The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-08-12
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LOAFERS AND LARORERS.

LOAFERs AND LABORERS.
The United Stat es Government owes
its protection to those who labor.
Yet it protects only loafers. A la
borer is one who labors. A man or Wo-
man who is busy doing something for
self-support and the benefit of 9TH
ers. The poor woman with her nee
dle-pricked fingers and eyes red from
over-work is laborer, and she pro-
tects the Government. The needle she
uses, the light she. sews by, the thread
she sews with, the room she lives in,
the money she earns, is taxed.
The poor woman in the country who
milks, washes, cooks, irons, sweeps,
scrubs, makes and mends-working
like slave from day to day-is help
ing protect the Government. She tolls
to help pay taxes-she grows old pre-
maturely-her girlish beauty is sweat
out-her agile form grows stiff and
awkward, for her life is one of labor.
She works to protect the Government.
A man follows the plow- the har-
row-the seed-drill- the reaper and
mower. He swings the ak, with stur-
dy arm, throwing enterprise into the
wilderness. He drills the rock, digs
into mountains, explores rivers, labors
in mines, pioneers his way to the
West and to wealth. He drives a
stage, swings sledge, shoes a horse,
makes coat, paints picture, prints a
paper, invents and makes machinery,
builds house, lays out town, erects
a churcn, a school, or block of stores;
picks rags, carries bundles, blacks
boots, sets type, breaches sermons, am
putates limbs, pulls teeth, paves
streets, raises cattle, makes railroads,
carries musket, pays taxes.
He lives by the labor of his hands or
his brains. He is a workingman, aid
ing to make the country great, paying
taxes-,fOr tChdt?
To protect the Government.
To protect loafers.
To protect bondholders who pay no
taxes.
He protects the Government-the
Government robs the workingman TO
to protect the loafer.
Who is the workingman
A man who works with hand and
brain to live by his own labor.
Who is the loafer.
Any man who lives other than by
labor, who shirks honest toll of brain
or muscle, and fastens himself like a
leech to the earning of others. The
bondholder is loafer. He lives on in
terest stolen from people. He lives
on the losses of others. Heis as much
a loafer as the seedy dead. beat who
stands in saloons waiting for others to
ask him to drink.
He is a robber, for he takes that he
has not earned.
He is shirk, for he throws the bur-
dens of life on the shoulders of others,
He is a coward, for he runs behind
the law with his stolen plunder, asks
for protection, and from his retreat
reaches out to rob the workingman of
his earnings, and with long, crooked
claws reaches into the womb of the fu-
ture to rob the unborn.
He is drone, for he adds nothing to
the revenue, builds no houses, makes
no cities, improves no lands, nor ben
efts the world.
He is tyrant, for he rides rough
shod over labor, and snatches from the
poor the tax on tea, coffee, cloths, fur
niture, bread, medicines, shrouds, and
cofins-everything to make up the
gold he calls for and receives as inter-
est on his untaxed bonds.
The workingman Is our friend and
we would see him protected.
The loafer is our enemy. The loafer
is bondholder-th bondholder is
loafer who is protected by the Govern
ment, and We depise him, and the rot
ten laws which protect him at the ex-
pense of labor.
We like honest men.
We hate thieves.
The man who robs of others is a
thief.
The bondholder robs other.
Where in GODS law is it given in
charge for US to toll to benefit others
who will not work? And why should
we rob our homes our loved ones
our chlldren-to enrich that cowardly
aristo c,acy that has by its own laws ex
empted itself from taxation 9-~P Pom
eroy's Democrat,
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A Missouri lady hung herself because
her husband went to California. There
are Ia good many willing to dc that
same thing because their husbands
won't go to California or somewhere.
The Radical press of Virginia call
colored men "niggers" since the elec-
ton. That'sa mild retaliation upon
the colored gentlemen forsothoroughly