Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-07-15
Wing Promises.

The wings have ever been profuse in
their promises to the people. They have
been ever anxious to do them great fayors,
if they would only let them. And at the
same time they have been very proaigate
of their abuse and denunciations Of the
democrats for warning, as they say, against
the interest of the people. There are but
few who do. not recollect the promise of
'better timess" s'two dollars day and
roast beef" made by them in the memora-
ble campaign Of 1910, and the promises
ofstplenty Of money" which have at all
times attended their efforts to foist bank
ing system upon the country, after the peo-
pie have been plundered by those which are
among the things that ,uere. And has any
one realized the result which they claimed
was sure to follow the adoption Of their
darling measures. For three years their
Tariff has been in operation, and what in
terest, other than that of few lordy man.
ufacturers, has been promoted by it? They
have enacted banking law and established
their Banks broadcast over the face of our
State, and yet there has not been a time
for nearly twenty-five years, when the
price of the products Of labor have been SO
low as they are at the present time, or mon
ey more difficult to be obtained.
Does any one believe that these federal
lists have any design or desire to promote
the interest Of the laboring portion of the
community, when he looks back upon the
promises which they have made at each re-
turning election, and looks in vain for their
fulfilment--when he sees that by the tri-
umph of federal measures those for whom
they legislate are growing suddenly rich,
while the laboring classes are but barely
obtaining a competence? Does not the
result of their measures show conclusively
that, what the democrats have long since
charged is true, that they legslate for the
benefit Of capital at the expense Of labor?
And while they are extending those priv
ileges to the few favored ones they are con-
stanily declaring that it is done out Of q
sincere regard for the people and with a
view to promote their interest and welfare.
1t was for this arowed object, that, in the
II
last. Legislature, despite the efforts Of the
democrats to prevent it, they enacted the
tax law excmpting the bank capital and
State Stocks from taxation, while poor
servant girl cannot lay by the wages of a
six months labor without being compelled
to pay tax upon it. And when an efert
was made by the democrats to tax all others
in the same way that banks are taxed they
ridiculed the idea. <
Our national and State governments are
Instituted for the purpose Of guaranteeing
10 the citizens thereof equal rights and
equal privileges and can any one avow
that these rights are secured to and enjoyed
by the citizens Of this State, in the face Of
the facts that the power and privilege of
tampering with and "reguialing" the cur
rency (which has in times past been the oc-
casion Of much loss to thepeople) is con-
TERED upon few individuals because they
happcntobc possessed Of sufiiciency Of
s.this worlds goodsa'--that these banks are
taxed upon what they may, unqualified BY
oaih, choose to report a. their profits when
men employed IN more honest though less
1,ic,uijrs pursuits, must pay tax upon all
tl,ey possess without regard to whether il
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