Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-08-11
From the Democratic Northwest, Napoleon, o..
Too Many Families to Support.

JoHN-I don't see why we can't get
along as well as we did ten years ago.
work harder now than then, and
more hours in n day. spend not q
cent unnecessarily; and yet find il
a struggle to live. We used to live
plentitully, dress well, and have help
for you, wife, when house work got
too hard and still could lay up
something for rainy day at the end
of every week.
WIFE.-True, John but then you
only had one family TO maintain; now
you support a great number.
JoHN.-A great number do you say?
| don't understand you.
WIFE.-Well, I'll tell you, John I;
for you have worked too hard, and
been too tired to read the newspapers,
and too much harrassed in providing
for the family TO think and investigate.
l said you now have to help support
great many families, while in old
times you hadn't any to labor for but
your own. There is the Collector"
and the "Assessor," and the Detective
who informs on your neighbors. You
have to help support the families of all
these help TO buy pianos and silks
for their wives and daughters, and help
to educate their children. Then there's
the bondholder, who gives champaign
dinners, and burccns his table with
rnsSa I,i.t~, .---a t.--~i- - E..-~r~
and pays no taxes All this be does
on his gold interest which is paid him
twice year And then there is the
Tariff Robber, who lives in Pennsyl-
vania or Massachusetts,, and who
makes an annual profit of a hundred
per cent, almost all of which is a theft
from honest toll. So you see, John,
after you give part Of every days
earnings TO each of these. purposes,
there can be no great deal left for your
family. You didn't have to give your
earnings for any of these purposes,
when James Buchanan was President,
and so we lived easily and well.
JoHS.-Why, wife, you amaze me.
| never stopped TO think of these mat
ters, though / knew something was
wrong Nor do l now exactly see
how am robbed for these purposes.
WIFE.-Well, John, I'll tell you.
We used to get coffee for ten cents
pound. Now we pay thirty-fve. We
uss two pounds week and on this
single article fifty cents are taken from
your weekly wages, and is divided
between Dondholders, collectors, asses.
sors, and detectives. There is like
on the cost of tea, and ofsugar.
molasses and rice. Every addition to
tho price Of these articles is tax,
imposed by the Government, to raise
money to pay bondholders, collectors,
assessors, and detectives. Every pair
Of boots you buy you pay a heavy tax.
Every suit of clothes you buy, you
pay just double price for. And the
extra cost all goes 10 the support of
Tariff Robbers, or Government lecch.
IS, who had no existence in Demo
cratic days. Our rent, you know, is
great deal higher; and the landlord
'ays he had TO raise rent because he
las TO pay income tax, and higher for
ga, coffee, sugar, and other provision,
han ten years ago, when he gave us :
'ent so cheap. Sometimes you chew
obacco, or smoke a cigar; and for {
hese you have to pay just twice what
'ou bad to pay in Buchanan's time .
md all this extra cost is tax, TO enable !
'ondholders, collectors, assessors and
detectives, TO live in luxury and idle
css. SO you sec, John, when your o
Feek's hard toll is made to contribute
the support Of so many families, il !.
no wonder we live poor and hard, :,
hat we have sometimes barely the p
ecessarics Of life, and that our chill. 2
ren don't go TO school because we 4
aven't money TO buy them books and I
nitable clothes. pl
Exit John, determined 10 vote with y
he party hereafter which desires that ;,
10 laboring man shall have fair !,
ay's wages for fair days work, and "
iat the proceeds shall 70 to the sup
ort Of bis own family, instead Of be.
q divided among a set of idle and &c,
xuriant livers known as Government
cts and officials. n