Kosciusko chronicle., 1866-01-06
NO. 10.

many blessings in its train, has singled out
the wealthy to be supported by the poor.
The holder of government bonds sits in
his easy chair, his slippered feet on silver
plated fender-a choice cigar in his lips
the finest liquors on his sideboard-the rich
est dress on his person, his pocket plethoric
with interest bearing bonds. Every three
months he goes to bank and draws his in
terest. His notes are against the poor-not
the rich.
The tax gatherer passes him by with
smile to return and empty his tithes into the
rich mans pocket. BY wicked, unlawful
unconstitutional act of republican congress
sanctioned by weak truck ing P''as;dsi ~
fsny rich inaa Is projected III ide4.
poor man made his slave The bond hold
er does not have one cent of taxes to pay on
money so invested He holds his mi llions
and the day laborer, the widow, the me-
chanic, the farmer, the consumer pays him
high interest.
The bondholder pays no taxes.
The bondholder builds no churches.
The bondholder builds no school houses.
| The bondholder builds no roads.
The bondholder does not directly nor in
directly support the government which thus
favors him.
The bondholder does not McAdamise or
improve the streets.
The bondholder does not help take care OF
the poor.
The bondholder does not help pay the Of
fcers ofthe law which protects him.
| The bondhoder does not help pay
boarding the thief who tried to steal from
him, or the villain who tried to take his life
The bondholder does nothing to build up
the country, but like great sponge absorbs
the earnings of his non bondholding neigh
Dor all ovel the country.
Think of these things, brother working
men. Think of these matters, young men
of America. The Republican party by fraud
deceit and wickedness came into power. 1t
toyed your liberties away 1t added to your
taxes 1t ran the country in debt. 1t ex-
honorated the rich from taxation 1t has
left Legacy of debt which will last six hun
dred and fifty years at the rate now going
on.
Republicanism plunged the country in
war, and now it calls upon the soldiers who
saved the country, to pay its debts-to save
it from thieves as they did from men in re-
bellion.
The men who fought do not hold bonds.
The bondholdeY are the loyal sharks who
patted the joking President on the back and
filled their pockets the while laughing at
his stories. The bondholders are the swim
ding eontractors-the imbecile army officers
1.-The relatives of republican congressman
and senators-the postmasters, thieving pro-
vost marshalls-shoddy furnishers and spec
ulators who have turned by species of me
4 gro-man-c cy" the tears Of weeping war wild
ows into damon 1s-the bleeding hearts of
orphaned children into rubies-the prayers
of dying soldiers into partings of loyalty
the blood covered sod into crimson cloth for
their wives and daughtefs--the tear-wet eye
of those home ones WI o read the list of kill
ed, into pearls--the graves of brave men into
luxurious couches--the shrieks of the woun-
ded into music for dancing-the groans of
the dying into parlor music--the bloody
hospital clothes into opera robes--the weary
tramping of footworn soldiers into costly
horses the ambulances filled with dead in
to velvet-cushioned carriages-the hard tack
into game suppers--the water drank from
muddy pools into costly wines--the patriot
ic devotion Of honest men into schemes for
power and personal aRrandisement.
| nc uIC uOt tHC WHO WIZ
fought, bled, suffered and died, but are the
loyal thieves, the prating hypocrites, the en-
dorsers Of I4incoln's usurpations, the admi-
rers Of his Millerism, the towards who dared
not fight. These are the bondholders OF
: America. These are the men republican
legislation unconstitutionally make lords
and masters over brave men. sass.t., ,..
Soldiers who went to war had bornties.--
These bounties were raised by taxes While
soldiers fought, Congress raised money for
them by running the country in debt. The
men returned from the war to find the ones
who hired them to 60, exempt from taxation
and the entire debt of the country thrown
upon the shoulders of those who suffered the
most.
And this is Republican equality.
Thank God for calling the head CT this
law breaking, tax-raising party home, no
matter where that home may be. Our SYM
pathies are with living people more than
with a dead usurper or aristocracy and ill
gotten wealth Of the party which endorsed
him. Our heart beats more in nnison with
the bond than with the free, with victims
more than tyrant,, with the people more
than with their plunderers, and while We
, have voice to raise, pen to write, press
to print on, may God forget us if We do not
stand between the oppressor and the oppres-
sed of our own color.
Poor men, laboring men Of America! 1t
!, is for you to say whether you alone shall
! pay the war and support in idleness those
! who fattened on your sons, fathers, and who
! live on your labor. 1t is for you to say
! whether the rich shall help pay the debt
towering over us, or whether you will have
burden OF taxation on your posterty forev-
! er.--La Cross wis Democrat.