The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-11-08
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out ITS spiritand purpose, and thus promote
the welfare OF the people OF our common
country. ,ICheers. l then said that the
debt was tar beyond the official statement.
They said it was only seventeen hundred
millions but to-day they admit that it is
three thousand millions, over and above the
monstrous sum taken from the people by
taxation. II we are not TO allow the South.
ern States place in this Union, and to
make them oo-workers with us in paying
this debt and working out the national pros
perity, your own judgement will trll you
that this debt must continue TO increase. =
Ii the military power is to be kept up over
so vast an extent of country, if the South
is TO be Eeld in subsection, it must be done
at increased cost OF men and money. III,
then. you would avoid more debt and heav-
ier taxation, you must restore 10 the people
of the South, as rapidly as possible, all those
privileges which give life, vitality, and pros
perity to country. Bring your own ex-
perien,e to your aid and you will see that,
whether war is carried on by active exer-
else in the field, or ian army maintained in
time Ct peace in our midst, the result will
be the same-the debt must increase.
If this policy is to be adopted, can the
laboring man maintain himself and family?
When we go back to the time when the
Government tax was light, we were enabled
to reduce the hours of labor and increase
the wages Of the laborer. But let me ask
the laboring man who will increase the wa.
ges Of labor if he is to uphold policy that
will wiring from him the fruits of his toll by
heavy taxation? Cheers. When you go
to your workshop or toll in the field, and
work six hours day, you have earned
enough to support yourself and family, and
may wish to devote your time to intelec-
tual pursuits, by which you may promote
the welfare of others. But when you have
worked six hours, the Government steps in
and says: II want you to work two hours
more to pay the national debt" You know
it must be paid; but you know, also, that
taxation means toll, and that more debt
means more hours of labor. You must
work two hours moro, and you thank God it
is done; but the Government steps in again
and says: You must work still two hours
more to pay the taxes of another class of
men who are exempt from the burdens
which bear so heavily on you. s.,.- .
Now this is the question which every la
boring man can solve for himself, Just
find cut how many hourds you have to toll
to buy your clothes and food, and compare
the prices you have to pay with those on
the other side Of the river, and the differ
ence is exactly the burden cf taxation. AL
though you must work additional hours to
pay the debt. you will de it cheerfully, for
we are not in the repudiating party We
must maintain the public faith we must
keep the compact; but, in the name of God,
let us not increase the debt and the hours of
toll. Cheors. If we have made bad
bargain, we must abide by it; but we claim
the right to say to the Government that
labor and toll shall not alone bear the bur-
den Of the debt, while capital pays no tax
We say to the Government make no more
such bargains, and in the future wipe out
this injustice of unequal taxation. IF You
lock upon the questions involved in the is
sue now before you, you will need no urging
to maintain the policy of Andrew johnson,
We ask you to adopt the policy which will
make others cheerful coworkers with us,
and not to sanction policy which crushcs
the fruits of labor and rctards the rcstora-
tion of the Union. ,'..
This is not merely n question Of how we
shall treat States that wish to return to the
North more than the South it concerns the
laboring interests of the North. The great
burden of paying the debt must fall upon
the laborer instead of the capitalist. Be-
ware then, how you sustain a policy which
barters away your own rights. Beware, my
friends from foreign lands, how you sustain
a party that threatens 70 violate the Consti-
tuition against the men of the South. Take
cere, as you value your own prosperity, that
you do not unwittingy increase the de;t al
ready so large that you see officers, for the
first time in the history of this country,
placed along the whole frontier, at your ex-
pense, to prevent your buying the neccssa-
ries of life as cheaply as possible This po-
Icy is the result Of the debt which you are
taxed in this way to pay.