The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-03-26
Toll produces bonds consume.

1OIi ptOuuCcS, JULIUS COuSumS'
Toll builds our public Improvements
bondhoIders, enjoy their benefits at no
cost.
Toll supports our schools; bondholders
share their advantages and pay nothing for
the privilege.
Toll supports our courts, pays our legis-
lators, and defrays the general expenses
of the government; bondholders partaks
of the blessings of all and contribute to
the sustenance of none.
A policy which makes labor SO complete
ly tributary to capital is anti-republican
with effect upon the masses. We greatly
mistake the temper of the people, if they
do not demand that this wrongbe promptly
righted by such repeals and enactmeuts as
will compel all property alike to share the
burdens of taxation.
Radicalism derives the bulk of the fed
eral revenue from home productions and
the necessaries of life.
Over sixteen thousand articles, includ-
ing almost everything that supports life or
lightens labor, are now the subjects oftax-
alton.
Hence the great disparity between wa
ges and the cost of living.
Frauds upon the revenue are another
characteristic Of the present system.
The laws are evaded the officers are
bribed the country is robbed.
Over one hundred millions of dollars
were lost last year through downright vii
lainy, and the deficiencies of wealthy
knaves must be made good by toiling hon.
esty.
a large portion Of the taxes now raised
is applied to worse than useless purposes.
The freedmen's bureau costs twelve
millions annually, sum equal to the en-.
tirely yearly expense of the government
under some of the earlier administrations.
That institution feeds, clothes, and sup.
ports nest of malignant southern haters,
negro fanatics and greedy adventurers
backed by the federal army.
1t has done more to breed bitterness and
discord among the southern people than
the war ITSELF
The military establishments at the south
are another item OF useless and extrava-
CANT expenditures.
1t is costing from sixty to one hundred
millions annually.
High radical authority estimates that it
will take ten years to reconstruct the
south by the present process.
The lowest possible amount for which
this partisan enterprise can be completed
will be eight millions of dollars.
Are the people Of the nation to be i'm
poverished in order that the day of mig.
serism and fanaticism may be long in the
land
Are the masses Of the country to be mer-
cilessly taxed, robbed aud ruined in order
that corruption may prosper, love of pow
er be satisfied, and the supremacy of radi-
calsm be assured +?
We look for such a response to these
questions as willwipe out the denominations
of the bayOnet, restore civil and coustitu.
tional governments to the distracted south
exclude the African element from The
sphere of politics, and re-establish the
American union upon the ancient founda-
tions Of equal justice and popular affec.
tioD.
fOoSlbbE.
Let us recur to the remedy for the
man ifold wrongs TO which we have refer.
red.
The reconstruction question, whatever
difficulties it may present to bitter parti
sans, 1t is capable Of safe and easy ad.
justment through the exercise of an hon
est and liberal patriotism.
The simple application ofthe principles
Of the federal constitution will move every
obstacle and effect peaceful, permanent
and satisfactory settlement.
If that instrument possesses the perfec.
tion with which every lover of his country
invests in it, it will not be found wanting
at the critical juncture.
Tue constitution which has blessed the
people with liberty and crowned this land
with greatness will not now prove made.
quate to the designs of its authority anC
leave the vital interests of the union at the
mercy of rude chances and political pas
sions.
Let its provisions be applied, and repre-
sentatives Of the south, elected by th,
only qualified voters of that section vii
take their seats in congress, subject onl,
to the condition imposed upon member,
from other parts of the land, the natura
relations between the southern states ant
the general government will be resumed
and the union of the states trium phantly
restored, will return in form, in fact, anc
freedom to the original glory of her frs
and best estate.
The restoration of the south will open tn,
way to great financial relief.
When her people are relieved of the
domination of the bayonets and the blacks
they will be encouraged to productive pur
suits general prosperity will revive Their
palsied energies, and their assistance viii
be happily felt in removing the great bur
then of debt which now impedes the ma
tional progress.
The costly national nuisance, the freed
mems bureau, will be abolished and com
mon sense, having mastered the situation
will decree that negroes like white men
must either work or starve.
The expensive southern military estab
| lishmenf will ha n ck nu lo1raG rc.o~....