The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-11-01

tell Us to boyr0U the amount necessary to
foot the bill? Is that the right kind OF
6nanciering?
Are our railroads about to begin a new
career of Liberal management" by borrow.
ing money for Improvement" and Dor
ro~ing money 70 pay diride.ds7 Are new
railroads TO be built through every Western
prairie door yard without a copper of bona
fde capital, exeep. what is borrowed in Wall
street at destruction rates? Are our mer.
chants now about to lei out sail, go in big.
give long credits, and rush headIong into
difficulty. expecting to ''get through" by
borrowings Are our farmers to run into
debt again for lands, and mortgage their
homesteads to build railroads? Are debts
to be piled upon debts until the whole na
ton shall groan and travail again in bank
rup,cy, and the people wildly stare al each
other a mighty host OF borroners2 Whal
say?
| Now is the time to answer. We mean
you, President Buchanan, and you, who
are to be. } President Lincoln. and demand
that in the exercise of your power you shall
firmly resolve that h-nceforth the "pay as
you go" principle shall be unt1inchingly
adopte We mean you. Governor Nor
gan. ofthis glorious Empire State. and you,
every other Governor. whoever you are,
and demand that the myriads of leeches
which hang around you and our legislative
halls, crying give. give, shall be spurnro
from your presence. and sent to-their own
place. We demand that your feet shall be
planted upon all debt making enactments
and that you speedily inaugarate new pol
icy Of debt liquidation
! We mean you. Mayor Wood. Your honor
one above all others who seems bent on
the most extravagant expenditure of tn
peoples money for most corrupt party pur
pos-s, with no thou Int whatever of where
said money is to come from. We mean
you, certainly. your honor. We mean you.
banker in Wall street, about to make new
loan with which to bolster yourself in an
other grand speculation. We mean YOU,
stock spectators. whose only capital is
brass,-you bulls and bears, the whole ami
nal race OF you. dealers in Erie, Harlem.
Pumpkin Vine, Lower Region. Moonshine,
and Submarine railroad securities PIE se
stop where you are, for we have positive
advices'' that all securities are going L.
smash We mean YOU merchant princes
at this particular lone desired moment OF
returning prosperity. and warn you to shun
the terrible malestrom into which tho sand
in 1857 sank to rise no more. We mea
you, whoever you are, who are making plans
to do business on borrowed capital b
ware-step carefully! We mean YOU. youn !,
men with fast horses aud unset led talors'
bils-you who drink and smoke out more
than half your salary, and expect your boot
maker. laundress. boarding house keeper
and your poor father perhaps. to stand BY
! as sufferers and mourners. We mean min
listers as well as laymen; we mean every
body;-yes, we mean women as we'll meu
land urge them to owe man anything
but love- We mean you in the city, you
in the country, you in the village. you in
the workshop, and you by the treside, and
urge you no longer to swell the ranks ot
borrowers and debtors, but now at this au
spicious moment. in this unparalleled season
of prosperity now dawning upon Us to make
one grand struggle for INDEPENDENCE.