The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-12-13
A. Picture Of Mongrel Work.

| A Picture of \
The report Of Gen. Grant secrc
tary Of war AD INTERIM furnishes th'
material for. the foregoing picture q
Mongrel legislation. rr.s qpitj9
Mechanics, laborers, soldiers
tax payers, examine it and whsrei'
it cxagerates the truths Of history
legislation and fact, tell US. .s.
Soldier, when you enlisted you
owned snug little farm with com
Portable home; Congress voted you 1
bounty. but taxed your little farm
and your labor to pay it.. They vo-
ted themselves nearly IS, 900, and
converted it into bonds. exempt
from taxation, and compel you to
pay your own taxes aud theirs.
In addition to all these jinfam ous
ipiduitics it taxes the mechanics,
laborcrs, and soldiers Of ths North,
for the following purposes. :, DE-.
\ For the suppors Of . standing ar
my in time Of profound peace it tax
cs them $77.l24,7 07, and all this
to maintain negro ascendency in the
South. AID Republican rule in the
North, by tho aid Of negro Votes.
1t pays $227, 754 to railroad COM
panics for the transportation Of ne
groes from one point to another, IS
their wbims and caprices may sug-
gest. -~s- gs,t Bic ;ra- ro
It pays 1901. 500 for medicines
and medical attendance for negroes.
It p.ys,S445,9 s3 for rations for
negroes, :
1t pays $3, $50, 800 for a system
Of free schools for negroes. '.'~' !.
It pays about $50. 100000 anpu-
ally for the registration of negro yo-
tiers in the south.
1t furnishes the freedmen with
houses at the public expense, it.
drives white men from their farms
and plantations. turning them over
t, negroes, and yet Gen. Grsnt re-
ports 215, 024 acres Of this. land
turned over to negro industry % -
abandoned land.'' -.,t, -.
In it, administration Of the gov
eminent during the present
year it expended the enormous sum
Of $346, 728, 129.
It has saddled upon tho country
q public debt of 81, 692, 1919. 215,
the payment Of which, principal and
interest, is tax upon the business,
labor, and industry of the North. ! !.
The newspaper organs of the party.
that has committed these acts. boast
that the negroes Of the South arc
dcpositing considerable sums Of
money in the Savings Banks.
To enable them to do so the me-
chanics, laborcrs, and soldiers Of the
North arc compelled to deposit their
earnings and proceeds Of their farms
with the tax-gatherer for the support
offreedmen 8 bureaus. negro schools.
rations. medicines, and clothing for
negroes and for interest on govern
ment bonds in the hands of military
despots, their supporters and abbct-
tors in the giant strife against the
public veal.
Men who sacrificed all the COM
forts of home, to tho calls Of country,
men who returaed MANNED for life
leaving an arm or . leg upon son@
Of the numerous battle fields Of the
south, returns to find the govern.
ment ofhis fathers transformed from
> white mans governments into Z
machine run in the exclusive inter.
est ofths negro; his wife and child.
rem denied the common necessariel
of life. his home nortgag.d for th,
principle and interest Of . ponder
GUS public debt, and instead Of bs
ing An honorsd pea.ion.r spon th
generous hospitality ofa free gov
eminent. starvation or tho roo
HOUSE, stare him ip thevfacs. Snc
10 tho absolute condition of ia
country to-day toward its .'.hos
orsd defenders. So ea"d: fa 2Gia
Ten states ~ robbed. all thsi
sovereign rights destroyed An
tramplsd upon BY III tdscrupuI5t
majority in Congress; ton stat.