Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-11-04
Bond end Free-and Free Bonds.

Working men of America-who made
the law that you should toll all youl life
to pay the billions Of taxes heaped upon
us
Why should the poor men and women
who have given their earrings-thcr sons
their relativos-their blood 10 subdue
the rebellion now closed, not only pay for
all the feast of blood, but support in idle.
ness the towards who dare not fight and
the rich men who hold bonds exempt by
congressional but not cor stitut;onsl enact
meut from taxation Who made The
poor-the Iaboriug man, woman and child
slaves to debt
Why should you pay any man for being
rich :
When this war began, Thomas Smith
owned farm. 1t was a good larm-he
sold it for twenty thousand dollars, and
put the money in bank. He was I" 10y
al' man-that is, man who is ia iavoi---
Of abclitonism,
OF mohs,
Of military trials,
OF arbitrary arrests,
Of false imprisonments,
Of total disregard Of the Constitution
for the laws and for civil rights.
During ths reign of Lincoln, the above
qualifications were the test of loyalty.
Smith had contract and made hundred
thousand dollars, the one half of which
he divided among Generals, Senators, and
Republican lobbyists. When tho war
was over, Smith had seventyfve thous-
and dollars. He invested it in bonds ex.
empt from taxation, and receives every
three months over seven per cent interest,
amounting to five thousand and nipsty.
seven dollars year.
Smith is rich-loyal, and man Of
means. He wears broadcloth, gets drunk
does as he pleases, and no one dare qucs-
tcn him. He has seventy-fve thousand
dollars in government bonds-He does
not have farlhing oftax to pay-his for
tune is made.
When this war begun Robert Jones
owned q farm worth twenty thousand dol
lars. He kept it-went 10 war--fought--
returned. He found his farm taxed five.
thousand dollars by his stay.at-homc
neghbors to raise boauty money to give
men to erfmpt them from the draft HI
finds his property Observation-Disclosures
taxed to raise money to clear his 10y.
al neighbors from war
And Robert Jones learns that he car
not sell COW, horse crop of grain or hay
but it is taxed. He must help build roads
bridges, school houses, jails churches, anC
pay the current expenses of his town
county, city, state and nation. He toll.
early and late. His wife sells eggs, but
ter, cheese, poultry and the products Of hu
loom. His children wear coarse goods
sells berries, wild fruit and game from tt
field, river or forest TO help along. Tht
best COW goes in tho spring-the bes
horse goes in the fall to pay taxes.
Thomas Smith has seventy five thous
and dollars in government bonds, by
republican administration made exemp
from taxation. He lives at case, pays 90
a cent of taxes for any purpose whatever
and then by law compells Robert Jonc
to toll to pay taxes, aud work a few hour
extra each week to pay him, Smith, inter
est money on his fortune beside.
Look at this
We are talking to the Robert Jones c
America now-to the laboriug men OF ou
country, aud not to the uPholders, VIII
are by republican bOudocratic admin:
tration protected IN their wealth.
Democracy made this nation what
was when the war commenced--a ricl
happy and prosperous peOp.
Democracy favored equal t'Kat'op-
equal 'r3'V"n'iSi'i"