Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-09-12
The "Bloated BondhoIders."

Anxious that our readers may know some
thing of the disposition of the public debt, and
who the " bloated bondholders' which the
Democrats so loudly denounce, we furnish the
annexed statement, as given by c. b. DEMO, in
his recent speeches in this county, and trust that
rich and poor alike will carefully peruse it:
The amount of u tied States bonds of all de-
nominations held in Europe is about O,0OO,-
900. OF this amount about or fully one-hall OF
all are held in Germany, and the largest portion
of this amount were purchased by the Germans
at time when all European capitals were swarm
ing with rebel emissaries engaged IN damaging
the financial credit of our Government, and at II
time when were passing under the darkest
cloud of the rebellion. Gratitude for the con-
6dence manifested by the Germans at such
time in the permanance of our institutions and
the integrity of our people demands OF us the
payment of these bonds according to the distinct,
express understandings of their payment at the
time we sold them. In the United States they
are held as follows, viz: In the State of New
York they are held by the fire, marine, and life
insurance companies to the amount of Sl82 ,00o,-
900, and this proportion can be fairly assumed
for the other States Of the North in average
of the amount of business done in these States.
IN the savings banks of The State of New York
there is about S52, 900, 900 of the deposits in
bonds and the number of depnsitors is over 500,
600 In Rhode Island the deposits are Sl3 000,-
900, depostors nearly 200, 900, thus making
total in these three States of over S85, ,0O0, 600,
deposited by about one million of our people, or
an average of $85 per depositor. And now let
US see who these t bloated /" depositors are"
First in number, the largest class, domestic
servants I'd, technical laborers Sd, seam
stresses 4th clerks 5th, walters 9Th, tailors {;
9Th cartmen and draymen. 1t is safe to assume
that in the State of Pennsylvania the amount
held is one hundred and fifty millions, and
that this amount is held by over half million
of people, as the agency of Joshua Hanna Co.,
in Pittsburg, disposed of about SIT 200, 900 the
first month they had fairly opened their agency,
and the largest amount sold to one individual
did not exceed two hundred thousand dollars.
1t is verv difficult to arrive at the statistics Of
bonds held in our own State, but the best fnan-
cers agree in placing the amount Mt between
Sl5, 900 900 and $40, 900, 900. and the largest
amount held by any individual is Sl60, 900.
And in the following the Sacramento Bee tells
of two more "bloated " little bondholders who
reside in that city:
"Cp town there live little boy and girl,
brother and sister-the one two years old, the
other "a tri1e over three To each, on its last
birth day, the father presented one hundred
dollar United States bond, the accumulation by
interest to continue to be invested in other Uni
ted States bonds, until each child shall attain to
legal age when each will come into full posses
sion of its hundred dollars and the earnings
thereof In their cases ignorance is bliss.
Neither of them can read If they could how
bad they would feel Al the hard names hurled at
them BY certain sage editors and orators The
poor little bloated bond-hoders !!