North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-06-20

:. Let ths sLaborins WkliAs Man Read =
There is o-day in this broad land, says
contemporary, many an earnest, honest
hopeful working man breasting the waves
of adversely, his stods heart ciinging TO the
picture he sees aeaysoE IN the frr. .fature,
efashome Of bio own pprehased with. the
savings Of Mis- weekly toll. TO be sure, To-
day he has no savings; the great WAR
debt, with its taxes upon him. eats up all
his little surplus. The enchanced price Of
the aecesssfies Of life, growing out Of the
paper currency--the financial shiDplaster
curse upon him and his--he has to stagger
under. He has no surplus now but he
hopes on and hopes ever. He sees the
little home, and the school.house, and the
church, and his weekly news Journal, and
decent wardrobe, and three good meals a
day for him and his--a beautiful dream,
away off in tn, distant future. For the
present, all is dark and gloomy, and if it
were notfor hope his heart would sunk with
in him. He struggles on in poverty and self
denial shis children are ragged and igno-
rant; he works and earns his ten or twelve
dollars per week, but the landlord and the
butcher, the baker and the coal dealer take
all his money--for are they not taxed,
doubly taxed, trebIy taxed, aad he has to
foot the bill. lie realizes that be, as con-
sumer, must suffer through these taxes
that the people must bleed at every pore,
but for what? Let the complaining tax.
payer, who cannot educate his children and
feed and clothe them as formerly, read
and judge for himself.
The Negro Bureau wants, according to
the bill reported by Mr.. Stephens, $ll,.
597 800, for Negro necessities down South
the coming fiscal year. What sum =
almost equal to the entire cost of support
ing the Government of the United States
thirty years agol Negro commissioners,
SAT 500; negro clerks, Sl2,8OO; negro
printing and paper, $1,000; negro fuel,
SIS, 5,000;. negro wardrobe, $l,75O,Oo0
negro food, $4,l06,250; negro doctoring,
S500,0O0; negro railroad riding 81 $780,
900; negro school marms, S2l,00; negro
school houses, 100000; negro telegraph.
ing, $4,000, ETC., etc. 20
Working white men of the North, your
families are made BY the present party in
power white slaves. Your task is placed
before you, and is so PLAIN that you cannot
mistake it. You are to toll and sweat SO
that the negro may have $ll,5e4, 500 in
comforts, though you and yours die on the
roadside through the labor which alone
gives this 9ast sum to the lazy. worthless
black race of the South' You need not
memorialize the State Legislature for an
eight hour day law 1t will be in vain
for ycu to expecshighcr returns for your
labor. You will be compelled to work
longer and take less ply per day for it than
ever, in order that four millions OF indo
lent, good for nothing negroes may be
main'ain in id eness at your expense.
Since the formation of the Government
up to the present hour, the work of Demo
Gratis has always been to repair the polite
al and social damage the old Federal o,
Tory factionists, whenever they got into
power, have uniformly perpetrated. Dem
ocratic administrations have always rightet
The abuses which the innate corruptiohs o.
tLeir political enemies, when by accident
or chicanery they obtained the reins of Gov
ernment, always committed. The great re-
form, We trust, will commence with the
present year; but the job in the Augcar
Stables in former times was child's play tt
the work now on hand. While the blum.
ders, financial, moral and political, disgrace
the whole country and are bringing ruin ir
their train, the true reformers should not b
dishearfened, but should put their shoul
ders rnahfully 10 the work, and again, as ii
times past and gone, endeavor to get the
old Ship of State once more on the right
track with Democratic pilot at the helm
and Democratic crew on board.