Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-10-05
DO You Know :

READER, do you know that during the
last 81 years, the radical Stalwart or
Cameron party call them what you
may, has had supreme control of every
department of the government, with
the exception of a few years that the
Democrats succeeded in getting n bare
majority in one or the other houses of
Congress2
During all this time do you know of
a siHgle act, that il has done or soil
tary law 1t has enacted, calculated to
benefit the masses or to better the con.
dition of the laboring men and farmers
of the county,
II you do, speak out like man and
let us know what they are.
Before this radical party went into
power it was seldom you heard Of a
millionaire and as seldom you saw
tramp. Now the former are counted
by hundreds and the latter swarm our
highways in droves. AS the one in.
creases the other multiplics. All the
legislation of the radical party has
tended to this end.
1t has given birth to and built up
greedy corporate monopolies that crush
out individual enterprise.
II has concentrated capital in the
hands of the few to injury of the mass.
es.
Il has corrupted elections and legs-
lators, with money wrung from the
laborer in taxes, to an extent that de
grades public morality and endangers
Republican government.
1t has made the few rich beyond the
hopes OF avaree and the poor, poor be.
yond hope of a decent living.
II has fed corporate power on special
privileges until it has grown to think
it's power perpetual and it's authority
supreme.
Ii has made the creature greater than
the creator-the public servant greater
than the public matter.
1t has adopted systems Of taxation
which relieve the wealth Of corpora.
tions and the investments of the opu.
lent from its burdens and placed them
upon the lsboring and producing class.
es of the country.
II has given OF the peoples land
millions upon millions OF acres to en-.
rich corporations. and refused TO con
slider any measure looking to the reduc.
ton of the peoples taxes.
II has opened " avenues to the pub.
lie treasury, whereby the peoples mon
ey is taken and used to perpetuate in.
definitely power in a single vicious line
of succession.
1t has changed our forms and policy
Of government, until the rapid accumu.
lation of enormous wealth bY persons
of moderate ability and not engaged in
any productive employment, and the
consequent impoverishment of the la.
boring millions, whose money these
persons absorb. show thst the govern.
ment is not administered on Tcpubli-
can principles, nor in the interests OF
the many whom II was designed TO pro-
teCt.
These things you know-if you do
not it is time that you open your eyes
To- these facts and act as becomes free
men aud sensible voters.
IL is for you to kuow aud for You to
remember that during the 2l years the
radical party has been il power 1t has
Created more panics,
Caused more strikes,
Made more miIlionairrs.
Turned more honest wofkiuEnen into
tTRmps, ana bred more trouble between
capital and labor. than the country saw,
knew, or experienced, during the Si
years pricr to 1860. that the Democratic
party controlled its different depart.
ments, aud was responsible foT all its
legislation.
knowing these facts, as you must
know them, what are you going to do
sboutit? Continue in power the party
responsible for these wrongs against
good government and these outrages
upon the masses? II 90 the way to do
it is to vote for Beaver and the Staiwart
ticket, or Stewart and his Independent
crowd, or the tail to these two political
kites, Armstrong and those upon his
ticket with him.
II you want change, the only way
you can get 1t is to vote the Democrat.
ic ticket.