Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-08-12

cTDnenJ PttS, Dut you pay % cents IN
addition, as cost of collection Of the tax.
In this manner the $l37 ,250Q47 which
the government received last year in coin
cost the consumers, the real tax payers,
$20S 620,07l! And the $l023l6, ,lj2 coin
import duty which the government re-
ceived in 1864, when the average price
of gold was 2lS, cost the consumers in
greenbacks (the kind Of money that you
received from the governmenD the cnor.
nous sum Of $3.50, 033, $50!
Since 1862 the government has collected,
in round numbers, 81, 1000, 600. In or.
der to put into the United States treasury
this amount it has been necessary Tor the
people to pay, in the manner above de-
scribed, the almost inconceivable sum of
81, 200,000,000! In other words, it has
cost the people 81 i00,000,000 to collect
81, 800, 900, 600 OF custom house tax.
Ofcour5e, it is possible, that when You
purchase your few pounds Of sugar, you
do not pay coin for it. In fact, it is pos
sibie that you do not pay money at all.
1t is more than likely, if you are a farmer,
that you exchange some OF the products
OF your farm for it. Then, in order to
make up this coin import auty, with its
accumulations Of profit, you are compelled
to give little more wheat, little more
corn, Il little more pork or little more
butter or cheese, to produce which costs
you little more work in the brOiling sun
Of summer, Or the freezing cold Of M
ter.
And this is the way, Old Comradc, that
You borrowed graenbacks TO pay yourself
$l3 month while Il soldier, and then
came buck and went to work and have
been at work ever since, paying a little
each year, to refund the whole amount in
coin!
How do you ike the system2
Isn't it Il beautiful schome2
Doesn't it work like charmH
1t is SO nice and genteel to have your
throat cut and your pocket picked without
even feeling il +!
But do you say it was necessary, that
you know ofno other way by which the
war could have been carried on?
Why, do you not know that the govern
mcnt has already collected coin enough
(saying nothing about the cost Of collection
as illustrated above) to pay back to the
bonAhOlders all that their bonds cost them
with interest thereon to the present time,
and have $780, 0O0,0O0in the United States
treasury and not owe dollar!
Whether you know it or not 1t is fact,
as has been shown time and time again
in the columns OF the Scntinel.
Well, who has been to blame for this
system of robbing and plundcringP
Who are the thieves who have been
stealing in the night AMI robbing you IN
this merciless way?
Principally Republican officials, be-
cause they have been in power.
Then you say you will vote for Hancock!
But hold! The Democratic patty has
had control of both branches of congle's
for years, and it has not even proposed any
change in the Republican system! In fact,
in the Cincinnati platform, the Democratic
party endorse the Republican financial
policy, and says not word about ex.
tinguishing the bonded debt and stopping
the animal drain of coin interest; nor Il
wcr / about atolshing the national banks;
nor IL word about an income tax, whereby
the bondholder, land holder anj capitalist
shall be compelled to pay lis il,t prop)r'
ton OF the public tax!
No, Old Comradc, there is no hope FIR
you in the Republican plrty, nor is there
any hope for you IN the Democratic party.
They constitute in fact only one party. 1t
has two bodies, bat one head. The bond,
holders, the national banks, and the varl-
Gus corporation thieves, doa'. the thinking
and coGniying for both parties.
Do you ask us what you shall do?
We will not tell You whit tn DO, for we
believe IN letting every one do as he
please, in the matter OF politics
But we will tell you what we did, and
thousands OF others have done.
When we found out these things that
we have been telling yon, and when We
became convinced that there WAS no hope
in the Republican party and no relief in
the Democratic party, we dared 20 throw
away our vote on good old Peter Cooper!
In short, we joined the ranks Of the new
party. the Grrenback Labor party.
There ace hundreds OF Thousands Of
others in the ranks of the now party, all
working and hoping and praying for vic
tory.
And as sure as there is o God in Israel,
Old Comrade, victory, perfect and COM
p!ete, will come!