Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-12-01
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day, than the niggcr servant at his
table, ho has deolared to the members
of his Cabinet that he will oppose any
modification of tho revenue laws for
1870, should Congress take the matter
up. Voters of tho United States, we
seriously ask you, how long you in
tend to remain thus passivcly the vic
tins of such unstatesmanlilSe stupid
ityY How many more years Of politi-
cal, commercial, financial and social
chaos do you intend to drag through
without q protest which shall shake
the Union from centre TO circumfer.
erccg Here we are, after four years
of peace, blessed by an All-wise Power
with national health, without pesti-
lcncc, or famine to weigh upon us as
individuals or as people; with an
abundant food crop, and million OF
solid proofs of Gods providence and
yet, there is all over the land deep,
silent, wcighty, grave Affections which
rest like an incubus upon the brains
of very large class of toiling millions,
eating into their hearts, looming up
daily in their homes like grim
spectre, haunting their S'oep, depres-
sing their ---akciul hours, and destroy
Ing that mental buoyancy without
which life is scarcely endurable. 1t is
the curse of oUer taxation which is
being piled upon tho patient millions,
and which, year after year, they have
prayed to be released from. Life be-
comes too much Of burden when the
human heart and the human frame are
worked and fretted slowly to death,
by constant, never ceasing, ever
tormenting tax. A man tolls to get
that which, when obtained, is his. 1t
is the anticipation of the enjoyment of
the fruits of his sweat and labor that
nerves him on. He sees the smiles of
his family, as he pours the fruits ofhis
toll at their feet; "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness" is then truly
vouchsafed to him and his. How is it
today How has it been for the past
eight yearsY The millions are not
working for themselves; they are
working for the rich bond-holders !;
they are working to sustain despotic
power in Washington; they are
working TO establish an abnormal
relation between the nigger and the
white man; they are working to de-
grade themselves TO the niggcr's level I;
they are working to maintain an
extravagant and corrupt administra.
ton and a set Of Office holders who
steal millions yearly; and more than
all this, they are working to support
n standing army of 10000 men in this
period of "peace," at cost Of $780,
0O0, 900 per year, that the "hecl Of the
negro" to use the language of one Of
the Mongrel journals of the day, "may
be kept on the necks of the non.sup.
porters of this administration to pay
them for the past" And this, and
more than all this, is kept up BY that
curse, oUer tdration. U. S. Grant,
we're he to-day a monarch in Europe,
as he is a monarch here, and dare use
his power there, under the samo cir
cumstances he dares thus use il here,
would lose his head in an hour. He
interferes in our State elections, and
dictates in matters political over
which he has no more Jurisdiction
than the Khan of Tartary, but when
appealed to by a weary, ovcrtaxcd
people to 'let them up to degree"
he coldly, despotically refuses. To
day the mercantile interests are break
ing down. Millions Of capitals being
retired from hitherto productive lines
Of business because, at does not now
pay" consumption is being reduced Of
over taxation the earnings Of the
wealth producer do not allow him to
purchase these earnings are eaten up
by that terrible inficiion, the rcve-
nuo law the great millions are being
sacrificed to tho debtsupporling,
army-supporting, spoils-gathering,
Mongrelizing party Of the country,
who have little by little gradually
shacklod the working, toiling masses;
shacklcd many for the benefit Of the
few The name of the tax -gatberers
to-day dis legion" Three hundred
millions per year are now being ex.
tracted by them from the pockets Of
the wealth-crea.ing classes, not the
wealth owning by any means, and the
stolid, ignorant tool Of base and
corrupt political faction, who sits in
the Presidential chair with the power
to relieve by a word to Congress,
spits upon their calamities not a
hopeful word comes forth; on The
contrary, the response is, "no let up
in the screws OF taxation" Demo.
Gratis do you mean that these infiic.
tions shall continue forever :" "God
help the tax payorsw
"H. II. Arnold, colorcd, Of Alexan.
dria, Va, has been appointed mes
scnger in the Treasury Department in
Washington, at a salary of $50 per
month. h."--Erchdnge.