The Portland daily press., 1868-03-26

AnS PictuIeu tne Dondnolder' by the
liberal use of sanguinary colcrs, the dema-
gogue has sought to have him regarded as
the common enemy OF the human race. and
especially of the American people. 1t were
surely too much to ask US to keep faith with
a satanic being whose customary meal is the
scriptural one OF widows houses, who is con.
stantly swoopins down and carrying off the
poor, and especially orphans and soldiers, in
his filthy talons and fattening on their
hearts blood" in his secret stronghold.
No wonder, then, that many good knight
has sailed forth in quest of the peoples foe
Juoatate! He's found at last, and dragged out
into the light. Sir Bryant of the Post, he
that used to be famous singer and erewhile
belonged to the order of Republican knights
did it. Here is what he says of the "Dond.
holder" standing erect and triumphant, like
Apollo, after he had slain Python;
The bonds of the United States are not in
this country generally held by men who NAV
De called capitalists. e., by men of realized
wealth who live upon their incomes. We
have taken some pains to inquire, at the rev.
enue offices, how that might be in this city
where so much capital is concentrated, anG
We have been astonIshed at the result, Ol
the hve richest men of the metropolis, only
two hold, individually, any United States
stocks at all, and those to a yery inconsidera.
BILE amount. OF several others who nav tax.
es on incomes over hundred thousand dol.
lars, we could not find that they were bond
noiders. The same thing, we are told, is true
OF brooklyn and Albapyr and we doubt not
that it is true oil Boston and other cities.
These bonds, besides the three or four hun
dred millions held abroad by our friends.
principally in Germany, constitute the in.
vestments OF savings banks, marine, fire and
ilie insurance companies, and OF trust estates,
In thlS slate the savings banks alone hold mn
less than forty-nine millions of dollars: in
Massachusetts, twenty-five millions in Rhode
Island, thirteen millions. and so on of MANY
OF the other States. In this city the surplus
iunds OF the lite insurance COMPANIES. IN the
amount OF twenty millions, are invested in
the same way. The marine and fire insur-
ance companies hold no less, or in .be acgre-
gate, about forty six millions of dollars. In
otner words again the savings banks and the
insurance companies doin, business in the
state alone hold one hundred millions of
United States stocks. In this, trust estates
not included,
The precise amount thus held in other
States it is difficult to get at, but Judging bv
the nSures we have, it is no extravagance TO
assert that at least, tw0-thiIds of the pub,ic
stocks-n>t owned abroad or deposited by
the national banks as security for their no,e
| circuiation-are owned by these various eua.
ranty companies.
Now, who aIe the members of these com.
panies, who are the persons directly interest.
eu ID tnem, who are the real prcprietors o.
Tue capitai they represent? Are they cap
ltaists? BY no means. Capitalists do moi
put their money in savings banks. CaniSa,
lists do not insure their lives. Capitalists onl,
TO small extent, that is, when they ara en-
gaged IN active business, insure their proper
| Ties. capitalists are not commonly the be-
neticiaries interested in trust estates.
| In the State OF New York alone the deposi
tors IN the savings banks who own thi.
S49,0JOOOO OF United States stock are no les,
than 4sS,o0l in number. In the State O
massachusetts, they are no less than 3l6,0O
ln numoer, making In all, in two State
alone, nearly million of persons VIII,
are. vitally concerned in the permanenc,
and appreciation OF our national securities
Now, let us ask, aIe these all capitalists, ar,
they even of the easy classes? Let us take ,
list of one of the banks now befor,
us, and transcribe some OF the princi
pal occupations to which the deposi
| TORS Delong: Artists, bakers, butchers
bar tenders, blacksmiths, boarding hous
keepers, boatmen, boiler makers, bookbindel
butchers, cartmen, coachmen, carpenters
clerks, domestlcs, engineers, farmers, fisher
men, gardeners, hatters, hucksters, Junk deal
ers, laboiers, masons, milkmen, millners
nurses, ostlers, peddlers, porters, plumbers
seamstresseo, shoemakers, soldiers, taiors
tanners, washers, walters, weavers. OF thes
several classes the largest in numbers are
lst, domestlcs; I'd, laborers; Sd, seamstresses
4th, clerks; 9th, tailors; 9th, walters, and It'll
cartmen. These are the "aristocratic bond
holders" whom the politicians, in an isne
rant and vulgar notion OF playing upon sur
posed feeling OF Jealousy against wealth, woul
drag to the ground. Rich men who hol
bonds have other means, also; but these hav
nothing TO trust to but their little economic
invested in the faith OF the nation.
They are the poorer clas es, then. VIII
avail themselves of the benefits OF these inst
tutlons, and whose little means accumulate,
make up their capitals. The savings bank
alone in this State have constituency of n
less than tour hundred thousand persons
poor men, widows, orphans, sailors, sewin
girls, teachers and others who are thrift
enough to put by all they have earne
against the day of ilLluck, or disease, or oil
age. These are the "aristocratic bondbole
ers," we repeat, whose property the polit
clans are aiming at, whose securities the
would render worthless, whose very mean
OF subsistence in their darker hours the
would turn into worthless rags.