Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-06
Ube Anti 5lauerp BuaIe.
LET THE PEOPLE THINK.


slept while the cunning have thought. Thus far
a few havelmanaged all governments and institu.
tions for their private interests, and every interest
OF the governing class has been opposed to the
interests of the governed whose rights and indus
try have been sacrificed to maintain an aristocracy
OF money of learning and of fashion. There is
manya moneycrat who is for every reform thai
does not touch the injustice by which his money
is obtained There is many a sage in literature
and science who is glad to hear all doctrines ag
tated that do not strike at the conditions under
which his emoluments and honors derived. II
often happens that the clergyman, physician and
lawyer are found admitting the abstract truthful
ness of the whole reform creed but ore certain to
believe in the utter impraccability Of every doc
trine that anticipates the third dispensation when
their professions will be dispensed with. The
landocrat believes in anti-slavery but swears hor-
ribly at Land Reform and sometimes poor man
is found believing in Land Reform but despising
the negro and cursng abolitionism. The devotee
of Fashion is often found enthusiastic for freedom
and woman's rights, but having no idea that all
the expense of high style falls upon both the black
aud the white slave and especially on millions of
women annually crucifed at the shrine of Fashion,
III pTuCtlcal point VI VlcW HellDeT w OulenS
Rights nor Anti-Slavery are of the least value
without Land Reform but theoretically they are
of infinite value in educating the people u Human
Rights and breaking down the prescriptive spirit
of sel6shness. Think Of four millions of slaves
added to ten millions of homeless whites, and the
earth all monopolized by the speculating BIAS
phemers! Rut for all that abolition is none the
less true.
Is it not strange that the people cannot under.
stand Aow it is they are robbed of full half
their toll besides being plundered of an indepcn-
dent estate at the moment of attaining twenty-one
years of age? Take simple illustration. Sugar
is a shilling pound-at least seventyfve per
cent higher than it would be were it not for the
Tariff that article for the protection of fourteen
hundred slaveholdng planters in Louisiana. To
sustain these nabobs every poor man at the North
as we'll as South is compelled far as this article
is concerned, to work nearly two days for one
that is to work day for the arstocrat for every
day he works to supply his family with sugar. SO
of every other article on which there is tariff for
the support of government Why is the tariff
maintained? Simply to exempt the properly
holders from taxation for the general government.
About fifty millions annually raised in this
way-hslf of which is paid by the poor who own
no property, and the balance by those who own
fifteen billions of wealth! The property holders
control everything, and then lay one half of the
whole burden Of the government upon the poor
by taxing his garments, his sugar, &c. This
magnaninious legislation is still more interesting
when it is considered that in the expenditure off
these fifty millions the whole of it is thrown into
the hands of the rich who in every instance get
two dollars in money for every one of actual SER
vice which they render the nation in return
Beautiful isn't it and yet the people stand it,
Again. Four hundred millions of the wealth of
Ohio has been taken from the poor and given to
the rich, and every year a poor works he
gives the rich man one days hard toll for every
day that gives him bread. Thus the hardest
toilers of our State give S4O00OOOO annually to
the rich And then upon this half the value
of his labor which he does receive the tariff levies
pluEder-seventy-fv per cent on sugar.
But more than this After the poor man has
then reared to majority, that is then
robbed of one thousand dollars the moment he |
leaves his fathers roof. Having natural right
to q farm without cost, and having the natural
right to take it by only going over the line of the
last settler it would be worth at least thousand
dollars every cent of which is taken from the un-
fortunate son of parental poverty, and given to
the speculator And it is the speculator alone
who keeps up this system for his own selfish pur-
poses!
Further still. Cross the ocean to free England
and the aristocrats are not satisfied with the land
exempted from taxation to great extent by
taxing everything poor man consumes, but they
extend their plunder through the air and the
waters so that those natural provisions for sus-
tanning life that wing the air and swim the sea
lake and river are placed beyond the reach of
hungry man and his famshing family. II a
starving wretch his life by dining on wood
cock he is liable to the penitentiary, upon
fish he is subject to q fine How completely is
the poor stripped in the most enlightened and
Christian nations I!
But this plunder does not stop here. After
being stripped of everything which God made for
all his children. after being taxed to relieve the
rich from the burden of their protection, and
after being compelled to work two days for one by
the operation OF the system of society founded on
Land Monopoly. the poor man is then compelled to
to pay about twenty-five per cent. more for
his food and raiment than the rich. The one is
compelled TO purchase Oy the Small quantity wnie
the other can lay in gross supply at wholesale
prices The unjust system in which we are in
volved makes every article of goods dearer than
it otherwise would be. The credit system adds
ten per cent to everything. Land Monopoly !
makes poor people, poor people make bad debts at
the stores. and the merchant must add profit
enough to balance his losses.
And so it goes. Let the people think.
l.. A. HINE. Il