The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-19
[Prom tn. Metropolitan Record


main, made up Of
Army aud navy contractors,
Shoddy and national banks.
High tariff sharks.
Big bounty sS.udiers.
Advocates OF oppressive taxation.
Congressional lobby thieves.
Whisky thieves.
Wall street jobbers.
Specializing treasury agents.
Gold gamblers.
The iiLgo,tou gains Of these harpies ore
all represented in the national debt. me
burthen Of that debt is borne, and must be
borne BY
The honest farmer.
The hard working day laborer
The down trodden mechanic,
The starving artizsn.
The idle clerk.
The dwellers in tenement houses.
We CAV the load which these classes, the
BONE and slyEw Of the land have had plac'
ed upon their backs must be borne; but we
use the expression in q qualified sense. II
nerd MT bebJrae unless tie peopte Themselves
rW it,
What, then. are the ways and means Of
emapcipatinp ourselves from the load
What * the nearest and surest cut 10 the
workingmans assertiOn-we not merely say
to his right of selfownership, but even tohis
right to live?
We unhesitatingIy answer;
TO sweep from existence at the approach
ing November election the thieves and plum
dercrs' party which is Is running Grant for
president. The thing can be done, We are
firmly persuaded, if the peoPle-the whole
people-wil but half try. The time for
making the trial, remember, is now. The
people must open their eyes to that helpless
and homeless slavery which is inevitably in
store for them If these soulless rag barons
and their confederate swindIers and thieves
manage to obtain another four years control
of the public exchecquer.
II is one Of the tricks Of the bondhOlders
to represent that the democratic party IS
party Of regulators, but the trick is one too
transparent to deceive. The democracy pro.
pose 10 repudiate nothing but what is dis.
honest and fraudulent on it's face. 1t Is
fraud upon the people, and it is a fraud upon
the constitution, to be having too different
kinds Of mouey-go!d for the government
swndIers, and rags, nothing but rags, for
the sons Of poverty and toll. The demOcra.
cv propose to DO away with that unjust dis
examination, 90 serve the government credit.
ors all alike, and to pay back the bondhod
ers in the same kind Of money the govern
ment was obliged 10 receive from them.
When the black republican orators, editors
and whippcrs in declare that is dishonest, or
that that is reputation, tell them that they
lie.
The laboriug man to-day is paying AS eX.
orbi,ant prices for everything he consumes
as he did the first year Of the war, and as
long as the thieves and plumbers party, now
represented by Grant aud Coliax are in pow.
err, he may rely upon it things will be no
better.
Just see how It works even under our
eyes aud nose, right here on Manhattan
Island
Brown stone fronts and marble palaces
multiplying Oh one line, and nothing but
bcastIy ten story tenement houses on the
other Where are the substantial middle
class so to speak that is, the men Of mod
crate means, who in tue good old democrat.
&c gold and silver days, used to live IN com.
Portable dwellings Of their own? Gone
Literally crushed out Swallowed up by
the rag baron9' party, or drawn into the EN-
braces Of the party Of rags Go whitherso-
ever you will now, up town, down town,
across lowu--it is all the same, On either
hand, the palace or the hoyel the very rich
and the mserably poor-nothing besdesi
Now, in monarchial countries, where "the
divine right Of kings to govern wrong is the
rule, the people have to bow thernecks to the
rule of the tyray and the Oppressor. They
cannot help themscv But here the PEG.
pie, if they viii, can be their own masters.
They can, if they choose, put the tyraut and
oppressor under lheir heel. The time is at
hand when it rests with them to say wheth-
er they are epared to exercise that will or
have iguobly made up their minds to live on,
IN aud under the meanest form of slavery,
that is, slavery to a vulgar minded arstocra-
cy to which q government Of demagogues
that is, such demagogues as we are now liv.
ing under, ever veutured to set up.
Grant. remember is the now official en-
bodiment Of these task masters. Doom
Grant to political death, and the entire
horde of vampires and ghouls that are prey
ing upon labor and the interests of labor die
with him
The defeat Of Grant is The first step to the
equalization of the public burthens. lfhe is
made president, the rich will be made richer
! and the poor poorer. That is certain.
To defeat Grant, is to do something to
bring back gold and silver currency, and
reduce the cost of substance to point
which will enable a poor man and his family
to live,
To defeat Grant is to upset speculation,
emaucipate honest labor from the heartess
grip of a dishonest paper money oligarchy,
and restore the mechanic and workingman
to the position he is entitled to occupy in
society. Frceborn, white American citizens
cannot always be slaves. Are they not en-
titled to emancipation, at least, as much as
the ignorant debased, fetish.worpishing ne
gro ?
The defeat Of Grant means lower rents
and higher wages,
Fewer taxes and cheaper bread.
chance for the mechanic to educate his
children, and once more to buy his wife q
new dress.
1t means all that, and good deal more
besides.
It will compel the thieves and swindlers tc
take back seats.
twill bring honest men and honest labor
again to the front.
1t will stop the steajngs at Washington
0 Gconomze the public expenditures.
D Five one class no advantage over another
class.
And make every tub stand upon its own
, bottom