The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1873-10-23

interest," OI I4e BANKING 10
sustain him? He already controls the
army and navy. There is no question of
the extraordinary power of man and an
administration who controls the army and
navy, the banks and the railroads, or who
so directs legislation as TO secure their
hearty cooperation. Oh, veal Yes, you
understand how they accomplish it. Peo-
pie are beginning to get their eyes opened.
We are to-day groanIng under a burden
OF DEBT and taxation that Is as oppressive
as that of England. The taxes are sim
ply enormous; and no wonder, when you
reflect that we have a pnblic debt of over
two thousand millions of dollars
then we have State debts, municipal
debts and corporate debts; the ~carpet-bag
debts of the Southern States amounting
to two hundred millions of dollars, |
swarms of debts and bushel baskets full
of mortgages-agricultura labor paying
the most Of it. a farmer has at the end
of the year $500 in clean cash; it takes
$500 of 1t to pay his taxes. A neighbor
OF mine, a mechanic, owns a house and
lot in Canton, has q wife and four chill
dren to support and gets 50 80 a day
wages. At the end of the year he pays
$4S taxes. Another poor fellow, a nelgn-
Dor Of the mechanic, has q little better
house and lot, and pays So a month taxes.
or $50 a year. When hard times come
and both are thrown out of work we turn
our eyes. to agriculture aud say we can
buy a little land and raise our wheat, rye,
potatoes, sheep, cattle and hogs. But the
lntolerable, the insatiate, the growing,
the damnable burden of an extortionute
Government prevents our getting a proper
return for honest toll.
Our city owes s25O,OOO. Orr Legislators per-
united our city council and county tQfAerS to
borrow that amount of money. 1 "i1 not speak
now of the rate of interest paid on it, that is a
delicate question, but will show you what a dan
gerous power the right so conferred Is, by quot
right and impartial tribune, that man who grew
grey in the councils of the nation, the Hon, VIII
ham Allen, our candidate for Governor:
THE power conferred by Legislatures upon
gerous and Ievies contributicns upon the people
that is oppressive. In this form the community
are taxed in anticipation, not by law, but by con
tract. The weight OF interest Is thus added 70 the
burden of the principal while every check upon
the corporation, in its application, Is Withdrawn,
nasmuc as the present benefit resulting from
the immediate use Of money Obscures the re-
mote oppression its payment may occasion. Thus
II is, therefore, that each generation struggles,
burden upon its successor, and thus It IS, too,
that desPotism IN silence and severity, fastens it's
loan obtained upon tie public credit strengthens
the hand which receives, and enieebles that
Arc these municipal or county debts always ex-
1ngulsned! Are they not as a rule extended
LAAG ~ AAAAlE uuAll Ale interest p.ll4 exceeds
the principal The amount paid In taxes since the
close OF the war is Two thousand seven hundred
million dollars, nearly equal to the public debt.
The annual taxes collected TO pay the interest on
the debt Will soon exceed the principal. This in
vades the rightanO mortgages the resources Of
not their own.
We are told that Grant occasionally eonsults
with Ben Butler aboutthe condition of the coun-
Try. Now, we don't like Ben Butler, and do not
thlnk lHPlclt Tellanee can be placed in him, He
n!ched ON the public treasury, and defends
himself upon the ground that Grant is on the
nsDke that ne went into office poor, and is now
worth h2lt a million. But Ben gays with his
chances he ought to be worth five millions. he
was a sweet-scented shrub to lead the impeaeh-
rAent OF andrew Johnson. Ehat was 8 dishonor
and q disgrace to the nation, but Ben pulled the
wires while the puppets danced, He is still fear
sitiOn. He is one ofthoss sslfimportant and con-
ceited Individuals, who, because he has been
successful as an attorney, assumes the leader
ship of his party, and in his reckless haste to
advance himself politically strikes dsWn any
one IN his pat h that he imagines might be an OBJ
stacle to his progress. Lately 1 began to wonder
"on what meat doth this bull headed Butler
feed" Men who resemble him, and of like char
aeter, should bear in mind that it is poor policy
contemptabIy grave mistakes' We hspe then
wont stutllfy fbemseIves in the f1tnTe Thai
however cunning they may be, that masses of
people soon discover the difference between an
honest patriotism and a cold, selEsh, grasping,
greedy desire for office, and the e~moluments
Connected Herewith. We hope the day will pass
away when the people OF this country can be I'M
posed upon by such demagogues.
There are many reasons why this age has be-
/ CODlC 50 CORRUPT IL AN5ASlAslOh 0oAAo4- AO
aggregate of il springs from an inordinate desire
to sudden wealth. There IS not q
Legislative council in oar country where the in
huence OF railroads and banks may not De seen
in its deliberations. There gre 50 national Dsnk-
srS members or Congress ana slAt baoEe VIC We
legislate TO protect themselves, to derive large
incomes from their Investments. They have
so shaped the course of legislation IN TINS olree-
tion that honest men are unable TO check the
tidal wave of iniquity that threatens to over
ses defeated, and men heretofore recognized as
chri stian statesmen have fallen under The hsne'
full influence of these corporations, and supper
ted measures calculated 10 sustain them in theiI
frauds against the people. What wholesome
trampled upon. The motto OF Scion, the
Athenlan law glver, is as true to-day as It was
moribus yanei pro6sei9nt" aOf what avail are
laws without good morals;a Of what avail are our
and sustained by national and State legislation
You must put bounds to that spirit which seeks
wealth by every road except the plain and Fegu-
BY cenfeTTing exclusive privileges upon cor
poratlons that have a national extent, and ma
tlonai influence, you build up one class at the
expense Of all others; you enable one man to
live by the sweat, and toll of anO Their class. The
spirit Of Democracy is in favor Of a more equit-
able distribution of wealth, and an equal distrl-
button of political rights. This is the funda-
law That violates lt endangers the safety OF our
government All flaws to be just must be equal (;
IheIe must De no administering discrimination,
Every faw which tenss to build up, and enrich
one portion of the community at the expense OF
others Is an outrage upon the genius OF eur
constitution. Legislation shOsld zoe so conduc-
ted as to build up no monied aristocracies, or
confer special privileges on one class because
they have been more fortunate in the acquisition
OF property than their neighbors.
In conclusion appeal to Democrats, and Re-
publicans, to put honest men in office who will
labor for the best interest Of the whole people,
ana assist IN sustaining a. republic that has be-
came the admiration Of the world; that extends
the haHd Of welcome to foreigners who are fee
ing from the expressions of the old world to seek
for the benefits Of free Institutions in the new,
stand by the Constitution, the matchless work Of
washington, Jefferson, Madison, and the fathers.
and resist all encroacEments to tarnish its glory,
or initiate against its oenahcence.