The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-24
.-AaWorii tn Business Mem.

to having anything to do with politics.
They are, however, on the other hand,
always on the alert to attend to those
matters which relate to their pecu-
mary or business interests, and justly
SO. Their occupation is to make
money, to develop their material
wealth, and, to safely guard that
which, with hard work and favoring
/ fortune, they have acquired. - pseaa.
We are approaching a. political
campaign, weighty in its issues,
and-which bids fair to be full of ex-
element and holly contested by the
political parties engaged IN it. The
questions involved are, partly politi-
cal, but some of them are of purely
commercial character and it is in
reference to the latter that we desire
to say a word to our business men.
To that class Of them who have acted
with the Union party in the past, or
have been Indifferent spectators of
politics, we declare that there never
was time when your own interests
SO urgently demanded your attention
to the correct settlement Of the issues
before the people as in the present
campaign. And if you withhold your
influence from the right adjustment of
these questions, you will be doing
yourself and the commercial interests
of this country an incalculable mis-
chief. .9Ijl6l 3 EJIA4ttiSl
Your prosperity in business never
before depended so much upon the
manner in which the financial affairs
of the Government were administered
as at the present time,o Theinviolabil-
ity of our national credit, the sacred
ness of our public debt and the prompt
payment of the interest, the faithful
fulfilIment Of the pledge made by the
Government to the holders sOf our
National Bonds, the right control of
the currency of the country, and a
just assessment of the national taxes,
are questions Of the most vital impor-
lance to every business man in this
community You cannot in Justice TO-
your own interests wrap yourselves up
in your business and shut your eyes to
the issues to be decided by the coming
campaign. You must have something
to do with politics, if you would have
these important interests protected
{ The Democratic party openly advo-
cate, in their State platforms, and by
their public men, the taxation of the
national bonds, which were issued to
the people on the pledged faith ofItRef
Government that they would be ex-
empt from taxation, and in that pledge
they are held by you. This pledge the
Democratic party declares its inten-
ton, as soon as placed in power, to
break, The National Banks are now
by law and by TIT acquieseence, of the
mercantile public, the only medium of
finance and exchange, the instruments
by which the commercial affairs of
the country are carried on and regu-
lated. In them you have invested
your surplus capital, from them you
derive the aid needed in the purchase
efyour stocks, and in your business
returns. The Democratic party de-
clare an inEeterate war against all Ma
tional Banks, as they have for the.past
forty years. The embarrassment of
these banks, of itself, would bring
ppqnthe country such a financial panic
as would PROSTATE business and
spread ruin among all mercantile cir
Giles. Such an event is the sure con-
sequence of the success of the Dem
ocratic party. o.
One of the great hobbies of that
party is their hue and cry against tax
alton and the burdens of our enor-
nous @debt. Some of the leaders go
SO Tar as to, say that the National
Debt must and will be repudiated, as
an unjust and intolerable burden.
Nothing is so repugnant and sensitive
to Republication as business honor and
mercantile. faith Our credit abroad
and our prosperity at home are indis-
solubly linked with the sacred fulfill
ment of all our financial obligations.
The resources of this country are
.boundless, and its wealth il. equal to
the magnitude of the debt, which is
the price we have paid for the saliva
ton Of the country; and it would be
the suicide of the nation now, to re-
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