The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-10-07

james SWEET, superintendent OF the
Eagle machine works, indianapolis,
slightly; John Duncan and wife, of
Franklin. Ind, slightly.
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roo MAY F-4NILIES TO SUPPORT.
john don't gee why we can't get
along as well as we did ten years ago.
| work harder row than then, and more
hours in day. | spend not a cent UNI
necessarily; and yet find it struggle
10 live. We used to live plentifully.
dress well, and help for you. wife, when
house-work got too hard; and still |
could lap up something fer rainy day
at the end Of the week.
Wife.-True, John; but then you on
| ly had one family to MAINTAIN; now you
support great number.
John.-A great number do you say =?
don't understand you.
Wife.-Well, III tell you, John; for
you have worked too hard and been
too tire,' to read the newspapers, and
too much harrassed il providing for the
family to think and investigate. / said
that you now have to help support
great many families, while in old times
you hadn't to labor for but your own
| There is the collector. and the CAS-
SCISSOR" and the detective" who in
forms on your ne ghbors. You have to
support the families Of all these; help t.
by pianos and silks for their wives and
daughters, and help to educate theil
children. Then there's the 5ondholder,
who gives champagne dinners, and
burdens his table with silver plate, and
travels in Europe, and pays no tax
All this he does ON his gold interest
which is paid him twice year. And
then there is the Tariff R9bber, who
makes an annual of hundred per cent.
almost all of which is Il theft from hon
est 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 fer
any of these purposes when James
Buchanan was President; and so we
lived easily and well.
John.-Why, wife, yea amaze me
never stopped to think Of these mat
tiers, though l knew something was
wrong. Nor do now exactly see how
l 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
use two pounds week; and on this
single article fifty cents are taken from
your weekly wages and divided between
bondholders, collectors, assessors. and
detectives. There is little addition
II the cost of tea, and Of sugar, molas
ses and rice. Every addition to the
price OF these articles IL "A tax. imposed
| by the Government, to raise money to
| nov tho hnuJJ,l -, Ill -. -
and detectives. Every pair Of boots
you buy, you pay heavy tax. Every
suit OF cloths you buy, you ply Just
double price for-And the extra cost
all goes to the support of Tariff Rob
bers, or Government leecies. who had
no existence in Democratic DAYS. Our
rent, you know, is "a great deal higher;
and the landlord says he had to raj;
rent because he has to pay income tax.
and higher for tea, coffee, sugar. and
other provisions, than ten years ago,
when he gave IA rent 80 cheap. Some
time you chew tobacco or smoke ci-
gar; for these you have to nav lust
thrice what you had to pay in Buchan-
ans time; and all this extra cost is tax,
to enable bondholders, collectors, asses
sors and detectives to live in luxury and
idlencss. So you see, John, when your
week hard toll is made to contribute to
the support of so many families, it is no
wonder we live poor and hard, that we
have sometimes barely the necce5saries
of life, and that our children don't 20 to
school because we havn't money to buy
books and suitable clothes.
Exit John, determined to vote with
the party hereafter which desires that
the laboring man shall have fair davis
wages for fair days work, and that
the proceeds shall 90 to the support of