The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-09


The tools you work with.
The paper you write on.
The pen and ink you use.
The papers aud books you read
The furniture in Jour house.
The gas or oil you burn
The coal you consume.
The stove you burn It IN.
The match you light it with.
The medicine you take.
The tobacco you smoke,
The pipe you smoke It IN.
The dishes on your table
All you eat off them.
The laboring man Of the country who
owns u little house and lot, which he has
earned by toiiinp from early morn to night,
pays state tax, county tax, school tax, road
tax, upon It while his next door neighbor,
who is bOnihO'ier owning 100000 IN
bonds, pays no taxes whatever, draws inter.
es. in gold, laughs NJ his more unfortunate
ueighbor, who has his money in u little
home! II the masses Of the laborlng men
desire the equal taxation Of every species OF
property according TO It's real va!ue-goy
eminent bonds and other securities inclu.
dcd, if they want one currency for the gov
eminent and the people, the laborer ana
the office holder, the pensioners and the sol.
der, the producer and the bondhoIder, they
will not vote the radical ticket but will vote
for hat Of the democracy
From the Cincinnati Enquirer
| TIE DEMOCRACY ASD THE LABoHISG MEN.
We rejoice to see the prcson: concord
| which prevails among the democracy and
| laboringmen's organization. II was evinced
in their common support Of Gen. ;. +. Ca
nv, the workinpmCn's nominee for congress
| in the second district of Hamilton county,
| last fall. It was still further exhibited IN
! the respective conventions Of the two par.
| tics, held at the city Of New York on the
! 4th Of July, 1868, for common purpose.
! More than 49, 4 .pu0guuCsy VI sentiment
VS. displayed ia the platform Of the two
parties, which, in substance, upon the points
To- which they RIudc, are almost identical.
Thus on the question Of the public debt and
the public lands, the democratic convention
resolved as follows
Payment of the public debt of tho United
States as rapidly as practicable; all money
drawn from tbs people by taxation, except 50
| much ny l. requisite for the necessities Of the
| government economically administered being
honestly applied TO 'uch payment aun "H'ie
INC "ollsHl'ns o. 'ne soggLI'I' u'"J.
iy,,,oI Jooe ma, rrnyide that thew sha
he laid in coin. they ought. ia right and Justice
to b. paid in tho lawful money Of tho United
States.
Equal taxation Of every species Oh properly
| nccordin.. TO it, real value, intending govern
, ment bonds and other public securities.
p one currency for The government anu the peo'
| sioner md the soldier, the producer and tn
| byndhollcr
That The puhil' lan' LIQUID be distributed a.
widely as n''.'oi' "m'nB "a" PeopS, Anu s"o''.
o u,'PosSo W add r ros,dnabo cuanti
o ,',l'srJ ~ noro h,,t actual occupapts NJ m,
t miaimqu price csta}i,lcI by tic government
. VI gu grants Of the public lands may De allow
ell necessary for the encouragement Of imPortan
B., public Improvements me proceeds Oh lhe Sa'o
,u'h ana ana not the '""'S 'HSN''''''' SMUT
W. W "PP''eu'
These points have long been cardina
ones with the labOring men organization
Ihog touch the working men IN the mos
y vital par: relief from oppressive taxation
and from the evils.of land monopoly The
p democracy have also been, in all the states
i. the champions Of limited number OF hour.
i for days work, 70 he established by legis
!, latiye enactment, rs check upon the ava
r., rcious and grasping cupdity and power O
b. capital T was in the democratic admins
u. tration Of Martin Van Buren,, thirty year
8, AGO, ,hat the ten hour system was substitn
ted for the twelve for the government works
md a littIo rasnite thus afforded to the tire,
and exhausted laborcr. The element
- which com nose thr democratic and leborjn
!, ,, ,,,Y or"on;1atiors are. in most respect.
~ ,ho ,ome Tbov ore.cacb constituted Of N
) Sn r, and s;noW of tIe countrv--oF those VIII
g III, nnn,, ,nocnoI lahor FIR t6rir .unnort