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

These prices were furnished by gro
Gerry and dry goods house at st. Paul,
where prices are cheaper than in remote
central localities far from the river. These
prices or taxes are what we now pay for
Lincolns first term. They are lust as e
much taxes levied by Abraham Lincoln
and payable out Of our pockets under the
severaat penalties of suffering as if we had
to walk up to. our County Treasurers
Office and pay over to him the extra
price on each article. We pa, these while
our labor yields us very little more than
in ordinary times under Democratic rule
One days work used to enable the DOOR,
est lab0rer to buy calico dress for his wife.
Now it takes three days. labor to do it.
One bushel of wheat used to buy eight or
ten pounds of sugar. Now it takes three
bushels. And SO on with nearly every
other article.
At this rate how long will it he before
all these articles are entirely out of
poor mans reach. Coffee is go already.
It has disappeared from our tables and We
have rye, peas, chiokory and other sub.
stances drugged and compounded with
mixtures injurious to health and unpalat-
able to the taste. II you have an office
under Mr.. Lincoln or shoddy contract,
you may drink coffee. But if only poor
man, rye, peas and chickory are yours to
drink-cofee you can only smell. It still
has the odor vouohsafed to US. so 9ag'
Shall We continue on in policies and
with rulers with such record a. il here
presentedf Shall we not have q changes
Gan any change make our condition woFeef
When you have had q doctor four years
who has promised to cure you In .sixty
days." and has been promising that every
year shall be the last of your sufferinas,
while You have only been getting worse
and worse the whole time, and q bill of
charges piled up against you which are
mortgage on half your property and
threaten to swallow it all, are you gong
70 continue to employ him four years
longer, while here stands your old family
physician that has always attended you in
every sickness and your fathers FAM
lily before You for sixty years past with
excellent success and light bills, Offering
to restore health and comfort, and point.
ing to his past practice to prove his ability
to do as be agrees. g..b.'lig ,s1ses
The old Physician is the Democratic
party. You turned it off to employ. q
ouack and mountebank, and you have
found out your sad mistake. Thousands
have found it out in Pennsylvania, in Con-
necticut, in Delaware, in Maine, in Ohio. 4
and in Indiana, and the Democratic gains
in the recent elections there of over one
hundred thousand votes, show that thew
are determined to correct the mistakes
and return to sound principles. We have /,
but short time to do this From. now
till the 6th November let every man who, il
convinced Of the evils of LincOlnism. con-
vince bis neighborsa and work night and day
for those principles which alone car IS.
store health and soundness TO. the hodv
polite. Work to bring every vote to, the
polls. Work to list every mans name so
that none may be overlooked. Now i tbe
last opportunity Let this be lost and q
long night Of despotism sets ia uDon us /,
whose starless shadows will rival, Egyptian, i
darkness and the end of which no, man can, /
fOresee.
JOHN B. BRISBTN, Chairman.
iH JOHN A. PECKHAM, 2o.' g4fsi1fa
ses a. ROBERT A. SMITH. s..,sg *,
WINTHROP YOUNG, t'ss'
w. w. PHELPS,
Democratic State Central Committee.