Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-09-05
and Mechanics, Something for
You to Think Over.


The New York Tribune, the other day, re-
marked that Our country, formerly one Of
the cheapest, Is becoming one of the dearest
places to live in. Once. " further added the
Tribune, g it was the paradise OF honest la
bor; to-day it is the paradise Of dishonest
speculation"
And humorous Josh Billings in one of his
faceJious sketches truthtully observes that in
the good old daze there waz more fun in
thirty cents than there is now in seven dol
lars aud hall"
Every man working for hving; eating his
bread in the sweat Of his face toiling early
and late against discoursgements and trials to
support his family and pay huge share Of
his wages TO tax gatherers and internal reve-
nue. collectors and assessors, knows these
facts to be true; all classes but tie favored
and pampered bondholders know this to be
the case, but it is something new Tor Greedy
to make the admission.
Working-men, hoodwinked, seduced, ca
ioed into supporting the Republican party,
lust sit down here and tell us-when was
this country the Paradise of honest labor
Don't be in hurry to answer-think few
moments. You had rather not ansWerl'
Well. we should think you would prefer not
TO do so but we will tell you. It was in
the good old Democratic, hard-money and
free trade days before AbohtionIsm, section
alism, niggerism, false and pernicious John
Brown, Thad Stevens and Charles Sumner
ideas had turned your brain aud the brain Of
tens of thousands of men IN your condition
of lile-when you were content to " let well
enough alone" and believed that your faith
ers knew fully as much as their progress
i've sons Of sound governmental policy and
a wise iudicious administration OF public af-
fairs
You received for wages in those days gold
and silver-such money as Californian sent
US the other day for his subscripion-such
curiosities as you show your children nova
days. whose metalIc ring speaks TO you OF
other and better days. You did not receive
the promise of three or four dollars for your
days labor, but you did receive two and two
and half real dollars, which went further
and served you better than the himsy stuff
you now receive.
Put your hand in your pocket-let US see
some Of your Republican money! Nice
stuff, isn't it? That handful of postal cur
rency looks as though each piece might have
been used to cover a foul ulcer or sinking
store! Bah Call that money? That
greenbaek makes pretty picture, don't 1t
But does it look, and with all its crispness,
sound as we'll as the circular bits of metal
bearing the dear face OF Liberty? That por-
trais in one corner-you know it, Of course
that is the second Washington" as loyal
men termed him-that is the counterfeit
presentmentn of the "balm OF 10000 Abo-
litiou flowers dear, precious, glorious Mr.
Lincoln, who was too food for earth, and
was transplanted to another sphere
When Liberty was murdered Lincoln's ca
dayerous face, bis LAM; jaws. were depicted
on the money of the Republic-as the head
of a new king is stamped upon the coin OF
the realm on the death of his predecessor
Nice man Lincoln was-but we are not sorry
be has gone to that " undiscovered country,
&c. That pompous looking chap with coat
butoned up, is the great inventor of Green
Oac1s-the man who Chased gold and silver
out of your pockets and out of the country,
and taught men the art of making money as
printers do backing labels-With steam
presses. The greenbacks make pretty pic
lures, and the colors are bright but after all
you can't cheat yourself into the belief that
the trash is really and truly money" can
you?
Somehow yon don't get along on your big
Republican wages as you did in the Demo-
cratic times Did you ever figure up what
you pay in the shape Of extra taxes in a hun
dred ways. Just try it, and you won't Won
der that It is so hard to live. In those pass
ed-and-gon days Of Democracy you had no
taxation, no inflated currency, no odious pro-
tective tariffs, no class legislation, no bond
holding aristocracy, no great national debt, no
PettiloggiDg Rnmp Congress.
A party of whining zealots, fanatical e1-
perimentalists, mischief f-making busy bodies,
kept up an agitation en- the slavery question
until they forced the masses of people to en-
gage in it-working men, farmers, mechan-
les, enlisted in the crusade, and war follow
ed-you thought it was for the Union, and
the Constitution and flag, didn't Ou?-but
the Rump" Congress tells you a different