Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-09-12
PROSPECTUS,

THE AGE will aim to represent and
combine the labors and the votes of
All those who find best insu. ance of the
peoples prosperity, peace, and progress in
u government adminste ed on the nrinci-
p es and in the pure practice of Jefferson
and jackson, and who desci y The fount and
origin Of the present coItup;ons, ex rava-
sance, misgoveinmcn., subyersion OF pub
lie liberties, and insecurity of private rights
in our rulers law.esa usurpa.ion of inter-
dlcted and undelesated powers-usurnation
that to-day marches deliberately on TO the
Suojusation of popular rule and the posses
sion Of dicta,orial power-ior by ac.s 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 bis own mere will.
All those who world maintain the honor
Of republics, and would preserve public
credit by punctaal payments of public debts.
All thos, who would cut down to fewer
and nit objects all appropriations of tie peo
PIES money (,o.Gay more chan double,
nearly treble, the appropriations of Dem
ocratic Congress eleven years ago, not count
ing aunuitics 10 Indians, pensions to sold.
lcrs, and interest on debt, and who would
obIise 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 handles.
millions hei eaiter and SOP is sCuandei Ing
dominionS in day upon lose VINO al eady
own 100 much.
MI those who would reduce the number
of commodities taxed by our ta.iT nom
thousands to a few dozens, and so emnty
'"''''' "Ou>cS VI Hall lHcT OHCla!S,
rid the Statute-books of half heir oGious
snares for honesty or br,5es to fraud, and
untetrer scores of our native industries.
All those who wotd lower Che rates also
of our tariff taxes to the point of most easily
yielding the largest revcnue-who would
abandon the protectionist sy stem of reduc-
ing the public revenue whilst increasing the
eXtortionatc profits of a few at the expense
OF all other industries.
All those who would abolish every un-
lawful tax, like that on incomes every IN .
Just tax like that which gives banks the
peoples profits on national currency /;
every unequal and indeterminate tax, like
that levied most c,uelly upon Ire poor-the
tax of our irredeemable paper money.
THE AGE will aim-as the recognized
and only organ of the Democratic parry in
IN Windsor and Orange Counties by unwa-
veiny attention TO the diffusion of general in
telligcnce-to fulfil this il mission Ind du
y with stcadf2st boldne,s and fidelity; 20 il
spmc in the ranks of those who think the
same things concerning the Republic an unit
ed, organized, determined, and persistent
2cal to win new recruits from among those
who have been enemies to the Democracy in
,he conflicts of dead past; and to MAJ shal
an unbroken phalanx TO the triumph at the
ballot-boN TRUE battlefield of republcs) OF
Liberty Equality, and Law.
The AGE will take the most advanced
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dusty hunt" from now forward.
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