The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-10-08
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For the last ten years the country has
been laboring under the misrule and ty-
ranny of sectional party. Radicalism
has brought our country to the brink of
ruin. Not only as felt and seen in the
present deplorable condition of the PEG.
pie, stripped of prosperity, and tax-rid-
den, and oppressed by onerous burdens
of exaeting tariffs and exhorbitant inter
nal revenue taxes. Passing by the waste
full extravaganza which has characterized
the legislation of this party whilst ad-
ministering the Government the unjust
determinations they have made against
the laboring man in favor of thebondholder
and the money monger;passing by thebold
efforts that have been made to overthrow
local government by enlarging tke pow
ers of the Federal Head at the expense
of the people and their constitutional
rights, we have but to look abroad
throughout any portion of the West or
the South to witness the utter dsstitu-
ton to which they have brought our peo-
pie by their miserable attempts to give
q great country currency suited to its
wants and necessities. The deprecated
greenback pronounced by them the best
currency in the world they are attempt
ing to withdraw from circulation, and
substitute it with national bank notes,
to put an additional annual burden of
S20,000,000 upon our already tax-ridden
people. In the same breath that they
tell you Of the glories of this deprecated
currency, they announce to the people
that they are contemplating changing
over to free banking. Nor is this all,
they have Put it beyond the power of
the people of the States to prepare for
themselves a currency, by taxing to
Death the issues of any bank State
might in its wisdom deem necessary to
the prosperity ofthe varied interests of it's
people. They have in Congress the Him
liable power through expansion and con
traction of the currency of the coun-
try to destroy the prosperity, of
the people, aye, even the ownership of
property, of the whole wealth producing
classes of the country.
What an immense and dangerous pow
er to be lodged in the hands of an ire
sponsible set of corrupt part;sans as
those who have controlled the destinies
of our country for so many dark years
past Aud now when there is a scarcity
of currency in West and South, when Ia
Dor is unemployed and a general pros
tration is everywhere manifest, they still
demand contract, contract, and cheat
the people with the idea that they intend
to resume specie payments in 1879, when
hard money will at last find its way into
our pockets Would that such day
may come, but not at the expense we
are called upon to incur in 1879, in the
ruin of the entire debtor and laboring
classes, and to the increased prosperity
and wealth of the money lender, and
bond holder.
We do not understand that the Demo
cratic party is in favor of expansion,
but they oppose the further ruiuous
Radical policy of contraction We sim
ply desire currency enough to answer
the wants of our people, and we want
that currency worth 100 cents for
every dollar, We want the contraction
lists to take their tightening fingers from
the throat of suffering and expiring la
Dor, and instead of less greenback we
would prefer more of it.in the place of
national bank notes now issued for
bonds upon which the people pay inter
est. The first duty Of our party is to
overthrow the Radical party which has
misgoyerned the country 50 long, and
brought it to the very brink of destruc-
ton. And when this is accomplished
and the country is once more under
Democratic rule the people will again
experince good gov eminent and nation
al prosperity to which they have been
strangers for many long years.