The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-01
WHO ARE THE ioNDHOLDrRs !,

WHO ARE THE s6NDHoLDERs,
How mighty quiet some people
have kept about the "bond-barons, p
"money-kings," etc., since it has been
definitely settled that the people will
pay the national debt according to the
letter of the contract! 1t seemed, the
way they "took on" about it, that
they were about to sweep the debt out
of existence and, we really believe,
they would repudiate it to-day if were
possible without offending the great
masses. They thought at first to ex-
cite the predjudices ofthe poor against
the rich, to blind the artizan and the
laborer by the veil of falsehood. How
well they might have succeeded can
not be told, had it not been -::;;,eilsrss'
impressed .l..;.;:,..rsnD.xu fhdually
xlnFS upon such as listened favor
ably that it would rob our toiling
millions.
The New York Ereni,,g Post has
ascertained, by careful inquiry, that of
the five richest men in New York city
only two are holders of United States
bonds, and these only to very incon-
siderable amount, and that among
those who return incomes ofover one
hundred thousand dollars in New
York and Brooklyn, about the same
relative proportion of bondholders ex-
lists. On the other hand, the savings
banks of New York hold forty-nine
millions of bonds as investments for
the funds oftheir depositors, the inter-
est of which, deducting the expenses of
the banks, is paid to 4SS,501 of the
laboring men and women of New
York semi-annually. OF the several
classes of "aristocratic bondholders"
whose money is thus invested, the
largest in numbers are first, domestics !;
second, aborers; third, seamstresses ;
fourth, clerks; fifth, tailors; sixth,
walters, and seventh, cartmcn. A list
of the occupations ofthc "bloatcd aris-
tocrats' who receive the dividends of
the 500 bonds, taken from one of the
savings banks of the city, shows the
following assortment: Artists, bakers,
butchers, bat-tenders, blacksmiths,
boarding-house keepers, boatmen,
boiler makers, book binders,
cartmen, coachmcn, carpenters, clerks,
domestics, engineers, farmers, fisher
men, gardeners, matters, masons, huck-
sters, junk dealers, laborcrs, milkmcn,
milliners, nurses, ostlers, peddlers,
portcrs, plumbers, scamstrcsses, shoe
makers, soldiers, tailors, tanners,
washcrwomen, walters, and weavers.
The Life Insurance Companies Of
New York hold twenty millions of
the bonds as security for the persons,
in all parts of the country, who hold
their policies, and the Fire Insurance
Companies hold torty-six millions as
security for their customers. A very
large sum is held in the form of trust
estates for the benefit of widows and
orphans under order of the courts.
Three hundred millions are held by
the National Banks as security for
their bill holders.
These are the persons Democracy
would make pcnniless and bankrupt.
1t is not strange that they would now
recede with the tide of public opinion.
This cannot be. They have made
them record of infamy in war, and
in peace they shall be branded as
thieves and banditti. More unscru,
pulous than they never cried "stand
and dclivcr!' A Claude Duvall, or Q
Morrill, might take the purse but
Democracy would disrobe the body
and filch from the stomach /!
Says Senator Wade
"Now they talk of taxing these
bonds. When a man talks that way
look him in the face, and you look
in the face of a penitcntiary bird.
would not trust such man as that ir
my sheep pasture after dark!'
GILMORE TOWNSHIP.