The daily gazette., 1879-05-12
MONDAY. MAY 18th. 1879.

Owe OF the charges of Jefferson in the
Declaration of Independence, is that the
King of Great Britain harassed the peo-
pie, and worried them with hordes OF
officers.
Z Certainly the charge was not more
true against George the w., than it is
against the Republican party and its
leaders to-day.
The leaders of that party have not
only inflicted upon the people "swarms
Of officers" but they have increased the |
wages of officers until they exceed more
than three times the wages of tradesmen,
or tradesmen's clerks, or the ordinary
amount that attorneys are paid, or en-
abled to make, from a practice acquired
after years of tedious waiting and anxious
desire for practice that will furnish a
precarious living. Taxation, therefore,
is greatly added to and the consequence is,
between the exorbtant expenditures for
the army and navy and the high wages of
o hundred thousand holders, the
people are unable to hold the lands they
earned before the war and pay the high
taxes which, in addtiohto other expenses,
and the interest upon the public debt. 1t
is thus that farming, which used to be
the most Independent life that man
could live, has been reduced to condi-
tiOn worse even than it is in France, this
from being the best condition that far
mers held in the world, is the hard lot of
the American producer under the sys-
tenn of patronage brought about by the
Republican party leaders.
I, If, after this, there were any peace and
quiet the people might be content. But
there is none, they are harassed STILL
Is it any wonder then that such constitu-
tiOns are voted for as that of California
by the farmers, anxious for any change
Certainly not. The commercial men ant
manufacturers of the North and the
East have more money than they know
what to do with, while the farmers of the
West and South have none, and are de
prived of the system of banking whicl
enabled the East and the North to ac
quire the solid fortunes, assisted by TIN
most unjust revenue laws of the govern
ment, they now possess. Of what avai
that man have millions of acres if Ii
has no money to pay laborers to cultivat
1t? They cannot sell, and are deprive
OF the right to unite together and pledg
their lands, their only capital, to secur
money, as their fathers did.
Quarrelng is the political stocli-il
trade of the leaders of the Republica
party. Fighting with their tongues f,
the liberty of holding the army in the
hands with which to harrow the Sou
and southern congressional districts
That is what they are willing to stay
Washington for during whole weeks al
months at government expense.
The use Of the army at the polls ml
be preserved at any cost, says the ''blo
letting" Michigan Senator. The peor
must not be allowed free, fair electio
and SO said George ". The peoI
were not allowed to meet to consu
nor were they, with the army in I
hands of Grant, allowed to meet to ct
suit as to how they could concentr;
against their oppressors. This was
pecially denied the people from 1865
1876, and regiments and companies w
whirled about over the borders
Southern States at the dictation of
publican L. S. Senators through the Ia
that now exist and the direction Of
[! S. Marshals. 1t is on record-On
fetal record-that Spencer, aud men
him in the Senate, sent companies
soldiers from congressional district
congressional district to arrest men
merely congregating together TO III
upon some popular leader to elect
Congress or to the State Legislatures
order to frighten the voters and intil
date them from voting at all. In t
way these carpet-bag and scallawag Sci
.ois held their seats for ten or TIVE
years; and they We're not ousted Ill
the thing became disgusting to the bet
part of the Republican press and peo
in the North.
Old Zach Chandler. of blood-letti
memory, now says the Republican pa
is ready for this work again and her
he has stimulated the more timid |
publican Senators to unite in favor
sending the army to the polls, with hor,
OF I. 5. Marshals and Deputy Marsh
under the present President, that Grs
may be elected in 1880. We shall :
whether the people will sustain d
policy. If they do then they have ret
graded and are not as fit for self-govel
ment as were their fathers; and {
boasted educational system has failed
produce statesmen as wise as the Faith,
of the Old Republic.
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HAYES veto Of the alti-havonot !