The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-07-11
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,egNot qa E--4---9 $50 25T
There is, to,dayin this broad land, says
cotemporary, many an earnest, honest,
hopeful working man, breastiDg the waves
Of adversity, his stout Heart cliDgihg oto
the picture he sSes away of in the far
future, of a home of, his owp. purchased
| with the savings Of bis weekly toll, To
be Sure, to day be has no savings; thS
great war debt, with i,s'taSes upon him,
patsuplhis little surplns.ls The enhanced
price of, the, necessgiesl lof life growing
out Of tie paper currency-the financial
I'shinplasttr curse upon him and his-he
has to stagger under Hehas no surplus
,newl;, buthe hopes on, hopes evor. He
secs, the little bone, and a decent ward-
robe, and three lueals day for him, and,
Ehis4a Beautiful dream !! away off in the
distunt futhreh' For the present.; all is
dark and gloomy land If it were not for
hope, his heart you'd sinkrwithin him -
He struggles on in poverty and self dei
NAL! his children are ragged and ignOr-
ant he works and earns Els ten or
twelve dollars week, but the landlord
and. the butcher, :he baker and the coal
dehler, take all his money for are they
not taxed. trebly taxed, and he has to
foot the bill2 He realizes that he, as 0
consumer, mustsufer through these tax.
ies that the people must bleed at every
pore, but for wbatII4Le the complain
ing tax. layer, who cannot educate his
children, and feed and .clothe them, as
formerly, read and judge for himself =
The Negro Bureau wants 81 l,5S4 500 for
| negro necessities down South The coming
fiscal year. What sum !r-almost equal
to the entire cost of supporting the Gov
ernment Of tho United States thirty
years agol Negro c,mmission Es, Sl7,-
800; negro clerks, Sl2,S00; negro print
ing and paper, S63 900; negro fuel, .Sl5,-
600; negro wardrobe, 81 ,O5o, 900 ; me-
gro food, 81, lO6,l50 negro doctoring,
.$5O0O0Q; ncgrorailrOad riding, $1,000
negro. school marms, So 900 J; negro
school houses, $500, 900; negro telegraph
ing, SIS 900, &c, &c. Working men of
the North! your lamiliosarc made bp the
present fanatical party in power white
tsaycs Your task is placed before you;
and is SO plain that you cannot mistake
Lii, You are 10 toll and sweat 50 that the
negro may have Sll,5S4,5O0, incomfolts,
| though yoq aud yours may die on tho
roadside, though the laber. which alone
! gives this vast sum'to the lazy, worthless
pegroes of the, South. You need not
| memorable your State Legislature for an
eight hour day law. 1t will be in vain
| for you to expect higher returns for your
| labor. You will be compelled to work
longer and take less pay per day for i
! than ever, ~. order that four millions Of
lipdolcnt, Ignorant and good for nothing
negroes may be maintained in idleness at
| your expense. Since thu formation Of
| The Government up to the present hour,
| the work. of Democrats has always been
| to repair tlc political and social damage
the old Federal or Tory isctiODists, when.
eyer they got into power have uniformly
pcrpetyated, Democratic administration
have always righted the abuses which The
innate corruption of their political enc
mics, when, by accident or ehanccry
hey obtained ibc .rsins of the Govern
mcnt, always committed. Tho great re
form, VIC trust, will commence with tthc
present year but the job of the AugeaI
! Stables in former tines was child's,play
to the work now, on hand, While Tho
: Eblundeis, financial, moral and poilioal
I disgrace, the whole country, and ar,
}, bringing ruin, ini their, train, the true re
formers ,shQgld pot be- odishcar,eucio bu
] should puttheir shoulders imanfully t
thaS work, and again, as 10 times past an
gore, enlgayor to get The CID ship @
> State Gn2S more on the. right track With
; Deuocrqtic filqtat, the helms sapd q Dem
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