The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-10-03


on his bonds, instead of six as stated in
the bond. 1t increased the tariff ffty
per cent. by making it payable in gold
and a patriotic Congress avoided q
very perplexing question, the west.
ern. opposition to the tariff But how
does this scheme take dYo-ninths OF
tho laborer's wages2 BY simply IN.
creasiDg the price of the nocessarios OF
life without increasing the wages Of
the laborer. Let us ILLUSTRATED
Prior to the bondholders' war, there
was a few of the nocessaries of life, that
the poor man could obtain without a
special permit from some ono or half
dozen of the numerous assessors, col-
lectors, spies, detectives and iuformorA
that now swarm all over the land 10
see that the bondholders' first mort
gage is liquidated before tho poor
mans family get hold Of thom. Lot
us sec tho difference then and now in
the price of ono Of these articles, and
1t will serve to illustrate tho whole
scheme:
Coffee was on the free list then the
bondholders' law now taxes it five ots.
u DOuhu-bO IGdAAb lut INV otlOTb tno
tax was laid on it, when the importer
sold it to jobbing houses IN BALTIMORE
ut ten dollars for one hundred pounds,
the consumer at this point could Oh
tain one hundred pounds Tor twelve
dollars The writer has bought and
sold moie than one thousands bags az
stated. The importer will to-day cell
the same kind of coffee at ten centa.
and the bondholders' tax has put tho
price up 80 that the consumer must
now pay IT, irty dollars for ono hund-
red pounds. In order to pay the Gov
eminent five dollars 10 Rpply on tho
bondholders' mortgage you must pay
| eighteen dollars, only four dollars aud
fifty cents, while the Treasury gets but
one dollar. Now If you will deduct the
official stealings which, under tho pro-
sent revenue system amounts to fully
twenty-five cents on the dollar, you
can then form some idea about the
costs; the people TO pay two hundred
million dollars OF interest annually on
tho bondbolders' claim Tho eighteen
dollars added to the cost of one hund
red pounds may be stated thus: Duty,
$500 in gold tho importer must also
have gold, $1,000. The bondholdur
receives $500 for the premium on tho
$500 in gold used TO pay for the cot
fee, ,tnd duty the dealers being taxed
upon every thing they do, add those
taxes to tho coffee which makes up tue
$4,000 all of which comes out of the la
borer. Tho internal revenue law
which has placed an assessor and col
lector at every door, and spy aud in
former in every work shop in the whole
country, Is but another wheel ded 70
tho schC ne, all Of which are TO grind
the people and make them servlceablo
10 NJ Jneyed aristocracy. The whole
scheme should be annihIlatcd and the
expenses of the general Government
should be paid out ofthJ accumulated
wealth Of tho country instead Of being
drawn from the poor man, the widow
and the laborer, in proportion 10 the
lumber of mouths that are dependent
upon then for daily supply. Seven
ty-five million dollars should pay all
the expenses ofthe general Government
and that sum would pay them il the
present plundering scheme was abol-
ished aud all property, real, personal,
money, bonds, stock, and all other de-
scriptions of wealth we're assessed as
their true value IN money, and each re-
quired to pay its proportion Of the bur-
dens ofth Government that protects
them in the samO way that zach mouth
= now required TO pay.
This communication Is long enough
: an perhaps too long; a word Of eau
tion 10 those whose labor produce the
; wealth that pays all and supports all.
For seven years our Government hst
been in the hands of the party tnat
: now control all departments they are
y and should be responible tor all the
j.. wrongs thut now oppress The laborers
of the country. The demagogues, MIN
: MONS, knaveI and fools, that soVen
= years of misrule and plunder aud civil
+ war produced are low swarming all
. !. over the country to obtain renewal OF
y their authority TO plundtr the laboret
: ofhis hard earnings Those beings in
" human form have the auoaeity tS
. charge tho wrongs that thoy them
g sel, es have committed upon those who
!, have no cOntroll of tho government
: and have been powerlosE to do either
u good or evil. When you hear n b$ing
of chat description hooting traitors
10 tronson. murderer, and thousand
Us other like torms you my be sure thai
70 Ae has "A wheel in the plundering
or schemes. money that he did not ears
! pays him for abusing better men thar
- himself.
10 Mss- Those who believe that the lord
=, 70 ly aud arlstocratic bondholdsr ough
- to be taxed as other people are tAxs'