Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-07-14

Sc6Qule A. OSOIODCI
Passports. "a
GasS 49,. ZSzOI,OOI
Miscellaneous -. $1,000. 6OI,oI4
Penalties. ........... 900 ooo
Stamps. 15,718,2 23
Total.................$ $3.50, 26O, 947
The duties from customs were
in gold, which if reduced TO legal
tenders, averaging the price OF
GOLD during the entire year, a
mounts to $500, OOO,O and
which makes the whole sum
$780, 0O, 900. Now add to this
$38O,000,00 as the cost of collec-
ton, and we have the enormous
sum of $3.50, 600, 900 The ex.
penditures of. the Go vernment
under an economical Admins
tration should not exceed $780,
OOO, 900. By adding the interest
on the bonded debt, which is
about $40, OO0,O 600, the entire ex
penses of the Government need
not be more than $240, 000, 900.
Deduct this sum from $3.50, 000,-
900, and we have five hundred
and twenty millions, of which
the people are absolutely robbed
to support a horde of official ia
vorites, thieves and time-serving
rascals.
This enormous sum does not
constitute all the money out of
which the people r yearly
swindle ed. The I,lundering tariff
robs them of hun dreds of millions
more, which goes to enrich pros
tected monopoli es. The truth is,
the people have submitted so long
to the usurpat ions, frauds and
foul wrongs which have been per-
~petrated, that 2. hideous, vile Oil
garchy has be en- estabiished-a
corrupt money power-which
exists by extor ton, tyranny, out
rage aud rilnCs. The most etfec
tual-the only eYectual means
for perpetuatiu G fragrant usurpa-
lions of power is, by co%nsentra>
ting power In a few hands, and
by empoverishing the laborers
Ito the utmost limit of endurance
by oppressive taxation. B, trans
ferring the ca rnings Of the masses
to the pockets of the few, money
or property becomes the ruling
power IN heghaads of the Gov
ternment, lust cad OF the will OF
the people, which is set at def
ance, and n war, perpetual and
unceasing is waged upon theiI
sovereignty. I'm quail taxation,
class legislation, government-pro-
tected monopoIies, and tax-ex-
empted bond-holders, r the
machinery by which the laboring
classes are swindled and impov>
erished, and rendered powerless
lin the Gov ernment. Wealth is
in combination against labor, and
is preying upon the rights of the
laboring classes, seeking and OBJ
tanning privileges, exemption and
immuuities at the expense of Ia
Dor. 1t has now obtained extra
ordinary rnd dangerous power,
under the operation of unjust and
unequal laws, which it has sucr
ceeded by bribery and corruption
in passing for its benefit. Prop
erty and dolitical power is being
transferred with fearful rapidity
from the many, who are the right
full possessors, to the grasp of the
few, who live in idleness, and
like teaches and vampires suck
the industrial classes.
IF the causes now in operation
continue to act for two or three
years to come, as they have for
ten years past, the property and
political power of the country
will pass into the hands of a few
hundred monopoIists. Such a
calamity-such a fatal blow to
liberty and the rights of property
can only be arrested and pre-
vented by an interposition OF the
people. This interposition can
only be secured by a union of all
the truly Democratic elements in
the country. Labor must be
emancipated from the tyranny OF
capital, or what amounts to the
same thing, Democracy must
overcome and supplant despot-
ism If it has to be done by wa
ging open war upon tyrants. No
pow err short of this will protect
the people from robbery, ahject
poverty and slavery. A people
to be free, must themselves strike
the blow, and strike it earnestly,
f~earIessly, determinedly, and nev-
err yield until every right is again
in their possession.