The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-09-22
THE GREAT RADICAL SYNDICATE !
TIE NATION ROBBED by THE MILLION
TAX. PAYERS LOOK AT TIE FIGURES
Steal Upon Steal and Theft Upon Theft |!

ment show balance unaccounted for of
over TWO MILLIONSl
u. S. Treasurer SPINNER fails to ac.
count for bonds that have passed into
his hands to the amount OF THREE
MILLIONS!
BY boarding gold in the Treasury and
paying interest on bonds to an equal
amount the people lose more than SIX
MILLIONS annually.
ONE MILLION of the peoples mon
ey was stolen bya government attache
from the wrecked steamer Golden
Rule!
THREE MILLIONS missing on ac.
count of sale of arms, vessels and muni-
tions of war!
ONE MILLION missing on account
of sale of iron clad5 TO Peru!
Upon bonds deposited by bankers to
secure their issues the people pay an
interest of TWENTY MILLIONS,
which might be savei by Issuing green
backs in their stead
w. l.. HODGE, paymaster at Wash
ington, has recently proven defaulter
to the amount Of HALF A MILLION
TO a MILLION Of dollars!
BAILEY, New York revenue col.
lector, stole near ELEVEN HUNDRED
THOUSAND dplars aud then ran
away!
Recently Mr.. MOTION, of the New
York Post Office, proved defaulter to
the amount of TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS, and other
deialcations in the same Office exist.
A Kansas revenue collector recently
stole over A HUNDRED THOUSAND
dollars, and thos Radical Senators from
that State settled the whole claim with
the department at Washington for
eleuei thousand!
The other defalcation5 Of revenue col
lectors amount to MlLLIO Ms!
The Radical Postmaster at Atlanta,
Georgia, has just been detected in de.
falcation of TIIIRY THOUSAND dol.
lars.
GEO. O. EVANS, Stale war claim
agent of Pennsylvania, has stolen
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
dollars, as a compensation for cheating
the Federal government out of MILL
IONS!
The Radical State Treasurer of Penn-
sylvania annually cheats the people OF
the State out of FIFTY TO A HUN
DRED THOUSAND dollars, interest
upon the peoples money loaned to
Banks!
The Radical "Syndicate in Europe
charged the government over FIFTY
MILLIONS for negotiating the recent
loan, besides thousands spent by sending
agents to assist them!
While government officials in every
direction and every quarterare rObbing
the Nation, the Radical President idles
his time away at the Long Branch race
course, and his Secretaries are travelling
the country making personal specula,
tions and attending to and corruptine
politics!
| Will not the people arouse themselves
to this wholesale ROBBERY and NEG
LECT OF DUTY! 1t will be seen that
in every department of the State and
National governments, robberies on the
grandest scale are being committed
while none of the principal officers are
attending to their duties! Will the
people submit to this?
Did ever before President and Cabi
net so palpably neglect their duties :
Were there ever such robberies?
People cry out HARD ri MES-they
groan under OPPRESSIVE TANA
TION-every article they eat, or drink
or wear, and every pursuit they follow
is HEAVILY TANED-TANATION
stares them in the face at every turn
yet the highest officers in the land, re
ceiving extravagant salaries, ncglec
their business to revol at sea-shor'
watering places, patronizing horse races
and attending to personal interests ant
qualifications, while their subordinate
are ROBBING THE PEOPLE BY
THE MILLION!
| While all this is going on the Radica
| CONGRESS is voting away the publ
lands by thousands and tens of thouS
ands ofacrcs-by whole townships, ant
counties, and sections-uearly ever.
Radical Congressman grows Iicl rs tn
result Of thee votes to sWinde the peo
ple-the land Is hlled with SliODDN
ARISTOCRATS-the people are op
pressed and beggared and lovert.
grinds thousands into the dust!
The elective franchise is disgrace,
and corrupted, the balot-box is pollute'
and governed by the bayonet-th
rights of people and of States are out
ragged, detied and set at naught-im
morality and crime pervade the land a
the direct result of Radical rule-hon
est men are harrassed and criminals es
cape justice-when our Courts convic
scoundrels of riot, stutiing ballot boxe
and altering election returns, the Grim
inals are pardoned-in short, every Out
rage that can be practiSed upon a fire
pSoliS 10 pSihS pSipStio'Sub ~ ''N"'
ands are induced by party associatio
to sustain this abominable state of a
fairs!
1t is the duty of every man who love
his country to make all the effort in hi
power to stay this tide of corruptio
and wrong doing. The BALLOT. DO,
, is the place to correct all these evil'
Although BRIBERY is doing its wor
to SOW discord in the ranks of thos
who attack and attempt to defeat tn
outrages we have enumerated, tn
, honest people are arousing with dete
, mutation to THROTTLE THE MON
STER, and this effort will he continue
t until the work is accomplished. LIE
, ALL PREPARE FOR THE STRUC
f GLE, FOR 1T Is AT HAND!
I WE observe that EBEN G.. SCOT,
, Esq, the Democratic candidate ft
President Judge Of the Northumbe
land Judicial District, has in press
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