Des Arc citizen., 1866-06-02

There are of seven -twonties $25, 900 l There are of six-fortes 25,000
 And the seven-thirties 25,000 I And the ten-twenties ae 26,000 l
 $lO0O00
 Now one hundred thousand dollars is noth- ing, yet it is quite a little plum. When the war began l wasn't worth q copper, unless it was in debts. Now l am well off But I am a cunning cussl Didn't make war speeches, l and denounce Democrats, and mob copper ] heads.' and go 1t strong for the Union? You bet Ha ha ha ha But the fools are not all dead. Some of them are---that is, they were :. killed. And didn't get the poor people to enlist and fight to preserve the Union? Damn the Union, if 1 only get office and hold bonds. l That's what makes the cream elevate itself!
 And then didn't l go in for bounties, and go it strong on patriotism and play 1t big on 1 loyalty? Guess not Oh mol Guess patri- otism dof't pay Look at these little fellows with figures on the face, and these coupons on the end of them! How are you, my suffer ing country?
 It takes a smart man to keep out of war himself and entice others to go. The boun- ties is what fetched emg You see they went to fight.
 From all the towns, cities and counties,
 To war they went to get the bountes
 Some were killed
 And some were wounded,
 Some were shot
 And some were drowned. l And some, when sthis cruel war was over" come back. l had farm 1 sold it and put my money in bonds. Bonds beat farms ten to nothingl And I speculated in ssstutf.p And l sold stuff to the soldiers. And 1 got their bounty money ou shares. And I filled | fr,rr la r.to Ia ha,I h that. And put my cash in bonds.
 Bonds are just oldrosewood with gilt edge. Let me see. 1 have now one hundred thou sand dollars in government bonds. How love my country It is the best the sun ever shone on These bonds average me eight l per cent interest in gold. Eight per cent. on one hundred thousand dollars is just eight thousand. And get it in gold, worth thir- ty-fve to forty-ive per cent. premium. This makes, in greenbacks, the snug little sum of eleven thousand dollars--round numbers.
 And the beauty of it is don't have one cent of taxes to pay.
 Isn't it nice
 This is the best government the world ever saw. Rich men hold bonds--poor men pay them The tax gatherer don't bother me. It don't cost me one red cent to--let me see:
 To pay State expenses
 To pay Government expenses!
 To paycounty taxes
 To pay city taxes l To pay village taxes
 1 To pay town taxes! Hsh | To pay school taxes To pay road taxes!
 | To pay poor taxes!
 To pay for building churches, school houses, bridges, railroads, improvements. Good thing! lift had not been for such loud mouthed ay-at-home guards, the war never would have been ended. And the soldiers bounties Ecod that is the best joke of the 1 season. u4u
 You see we raised them by taxation, of course. And we taxed the property-the real estate of the town. And we issued town bonds, city bonds, county bonds, State bonds, and every other kind of bonds. And we sold l 'em dog cheap to get money to pay bounties. l And us fellows bought the bonds at dis count. And we gave the volunteers money 1 to go to war. And while they were gone we 1 had good time. And we sold our farms cheap to the wives of the soldiers. And we got our bounty money all back. | And better still The soldiers come back from the war and now are working to pay taxes to pay interest on my bonds Isn'ti nice
 The d-d fools went to war, and now i COlue DdcA bO ptty us tuc llJcTcSt OH tlc DOIuS we sold to give them money.--They are pay ing themselves for getting shot, aud bully for, us bond hodersl
 And now they work to pay the interest. When they get used to it we'll make lem pay the principal too. What 8 good Government thisis.
 This war didn't cost me ceat I didn't spill a drop of my blood-but, key -rhist how | bawled out against the democrats.
 And now sit in my parlor-I smoke my cigar-I drink my winel enjoy myself. and have no taxes to pay. Look at that poor cuss across the creek. He ain't worth thousand dollars, yet he, poor dog, is in debt, and pays half his earnings in taxes, and then his wife sells butter, eggs, wooden yarn, milk yegeta- bles, and such little things to get the money to put in the bank to pay me the interest on my one hundred thousand dollars, as it falls due every three months.
 You see this is financial science. Poor men support the Government, pay all the taxes, make us richer, do all the fighting. Us bond holders, olfice-holders, and such patriots, do the figuring, get the offices, the money, and have good time of it..
 Now eat fine food, while that poor cuss over the way eats eoaDse. And 1 wear broad cloth. he wears patches. And my wife faunts her silk and swing her balmoral skirts under the nose of that poor mans wife, for l am rich, taxless bondholder, and he is poor cuss who supports the Government and me too.
 Work away, you yoor fools. Toii your fin gers to the bone, and die poor men for my sake The war was a godsend to thieves, swindlers, towards, stayat-home patriots, abolition agitators, republican oflicehoders, robbers, and, in fact. all of our crowd of Un- ion voters Damn the Union, if we can only hold bonds and otices and keep the people i'll poverty.
 Guess this wasn't rich mans war-guess not. And guess you folks don't go for equal taxation or repudiaiion-for it is wrong to in- jure us chaps who support the Government.