Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-07-15

they say " III IS due to the Lborer of the
nation that taration should be egualized."
Then why did they make taxation unequal
Beyond the injustice of making one class
of citizens pay for another, their share of
the costs of schools, of roads, of the local
laws which protected their lives and pror-
erty, it was an unwise and hurtfu thing
1t sunk the credit of the country, as un-
usual terms are always hurtful to the cred
it of the borrower. They also declare,
" The best policy to diminish our burden of
debt IS so TO improve our credit that capi-
talistS mill seek to loan as money at loWer
rates of interest than a0e noec pay and ace
must continue to pay so long as repudiation,
partial or total, open or coVeRt, is threat
ened or Suspected"
Then why have they used full five hun.
dred millions of the taxes drawn from the
people of this country to uphold despotc
military authority and to crush out the
life of States, when, if this money had
been used to pay our debts, capitalists
would now seek to lend us money at low
er rates of interest. (cheers.) But for
liio NbfC'L Jul b'hiOIdi
credit would not be tainted in the markets
of the world. Again they declare, "Of all
who were faithful in the trials of the late
war, there were none entitled to more es-
pecial honor than the brave soldiers and
seamen who endured the har1ships of cam
paign and cruise, and imperiled their
lives in the service of the country the
bounties ard pensions provided by the laws
for these brave defenders of the nat ion are
obligations are never to be forgotten; tho
the widows and orphans of the gallant
dead are the wards of the peopIe--a ss-
cred legacy bequeathed to the nations
protecting care" How have these sacred
duties been performed; they pay to the
manned man, to the widow, or the orphan
a currency which they have sunk one quar-
ter below its rigLtful value by their policy
of hate, of waste, and OF military despotism
The pittance paid to the wounded soldiers
is pinched down twenty five per cent. be-
low the value of that coin which he had
right to expect. Is there no covert repu-
dlation in this !? Again they say, "Foreign
immigration, achich in the pest hos added so
much to the aOeaLth, Development, and re-
sources and increases of p0wer to THIS Repub-
lie, tie asylum Of the oppressed ofaH ma
tons, ShOttd be tosterd End encouraged By
HbeVat just policy". Is this foreign immi-
grafton fostered by policy which, in cru
ell mockery of laws just passed declaring
eight hours to be legal days labor, by
the cost of Government and of swarms of
officials, so swells the costs of living that
men must toll on 10 meet the exactions
The time was when We could not only in
vite the European to share with US the
material blessings of our great country
but that we could tell those who fled
from oppression that we lived under a
government of laws administered by the
judiciary, which kept the bayonet and the
sword in due subordination. We could
point 10 a written constitution which not
only marked out the powers of government,
blest man the rights of property, of person,
and of conscience. Is immigration encour
aged by trampling that Constitution in the
dust; treating it with contempt;shackling the
Judiciary; insulting the Exc cutive, and CIV
ing all the world to understand that the
great guarantees of political and social
rights are destroyed? But the crowniDg
Indictment against the folies and crimes of
those in power is in these words:
"That we recognize the great principles
laid down in the immortal Declaration of
as the true foundation of
government, and we hail with
yladncss, every effort towards making these
Or inciples living reality on every inch of
American soil" Ii within the limits Of ten
States of this Union an American citizen,
,tung by the sense of his wrongs, should
sublicIy and truthfulIy denounce the men in
power because in the very language OF this
Declaration of Independence, - They hare
erected a multitude Of new offices md sent
forth Sparms Of officers 10 harass our peo
Dle and eat out their sustance," he would
u all human probability be dragged to pris-
On. Or if in the indignant language of our
fathers, he should excIaim, They hare At
fected to render the military independent Of
md superior to the cirH pouer, then hare
abolished The free system of English ldws.
and established herein an arbitrary gorern
,neni, " for the offence of asserting these |
he would be tried and punished |
by military tribunal, Having declared
that the principles Of the Declaration of In
dependence should be made liring redli
ty on erery inch Of american solL," they
put in nomination military chieftaIn who
S tands at the head of that system Of des-
potisms that crushes beneath its feet the
greatest principles of the Declaration of In
dependence. To-day in some States, it is
held by military orders to be a crime to
speak out the indignation and contempt
which burn within the bosoms of patriotic
men. If to-morrw military order should
be put forth in that State where :he ashes Of
Washington are entombed, that it should be
an offence to declare that the military should
ever be subordinate to the civil authority
to speak out the sentiment that it was dis
grace to our country to let the hordes of Of
ficials eat up the substance Of the people-he
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