The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-05-01
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TN THE YEAR 1872 GEN. GRANTS
l. successor is to be chosen; the Forty-
third Congress to be elected.
The people's votes, white and black,
North and South, will thus decide the flu
ture destiny of the Republic, select its ru-
lers, prescribe their course.
How to influence the peoples votes =
Bv the newspaper--for it includes every
other agency. 1t makes known events ana
facts-among all Influences the chief 1t
assemblies the vaster outside audiences
which cannot gather to the State House,
the pulpit, or the stump. 1t Is the con
slant interpreter of mems affairs, and OF
error or truth is the daily seed-sower.
Next November is our political harvest
time. AS we SOW we shall reap.
The Worlds seed-sowing will be fruitful
TO the extent that its circulation is widely
pushed by those who approve its aim.
The World will aim to represent and
combine tho labors and votes OF
7. All these who find best insurance of
the peoples prosperity, peace, and pro-
oress in a government administered on the
! principles and in the pure practice of JEFF
ferson and jackson, anu who descry the
fount and origin of the present corrup-
tons, extravaganza, misgovernment, sub
version of public liberties, and insecurity
of private rights in our rulers lawlesS
usurpation of interdIcted and undclegatef
powers-usurpatIo that to-day marches
deliberately on to the subjugation of pop
u!ar rule and the possession of dictatorial
power-for by acts of Congress General
Grant NAV even now destroy the freedom
of State elections, invade the States at his
Measure, and declare martial law OF his
own mere Will.
III. All those who would maintain the
honor of republics, and would preserve
: public credit by punctual payment OF pub,
| lie debts.
III. All those who would cut down to
fewer and fit objects all appropriations OF
y the peoples money (today more than dou
. Bile, nearly treble, the appropriations OF
: Democratic Congress eleven Years ago
Z not counting <annuities to Indians, pen
+ sions to soldiers, and interest on debt,
and who would oblige all spending OF the
u peolpe's money gots by taxes to be with
IS honesty and thrift; likewise all those wht
= would spare little the peoples landed
l. estate for the landless> millions hereafter
2 and stop its squandering dominions in :
day upon those who already own to-
y much. =,
Nv. All those who would reduce th
number of commodities toxed by our tarll
s. from thousands to few dozens, and s.
empty our Custom Houses of half their OF
ficials, rid the statute books of half thel
=, odious snares for honesty or brides t
" fraud and untetter scores of our natlv
: industries.
Of V. All those who would lower the rate
20 also of our tariff taxes to the point of mos
- easily yielding the largest revenne-wh
~ would abandon the protectionist system
2 reducing the public revenue whilst il
. creasing the extortionate profits of a fe
= at the expense of all other industries.
vi. All those who would abolish ever
unlawful tax, like that on incomes; ever
unjust tax like that which gives banks tt
L. peoples profits on a national currency
every unequal and indeterminate tax, lii
, that levied most cruelty upon the poor
1 the tax of our irredeemable paper none