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

NeEtOAyPto A<tNos
Every month-and we have said
this same thing monthly ever since
Grant came into offiee--tho official
publications of the Treasury Depart
ment have pretended to show re-
duotion of the great national debt !
but It is a mere pretence, for the debt
has not been reduced the figures lie
the statements are frauds; the Wash
ington head of the Financial Bureau
is knave and a scoundrel TO thus
hood-wink, insult and cheat the poor
dsred taxpayers and wealth.produc-
ers. The public debt, May I, 1870,
was s2,42O, ,s64 1884. The public debt
OF April 2, 1865, was s2,a66,O55,O77,
showing an increase in the five years
OF s54 ,s09, ,257 But this is not all
the increase. When a debt, which
calls for 4 paper dollar, is changed in
its character, and made to call for a
gold dollar, it is as much increased,
de fdcto, as the difference in value be.
tween the paper and the gold. From
May l, 1865, to May /, 1870, there
were no less than $1,000, 100000 Of
the paper dollar debt transformed 10
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 !! mathematical
taxpayer, did the weight upon your
backs increase How much was the
increase of the public debt by thi,
change No less than sl30.000.000
doIlars-was virtually added to the
footings Of the public debt by making
s2,l07 ,943, 200 of the debt bear inter
est in coin in 1870, against 81 ,OO2 ,3Gl
2i2, which bore interest in coin in
1865. There were, therefore, $3.50,
100000 actually added to the public
debt in 1870, beside the addition OF
s54, ,s09,257 in its growth from Other
causes, making in all, an increase in
the public debt in the past five. years
Of slsl, 100000! And yet the lying
rascals who hold official place and
power, and their venal and shameless
echoes, are periodically declaring
"the debt is being reduced monthly"
People of the United States are you
never TO protest against q condition
Of things at the seat of government
which embarrasses you, sbackles you
impoverishes you, to a greater and
greater degree yearly Are you sat.
isfed to be taxed to the extent Of
s35O,OOO,OO0 per year, and get such
fruits socially, politically and com.
mercially as you now dol will you
allow yourselves to be thus duped, in.
sulted, deceived, and truly spitton up.
on year after year by your corrupt
rulers, and then continue to vote them
into office again, as you have done
Look, people of the United States, at
the treatment you have received by
the present Congress, touching taxa.
ton. Your appeals for relief have
been trampled upon; your prayers
sneored at; your supplications made
merry over, by the heartloss gang Of
incapables, calling themselves Sena.
tors and Representatives, disgracing
nat'on, pht deeply di.cs..,. : =
people who sent them there. For ten
long, weary years, commercial pro.
gress, the advance in national wealth
and refinement, the growth even of
tho common intelligence of this once
great and progressive repubic-all
have been impeded, shackled. elorred
by ignorance, corruption, and politi.
cal vandalism in high places. Tho
party in power is composed of the
weakest intelects in the whole body
polite. Narrow.minded, sordid one.
idead, and basely wicked, under its
rule the nation is being utterly ru.
med Will the people awake, and
put on their strength, ere il is Zoo
late' The present government and
administration is daily living lie
From its beginning it has been one
huge monstrous fllsehood. Its fruits
are treaehery, deceit, and foul vii.
innyj the sooner the people go to
the ballot.box and transform this des.
uuetive Mongrel despotism into
white and enlightened Democratic
government, tho sooner shall wo reach |
the great and prosperous highway of
truth and honesty. White men do
your duty IN Y Day Book.