The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-07-27
Professions VS.. Practices.

There is frequently very wide difference be-
tween the professions of party and its pracd-
ces. The truth of this assertion is exemplifed
by the party now in power. and which is en-
deavoring to continue its despotic reign by re-
sort to deception and fraud. For example,:
They professto be in favor of universal suf-
frage, yet they disfranchise intelligence and
enfranchise ignorance in the Southern States.
while in Massachusetts and Rhode Island where
they have had supreme control from the time
beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitants.
they make tax-paying, reading and writing re-
quirements for voting. thus DISTINGUISHING fifty
or sixty thousand of the people of those States,
while they vote for and insist upon forcing upon
other States submission to the control of
ignorant negroes and specializing, thieving car
pet -baggers. iIssls@sz 4t4
They profess to be in favor of Republican gov
ernment; yet they invest the President with su-
control elections, ard absolute power to impris-
on by military force without the privilege of
the writ of habeas corpus; a power sufficient to
enable the President, should he desire so to dc.
to raise himself to empire, and greater than
which is possessed by no monarch in the world.
They profess to be in favor of the equality of
the people: yet they create paper currency
and declare that it shall be q legal tender in
payment of all debts, and compel the people to
use 1t in all matters of deal between one anoth-
er, and require them to receive it for all debts
due from individuals, or the State and Federal
governments, whether created before or since
the passage of the legaI-tend act, while they
have created a privileged order of bondholders
who, they declare, are entitled to receive gold
in return for bonds for which the government
received only greenbacks, and for which moth
ing but greenbacks were promised in return
and they go Systematically to work to plumber
the people that they may pay to their privileged
pets in two years s5oOO0,OO0 by way of premi-
INNS; and then turn round and boast of the
amount of the debt they have cancelled. when
by an honest, faithful discharge of the obliga-
tion, according to the terms of the bond and the
law, they ight have paid forty or fifty millions
more. sm Esss1 4lz Eaiaas
| They profess to be in favor of fair and equit-
| able system of taxation, and yet they impose
burdens on the people, not according to the
amount of their property or ability to pay, but
| according to their wants and necessities; and
| by their system of tariff taxes while they collect
$3.50, 600 900 Of revenue for the government they
put three times that amount into the Golfers OF
| their fayorites. the manufacturing lords of New
England and few iron masters of Pennsylva-
mia.
/ They profess to be in favor of the honest and
/ faithfnl collection of the revenue; but they en-
| dorse an administration which shows q greater
| number of defanlters, and q larger amount stol
en- from the public treasury under its rule thar
under the rule of ali the other Presidents since
/ the organization of the government.
These are but few of the instances wher'
the Radical party has been faithless to its pro
fessions and promises. They have shown them
selves unworthy Of trust and the continued CON
fdence of the people. There is q loud demand
i coming up from every quarter for reform, which
can only be brought about by driving the op
pressors and plundtrers from power, and re
/ storing the government to the hands of tina
I party which for three-quarters of century con
trolled its destiny, making it the as best govern
mont the sun ever shone upon, and its peopl,
the most prosperous on the face of the earth"