The Lincoln County herald., 1868-10-01
WY q Chanse Is Needed.


hundred millions Of dollars. Lee sur.
rendered on the Sch day Of April, 1868 ;
the National debt on that day was twenty.
three hundred aud sixty seven millions.
In three years Of peace tho debt has
Increased two hundred and thirty three
millions. S..
The people have paid into the Treas
ury in those three years, fifteen hundred
aud twenty millions. In 1865, S56l,.
$4,000; in 1866, el00.834, 900; in 1867
e47l, 100000.
The oficia, statements show that 10 the
last two months the debt has increased
els25s,503.
All Of this money came from the earn
ings Of the people, and should have heen
applied to paying the debt; for it is a
mortgage upon all Of our property, and
cncumbers and opprcsses us in our busi-
ness.
Every article that enters into our daily
use and consumption is taxed to raise this
money. The poor mans tea pays twenty.
Eve cents in gold his sugar four cents I;
his coffee Eve cents the leather out Of
which his shoes are made, the matches
with which he lights bis FIRE, the shovel,
the pick, the pillow and the harrow, al
bear their share of these taxes, and all
these increase tho cost Of living.
This system Of taxation is more severe
on tho poor than tho rich-for tn. neces.
sitics Of man, and not his property, are
t,xed so that poor man, with family
Of six, pays three times as much tax as
the rich man with family Of two.
In the year ending June 30, 1868, four
hundred and seventy millions Of dollars
we're taken from the comforts aud neces-
stiles Of the daily lives Of the people,
and we're put into the Treasury of the
nation.
There arc thirty millions Of people in
the Union, and this is more than fourteen
dollars for each man, woman and child
This is mainly paid in buying what We
eat drink and wear.
About eight days work are now re.
1uircd from the laboring man, to buy q
barrel Of -four, while in 1860 four days
york would buy as good an one. One
days work now will only buy five pounds
Of coffee, while in 1860 it would buy
twelve pounds.
The farmer, the mechanic and the
merchant find their profits oil spent in
the increased cost ofliving +; in the large
taxes imposed for State, county, munich
pal and city purposco; in the increased
cost Of tools, of clothing, Of labor hired
and Of taxes upon income, and they have
nothing left.
Increase Of the debt means increased
hours Of labor, increased taxes, and in
creased privations to the mass Of the
people.
The Jacobins have wasted your money
and ouggt to be turned out.
The reconstruction of tho South, with
the negro above the white man, prevents
prosperity there. The enormous take,
We pay 60 TO maintain the army and the
Freedmen's Bureau in the South for thi.
purpose. Instead Of US paying over 10(
millions each year to do this, the Soutl
ought to be put to work to earn 200 mil
lions Gas they did before the war; to hel.
US to ply the debt and the taxes.
Take away the army and the Bureau
give the white man us good chance al
the negro, and it will DO done.
They cannot buy our iron, cotton unf
woolon manufactures as long as we per
sist iu keeping them poor. Put them t.
work to develop their resources, allow
them to aid in governing them selves, ant
we will relieve ourselves from grievou,
burthen.
The Jacobins have put the negro abov'
the whito man, and ought to be turne,
cut.
The exemption Of bonds from taxation
is unjust and oppressive. The poor maj
who owns house and lot, has no righ
to be taxed to protect the property ant
educate the children Of the rich man
who pays none, because his property i
all 10 United States bonds.
Tho Jacobins made this system an,
defeud it, and they ought to be turue
out.
A greenback dollar is now worth abou
sixty.cight cents in gold. There are 81,
teen hundred millions Of 20 bond
which the bondholders want paid in gol,
Al >