Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-10-03
Facts for the Whole Peonle.

The Republican Campaign Commit
tee are about to publish a document
which oomprehehsively groups a num-
Der of facts that it is believed will give
the people of the North, Democrats as
well as Republicans, serious food for
reflection. The following statement
shows by facts and figures, giving the
Democrats every Southern State, with
Oregon, Indiana, and Ohio, and leaving
California out of the question alto
gether, that the Republicans have the
greatest population and the greatest
wealth, the figures of which, for popu
lation, wealth, and illiteracy, are taken
from the Ninth Census:
Republicans Democrats
Wealth. S2lls9,S ,S2g s65 s91laSsl'5ss
uustomss Customs s-is%noV Gs7s iea a1sSi2sIS s9iss7Oa
Internal revenue 5b,i9i,4 ,4O3 48,S5459
The statement also shows that be-
tween 1866 and 1878, inclusive, the
Government collected from the people
as internal revenue 81, 2,055, 397, ,S46, of
which sum the eleven Confederate
States, which brought the whole public
debt upon the country, only paid S201,-
906, ,096, while Loyal States paid as fol-
lows: Ohio, $215, $40, or $19,104,-
524 more than the whole Confederacy;
Illinois, $211, 1887, ,312, and New York,
1884, 406.776, or nearly twice as much
as all the Southern States. Being
obliged to furnish the money for the
running of the Government, these
States ought to have control of its ex-
penditure; but what do we find? The
Democratic party has the sole power OF
managing the expenditures of the Ma
ton. They have forty votes in the
Senate, twentv-eight of which are from
the South 155 votes in the House,
100 from the South. They have
control of every important committee
in both Houses. The two great COM
mercial States of New York and Penn
sylvania, each of which has Demo-
ocratic Senator, is disposed of by being
given the Chairmanships of the Com
mittees on Patents and the Revision of
the Laws, while Georgia, which has
less commerce than any Northern State,
is given the Commerce Committee, and
little Delaware the Finance. But Del
aware is too far North for that position,
as we hear in the mutterings against
Bayard. In the lower House twenty
two of the forty-two Committees-an
the most important ones, those which
direct and control legislation-are in
the hands of the South, while every
committee of both Houses, of any inn
portance, is under the practical control
of the repudiating, Treasury rifling ex-
Confederates. These are facts not in
tended for Republicans alone-they are
meant for the whole people-for every
man who pays taxes, directly or indi-
rectly-for every man who works for
his daily bread. 1t is as much ques-
ton for the mechanic as for the capitalist
whether the people who furnish the
money shall have a voice in disposing
of it. Our forefathers once fought for
the same prlnciple--and the interests
involved now are greater than then.
The Democrats will, of course, claim
that, as the people have placed their
party in power, they did it with the
consciousness that the South would
rule. But the people of the country
have not placed the Southern Democ-
racy in power. They wrested it by
force and through blood. Behind the
ballot box they have perpetrated crimes
as gross as ever any other usurper did.
1t is the party of crime and
force and blood, and the people of
the North are furnishing the money
which incites their evil deeds. The
Chisholm case and the murder of Dixon
show how the Southern Democrats OBJ
tained their power and how they pro-
pose to keep it. Liberty is strangled,
the right of suffrage is hollow bur-
lesque, the shotgun and the lash rule
the South-that the minority, and
the minority which attempted the
life of the Union, may retain power.
This same minority defies the revenue
laws. Illicit distilling is carried on in
every Southern State. They demand
reduction of the whisky and tobacco
taxes regardless of the fact that their
contributions to the National Treasury
are out of all proportion to the power
they enjoy. This one fact tells the story
of their unblushing impudence-their
utter disregard of the North, save for
what they can make out of it. Are the
people of the North content with this
state of affairs? Do they propose to
allow the South, which refuses to pay
! its Just share of taxation, unless rev.
enue officers force them, and which is
demanding reduction of the little tax it
really does pay, to exercise the power
of dispOsing of the money they con-
tributep The South will not even fair
ly divide with Northern Democratic
| Representatives Look how Senators
Herman and Wallace have beeu shelved.
Is General Gordon, of Georgia, better
qualified for the Craftsmanship of the
Commerce Committee than Mr.. Herman,
of New York; The manner in which
he has been treated shows the greed
for power among the Democrats of the
South. Look in the House! The Chair
manship of a majority of the Commit
tees are held by Confederates, and a
majority of the members of every inn
portanG Committee are from the South.
That section rules the country to-day!
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