Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-07-17
Our Political Condition,

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of onr country. There is a depth
and strength of conviction among
the masses, that some ~ must
he made to wrest power from the
hands of those who have most
shamefully betrayed high trusts,
which already seriously alarms
the leaders of the dominant par
ty. The old catch-cries,to which
crowds used to rally, are power
less. The country's workers
pause in the midst of their unre-
qnitel labors to inquire why it is
that pet corporations grow richer
while the great working world,
day by day, grows poorer? Turn
ing to Congress, they behold the
Representatives of the ruling par
ty,with their hands in the Treas
ury, more eager to steal out back
pay for themselves, than to lig'-
ten she load that is crushing
their constituents. They behold
the Chief Executive signing in
shameless haste, the bill authori-
ziug the steal, because its provi-
sions within the next four years,
will place one hundred thousand
dollars in his private Golfers
Looking a little more closely into
their own affairs, they find local
taxation more than TWENTY-FIVE
times as great to each individual
as it was in the good old days Of
1910. Examining the tables of
the increase of population they
find its ratio decreased by four.
ffths. Is this the feast to which
the great party in its better and
purer days invited the laboring
men of OHIO? Is this the fruit
age of all those promises, turning
like Dead Sea apples to ashes on
the lips? Let rs look in another
direction. We can all well re-
member, how years ago, when
"wild wars deadly blast was
blown, and gentle peace return
ing" made glad all hearts, the
party in power promised a re-
construction policy which should
into harmonious and pros
porous rotations the States, which
they said neUcr were out of the
Union. From that day to this
the dominant party has held the
reins of power. What do we be
hold in the South? The pc ople
plundered by a reckless horde of
carpet-baggers to such an extent,
that ten great States have not
been able,for the last three years,
to pay the interest on their bonds
since the war; the bonds
Of some of them begging a pur-
chaser at fourteen cents on the
the people impoverished
oy war, broken completely down
oy a system of taxation, beside
that of the Colonists in
our ante revolutionary days,
would not be a-drop in the buck
1t. Remember We are no ' in
,he second term of Grants ad.
ninistration. Look at our public
iebt statement. Even the "truly
rood man" of the Cincinnati
Gazette, calls for such a change
syste: in keeping public ac-
counts, a. will enable the press to
ay from the official reports, what
he real balance of the nations
Indebtedness is. Let us call epe-
,ial attention to another matter.
We speak to and in behalf of the
agricultural interests of our
country, and at the threshold of
his branch of what we have to
ay, we hold up the brazen re-
ord of the dominant party which
las falsely claimed to BIO the
Ut the working men. 1t is
ime now for plain talk, and we
hall not skulk from hard facts
4ook at the great Agricultural
interests of the country strangled1
'etween railroad monopolies on
he one hand.and a high protec-
i've tariff on the other. What
administrations but those of the
dominant party have Iavished
'ublic lands upon railroad Com
'anies until the country is justly
larmed at such profhgacy, and
whose administrations have in