The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-04-25
DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION IN I'LL.
N0IS.
Formation Of Young Mems Club al Quincy
speech of Col w. A. Richardson.

Recently n Young Mems Democratic
Club was organized Mt Quincy, III. The
following remarks made by the veteran
Colonel Richardson, after tho organiza.
ton, arc worthy tho consideration of CIV.
cry taxpayer in the land
Col. Richardson said he had not come
to make speech, but to hear from those
who had more INTEREST," in the contest now
transpiring, than he had, for they were
entering upon the career Of manhood
and he was closing that career.
/ feel that you, the young men, can dc
more than can. am willing TO do my
part You can save to the taxpayers
$500, 900, 900 each year, by turning the
Radicals out Of power, and you can't dc
so unless you do turn them out and place
honest men in their places
They have an army Of 60,000, men
in time OF peace that they pay over two
thousand dollars per man per year. or
rather tho taxpayers have to pay it.
Last year the standing army cost 1922
100000 Let this army be reduced, az
it should have been two years ago, to 10, :.
000--twicc as large us it was in 1867
reduce the cost Of cacE man TO 500, and
you have reduced your expenses over
800, 900, 900, taking this much burden
from the toilcrs and oppressed tax payers.
Your navy is costing between forty aud
fifty millions Ier anDum. Reduce that
one-half and thus save over twenty mill.
ion. The immense navy VIC have now il
not needed for any purpose except to
spend money. Let twenty million per
year more be taken from the backs of toll
and labor. Thus you will see, my friends,
by change, by turning out the Radicals,
you can save one. hundred and twenty
odd millions each year. But let US pro.
ceed. The Radicals have about four hun.
dred millions Of government bonds 10 the
national banks, upon which We are pay
ing SIX per cent. interest per annum in
gold, equal 10 about eight per cent. in le-
gal-teuder notes, such as the people have
to take. Over thirty millions per anuum
honest men would save TO the taxpayer
each year by issuing legal.tcndcr notes,
bearing no interest, and taking up these
bonds. Thus thirty odd millions more
would be saved each and every year to
the ax-paycr.
Repeal the frecdman's bureau, send its
legion Of men aud officers TO get an hon
est living, and you have over 5000, ,000,-
900 each year saved 10 the tax-paycrs.-
The Radicals have conferred the right to
vote upon the negro, aud if he is compe-
tent to vote he ought TO be able TO take
care of himself without costing the white
taxpayers millions OF dollars to feed, clothe
and school his race.
Now, you will be told that the army has
appropriated for its support only about
s40,000,000 by the present session of
Congress. That is true An election is
coming 1t won't do for them to go into
the canvass without something to deceive
tho people. After the election is over,
they will pass what is called deficiency
bill, aud appropriate the balance of the
s122 600, 900 for the support, pay, ETC., of
the army, and SO il viii be in reference to
everything else. The navy, the freed
mems bureau, the expenses of Congress
(now three or four times more than it
should BEL
The foundation upon which this Radi-
cal party is based is falsehood, fraud. cor
ruption, the destruction Of the very foun-
dation of civil and religious liberty, and,
if there were stronger words, would ap-
ply them to their leaders. But, as you
seem determined, fellow-citizens, that l
should not stop at this point, | will invite
your attention to few other subjects.
A few months ago the leading Radicals
in and out of Congress denounced lead
ing statesman of Ohio as arepudiator, be-
cause he proposed to pay the 500 bonds
of the United States in lawful, legal-ten-
der notes made lawful money of the Uni
ted States by Radical Congress (every
Democrat in Congress voting against the
law
A fair statement of Mr.. Pendleton's
position was this, to pay in gold where
the bends specified, and to pay in legal
tender notes, such as the people receive
and pay out, all the bonds that do not ex-
press upon their face that they arc paya-
BILE in gold.
The mass of the people said this posi-
tion was just, fair and honest. All Dem
ocrats endorse this position everywhere,
and one-half the Republicans in the
county of Adams also endorse 1t as cor,
rect, and proper, and just. The bonds
were all bought with legal-tenders, paid
for in legaLtenders, and now these bond
holders turn around and say that, although
these bonds costs us only from forty tosixtyI
cents on the dollar in gold, we will wiring
from the tax payer a dollar in gold for
every dollar Of the bonds, and this Radi-
cal Congress, before their adjournment.
will SO arrange it that We will have to pay
them in gold, if it is possible SO to arrange
it. Notonly that but they willretire the le-
gal-tender notes, convert them into bonds,
and saddle upon the taxpayers ovor $20,.
000, 900 more of taxes per year for these
notes that now bear no inter-
est.
Every proposition from Radical COM
mittee in Congress this session contem-
plates funding the whole debt,--bonds,
legal-tender notes and all, and making
principal and interest payable in gold,
and excmpting the bonds from taxation,
and if they pass anything it will be in
this shape and no other.
The people need not look to this Con-
gress for any relief,--they belong body
and trowsers to the bondholders.
We must Judge the action of the Rad
icals not by their propositions, but by
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