The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-20

and white T0rklnemen masters, Is, III the
main made up Of
| Army and navy contractors.
| Shoddy and national banks
High tariff sharks.
Big bounty swiudlers.
Advocates Of oppressive taxation.
Congressional lobby thieves.
Wall street Jobbers.
Specializing treasury agents.
Whisky thieves.
Gold Gamblers.
The ill-gotten gains Of these harpes are
all represented in the national debt. The
burthen OF that debt is borne, and mus t
be borne by.
The honest farmer,
The hard working day laoorer,
The down trodden mechanic.
The starving artizan.
The ill-paid clerk.
The dwellers in tenement houses.
We say the load which tLese classes, the
bone and sinew Of tie land, have had
placed upon their backs must bc borne !;
but we use the expression only in quail
fed sense. 1t need not be borne unless tie
people themselves SO will It.
WHAT, then, are the ways and means Of
emancipating ourselves frota the load :?
" hat is the nearest and surest cut to the
workiDgmen's assertion-we not merely
say to his right Of self ownership, but even
to his right of life.
We unhesitatingly answer:
To sweep from existence at Tic ap-
preaching November election the thieves
and pirnderer's party which Is running
Grant for president. The thing can be
done. We are firmly persuaded. if the yeo-
pc will but haiftry. The time for maxim .
the trial. remember, is now. The people
must open their eyes to that helpless and
hopeless slavery which is inevitably in
store for them if these ;ouiless rag barons
and their confederate svindlers and
thieves manage to obtain another four
years control of the public exchequer
1t is one Of the tricks of the bon,lhold-
ers to represent that the democratic party
is party of repudiators, bat the trick is
one too transparent to deceive. The de-
moeracy purpose to repndiate nothing but
wha; IL dishonest and fraudulent on its
face | Is a fraud upon the people, and
1t is fraud upon the constitution to be
having two different kinds of money
gold tor the government swipdlers. and
rags, nothing but rags, for the sons OF
poverty and toll The democracy propose
to 90 away with that unjust discrimina-
ton, to serve the government creditors
all alike, and to pay back the bondholders
IN the sane kind of money The government
was obliged to receive from them. when
the black republican orators, editors, and
whippers-in declare that that is dishonest.
or that that is repudiation, tell them they
lie.
The laborns man to-day is paying an
exorbiiant price for everything he con-
sumes rs he did the first year Of the war,
and as long as the thieves and punderers'
party, new represented By Grant and Col
fax, are in power, be may rely upon it
things will be no better.
Jus. see how it works, even under our
eyes and nose, right here on Manhattan
Island.
Brown stone fronts and noble palaces
multiplying on one line, and nothing but
beastly ten story tenement houses on the
other. Where are the substantial middle
class, SO to speak-that is, the man of mod
crate means, who in the good old demo
cratic gold and silver days used to live in
comfortable dwellings OF their own? ? Gone.
Literally crushed out Swallowed up by
~ '"A '"'V"S Pn''J, Va uiuW II iULO TIC
embraces Of the party of rags Go With
ersoever you will now, up town, down
town, across town-it is all the same. On
either hand, the palace or the hovcl-the
very rich and the miserable poor-nothine
besides.
Now, in monarchial countries. where
T" the divine right Of kings to govern
wrong" is the rule, the people have to bow
their necks to the rule Of the tyrant and
the oppressor under their heel. The time
ls at hand when 1t rests with them to saw
whether they arc prepared to exercise that
will or have ;gnobiy maze up their minds
to live on, in and under the meanest form
OF slavery, that is, slavery to vulgar
minded aristocracy; to which government
OF f'demagogues that is, such demasogues
rs we now live under; ever ventured to