The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1851-01-01

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ter enable themselves to escape detection
Whenever they wish to help friend, they
harangue us, stating that the application
under consideration must be granted tc
keep the wheels of government in motion
81 would rather be dog and bay the
moon," as business, than act the dema.
gogue to the extent some do here. Yet
will deal with them with words Of gentle.
ness-not like the Grecian God of day
with vengeful arrow to slay the destruc.
tive Python,-not like the Archangel Mi.
chael, with potent spear to trans6x Satan
to the earth.
The people are oppressed with taxes and
expenditures, like slave under goading
weight of chains, harrassing their exhaust.
ed spirits, and pleading for the angel Of
Deliverance; but 10. "the benifcent angel
comes not at the solicitous invitation
But appropriation crowns expenditure un'
til the Treasury and the credit Of the State
are all exhausted, and bankruptcy will be
the result as certain as fate.
The grave inquiry arises who supplies
the Treasury with its funds,-the State
with its credit. Labor, the fountain and
source of all wealth, supports all, and
pays all expenditures-national and indi,
vidual-and rarely receives any profits
1t seeks no class or favorite legislation, but
supports all oilers. 1t has Graded and
nourished all the aristocracy of the world
to this day. Without it the woven silks
and wool upon the back Of the nabob would
yet be in fold. For the highest and low
est gifts, save the bounties Of Heaven,
mankind are indebted to toll; and the very
air of Heaven, by Gods ordination, is
breathed with labor. The drones "toil
not, neither do they spin," but infest the
hive of activity like masses of corruption
and decay. The lords of this earth are
the working men, who can build up or cast
down as it may please them best. They
can point to their trophies wherever art,
science, civilization and humanity are
known. Aye, sir, 10 the men of toll, roy
atty is not yet, but certainly will be, &C.
knowledged; forlabor will rise upward and
onward TO the highest throne of power.
God has ordained that iGleness is crime.
If this is correct view, strange it is that
all legislation is to Cypress labor and to
concentrate capital at certain points to
crush the energies of labor; while the diff
fusement of real capital through the coun-
try would give life and vigor to commence
and labor, those guardians OF the peoples s
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s Those opposers offlfsr printing of the
Governors Message and paying clerks
and messenger boys liberal wages, to
whom have adverted, advocate the policy
of paying millions of dollars TO the money
changers for loaning their credit, or in
other words declare that bankers have the
right by law 10 collect, from the toiling
millions interest on their Indebtedness,
while this same law makes all men, but
bankers, pay interest on their indebted
ness. These gentlemen tell us, if we
complain that no portion of our citizens
should have so exalted privilege over
others, that it would be checking ciuliza-
ton to prevent them from their present char
tered privileges. This paradoxical argu-
ment seems to have its force; for there lives
amongst us many who believe that this
government was established to make the
..rich richer, and the poor poorer"
The banks of Ohio have capital paid
in of $7,l29,227. They made profit
on all their issues in l849, Of 10 per cent
after paying all expenses. Their issues,
over and above their capital paid in, was
$7,000,000, on which they made 18 per
cent, amounting to the sum Of 81 100000
in the one year. That some special privi-
leges bestowed upon few favorites, and
was collected as interest on their indebt.
edness. Can freemen call this equal rights?
IT'S a strange conception Of justice and
honesty! Has not the demagogue athou-
sand times, in conversation with the poor,
pretended to sympathise with them-pro.
Tossing sorrow for their situation and Of.
feringto protect their rights. But the mo-
ment any act passes the Legislature to
give them justice, all the ninions Of the
money power raise the howlpf fox lint.
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