The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1872-08-28
NEW. YORK WORLD.
NEW YORK WORLD
FOR.
1877 2!
WEEKLY, SEMI-WEEKLY AND
DAILY

TN THE YEAR 1872 GEN. GRANTS
L 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 fiji.
ture destiny of the Republic, select its III.
lers, prescribe their course.
How to influence the peoples votes?-
By the newspaper-for it includes every
| other agency. Itmakes known events and
facts-among all influences the chief. 1t
assemblies the yaster outside audiences
which cannot gather to the State House
tile 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 thatits circulation is widely
pushed by those who approve it's aim.
The World will aim to represent and
combine the labors and votes of
| I. All these who find best insurance of
the peoples prosperity, peace, and pro-
gress in government administered on the
principles and in the pure practice of JEFF.
ferson and Jackson, and who descry the
foant and origin of the present corrup-
tons, extravaganza, misgovernment, SUBJ
version of public liberties, and insecurity
of private rights in our rnlers' lawless
usurpation of interdlcted and undelegated
powers-usurpation that to-day marches
deliberately on to the snbjugation of pop.
MAR rule and the possession of dictatorial
Grant may even now destroy the freedom
re Ct0fn ri ir,v do %1,o fnfo NJ sc
pleasure, and declare martial law of his
own mere will.
II. all those who won1d maintain the
honor of republics, and would preserve
public credit by punctual payment of pub
lie debts.
III. All those who would cnt down 10
fewer 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
sions to soldiers, and interest on debt,
and who would oblige all spending of the
peolpe's money got by taxes to be with
fonesty and thrift; likewise all those who
would spare a little the peoples landed
estate for the landless millions hereafter
and stop its squandering dominions 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 few dozens. and so
empty our Custom Houses of half their Of
fcials, rid the statute books of half their
odions snares for honesty oe brides to
fraud, and untetter scores Of our native
industries.
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 ill.,
creasing the extortionate profits of 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 the
peoples profits on a national currency;
every unequal and indeterminate tax, like
that levied most cruelty upon the poor
the tax of our irredeemable paper money.