The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-09-11
From the n. Y. Democrat.
Money Against Life.

From the n. Y. Democrat
Money Against Life.
The poor man, the workingman, wa
compelled to risk, and in thousands o
instances to lose in the war, what al
men hold dearer than every thing they
possess.
Life itself!
What was the rich man compelled t.
dot
Nothing!
Not even to give his money, though
the poor man gave his life, of little val
ue as the former was ia comparison
with the latter.
But the rich man loaned his money, i
it pleased him, OF refused to loan it, if ht
so pleased; and did loan it only wher
he could exact such terms as suited hi:
avaricious views. When he could con
vert his one dollar Of gold into two dol
lars, or more, of legal tenders, he made
the conversion, and with his greenbacks
thus obtained, went to the government
and exchanged them for one or more ol
it's bonds, upon which interest was
made payable semi-annually.
| gold!
By this process he made sure of re-
ceiving the interest in gold, on two dol
lars or more, when he had lost only the
equivalent Of one dollar in gold, and
what he had actually bought with one
such dollar-thus getting from twelve
to fifteen per cent. interest, in gold, on
every dollar of gold which he converted
into greenbacks to lend to the govern
ment.
But this was not all,
He took care to exact the further con-
dition that he should pay no taxes on his
bonds.
Nor is this all!
He now demands, that for every
greenback dollar that he lent the gov
ernment, and which when he lent it
was worth only forty to fifty cents on
the dollar in gold, he shall receive 3
gold dollar, and the Grant and Jacobin
party are pledged to sustain him in this
demand.
Though the bonds provide for pay
ment of the principal in lawful money,
which greenbacks are declared to be by
Jdcobin lac, the Jacobin Congressional
majority has attempted, at the instga-
tion and in the interest of the bondhold-
ers, to perpetrate q monstrous fraud
upon the people, and rob them of six
hundred millions of dollars more than
the present amount of the public debt,
by taking up the outstanding legal ten
der bonds, and issuing in lieu of them
bonds expressly payable in gold, which
it would take six hundred millions
more of legal tenders to pay than to pay
the bonds as they now stand.
NoW strike the balance betWeeR money and
Ifs!
What is paid for the poor mans life,
which he was obliged, by the Federal
conscription, to sacrifice in the war
Look around among the widows and
orphans of those whose lives were thus
inundated upon the altar of abolition
fanaticism, and, in their destitute and
suffering condition, behold the evidences
of liberality and Justice Of the Gov
ernment towards those from whom it
tore their bread providers.
How does it treat the bondholders !
1t pays him twelve to fifteen per cent.
interest on the money which he csnde-
scended to lend, during the time the loan
remains outstanding, and when it shall
come to pay the principal of the loan,
the Jacobin party insists that it shall
pay him two dollars in gold for every
dollar that he originally lent.
But more than this!
The bondhelder is exempted from tax
alton on his bonds, and the soldiers who
came out of the war alive, and the wild
ow and children of those who were
slain, in common with all others of the
working classes to which they belong,
are taxed to pay these bonds, and al
most the entire burden of taxation for
the payment of the bonds falls upon
them.
Then IL come TO this!
The workingmen gave their lives!
The workingmen pay the taxes!
The workingmen pay the bonds
The bOndhOlders do nothing
The bondholders pay no taxes!
The bondhOldcrs pay nothing!
The soldier who received his pay and
bounty, had to take them in greenbacks
| lent by the bOndholder upon the bonds
which he now claims shall be paid in
gold. The JacObins would now tax
this same soldier, and make him pay
back what nc thus received for his ser
vices.
Still ,rOrse'
They would make him pay it in gold,
to be handed over to the bondholders
for the greenbacks he lent the govern
ment to pay this soldier for risking his
health, his limbs, his life.
Thus the pittance which the govern
ment paid the soldier, is taken back
from him in taxes-aye, double the
amount-to pay to the bendbolder twice
the sum he ever lent.
Was the bondholder now compelled
to forfeit every dollar of his bonds,
would it bear any comparison TO the
value of the lives which were taken
without rendering an equvalenti
Or would it make any approach to the
inequality and injustice OF paying the
bonds in gold, and exempting the bond.
holders from taxation
Ind this is the Jdcobin policy!