The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-07-15

Barons, and white w0rking ng-men's
masters, is, in the main made up.of
Army and Navy Contractors,
Shoddy National Banks,
High Tariff Sharks.
Big Bounty Swindlers.
b Advocates of Oppressive Taxation.
Congressional Lobby Thieves.
Whisky Thieves.
Wall-street Jobbers.
Speculating Treasury Agents.
Gold Gamblers.
The ill-gotten gains OF these harpies
are all presented in the national debt.
The burden of that debt is borne, and
must be borne by
The honest farmer,
The hard working day laborer,
Tho down trodden mechanic,
The starving artizan,
The ill-paid clerk,
The dwellers in tenement houses.
We say the lead which these class
es, the bone and sine1 of the land,
have had placed upon their backs,
4 must be borne. But we use the eX-
preston only in the qnaliied sense
1t need not be borne unless the people
themselves so will il.
| What, then, are tie ways and
means of fenancipating ourselves from
the load What is The nearest and
surest cut to the workingmen's asser-
tion-we DO not merely say to his
right of self-ownership, but even to
his right to live? -
We unhesit2tingly answer:
To sweep from existence at the ap-
preaching November election the
thieves and plunderers' party which
is running Grant Tor President. The
) thing can he done, we are firmly per
suaded, if the people-the whole peo
: ple-will but half try. The time fol
: making the trial, remember, is Now
The people must open their eyes K
} the helpless and hopeless Slavery
l Which is inevitably in store for them
| if these souIless Rag g-BarOns and thei
+. confederate swindlers and thieve:
= manage to obtain another four years
D control of the pnblic cXchequcr.
!, It is one of the trilEs of the Bond
3 holders to represent that the Demo
cratic party are party of .RePUd-a
i tors, but the trick Is one too tran!par
|, ent to deceive. The Democracy pro
t pose to repudiate nothing but what i
y dishonest and fraudulent on its face
2, 1t is a fraud upon the people, and it
fraud upon the Constitution TO hav
two kinds OF money-Gold for tn
Government swindlers, aud rags
e nothing but rags, for the sons Of toll
d The Democracy propose to do ava
u with that unjust discrimination, t
- serve the Government creditors a
g alike, and to pay back the Bondhold
II ers in the same kind of money tn
e Government was obliged to receiv
le from them. When the Black Repus
u lican orators, editors, and Whipper
II in declare that that is dishonest, {
"a that that is reputation, tell them the
81 lie!
ie The Iaboring man to-day is pay1n
ls as exos0ita prices for everything /
n consumes as he did the first year
N the war, and 50 long as the thiev'
Is and pI9nderers' party, now represel
he ted by Grant and Colffaax, are IN poy
le er, he may rely upon it, tl7!t things wi
D. be 20 better. ss..-..s =5-t ..-...-.
ID just see how - works, eVesa, tFIad
n n our eyes and nose, rig ,e' ilefS'
w
,e Brown stone fronts and marble pa
l. aces multiplying on one line, an
y nothing but beastly, ten-siory tene
A. ment houses on the other! Wher
=. are the substantial middle class, SO t
~ speak-that is the men. of moderat
u means, whom the good old Demo
% cratic gold and silver days used d
. live IN comfortable dwellings of thei
. OWN ? Gone! Literally crushed out
:. Swallowed up by the Rag Baron
: party, or drawn into the embrace O
4 the Party of Rags. Go whithersoev
; er we will row, up town, down town
: across town-it is all the same. o.
! either hand the palace or the hoYeI-
the very rich or the miserably poor
nothing more
Now, in monarchiaI countries whcr
the divine right of kings to govern
wrong is the rule, the people have t
bow their necks- to the rod of the ty
e rant and oppressor, They cannothel
3. themselves. But here the people can
5 if they will, be their own masters
,f They can, if they choose, put the ty
o rant and oppressor under .lheir heel
: the timeis at hand when it rests wit
n. them To say whethel they are prepa
is red to exercise that Will, or have ig
If nobly made up their minds to live O
o in and under the Meanest form OF sla
ri very-that is slavery to a vuIga
5, minded aristocracy- to which gov
l. ernment of dfmagogues-that is, sue
'e agOvernment as we now are livin
ls under, ever ventured to set up,
D. Grant, renenbet, is the now 6ficis
/ l,embodiment Of these taskmasters.
i Doom Grant to political death, an
1t the entire horde of vampires an
: ghoals that are new preylng upon Ii
4 borr and the !. Interests of labor di
le !wtfh him. -.IJ.Ef al a. -'ui.
s. AaThe defeat of Grant is the first ste
"a to the equalization of The public buI
thens.l Ifhe is. made. President, III
bEiehMillIbe made richer and the poo
ID ,pOorer.T "a .!-is7 49,. -s-p sl} fIa
Of rsfPhe' defeat of Grant is to do. SOM
,r thing to bring baekta gold and siITe
h currency aRd-to reduee=the cost
a subsistence to a point whic will enG
L Bile the poor man and his family t
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