Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-06
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brought in harmony with the base viol OF
the Gazette. But he now saw that such |
papers deceived the peOple-crying peace,
peace. when there Is no peace. That he
now began to see this. Some friend had
sent him few copies of the ONO STATES |
MAN and Cincinnati Enquirer. and although
his paper had stigmatized these as "vile, |
copperhead Sheets" favoring reputation, |
rebellion, and all kinds of disrespect to law,
yet, on reading them, he found it was not
so-that Radical writers do most posi-
lively SANDER their political oppo-
nents, and knowingly misrepresent
their justly reformatory policy. 1t really
did seem to him, he said, as If these editors
and writers were under the pay of the bond
aristocracy and moneyed gentry of the Ma
tional Bank monopoly. to keep the humble,
hard laboring voter, whether farmer, me-
chanic or merchant, in the dark as to the
true financial condition of the country. Or
if they were not bribed to do this, they
must hold bonds and stocks themselves, for
they would never write as they do, nor vote
as they teach, did they hold either the plow,
the plane or the commercial pen. A man
who tolls daily on farm, in the shop, or
waits behind the counter for struggling
customer to come in, is fool to vote to
make money scarce, taxes heavy, business
dull, wool low, and his labor worthless,
merely to keep in power a party of almost
limitless extravaganza and one that as
deeply sympathizes with the rich as it con-
stantly Overlooks the wants of the poor
Can it be possible that the toiling masses
will vote to enslave themselves to these
bondlords of wealth.
No, sir, no, sir, not they, rejoined the
other; and could reach their ears with
all feel and talk as do you. And now, my
friend, if you have time to stay and incli-
nation to hear, will lay before you other
evidences of the curse of Radical rule that
should make every honest, tax-paying,
patriotic heart warm with Indignation to
hear. -
Go on, said the farmer, tell us all. 1t has
got to come out sometime. Let the laborer
know the worst. Stir up this filthy cess
pool, though it be rank, and send its smell
beyond the stars.
Well, don't you see, said the money
jingler, that the policy of the Republicans
is to have two kinds of currency for two
different classes? Gold for the wealthy,
and paper for the poor. Hundreds of mil
lions of gold are semi-annually sent from
New York to us who hold the $40 or 1910
bonds, as interest. This we receive and
lay away, knowing that inasmuch as coin
is the currency of the world, it can never
tall below par, and must generally, owing
to local causes, command premium. But
what do you farmers and wool growers
get for your commodities? Paper-Na-
tional Bank paper at that too, (not Green
backs) which bank managers who are the
pets of your party, are allowed to furnish
you in the place of Government bills, and
for which deprecated paper, you pay an
annual tax of over $1S000,000. That is,
you pay this immense sum. yearly to the
National Bank gentry to issue for you a
currency far less valuable than the legal
tender of the Government! These nation
al notes won't be taken in paymentas tax.
Why then keep up these national abomi-
nations? Why, for no purpose under the
sun but to furnish facilities for the rich to
grow richer at the expense of the poor Ia
borer. Pendleton is opposed to all this
National Bank nuisance. Capitalists know
this; and, hence, the Neu York Advertiser, a
journal in the interest of these bankers, bold
ly declares, In recent number, that the 1900
National Banks will each contribute $1,000
each to prevent Pendleton's nomination,
and thrice that sum to defeat his election
should he be the choice of the Democratic
convention. Yes, this they will do, and
make money by it, too. Can't they we'll
afford to spend three or four millions to
keep down man and party who they
know would so equalize the burdens of
government as to take an annual tax of
S1s,0O0,000 off your shoulders and out of
their plethoric purses. How do you like
gold and greenbacks for the aristocratic;
rags, rags, National rags for the snn-burnt
rustic? How do you like the exchange,
ye hard-fsted laborer, as you take your
basket and start to market, to find your
greenback dollar that you received as yes
days wages taken away by some soft-fn-
gered banker, and bill of National cur
rency substituted, which is a large per cent.
below greenback par, and you find yourself
taxed to help pay these "loil" bankers
eighteen millions of dollars every year for
making for you this disfavorable exchange?
Is not the proper term for such transac-
tion the true SYNONYM for rascallity or ra-
pacity, or tyranny? Yet, it is dubbed ''loy-
o1f ~ do1l ,ho ont
denounced regulators, copperheads, reb-
els! O., heavens, If the toiling millions
could only see and understand the real
status of our National Finance, and the un-
told extravaganza of the radical sharks
who rule us, would they not speak to them
through the ballot box in voice.of thun-
der that would startle the guilty scoundrels
in their places of power, as was the de-
bauched monarch of old at the sight of the
words Of judgment inscribed upon the wall
No man who has not had every element
of pity and justice eliminated from his soul
can examine this bond and tax question
and not feel indignant that any person or
party could be found to advocate the doc.
trine that the owner of gold at the out
break of the war must be allowed a $3.50
bond for each 500 in gold that he gave to
aid the Government, and 6 per cent. semi
annual interest on this $3.50 bond (Which
f. equal to 8 per cent. common cur
rency), and hold it as totally ex-
empt from ALL taxation, and now
demand $3.50 in gold for it, and that
he may obtain it, urge five-told tax on all
the farmer raises, the merchant makes or
the merchant sells 1t is a most infamous
outrage upon the rights and property OF all
men who are compelled to labor to procure
an honest livelihood. Why not dispense
with this National Bank nuisance and thus