Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-06-29
SfereOfuped lies.

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Every month-and we have sait
this same thing monthly ever since
Grant came into office--tho oficia
publications Of the Treasury Depart
ment have pretended to show re
duction of the great national debt
but it is a mere pretence, for the deb
has not been reduced the figures lie
the statements IRE frauds; the Wash
ington head of the Financial Burear
is a knave and a scoundrel TO thus
hood-wink, insult and cheat the pool
dafed taxpayers and wealth.produc
ers. The public debt, May I, 1870
was s2,420,S64 1884. The public debt
of April 2, 1865, was So, 966,O55,O77
showing an increase in the five year.
of s54, ,sO9,257 But this is not al
the increase. When a debt, which
calls for paper dollar, is changed il
its character, and made to call for
gold dollar, il is as much increased
de tdcto, as the difference in value be
tween the paper and the gold. From
May |, 1865, to May l, 1870, there
were no less than 81, ,000,00O,000 o.
the paper dollar debt transformed in
to the gold dollar debt, which incrcas
ed the national obligation, the tax up
on the sweat and toll of tho white
man, thirteen cents on every dollar
And how much, oh mathematicaI
taxpayer, did the weight upon youl
backs increase2 How much was the
increase Of the public debt by thi:
cnahge No less than sl3O,OOO,O00
one hundred and thirty millions oI
do'IarS-was virtually added to the
iooungs oil the puOlle de6t by making
s@,iV"S4o'ZVo oi the debt bear inter
es. IN com IN lS'o' against 81 ,OO2,SOl,
ItZ, wnlch ooro interest IN coin in
iooo' Ihere were, therefore, $780,
Voo,VVO actually added to the public
deot IN 1917, beside the addition Of
so4,oOs,ZoI IN its growth from other
causes, making in all, an increase in
the public debt in the past five. years
oil Sle4rSOO,OOO! And yet the lying
rascals who hold official place and
power, and their venal and shameless
echoes, are periodically declaring
"tho debt is being reduced monthly"
People of the United States are you
never TO protest against a condition
OF things at the seat of government
which embarrasses you, shackles you,
impovorishes you, to a greater and
greater degree yoarlyY Are Won sat.
isfed to be taxed to tho extent of
$3.50 .000, 900 per year. and get sucb
fruits socially, politically and com.
mercially as you now doY Will Won
allow yourselves to bo thus dnped in.
suited, deceived, and truly spitten mn.
on year after year by your corrunt
rulers, and thon continue to vote them
into Office again, as you have done
Look, people of the United States n,
the treatment you have received bv
the present Congress. touebing toxo.
ton. Your appeals for relief have
been trampled upon; vour nravors
sneored at; your suppliootions nodo
merry over, by the heartloss cong .,
incapables, calling themselves Ssno.
tors and Representatives dis,roc;r :,
not onlv the Council Cbombors of ,ho
nation, but deeply disrracine the
people who sent them there. For ten
long, weary years. commercial pro.
gress, the advance in national wealth
and refinement, the growth even n,
tho common intelligence of this onco
great and progressive rcpublie-oll
have been impeded shaekleJ .logrod
by Ignorance corrup,ion and nol;G
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