The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-08-19
RPTNER AND NO TAXES.

Doiih hlSh1 VIC wings anu tne dHu-IDaSOnS.
They made show of repeating state tax
which expired by its own Limitation, and in
lieu of it incorporated the United States
bank with capital of thirty-fve millions of
dollars, which is at present levying month
ty, heavier tax upon the people than was
collected yearly under the law which Ritner
and his friends pretended to have Repealed.
The first effect of the establishment of the
bank was to increase the currency of its i'm
mense issues Of notes, and consequently the
prices of things were Immediately raised
upon the people; let every industrious man
ask himself how much more he had to pay
for the means of living since Riner's no
tax party came into power, than he had to
pay before. True, wages increased in
degree, but it is an invariable truth that when
money is deprecated and the prices of
things enhanced, the rise in the price of la
Dor is postponed to the last. Every indus
trious man will find by making this COM
parlson, that he has paid more tax to graft
fy the bank, during the Fast eighteen months
than he would have paid under the law i'm
posing state tax had it been continued, in
eighteen gears This is one of the devil
ces of the monied oligarchy, they proceed
upon the presumption that by little doub-
ling, they can conceal their oppression of
the people. Let every man ask himself
how much tax he is now paying monthly to
crafty The cupidity of the bank. Let him
keep an account of his losses upon shin
plasters; he is forced to receive them as mo-
ney, but he wants TO get quit Of them, and
they are often laid out not because a pur-
chase is desirable, but because he cannot
affix to them the value of money. There
is not a farmer or citizen Of any description
who is not now monthly paying more tax
under the shinplaster government than he
paid yearly under the law, and the matter
will not end here; there are already numer-
Gus counterfeits in circulation, this loss
will fall some where-all will have to be
paid by the people. The amount of tax
which is in this way assessed is incalcula-
Bile, and yet Ritner and no taxes is the
motto of the administration which is now
draining the people of their money, and re-
yelling upon their industry Pa. Repor.
Worth remenbering.-We agree with
the editor Of the Mountaineer as to the i'm
portance of the fall elections, and at the
same time cannot withhold our entire con-
fidence that victory will perch upon the
democratic banner. True, every democrat
should be impressed with the importance
of the result, but he should enter the field
with the inspiring reflection, that the party
is now united and that the united democra-
cy of Pennsylvania never were and never
can be defeated. The Mountaineer raises
its banner for the coming contest, with the
following NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
''BE 1T REMEMBERED:
"That the success of constitutional re-
form:-The curtailment of corporate privi-
leges:-The restoration Of sound consti-
tutional cufrency:-The improvement of
the Judiciary:-The freedom Of the press:-
The preservation equal rights and public
morality:-The extinction of irresponsible
money corporations:-The election of a
democratic governor in lS36:-The pros
tration of political anti-masorry and the ex-
plosion of the self-styled whigs:-The tfi-
umph of republican principles-and the
permanent ascendency of the democratic
party in Pennsylvania, are questions which
will be affected, greatly-deeply-and es-
sentially affected, as regards their ultimate
decision, by the fall elections of 1871
This is our firm belief, calmly and deliber-
ately adopted; and for the advancement, of
the foregoing principlee and measures 1t is
our pride and our duty to contend. And,
therefore, we nail our flag to the mast; where
it must remain until it shall proudly wave
in triumph--or ''fall in tatters around"
Several gentlemen "down east" have
formed themselves into a company, to OBJ
tain what relics they can from the wreck of
the first American frigate ever built, viz.
the Warren 80 guns, wrecked at Penobscot
in the revolutionary war.
THIRTEEN REAsoNs--An old English
paper contains thirteen objections given by
young lady for declining match-the
first twelve being the suitor's twelve chill
dren, and the thirteenth, the suitor himself.