Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-09-19

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All those who find best insurance of the
peoples prosperity, peace, and progress in
government administered on the princi.
p es and in the pure practice of Jefferson
and jackson, and who descry the fount and
origin OF the present CORFU ptons, extr
sahce, disagreement, subversion of pub
llc liberties, and insecurity of private rights
IN our rulers lawess usurpation of inter-
dlcted and undclegated Experimentation
that to-day marches deliberately on to the
SoOJugation of popular rule and the posses.
sion OF dictatolial power-for by acts Of
Congress General Grant may even now de
stroy the freedom of State elections, invade
the States at his pleasure, and declare mar.
ii law Of his own mere will.
All those who would maintain the bonor
oil republics, and would preserve public
credit by punctaal payments of public debts.
All thost who would cut down to fewer
and Mt objects all appropriations of the PEG.
pies money (o.day more than double.
nearly treble, the appropriations of a Dem
ocra'ic Congress eleven years ago, not count
ing annnitics to Indians, pensions to sold.
lers, and interest on debit, and who wonld
oDIISe all spending of the peoples money
got by taxes to be with honesty and thrift:
likewise all those who would spare little
the peoples landed estate for the landless
millions hereafter and stop its squanderino
dominions in Il day upon those VINO already
own too much.
All those who would reduce the number
Of commodities taxed by. our tariff from
thousands to u few DOZENS and so empty
our custom houses of half their officials.
rid the statute-bookS of half their odious
saarcs for honesty or brides to fraud, and
untetter scores of our native industries.
all those who would lower the rates also
OF our tariff taxes to the point of most easily
yielding the largest revenue-who would
abandon the protectionist system of rcduc.
ing the public revenue whilst increasing the
eXtortionate profits of q few at the expense
of all other industries.
All those who would abolish every un,
lawful tax, like that on incomes every un.
Just tax like that which gives banks the
peoples profits on national currency;
every unequal and indeterminate tax, like
that levied most cruelty upon tie poor-the
tax of our irredeemable paper-money.
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same things concerning the Republic an unit
cd, organized, determined, and persIsten,
zeal; to win new recruits from among those
who have been enemies to the Democracy in
the conflicts of dead past; and to marshal
an unbroken phalanN to the triumph at the
ballot-boX [true battlefield of republics) of
Liberty, Equality, and Law
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