The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-29
DO YOU KNOW (?

Reader, do you know that during the
[ last twentv-one years the Radical Stall
wart or Cameron party, call 1t what you
may, has had supreme control of every
department of the government, with the
exception of few years when the Dem
OcTats succeeded in getting a bare ma
joTity in one or the other House OF Con-
gress.
During all this time do you know of
a single act it has done or a solitary law
it has enacted calculated to benefit the
masses or to better the condition of the
laboring men and farmers of the cOun-
try
If you do, speak out like a man. and
let us know what they are.
Before this radical party went into
power it was seldom YOU heard of a mil
lionaire and as seldom you saw tramp
Now the former are counted by hun
dreds and the latter swarm our high
ways in -drOves TAs the one increases
the other multiplies. All the legisla-
tion 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.
It has concentrated capital in the
hands Of the few to the injury of the
masses.
1t has corrupted elections and Iepisla-
tors, with money wrung from the labor
er in taxes, TO an extent that degrades
public morality and endangers republi-
can government.
1t has made the few rich beyond the
hope of avaTice and the many poor be-
yOnd the hope OF decent living.
It has fed corporate power on special
privileges until it has grown to think
its power perpetual and its authority
supreme.
1t has made the creature greater than
the creatOr-the public servant greater
than the public master.
1t has adopted systems of taxation
which relieve the wealth of corpora
tions and the Investment of the opulent
from its burdens and places them upon
the labOring and producing classes of
the country.
It has given of the peoples landsmil-
lions Of acres tO'enrich corporations and
refused to consider anv measure looking
to the reduction of the peoples taxes.
It has opened up avenues to the pub
lie treasury whereby the peoples money
is taken and used to perpetuate political
power in a single vicious line of success
sion.
It has changed the policy of our gov
ernment until the rapid accumulation
Of enormous wealth by persons of mod
crate ability and not engaged in any
productive employment, and the conse-
Iuent impOveTishment of TIE laboring
millions whose money these persons alb
sorb, show that the government is not
administered on republican principles
nor in the interest of the many whom it
was designed to protect.
These things you knOw-if you do not
it is time that you open your eyes to
these facts and act as becomes freemen
and sensible voters.
1t is for you to know ard you to re-
member that during the twenty-One
years the Radical party has been in pow
er it has
Created more panics,
Caused more strikes,
Made more milliOnaires.
Turned more honest wOrkinCmen into
tramps and bred more trouble between
capital and labor. than the country saw,
knew or experienced. during the eighty
four years prior 90 1860 during which the
Democratic party controlled its differ
ent departments and was responsible
for its legislation.
Knowing these facts as YOU must
know them. what are you going to do
about it Continue in power the party
responsible for these wrongs against
good government and the Outrages upon
the masses ? If so the wav to do it is
TO vote for Beaver and the Stalwart tic
ket, or Stewart and his independent
crowd, or the tail to these two political
kites. Armstrong and those on the tic
ct with him.
IF you want a change the only way
yOu can get it is to vote the Democratic
ticket. Harrisburg Patriot