The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-05-15
NEWY0RK WORLD.
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IN THE YEAR 1872 GEN. GRANTS
n successor is to be chosen; the Forty-
third Congress to be elected.
The peoples votes, white and black,
North and South, will thus decide the FL
ture destiny of the Republic, select its ru-
iers, prescribe their course.
How to influence the peoples votes p
BY the newspaPer--for it includes every
other agency 1t makes known events and
facts-amons 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 onrf political harvest
time As we sow we shall reap. '9''.
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
comLine tho IabOrs and votes of -. ag-
/. All these who find best insurance of
the peoples prosperity, peace, and pro-
gress in Il government administered on the
principles and in the pure practice of JEFF
fcrSou and Jackson, and who desery the
fount and origin of the present corrup-
tons, extravaganza, misgovernment, sub
version of public Liberties, and insecurity
of private rights in our rnlers lawless
usNrpation of interdlrtcd and nndelegatee
powers-usarpation that. to-day marches
deliberately on to the subjugation Of pop
u!ar rule and the possession Of dictat0rIaI
power--for by acts of Congress General
Grant may even now destroy tho freedom
of State elections, invade the States ut his
pleasure, and declare martial law of his
own mere, will. ciz a.B h"t,ug.uas hgr 60
II. All those who would maintain the
honor of republics, and would preserve
public credit'byipunctual payment of pub
III. All those who would cut down to
fewer and fit objects all appropriations of
the peoples money Ito day more thandon-
BILE, nearly treble,-t of a
Democratic Congress eleven \ ears ago,
not counting annuities to Indians, pen
sions to soldiers, and interest on debt
and who would obiige att spending of the
peolpe'si money got by taxes TO be with
honesty and thrift; likewise all those who
wonld spare little the peoples landed
estate for thetlandless millions, hereafter
and stop its. squandering domiuions in
day upon those who already own too
much. gJE 81 n r-7 s2t! - Ea,.d a.
". All those who would reduce tue
number Of commodities toXed by our tariff
from thousands to y few dozens, and so
empty our. Custom Houses of half their of
ticials, rid the statute books of half their
odions snares for honesty or brides to
frand, and untetterl scores of our native
industries. ,-,,.,c.E .r,-....,r .,.,....
v. all those who would lower the rates
also of our tariff taxes to the point of most
easily yielding the largest revenue--who
wonld abandon the proteetionist system of
reducing the public revenue whilst in
creasing the extorti0nate profits of few
ut the expense Of all other Industries.
b VI. All those who would abolish every
unlawful tax, like that on incomes; everN
unjust tax like that which gives banks the
peoples profits, on a national currency;
every unequal and indeterninate tax, like
that levied most cruelty upon the poor
the tax of our irredeemable paper money.