The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-07-22
written for the Democratic press.l

love them how they have worked for
their welfare how frugal their party
has been with the peoples money;
how many shifts and turns their party
has made to keep the government
credit good: how the government for
nearly three-fourths of century had
been in the hands of the Democratic
party; and that, for fear that party
would destroy the government, it be-
came absolutely necessary, by hook or
crook, to work the radical party into
power; how ignorant and iniquitous
the Democratic party and the old
Wing party always were; how their
.(the radicaD principles were alwaya at
antipodes with the Jefiersonian doc
trines of the Virginia and Kentucky
resolutions, and how that from the ey-
licences of their bitter hatred to the
doctrines of our fathers, rs explained
by the Democratic and old Wing par
ties, aud their radical party, and the
further evidences of their integrity,
their modesfy, their economy since
they have been in power, their love
of the laboring class, and their bound-
less general goodness, they should be
kept in power, to save the country
from local and class legislation and
sectional hate !; to save it from war; to
keep it one and undivided, as they
have now fixed it; to save it from re-
pudiation to protect freedom of
speech and of the press; to save the
Constitution from the attacks of the
Democratic party to protect the
three cardinal branches of the Federal
Government, each in the full and free
enjoyment of its own constitutional
rights and duties; to protect the
blessed debt, for which they say every
dollar that we own in the world is
mortgaged, SO that the patriotism of
the bondholder may remain unfair
,nished; to pay the debt by annually
increasing the Indebtedness; to make
gold plenty by paying it to the bond
holders only: to make free farms for
the lancless poor, by giving millions
of acres each year to wealthy railroad
corporations to make equalit among
men, by building up moneyed aris-
tocracy:ito save and protect the rights
of the States by establishing central
lied and consolidated government; to
make the burdens of taxation light,
by heaping heavy assessments upon
everything we eat, drink or wear to
make the rich pay the taxes, by letting
their bonds. bills and bank stock go
free; to make money plenty by con-
tracting the circulation, so that none
but the rich can have it; to make the
laborer prosper by compelling him to
pay two prices for the necessaries of
life !; TO silently and quietly bleed ev-
cry vein and every artery of the coun-
try for the benefit of the millionaire,
that he may havehundreds of millions
of dollars, the hard earnings of the
laboring poor, and from want of which
their dear children cry with hunger
and with cold. 5'a 7f'
Kind readers, American citizens
you who were once free; you whose
earnings were once your own, unaf-
fected and untarnished by the foul
blot of unequal taxation; to You let
me say that the foregoing is but a
glance at the picture of the great
wrongs of a few years of7what they
icall Republican rule; what they will
claim to you must be continued. MOI
does the picture end here. They have
told you thousand times over, and
they will tell you the same through
the coming campaign, that the ricf
and their luxries bear the burdens ot
taxatious, while the poor mans coarse
goods are exempt. Now 1 wish to bt
distinctly understood, that all sucl
statements are false in theory and
false in fact. Let me call your atten
ton to. q few items of taxation to il
Illustrate. Everybody agrees that sill
goods are q luxury; and the echo o
Republican stump oratory is scarcely
j silent upon the hills, telling you the,
have piled the tariff high on silks, 81
that the rich shall pay heavily for tn,
luxuries i'll which their wives ant
daughters inlopulence roll; while the1
further say they have kept the COARSE
fabrics, the necessaries for the laborer
free. This all sounds very well, if i
were only true but his satanic majes
ty, with all his ingenuity in falsehood
fraud and swindling, could scarcely b
expeeted to devise more arch decei
than this. True, they have placed
duty of go per cent adpaloraan upa
silks. But who among them has tol
Won the truth as to the amount G
duty they have placed upon the eoars
! er fabrics--the neeessaries of lif
9 which the millions of laboring poo
! their wives and daughters, must wea1
Are such coarse goods untaxed? !? AL
g they duty free, as the leading Repul
liean would have you believe? L.
, us take first the article of cheap POI
t lima fabric made of cotton and wors
D ed, intended and calculated for con
: mon and every day dress-goods ft
t our wives and daughters, an artic
J. costing seven pence stirling, Or ahol
e fourteen cents per yard in England
!. tie duty on this article is l25 per cent
!, or, in other words, for every dollar
: worth of it you purchase, you mu
$ pay two dollars and twenty-five cents
n. so that, adding transportation al
e profits, you must pay your merchan
}, forty-five cents yard for goods whic
o in the outset cost only fourteen cent
IS while the rich, bondholder only pa,
C one dollar and sixty cents for do
lars worth of luxuries, exclusive
: transooptafion and Drotits. This is II