The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-08-10
NJ. ID. L. STEWART,
Chairman.
HOW THE PEOPLE ARE OP
DID EccNn
PRESSED

Years ago the Government under
which We live was characterized by stea-
dy purpose to promote the welfare of the
people at large and to make the burthens
Of the citizens light. Economy was
practiccd in Government expenditures,
and measures were shaped with the
view Of facilitating the pursuits and III
creasing the gains of tax-pay ers. But
there has been a sudden change. Ty-
ranny and corruption always conspire
against the interest of the people and
combine to promote the comfort and
wealth of ofice-holders and partisan
rings, and throw power irto the hands
of rulers and their especial pets. Look
at the South governed with the plain OBJ
jecs Of gratifying corrupt ard thieYing
partisans a. the expense Of the substance
and the peace of the southern people
The quiet end seeuritE &C tho aiE;-4->
his protection in lis rights-are coz
sidered as nothing in the scale against
tho vulgar partisans and thieves: No
matter Of right, or comfort or prospect
ty has been allowed to protect them
from the plundering arts and brutal in
vasions of the horde sent to prey upon
them.
When we look to the north the Gov
eminent has shaped its laws and its
adm inistration for the especial benefit of
the money and whisky and other rings,
and to the advantage of old-gamblers
From CEedit-M obilier down it has been
thus. The Government vaults are full of
gold, and the importers, who pay so
much money into the Treasury, and who
should have been the object of sympathy
and protection, have been driven out
amongst the beasts of Gold Board to be
harried and torn by them until they
must feel that the Government under
which they live treats them more like
strangers than citizens:
The Government fixes its duties and
compeL the importer not only to pay
them, but compels him to buy gold at
premium to pay them with. This gold
it boards and continues the process of
forcing the importer to suffer at the
hands of the gold-specuIator. The Gov
eminent combines with the gold-gambler
to skin the importer, and By boarding
gold is placing the importer more and
moro az the mercy of the gambler. This
is not according to the political econo
mists' idea of the duty of government to
the citizen. Its purpose should be tc
benefit him and not to Cypress him. Bad
enough, it Is made worse when We con
slider that by this oppression gains are
thrown into the hands of class of people
long way from being the most merito
rious of the different classes of our Popu.
lation.
This system of compelling the paymen
Of duties in gold has yet worse effect.
deprciates the money the people have t,
deal in. The flour dealer adds to hi,
-four the premium on gold, and the con
sumer Is made to pay; for instance, for
barrel Of -four that should sell for 81 thu
sum of 1871, and so for oil things tht
premium on gold is added through til,
depreciation of the national paper. Th
whole nation suffers from vicious polio,
that bear Immediately upon singh
class.
The Government cannot rightfulI'
compel payment in gold while it pays 1T
own debts in paper money. That WhicI
itPays the people it should take in pay
nent from them. 1t cannot select on
class Of payment on which gold shall b
required without doing injustice, an,
the class it has chosen in this instauc
operates hardship on the whole ceun