The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-03-14
ASHLAND, OHIO. WEDNESDAY, MARCH IL. 1866
You are poor man. Your neighborl

is rich one. 49,, (. t-,e
He holds bonds---sits about his Office
Or the saloenl y He drives fast horse -
His wife fauuts her silk in your face
His safe ia, full of bonds. Every three
months be goes to the bank and finds gold
there for him, He builds no railroads by
taxation, for his property In bonds is ex-
empt. He has a million jof dollars -
His income is seventy thousand dollars q
year. He does nothing, for the govern
ment protects him at your expense. Aft
ter you have toiled the forenoon away fof
yourself, you toll the afternoon away to
pay gold into the bank for him---to pay
extra taxes, stamps, duties and expenses
consequent upon the success Of republi-
canism. !
Democracy protected the poor.
Democracy taught economy.
Democracy was in favor Of equal rights.
Democracy was the friend Of the people.
Democracy taxed the rich and the poor
alike. E g "a
Democracy gave each man reward for
his labor. :
Democracy gave us hard money, al
ways at par in any country.
Democracy respected the laws, gloried
in the honored constitution, and he'd
each state in its sacred folds as mother
holds her child.
Democracy minded its own business,
and made the country fit for the spoiler
death. and the hand Of the dessolater
which marks the track of fanaticism.
democracy is the voice Of the people
1.-The voice Of the people is the voice Of
God.
Democracy works good instead Of evil
lit builds up instead Of tears down--it
aids the laboring man; protects him and
his children. /, g. at. .aJ
And do you know brother laborer Of
any blessings abolitionism has brought to
the land. ..a.7.sT
1t has not added to our national wealth.
It has not added to our population.
1t has not lessered our taxes. 20
1t ha, not made US happier.
1t has not respected the laws.
1t has BOT given you friends, but taken
them from you. ..R 2. lAtt.a
1t has filed the land with graves. :
1t has decked the women in black.
1t hps filled thousands of houses Of
prostitution.
/ 1t has given US ,oripples for brave and
stalwart models of health and manly
symmetry. co..
1t has estranged the people.
1t has taught and is still teaching men
to hate, and sections to war against each
other.
Its unmerciful, cowardly and revenge.
full to brave and fallen foe. 1t protects
the rich aud prosecutes the poor.
1t makes you, fellow laboriDg man toll
early and late to pay your rich neighbor
his dues on interest day--it clothes your
children in rags and his in sllks--it gives
|.you coarse food, uncarpeted floors, pic.
tureless walks and a paupers grave, while
the rich man rolls in wealth, lives at his
ease and dies surrounded by the luxuriei
you have earned.
Figure different if you can. We have
| tried to but cannot. Would to God that
we could With you We have toiled till
the palm was hard and the body weary
4 With tho laboring men Of tie land, re
gardless of politics our lot is still cast
and as the days roll additional waves o.
taxation upon us-as the earnings go t
enrich those who are unworthy, it seemI
as if the people must be asleep, or they
would rise and burst the shackles nov
upon them and demand their rights.
" God help the rich-the poor can beI
or starve! '.''' n
I, Workingmen77 will you think of thes
things, and candidly tcllus if the success
Of abolitionism has been benefit or Q
curse to you ?-La Gross Democrat.