The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-06-19
NEW YORK WORLD.
WEEKLY, SEMI-WEEKLY AND
DAILY

TN THE YEAR 1872 GEN. GRANTS
Il 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 fn-
ture destiny of the Republic, select its ru.
lers. prescribe their course.
How to influence the peoples votes ?
BY the newspaper--for it includes every
other agency. 1t makes known events and
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, ana OF
error or truth is the daily seed-sower.
f. Next November is Onr political harvest
time. n 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. b.
The World will aim to represent and
combine tho labors and votes of
I. All these who find best insurance of
the peoples prosperity, peace, and pro-
rresS in q government administered on the
principles and in the pnre practice of JEFF
ferson and jackson, anu who descry the
fount and origin of the present corrup-
tiOnS, extravaganza, misgovernment, SUBJ
version Of public liberties, and insecurity
of private rights in our rnlers' lawless
usnrpation of interdIcted and undelegate9
powerS--uSurpation that to-day marches
deliberately on to the subjugation of pop
ular rule and the possession of dictatOrial
power-for by acts of Congress General
Grant may even now destroy the freedom
of State elections, invade the States at his
pleasure, and declare martial law of his
own mere Will.
II. all those who would maintain the
honor of republics, and would preserve
public credit by pnnctual payment of pub
lie debts.
III. All those who would cut down to
tower and fit objects all appropriations of
the peoples money (to-day more than dou
BILE, nearly treble, the appropriations of a
Democratic Congress eleven Years ago,
not counting annuities to Indians, PEN
sons to soldiers, and interest OH debt,
and who would oblige all spending of the
peolpe's money got by taxes to be with
honesty and thrift; likewise all those who
would spare q little the peoples landed
estate for the landless millions hereafter
and stop its sguaudering doIninions in a
day upon those who already own too
much.
W. All those who would reduce the
number Of commodities toxed by our tariff
from thousands to n few dozens, and so
empty our Custom Houses Of half their of
ficials, rid the statute books of half their
odions snares for honesty or brides to
fraud, and untetter scores of our native
industries. H
V. 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
reducing the public revenue whilst in
creasing the extortionate profits of Il few
at the expense of all other industries.
vi. All those who would abolish every
unlawful tax, like that on incomes every
unjust tax like that which gives banks tue
peoples profits on a national currency;
every unequal and indeterminate tax, like
that levied most cruelty upon the poor
the tax of our irredeemabIe paper money.