The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1868-07-25

| idtS OoOu III WING ule1j anu one thOu
sand for black, at about thirty billion
dollars, the accu nulated interes and la
Dor of century. As SO much has al.
ready been thrown into the boiling
cauldron of revolution, the demagoguc
| will argue that our national debt had
better go in with the rest. Once thu
North held the club of Hercules. The
South rebelled. The Vest joined th,
North to save the Union. Right and
numbers conquered. Now the West
holds the club OF Hercules, but moi
many bonds. A western demagogut
might say: Once upon time the South
built an oligarchy based on black slav-
cry. The Almighty decreed that il
should not be. Four hundred thousand
shareholders owned four millions OF
blacks. Presto, Providence, and cfFer.
son Davis liberated them. / did not
mention Mr.. Lincoln, for the demigod
of the newspapers never existed. He
tried to save the Union by saving slav-
cry. His emancipation proclamation
was an accident. Having taken care Of
the South, says the western demagogue,
look to the North. Four hundred
thousand bond.holders have thirty
millions of whites in bondage. Will
not Providence break their chains as
we'll as the blacks? Suppose the dema.
gogue was addressing fifty thousand la
borers in Union square in poetic strains
ike this:
Work. Work Work
With pick, and shovel, and axe
To pay New, England's contractors,
Your own ana the ond'holders tax!
Work Work Work
There are millions of negroes to feed,
And cost is hitched on with the bon d hold
er's claim,
And the sum of New Englands greed.
(Hisses.)
You ought not to hiss. You know I
am only giving you the speech of dem.
agogue. The country will be full of
then by and by, and If I show you be-
forehand the plausibility of their ar
gument, all loyal people like this audi
ence of distinguished clergymen can be
prepared and fortify themselves against
such disloyal practices. The dema.
gogue will arouse the people into FURY by
such appeals
Work work Work
From dawn to the dusk ofday.
For your hopes are crushed with q weight
Of debt,
That toll Of your life won't pay!
-(Dissent.)
/ agree with you who hiss. 8 uch
doctrines should be put down by the
strong arm of military power. When a
man talks reputation shoot him on the
spot for Greely has done a christian
act in liberating Davis.
The demagogue always catches up
some popular idea. He will appeal to
his audience in Union squire on the
question of substitutes where the rich
man showed his loyalty by paying
thousand dollars TO have an other man
shot. Again he will resort to rhyme
You gave your son to the war
The rich man loaned his gold
And the rich mans son is happy to-day,
And yours is under the mould
-(Sensation.)
You did not tbisk, poor man
You can scarce believe when you're
told,
That the sum which the rich man |
loaned to the war,
Was the price for which you were sold |
In this way the real demagogue will
set the poor man to thinking, and as it |
is free country he will be allowed to
vote as his pocket and his reason die
tates. He will think of his wife, his
children and his future, and then the
orator of the people will pile on the
agony:
Your son was as good as his
And as dear, perhaps to you
But yoursdied for his and your daugh-
ter now
For his must wash and sew
Nay, DO not pause to think,
Or sigh for your children or wife,
For your moments are mOrtgaged to
hopeless toll,
The rest of your weary life
The orator having aroused their pas.
ions willsay: "If you are in favor of pay.
ng off the debt in greenbacks,say aye"
)l course it is carried by acclamation.
What can four hundred thousand bond
folders do against a Congress who owns
10 bonds Against six hundred thou>
and negro votes, one million southern
Vhite votes, and three million of north. ,
IN and western men who hold no
onds, but banker after greenbacks in {
rider to make their property more val '
able ?
The speculator advertises his gains {
eldom his losses, and his assets are U.S.
ally rotten eggs, The rich knowing I
his have passed for their order bank.
upt bill. That saves them. The poor I
rho live from hand to mouth have but !
ne remedy, that is bankrupt law for q
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