The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-21
Money Against Life.

sands of instances to lose in the war,
what all men hold dearer than every
thing else they possess,
Life Itself.
What was the rich man compelled
to do?
Nothing!
Not even to give his money, though
the poor man gave his life, of little as
the former was in comparison to the
latter.
But the rich man loaned his money,
if he pleased, or refused to loan it, if
he so pleased, and did loan it only
when he could exact such terms as
suited his avaricious views. When
he could convert his one dollar of
gold into two dollars or more of legal
tenders, he made the convention, and,
with his greenbacks thus obtained,
went to the government and ex-
changed them for its bonds, upon
which interest was made payable
semi-annually
In gold!
By this process he made sure of re-
ceiving the interest in gold, on two
or more, when he had only lent the
equivalent of one dollar in gold, and
what he had actually bought with one
sdch doIlar-thus getting from twelve
to fifteen per cent. interest in gold on
every dollar Of gold which he con-
verted into greenbacks to lend to the
government.
But this 1OaS not all.
He took care to exact the further
condition that he should pay no taxes
on his bonds.
Nor is th5s all!
He now demands that for every
greenback dollar he lent tho govern
ment, 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 Grant and the Jacobin
party are pledged to sustain him in
this demand.
Though the bonds provide for the
payment of the interest in lawful
money, which greenbacks are de-
clared to be by JacO6i1 Ldt0, the Jaco-
bin congressional majority has at
tempted at the legislation and in the
interest of the bondholders to perpe-
trate monstrous fraud upon the peo-
pie, and rob them of six hundred
millions of dollars more than the pres
ent amount of the public debt, by
taking up the outstanding legal ten
der bonds, and issuIng in lieu of them
bonds expressly payable in gold
which it would take six hundred mill
ions more OF legal tenders tc pay than
to pay the bonds as they now stand.
No10 strike the balance 6etsree,a nlone5
and life
What is paid for the poor mans life
which he was obliged, by the Federal
conscription, to sacrifice in the war?
Look around among the widow:
and orphans of those whose lives
were thus inundated upon the altar
of abolition fanaticism, and, in theil
destitute and suffering condition., be
hold the evidences of liberality and
Justice of the Government toward
those from whom it tore their bread
and providers.
How does it treat the bondholders?
1t pays them twelve to fifteen pei
cent. interest on the money which he
cOndescended to lend, during the time
the loan remains outstanding, an6
when it comes to pay the principal Of
the loan, the Jacobin party insists
that it shall pay him two dollars in
gold for every dollar that ne origi
nally lent.
But more than this.
The bondholder is exempted from
taxation on his bonds, and the soldier
who came out of the war alive, and
the widow and children of those who
were slain, in common with all 9th.
ers OF the working 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 it comes to this !
The workingmen gave their lives
The workingmen pay the tazesi
The workingmen pay the bonds!
The bondholder gave nothing!
The bondhoIders pay no taxes
The bondholders pay nothing!
The soldier who received his pay
and bounty, had to take them il
greenbacks lent by the bondholdel
upon the bonds which he now claims
shall be paid in gold. The Jacobin!
would now tax this same soldier, anC
make him pay back what he thus re
ceived for his services.
Still a0orse!
They would make him pay it il
gold, to be handed over to the bond
holder for the greenbacks he loaned
to the government to pay this soldier
for risking his health, his limbs, hi:
life.
Thus the pitUance which the gov
ernment paid the soldier is taken
back from him in taxes-aye, double
the amount-to pay the bondholdel
twice the sum he ever lent,
Another Boy Murder-Negroes Stone
a Democratic Boy Procession and
Kill one of the White Children.
The Coroner held an inquest on the
body of boy named Fred IIatton