The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-05-07

ing farmer sixty cents bushel for rye,
forty cents for potatoes, forty-fve cents
for corn, from ninety cents to one dollar
and ten cents bushel for wheat, from
twelve to eighteen cents pound for but
ter, and from ten to twelve cents dozen |
for eggs, mostly in store trade, and, ow-
ing to want of work for mechanics and
laborins men, with but very week home
market to depend upon. Democratic
times sent mechanics and labors, and
farmers through our streets, with the
sombre, woe-begone look of men not
knowing to-day where the provisions for
to- -morrow's meals were to come from.
Republican times have changed all this,
and the Republicans, with the aid of what
our ueighbor calls The Tariff Swindle,"
has brought prosperity to the country,
put work In the hands of mechanics and
laborers, created a demand for the pro
duce of our farmers, and put money into
the pockets, and independence in the
minds of all. Largely increased wages
are the reward of labor of whatever kind
you may mention; while the increase in
the prices of the necessaries of life, have
not been so great, as to prevent farmers
from liquidating their debts, contracted
during Democratic times, and which
hung as millstones about their necks, or
mechanics from purchasing town lots and
erecting neat and comfortable residences
thereon. The experience of Stroudsburg
alone gives the lie, most unqualifedly to
all our neighbor's assertions, and the ex-
perience of Stroudsburg is but the expe-
rence of the whole country North.
Democratic editors, our neighbor among
the rest, are proverbial for their denun.
Citations of the Revenue Tax. Do they
want Reputation? If not, why seek tc
decry and outrage the tariff law, which
but seeks to tighten the burden of direct
taxation. We have debt, to the pay
ment of which, both principle aud inte
rest, all parties are pledged. How is this
to be paid save by means of taxation
lightened as far as possible by an econo,
mical administration of Government!
Follow the demands Of these editors, and
abolish your taxes, and whence comes
the means of payment, and what become:
+of the nations pecuuiary honor? These
are questions worthy of consideration
Democratic editors, too, find fault with the
large number of officers to carry out the
laws for the collection of the revenue
and the other laws passed to secure the
safety of the country, but instead of wish
ing TO abolish these they only want tc
get possession of them.
Our neighbor, concludes with an array
of figures, which, if correct, and unmitti
gated by the bright side of the question
would be we'll calculated to startle folks
But they are not correct, as can be readi
ly proven by visit to the retail stores
anywhere in the country, and an inquiry
into the prices of articles named = very
many of which are offered at less than
half the cost price to merchants, as SCI
down in the " Democrats figures, while
wages, with full demand for labor, are
up to the maximum of compensation
The whole article in the Democrat
view it as you will, is but clap trap sci
up to freighten men who, like our neigh
Dor, are apt to be scared at trifes. L
has nothing more than this to sustain it