The Greenback Movement, 1876-84. 
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region, is to be found in Michigan, situated largely on the lake 
shore and in a region distinctively manufacturing in character. 
This is the more striking from the fact that it has an even 
greater per capita value of manufactures than that of the large 
state average. The greater per capita local debt and total tax, 
coupled with the foregoing, indicates also a more complex eco¬ 
nomic life than that of the first regions already discussed. 
This later paper money movement thus had not only the sup¬ 
port of the poor farmer as in 1786, but also that of the city 
artisan as well, a new class of supporters for cheap money and 
repudiation of debts. It now remains to show the development 
of this latter class into the ardent populist of 1892 and the 
union of the two elements for free silver in the elections of 1892- 
1896. The cycle of economic development is thus complete when 
the representatives of an undeveloped, almost primitive life join 
hands with their brethren of the cities, whose lives have been 
embittered and whose vision has been distorted by their fierce 
struggle for daily bread in our great centers of modern indus¬ 
trial activity. 
Madison , WisDecember , 1898. 
