The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-11-04


departments. As the war ia
certain to last one year more If
Lincoln is reelected, the appro- g..
priations for 1865 will be- . 800, oOO 900 90
The aggregate permanent ap-
preparations made for the SEES
siOns above named, according
ing to standing laws from year
70 year are ................ S46, 3OV, 95l az
IOVA. $o,VIl 464, I3Z IL
Now take any of these and our debt
will foot upfrom 81, OOO, 900, 900 to IS, OOO,-
100000, entailing heavier interest to be
paid every year than the debt of England
which it took centuries to accumulate.
Lincoln has accumulated it in four years.
Distribute this interest among our Con-
gressional Districts which are the bases
upon which we will be taxed, and the least
amount we have heard estimated was by a
Republican Congressman from Michigan,
Mr.. Baldwin-who figured our debt (Which
has increased nearly 81 ,0O0, 900, 900 since)
at IS, 600, 00O, 900, and the annual inter-
est Of each Congressional District at
100000. We in Minnesota have TWO
Congressional Districts-making our ''quo-
ia" saso millions Of dollars every year.
We only have debt Of $3.50, 900 now
to pay interest on; and to pay the inter
est on this and our State expenses we only
have about $50, 900 to $780, per year
to pay. The immense accommodations of
delinquent taxes show how hard it has
been for Us to pay this, even when prices
were low for all the peoessaries of life.
How shall we now pay 100000 every
year? It is impossible without mortgsg.
ing our farms, our muscles, our children
and ourselves, to be hewers o. wood and
drawers of water for the holders of the Gov
ernment bonds az And mark you, these
bondh0lderS are exempt from tardtion-
an a-istocracy of wealth removed from
the burdens Of war and debt, and drawing
their interest an gold (for 80 the bonds
ready, while you must take greenbacks at
only thirty-eigh. to forty-6ve cents on the
dollar-for they are legal tender for
every debt due you.
Was there ever monarchy in Europe or
despotism in Asia based upon a more I'M
equal system Of taxation. making the rich
richer and the poor poOrer-a country of
lords and vassals-of mobiles and serfs--of
masters and slaves2
Was this the picture We were promised
in 1860, when Lincoln flags were flying
and We were told to vote for "Lincoln and
Liberty for change and for "the good
time coming7" Have we not been de-
ceived by these men? Have they not be-
trayed as almost to our ruin?
HALF onR PROPERTY ALREADY SWALLOWED
By LHCOLN's ADMINISTRATION.
But these are not the only taxes. Every
mans farm to-day in Minnesota Is mort
gagged to the amount of one-half its value.
A mortgage! How every poor man breads
it, and will bear poverty and privation be-
fore he will sign a mortgage which may
turn him out Of bis home! Yet Lincoln
has motgaged every farm without our
signatures. The National debt of from
"a. 900, O000, 900 to $4,000, 600, 900, in
oreasing at the rate of s., 600, 900 per day,
is lien upon every acre Of soil in Amer
lea. Figure it out. You are German,
or Swede, or an Irishman or Canadian,
for instance, and purchased your farm at
five dollars per acre, or it has cost you this
in your own improvements.
This is $500 you have paid for it. You
wish to return to your native land. You
sell for Eve dellars per acre, and do we'll to
get what it cost you in greenbacks. You
take the "money legal tenders-Lin-
coin skins, &c., and learn that it is worth
nothing in Germany, Sweden or Ireland.
Money there means gold and silver, or
! what will draw gold and silver. You have
to change your greenhscks into gold or
foreign exchange In doing go you must
pay two dollars for one. What have you
got for your farm then You paid $500 ;
you've got $400. What has become of
the other $500? 1t has gone to pay Lin
coins mortgage. 1t just took half you,
land to pay that mortgage. Now figure
on at 100000 per day for another four
years Of Lincoln,sns, and hoep much OF
your farm will be left? Is it not plain that
ali o7iA be S,c0to'ved By tie mortgage =?
Rain and bGniruptcy must follow if we
have another term Of Lincolnism and war
and extravaganza. 4 nation can no more
endure such course of extravaganza and
waste, and stoppage Of all industrial pur-
suits, than az individual can.
, TIE COOP TIMES PROMISED By LINCOLN XIX
AHMED.
Bat this is not al, vet Wepay taxes oa
what We eat, taxes On what We wear, taxes
on our business, taxes On our profession,
taxes on every deed bill of sale, power CT
attorney, cleck, receipt or cerrilca5e,
taxes on ali We touch, taste, handle, see or
smell. taxes from the cradle that irsi re-
csui,3 lis 70 tie grave that finally closes
the acc,u5,t and discharges us from Abra-