The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-10-08
19omeV AGAINST Life.

The poor man, the workingman, was
compelled to risk and in thousands of in
stances to lose in the war, what all men
hold dearcr than everything else that they
possess.
life tsclf!
What was the rich man compelled to
do?
, Nothing!
Not even to give his money, though the
poor man gave his life, of little value as
the former was in comparison with the
latter
But the rich man Ioqncdh his money, if
it pleased him, or rcfasc 10 loan it. if he
pleased; and did loan it only when he
could exact such terms as suited his avari-
cous views. When lie could convert his
one dollar of gold into two dollars, or more,
OF legal tender, he male the conversion,
and with his greenbacks thus obtained,
went to the government and exchanged
them for one or more Of it bonds, upon
which interest was made payable semi-an-
nuaily.
In gold.
By this process he made sure of receiv-
ing the interest in gold on two dollars or
more, when he had lent only the cquiva-
lent OF one dollar in gold, and what he had
actually bought with one such dollar
thus getting from twelve to fifteen per
cent interest, in gold, on every dollar of
gold which he converted into green6acks
to lend to the government.
Bat this ecas not al.
He took care to exact the further con-
dition that he should pay no taxes on his
bonds
Nor Is this aU
He now demands that for every green
back dollar that he lent the government,
and which, when he lent it, was worth
only forty to fifty cents on the dollar in
gold, he shall receive a gold dollar, and
the Grant-Jacobin party are pledg-
ed to sustain him in this demand.
Though the bonds provide for the pay
ment Of the principal in lawful money,
which the greenbacas are declared to he
by Jdco6in lar, the Jacobin Congressional
majority has attempted, at the in tigation
and in the interest Of the bondholders, to
perpetrate monstrous fraud upon the peo-
pie, and rob them Of six hundred millions
Of dollars more than the present amount
Of the public debt, BY taking up the out
standing legal tender bonds and issuing in
lieu of tnem bonds expressly payable in
gold, which it would take eight hundred
millions more legal tenders to pay than to
pay the bonds as they now stand.
-No,c strike tie 5alanre Jetpecn money
and life i!
What is paid for the poor mans life
which he was obliged, by the Federal con-
scription, to sacrifice in the war?
Look around among the widows aud or
phans Of those whose lives we're thus in
molated upon the altar of abolition fanati-
cism and, in their destitute and suffering
condition, behold the evidences of the lib
eraliiy aud justice Of the Government to-
wards those from whom it tore their bread |
providers.
How does it treat the bondholders?
1t pays him from twelve to fifteen PEI |
cent. interest on the money which he con-
descended to lend, during the time the
loan remains outstanding, and then it |
shall come to pay the prihciral of the loan,
the Jacobin party insists that it shall pay
him two dollars in gold for every dollar
that he originally lelt.
BIT more than this
The bondholder is exempted from taxa
came out of the war alive, and the widow
and children Of tnose who were slain. in
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classes to which they belong, are taxed to
pay these bonds, and almost the entire
burden of taxation for the payment of the
bonds falls upon them.
Then Il comes 10 tins
The worklnSmen gave their lives.
The workingmen pay the taxes
The workingmen pay the bondsl
rhe bondholders gave nothing!
The bondhoIders pay no taxes!
The boudholders pay nothing.
The soldier who received his pay and
bounty, had to take them In greenbacks
lent by the bcndholdcr upon his bonds
which he now claims shall be paid in gold
The Jacobins would now tax this same
soldier, and make him pay back what he
thus received for his services.
,XiU aoorse
They would make him pay it in gold,
to be handed over to the boudhoder for