The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-09-06


Plain Truths for Tax Payers,
The Columbus journal places series Of
truths before its readers IN clear and cogent
terms. Each Of the truths stated contains
within itself the materials for a speech.
Friends, SEQ that this is fead to every Dem
ocrat within your acquaintance
~ should BIC Borne in Mind by Every
Taxpayer of the NelOnl
That the enormous burden OF debt under
which the country is staggering, was fixed
upon it Uy rebellion fostered and strength.
ened by the Democratic party.
1t should be Horne in NTIndl
That this debt was enormously increased
| by the aid and comfort given to the re.
bellion while IL progress, by thu Demo.
cratic party, whereby the rebels were en-
couraged to prolong tho struggle against
the Union armies after all other reasonable
| hope OF success had been extiuguished.
IL ShOuId be Bopne in HIindI
That the debt of the Nation was still
farther increased by the efforts of the Dem.
ocrato party to cripple and destroy the
public credit, in the midst of the struggle
for national existence, and that the national
bonds wero thereby forced to heavy dis
count in contracting loans with which to
carry on tho war, and the national currency
was thus largely reduced below it's truo
value in gold, thereby adding enormously
TO tho cost OF all material purchased for the
use of the Government.
1t should be BOrn6 in Mind by Every
Taxpayer of the NatiOnI
That tho Democratic party stands pledged
TO secure compensation TO the slavehold.
ing rebels for every slave set free by the
Emancipation Proclamation, thus adding an
immense and unjust burden to the already
oncrous taxation under which the country
groans.
Ht Should be horne In NTindI
That all the Democratic members in the
House of the Fortieth Congresa, have
placed themselves upon record by their
votes in favor of the monstrous proposition
that tho National Government is liable,
under tho Reconstruction laws, for every
dollar of the State debts of all the States in
rebellion.
NJ should be BOrne in Mind by Every
VaX-pnyerI
| That the Demoercto party through it's
orators and writers for tho press, is COM
nttod to the unheard of proposition that
the Confederate war debt contracted in the
struggle TO overthrow the National Govern.
mont, ia justly chargeable against the
Government, and that this party only wait s
the success of its insidious attempts to re.
| gain power TO fasten this debt upon the
people of tho United States.
It Sh ould be Borne i'm Mind, by Every
| Tux-pnycr!
That the Democracy has made persistent
and strenuous efforts to I'M jure both public
and private credit and bring on a financial
crisis, such as will make it impossible for
tho Nation to meet it's obligations promptly,
thus carrying widespread ruin throughout
the country, and reducing to beggary
thousands of widows and orphans and
other worthy persons whose little oil is in
vested in government bonds, for the ro
demption Of which the faith OF the Nation
is Pledged.
1t should bo Borne in Mind, by Eve ry
Tnx-pnyerI
That the Democratic party persisteDtly
opposes every effort made to tighten the
public burden, by levying duties upon
foreign imports, thus requiring foreign
capitalists and traders to bear a small share
OF our burden in return and az the same
time protect our home manufacturers from
tho deadly competition Of foreign capital
lists who grow fat upon the proceeds Of
pauper labor
1t should be Borne in Mind!
Most especially by Ohio wool grower,
and taxpayers, that the Democratic party
has always and most strenu0usly struggled
to prevent foreign wool growers from con
tributing anything to lighten the burdel
of taxation, aud that every Democratic
member of both Houses of Congress has
mot every attempt to protect the great
wool-growug interest of the country will
the most deadly hostility; and that they
have thus, while prating of the enormout
profits made by the manufacturers of New
England, played directly into the hands of
these manufacturers, without even the
lame excuse of saving to the consumer il
the price of the product and all this they
have done while every Ohio Republican
member of Congress gave voice and VOTE
! to the passage of an act to protect the con
sumer by disconneOting the wool tariff from
all other tariffs, for the benefit of the man
ulacturers, And finally,
At should be no rnc i'm Mind by Every
TaX-pnyerI
And every patriot who has had the goo,
OF the oouulry at heart, that the speaker
, OF the Democratic party openly avow tha
{ their hope for tho success os that part,
, lies only in Gnaucial disaster to the ooun
, try, whether caused by failure of crop
by the disorediting of the national currency
. by preventing the Nation from meotin
its obligations, or however resulting.
!. We earnestly hope that every Unio
paper of Ohio will keep these facts befor
the people continually, until after the mex
/. election shall have rebuked the iuiquity q
e the Democratic party by the largest Re
publican majority ever given in tho State
J. .. -. -
/. What a Democratic Success Means.
/, The Cincinnati Gd3ette refers to tho fax
|, that the Democratic party ia hobbling alon
!, tied to the corpse Of its record Of oowardiC
and reachery, grasping at any and ever
" means to keep itself from sinking cut
It sight, aud paints what Democratic succel
II means, thus; N' o .F 'o
: Democratic succcesS,as Interpreted by ii
N doctrines OF the party, means to undo ever,
q thing that the national triumph over secet
~ sion has done and to restore the status
= the rebellion, With the South to diota
- terms to the nation, Ii it does not inca
; this, what do they mean by going betol
a the people at an election canvass with do,
,C trines that include all this, and that hav
= no other meaning but thisp Ii they DO n,
/; mean this, they will disown the doctrine
> that comprehend it, They have either
y admit thnt namnrratfo sucoass n,aaus