The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-11-18
A. McGREGOR, EDITOR.
The BondhOldor's $ Victims !


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Read the following extract from Puri-
tan organs leading religious journal, pub
lished in Chicago: 10 n. .. m
Zone of the saddest places TO visit, is the
employment room of the Young Mems
Christian Association of this city, and see
the number of not only young men, but
men of families, out of work, and conse-
quently out of heart There are many that
do not know where TO obtain the food, cloth
| ing and shelter the coming winter, that shall
keep themselves and their family from star
walton and death. We rejoice to see that
the Association is making right move in
the manner of befriending them. 1t appeals
10 the farmer who, comfortable in the midst
of broad acres, -Well-covered with that
which strips winter of all its terrors, has in
his power TO fit up some of the old buildings
that he has grown out of lay off a little gar
den patch, and, giving reasonable wages, re-
ceive in return the grateful thanks and Ia
bors of those who ask only for chance to
escape beggary and achieve Independence.
Those who will afford such chance may
address, with particulars, this department of
the Y. 81. c, A"
The policy of this Government, in its
| origin, and while it was administered by the
Democracy, was to diffuse general compe-
tence among all, instead of conferring inn
mense fortunes upon the few. This policy
is reversed by the rule of the Republican
party. Fortunes have been suddenly accu-
mulated which make the most fabulous sto-
ries credible; and imbue with something
like probability the tale of Aladdin and his
Lampl Here in neighboring counties, re-
side John Shermaa and Jay Cooke, each
with fortune of Twelve Millions, sccumu-
lated within the last seven years of murder
robbery and general lawlessness incident tc
Republican rulel AS the FEw become rich,
the MANY grow poor. The hovel alWayi
stancs near the palace; and wherever the os
tentAtion of aristocracy is witnessed, the
destitution of squalid poverty is hard by
Here in Chicago are ''mAny, not only youns
men, but men of families, " sober, industri
Gus, and qualified, ''out of work and out O
heart, who do not know where to obtain
food, clothing and shelter for the coming
Yinterl" Victims of the fends COLD snC
HUSeRRl Freezing and starving, tina
Jay Cooke, John Sherman, and the like o
them, may have more than they know how
to squander on their pride, passions and ap
petites
But not only has the share of genera
wealth which belongs to all, been stolel
from these people, or in some hardly les
criminal manner been seized by the rapa
| I,so -Er,h
the dreams of avsrice;" but it is these poo
people, ''out of work and out of heart,
who are specially oppressed by taxes i'm
posed to pay gold interest to the bondholde
sustain negro bureaus and standing armies
and defray the expenses of the most profit
gate and corrupt Government on earth.
1t is Tariffs, and other forms of taxation
which make ''the food, clothing and shel
teri of these poor people so dear that life
a struggle, and sore privation is endured
even where Cold and Hunger do not max
them their victimsI
And yet how splendid and how delusiy
all over the Northern States, are the extern
al marks of prosperity! So many palaces
so many gorgeous churches, so many rail
roads, so much magnifcence, so muc
parade and ostentationI But the time ha
come for our people to study and reflect o.
the truths contained in the immortal lines o
Goldsmith:
'EYe friends to Truth, ye statesmen, VIII
survey
The rich mans joys increase, the poOr's de
cayl
'Tis yours to judge how WIDE the limit
stand
Between a RHLKNDID and HAPPY land
Proud swells the tide with loads of freight
ed ore,
And shouting folly halls them from he
Hoards cen beyond the miser's wish abound
And rich men flock from all The worl
around
Yet count our gains; this wealth is but
name
That leaves our useful products still th
same.
Not so the loss: the man of wealth an
pride '...
Takes up a space that many poor supplied
Space for his lake, his parks extende
bounds,
Space for his horses, equipags and hound
The robe that wraps his limbs in sllke
sloth
Has robbed the neighboring fields of ha
their growth;
His seat, where solitary sports are seen
Indignant spurns the cottage from the gree
Around the world each needful product flit
For all the luxuries the world supplies;
While thus the land adorned for plea5ul
all
In barren splendor teebly waits the fall |"
CRAWFORD Co. FORuM-