25 per cent ud wo no hust some 11 lend of tile tho in the or some lover of j justice ustice and cell consistency 1 y will such a bill at an culy cal I 1 y day thele is not a loyal state in tile tho union that has not strained stia ined every nerve to adellor ameliorate ate the of its volunteers and most of them have bare appropriated I 1 in the bhago of bounties or encased incased irly mill millions jolls of dollars by this s ments have been and all i InalA lally aided in il tile the sup california his much t 04 N liell it vv ero ere a bill bauming ning shame to leave let acut it not be said that IN while bile oil 01 one 1 I 1 I 1 AI I 1 c e 4 nother the 0 has i t 1 11 L he ona it I 1 currency 3 ii proven that L IMM zis is r li 11 1 1 sj 0 f ita action Z by from doing baidy jus ic ito to Canto wons in in tb tho 0 held field I 1 moncy 11 7 dl depreciated P I 1 recia ted fr from OM inevitable acee necessity sity below tile the standard of gold is not good enough for calil at homo home who la large rg e salaries and high prices in gold shall it be said that she has declared it is sufficient for her Volun volunteers I 1 atho lie receive chii teen dollars per month in pa paper per for the most lie heroic sacrifices of health comfort and lift life 1 itself it strikes us its that consi consistency stancy alone if not patriotism should dictate the immediate of such an act as that above refe irea to if the legislature is determined to adhere to lo its equivocal course of maintaining a gold currency in contravention of the policy of the government if not indeed of the express laws ox of tho land will not some of the loyal houi joui journals nals of california call the attend attention on of the legislature to this matter and urge it to do at least common justice to soldiers whose rights of franchise even have been taken av may ay by the late decision of the cupi acma court |