The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-09-17

Lnefe Dut we nave put you down, anC
intend to keep you there. Between
the poor trash of the South and th,
I poor trash of the North there is n,
perceiveable difference. You are al
quasi mendicants and particeps Grim
inis in the felony of poverty. and alike
distastful to us lords of fortune, who
were sharp enough to dodge the fichr
and buy the bonds"
From this hour the bondholder.
motto must be, big Injun, Mel" Or
this line we intend to fight it out if il
takes a whole lifetime. Armed cap-a.
pie with the almighty dollar. we fee
that we are alike invulnerabIe and in
vlncible. We made dollars subiuoate
the South, and we intend to make
dollars subjugate the North. We own
the national banks They make us
S20OOO,OOO annually, We can well af.
ford toispend the profits of a year to
Ecarry On an election that will enable
us to pocket the profits of three years.
| We know that the dollar is mighty
and must prevail. We intend to
stake our destiny on the omnipotence
of gold and the feebleness of flesh
[Laughter.1 We entertain sover-
elgn contempt for the ridiculous prop
ositlon that there can be "a public good
that does not include our private ben
eft. This is not the language they
will employ, bnt it is the only proper
Interpretation of either words or con-
duct. This party you must resolutelv
resolve and promptly prepare to de-
feat, or through this desolate land YOU
are destined to hear, and that, too. ere
long, pealing the funeral dirge of de-
parted liberty. 0.. III
Taxes is the largest word known in
political nomenclature. 1t means to-
day more than it ever meant before.
1t is not without Importance in the
past. 1t started revolution in Bos-
ion harbor of which the Stars and
Stripes were born. The descendant
of the men who threw that tea over
board are ready to throw anything
else overheard that may threaten to
sink our Ship of State. The flag that
futtered into existence in storm will
not go down quietly in calm. The
noble people who fought their dearest
kindred and truest friends in the
South to prevent the shooting from
its orbit of one single star on that
brilliant banner, will not in any hu-
man probability consent to see now a
storm of famine precipitated upon
this country, amid the deep darkness
of which every star on that same
bright banner may go into eternal
eclipse. Men will be found brave and
honest enough to tell the poor people
why it is that they are not only poor
now5 bntsdestined, under our present
regime, to remain so forever. And
when the virtuous indignation of op-
millions, throwing off the re-
straints of too prudent forbearance,
rise in the majesty of its insulted dig
nifty and resistless might, to rebuke
despotism of dollars, the
bondholder will be taught the value of
public virtue and the power of the
peoples wrath, and, like Shylock, who
lost his gold by insisting OH his pound
of flesh when he was not legally enti-
tied to it, these greedy bondholders,
by demanding gold when they are not
entitled to it, may provoke an exasper-
ated people to tell them in voice of
thunder at the polls, that if they per-
sist in demanding gold, that they shall |
nothave even greenbacks. (Applause.
These bonds are already reeking with |
odors offensive to the people, and can
easily be made to stink in the nostrils
Of all honest men. They are exempt
from taxation, and this makes them
peculiarly obnoxious to the soldier
who coined his blood and paid it out
lrop by drop to honor the heavy drafts
made upon his courage on battle-felds
hat these same bonds might not be-
;ome totally worthless, and now he
las returned home to find the bonds
hat he fought up from forty cents to
,ar, pay no taxes, and that he has to
oil like a common drudge to pay not
'nly the taxes those bonds ought to
Jay, but also to pay the interest annu-
lily due on them in gold. Applause
As long as they are exempt from taxa
ion they will open wide the door to
raud, multiply crimes, and license
orruption.
Here for instance, is q broker or
commission merchant doing business, t
S thousands are, upon capital of one
million of dollars. On the Both day !
# December he purchases from the
Government bonds to the value of his {
usiness capital. On the third day of
anuary he sells them, and then when j
ne tax-gatherer comes around, he de- (
lberately swears that on the 1st day
f January every cent he was worth {
vas invested in non n-taxpaying bonds !; {
nd only tell you the truth when [ y
ell you that by this subtle dodge the t
government is annually swindlcd out {
f millions; and here let me not fail 6
0 emphatically impress upon you, the
eople, that every dollar that these /
utining criminals ought to pay and t
hirk. paying, you have to pay; and (
fter all, it is not the Government but {
ou, the people, that is thus scandal I
usly swindled. The taxes must be f
aid. 1t is the only oil that can keep '
overnment machinery in ordar, and {
yhen enough to make it run smooth ,
oes not come out of one can, it must !
ONE out of another; if it does not 1
on1e out of mine it must come out of c
ours; and if | eyade paving NV 7