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


Total. ......... .&5,071, ,484,7 ,732 II
Now take any of these and our debt
will foot from $S, 900, 900, 900 to $6, ,000,-
100000, entailing heavier interest to be
paid every year than the debt of England
which it took centuries to accumulate.
Lincoln has accumulated 1t 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
Republican Congressman from Michigan,
Mr.. Baldwin-who figured our debt (Which
has increased nearly 81 ,0O0, 900, 900 sinoe)
at $3, 600, 900, 900, and the annual inter-
est Of each Congressional District at
81 100000. We in Minnesota have two
Congressional Districts-making our ''quo-
ia" saso millions Of dollars epery 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 $4,000 to 500, 900 per year
to pay. The immense accumulations 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 $4,000, 900 every
year7 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 o. And mark you, these
bondholders are exempt from tzration-
an aristooracy Of wealth removed from
the burdens Of war and debt, and drawing
their interest in gold (for so the bonds
ready, while you must take greenbacks at
only thirty-eight to forty-6ve cents on the
dollar-for they are a legal tender for
every debt due you.
Was there ever q monarchy in Europe or
despotism in Asia based upon more un-
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 slaves7
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?
HAL2 onR PROPERTY ALREADY SWALLOWED
By L1NCOLNs ADMINISTRATION.
But these are not the only taxes. Every
mans farm to-day in Minnesota Is mort
gagged to the amount of one-haf its value.
A mortgage! How every poor man breads
it, and will bear poverty and privation be-
fore he viii sign mortgage which may
turn him out Of his home! Yet lincoln
has mortgaged every farm without our
signatures. The National debt of from
$4,000, ,0000,0 900 to $4,000, ,O00, 900, in
oreasing at the rate of 5000, 900 per day,
is lien upon every acre Of soil in Amer
ica. Figure 1t 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 1t. You
wish to return to your native land. You
sell for 6ve dellars per acre, and do we'll to
get what 1t cost you in greenbaoks. You
take the "money legal tenders-Lin-
coin skins, &c., aud 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
W Ciiaigo your glcouuaCN IutO BOlu Or
foreign exchange. In doing go you must
pay two dollars for one. What have you
got for your farm thenp You paid $500; {;
you've got $40O. What has become of
the other $4OO? 1t has gone to pay Lin.
coins mortgage. 1t just took hayf you,.
land to pay that mortgage. Now figure
on at 3,000,000 per day for another four
years of Linc0Inisns, and hoep much of
your farm will be left? Is it not plain that
ali ariA be sec0howed By the mortgage ]?
Ruin and bankruptcy must follow if we
have another term Of Lincolnism and war
and extravaganza. a nation can no more
endure such course of extravaganza and
waste, and stoppage Of all industrial pur-
suits, than an individual can.
THK GOOD TIMES PROMISED By LINCOLN XIX
AHMED.
But this is not all yet We pay taxes on
what We eat, taxes on what we wear, taxes
on our business, taxes on our profession,
taxes on every deed, bill of sale, power Of
attorney, check, receipt or certificate,
taxes on all we touch, taste, handle, see or
smell, taxes from the cradle that first re-
cruits us to tee grave that finally closes
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