The Empire County argus., 1854-07-01
ruE COUNTY CONVENTION.

The approaching Democratic County Convention
event of no ordinary interest to the citizen tax
payers of FL Dorado county. In accordance with
the usage of political parties this delegated assem-
bly, will present for the surages of the people, the
nominees to Fill the places of trust now within the
gift of the whole people
A reduction of taxation is imperatvely demand
ed The people are groaning under the excessive
demands upon their labor to pay the exorbitant
drains of manifesty oppressive system of financial
management.
Throughout the State class of men, who have
hitherto fattencd upon the unc!ean drippings OF i'll
advised legislation are banded together to continue
the system of 'legalized plunder" in the shape of
Fees in Office that are extravagantly large eating
up nearly the entire revenue OF the State aye,
and of the County too, as we have shown to-day.
A howl, in zeal and length, equalled only by that
of hyenas is set up on issues entirely foreign to the
immediate and pressing wants OF the people, IN
order to disguise the bitterness of the pill which
Federal influence and inordinate ambition propose
to administer to the body polite.
Shall reckless extravaganza be continued ?-shall
the people continue to be .plundered by political
stock iobbers !-shall taxation go on increasing =
expenditures swallow up our revenues mo inher-
itance left in reurn?-no roads bridges, no school
houses, no public buildings literally nothing! All
having to depend, after bleeding profusely on pri-
vate lberal'y and enterprise.
Shall such state of things we have hitherto,
and are now witnessing throughout the State, and
in our own County, be continued or not! If not,
let the people speak, and commence at once the
much needed and good work of reform. Let the
voice of tax-ridden people be heard in tones deep
and loud shaking the political horizon like an
earthquake. Let that voice be heard in our ap-
preaching convention in the selection of men for
Office who have the immediate interests of their
constituents at heart men who are ready and will
ling to vote for reform; who will not let
abuses sumber; men who will not be deferred from
the effort to secure the State her interests in
escheated estates; men who are practical in their
views and not like some parents who send their
children to school, and begin geography by study
ing the moon and looking after fixed stars, instead
of learning about what is under their eyes on this
globe where they live men who can see and will
ence to looking after the interests of political hacks.
spectators and jobbers
The voice of the people must be heard it is the
source of power. and being heard, our financial
streams will be ceansed--the Democratic party,
allcays the BEST be purfed-oicial derelictions re-
formed and taxation lessened. Invigorating lite
will be infused into the body polite, roads and
l. b,,;l o,l
public buildings erected the fruit of the taxation
of our people. Otherwise, if the people remain
inactive and do not cry aloud we may expect in
creasing expenditures, continuance Of oppressive
taxation, no reduction of extravagant fees in Office,
no substantial returns for their contributions to the
Public Treasury Indeed, when too late they will
see barren nothingness, and debt resting like an
incurable disease upon the body polite in its inau-
cnce like blighting curse.