The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-03

sum we should say, to support them and
Grant in luxury, while you toll and sweat
to pay your taxes, and theirs too. You
can now see why it is that the rich man
and the bondholder supports Grant. 1t is
because he gets his interest on his money,
and makes you pay his taxes for him,
Compare the last sum with the principal,
and you will find that you have paid the
bondholders thirty millions of dollars
more than you owed them at first, and yet
will be as deep in bsbt as when you began
to give them your hard earned substance.
Then go with US to your statistics, and
you farmers will discover that twelve
years interest, which these Grant men
want you to pay them, is s4O0,O0O,00O
more than the cash value, in 1860, of all
the real estate and personal property in
the great State of Indiana! Can you still
afford to vote for Grant?
Here is an honest, upright mechanic,
industriously laboring at his bench, and
endeavoriag, besides earning an honest
living, to lay up small pittance "agalnst
rainy day." Do you ever think, good
man, while you are thus toiling, how much
Grants bondholding supporters are taking
out of your hard earnings? If you have
not done so already, just lay down your
plane moment. and cast up the amount
of the interest you and the rest of the poor
men of the National are paying to Grants
money sharks, and you will find that, in
twenty years, you will have paid them, be-
sides paying their taxes for them, 5,517.-
753, $50 interest as bonus for holding
your notes, and yet not dollar of your
notes will be paid. Then take down the
census report, and you will find that these
"loyal bondholders" have taken out ofyour
hard earnings FIVE times the cash value of
all the live stock which the United States
and Territories possessed, IN 1860, and
S400, OO0, 900 more than the total value of
! all kinds Of personal property owned in
this country at that time, and yet you have
not paid them one cent of their bonds!
How much longer can you or any other
poor man afford to support such a policy
of financial ruin and bankruptcy of our
"hole people? Do you not see a strong
reason right here for your doing as Mr..
Blake has done-come into the only ark Of
safety for the Nation, the great Democrat.
ic party, whose watchword is Seymour,
Blair, and equal taxation?
Now, Mr.. Soldier, we have word for
you. You fought bravely for the union
and defended the flag. The government
promised you gold, but paid you off in
grcenbacks, and, like all patriots and DEM
ocrats, you were satisfied. But the bond
holder paid for his bonds in greeDbacks,
and now demands gold for them, claiming
that his greenbacks were better than your
blood. You are helping.to pay the inter
es. on these bonds; and, although you
fought in the field, and saw ysur dear
comrades fall around you while battling
against secession, and perhaps may have
lost limb yourself, yet you are taxed like
the devil while the bondholder goes Scott
tree! You have no bonds, for you are toe
poor to own any. You are young, and, We
hope, may live fifty pears yet. If you do
under the radical Grant policy of postpon
ing the payment of the public debt, you
aud your fellow soldiers, and the laborine
i, men, will in forty-years, pay to the bond
holders the enormous sum ofS31 ,021 200,
953 as interest; and at the end of fifty
years you will have paid them not one cent
less than forty-tive thousand millions OIL
dollars, or nearly twenty times the whole
amount OF their bonds, and their take.
besides, and yet will owe them just a:
, much as We do now, for you viii
r only have paid the interest. Think Of
this, soldier. This sum which Grant
would have you ray these cormorants as
interest, is nearly three times the value ol
all the property of every kind, character
and description owned by every man woman
and child in the United States in 1860
Can you support such policy longer, OF
will you, like Captain Blake, abandon the
old radical hulk, and like an honest man
and patriot, do what you can to relieve
the poor men ofthe country, by the cleo
ton of Seymour and Blair 2-Ex.