The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-14
Tho Issues Of the Coming election

If the rad calls succeed in the coming cleo.
ton We shall have the following results
!. The bonded debt will be paid in gold,
instead of greenbacks, and $500, 900, 600 will
thus be added TO our indebtedness.
2. The debt will become a permanent
institution, and every fifteen years we shall
pay the immense principal in interest alone,
in gold, leaving the principal untouched.
3. 3d. 100000, which oughtto be EN-.
ployed in building houses, boats, railroads,
and put in founderies and factories, where it
would give millions of people employment,
will continue to be locked up in bonds, where
it viii afford no remuneration to any but the
holder.
4. This immense sum, one.tilth of all the
property il the country, will continue to be
exempted from all state and local taxation
for generations to come, and the burdens it
ought to bear will be transferred to the rest
Of the people.
). We shall continue to take up the debt
legal tendersl which bears no interest, and
add to the debt which does bear high inter.
est and is also free from taxation.
G. We shall every year pay to the ma
tionAl banks $24OOO,0OO in gold, for fur.
nishing the people currency which the gov
eminent could give them in legal tenders,
without costing cent.
I. Money will be made scarcer, as the
bondholders desire that the greenbacks
should be called in, so that they can get
their pay in geld. Money being scarce, pri,
ces will be lower, and employment more un.
remuneratiYe taxes will be higher, aud the
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aud the banker.
8. The boudholder will receive one hun.
dred ceuts on dollar for what only cost him
forty cents on dollar, besides obtaining
about fifteen per cent. interest on his invest
ment for five years, together with entire ex.
emption from all state and local taxation,
9. Negro suffrage will be continued upon
the south, at the point of the bayonet; sew.
en- or eight states will be controlled by ne
groes who are in the majority, and negroes
will be elected to congress and Gil the vari
Gus state offices, Legislative and judicial.
10. The southern whites will emigrate in
large numbers rather than be ruled by ne
groes, and we shall have, south of the Ten
nessee, new Africa or Hayt as political
partner in the Union.
| IL. Trade with tree negro states amounts
to nothing, and from it we Of the north and
west will derive little satisfaction.
II. The freedmen's bureau will be main
tanned at frightful cost in the south, and the
negro who is unwilling to work will bc
maintained as now, at the government ex
peuse.
l3. A large standing army will be main
tanned to keep the people in subsection, an(
to pay it, in addition to the interest upoI
the public debt, will require that stamI
taxes, income taxes upon business in ever
shape and form, shall be collected from al
impoverished people.
If the democratic ticket is elected tn
debt will be discharged as it falls due, il
greenbacks; money will be plentier; tn,
bonds will be taxed, as other property, unit
they are paid off; white men will alone rule
vote and hold Office in all the states; tn
freedmen's bureau will be abolished, anO
the negro will be obliged, like the whit
man, to work for living times will be ea
sier, and prices will be higher labor "a
more productive, and prosperity will pei
wade all branches of industry Throughout
the country. Voter, which of these pre-
grAmmes do you prefer?-Cincinnad Ef
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