Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-02-09
ownpeopIe, mostly Democrats, so called,

own people, mostly Democrats, so called,
] am sorry to say.
IL no one used coupons 10 payment
Of taxes there would be nooe on the
market, and tho taxes Of all the people
would be paid into the Treasury in
money.
Ifthere was no margin for specula-
ton in the sale Of coupons, the occupa-
ton Of the coupon-huckster, the curb
stone-broker, and the coupon-scalper
would be gone. and the lawyers who
are growing fat off the money Of the
bondhOlders would have no more cases
before Bond and Hughes.
IL the margin for speculation in cOu-
pops now enjoyed by the coupon
broker and the taxpayer is destroyed,
as 1t can be done eiIectually, the rich
taxpayer will pay in money as the poor
taxpayer has to do, and the coupon
will disappear from the street-corners
and broker-shOps Of our cities, and the
last prop of the bondholder being thus
knocked from under him. he will fund
his bonds under the Riddleberger bill
and draw his interest promptly and
regularly over the counters Of our
Treasury.
A measure intended to remove the food
upon which the coupon lives and Hour
ishes is now before a committee of the
Legislature, and it will eventually be
adopted if the bondholders persist in
their senseless fight.
The mode by poison: 1t is well
known that paris green will efectualIy
destroy all kinds Of yermin--not ex-
ceptiDg the iron-cad potato-bug-aud
it is confidently asserted that the adj
ministTation of paris green will prove a
perfect extermnator Of the cut-worm.
Let every man who pays his taxes in
coupons be exposed by publication
through the public press as well as the
names of the lawyers who hire to the en-
envy tOprosecute their suits, and then the
work of applying the paris green may
commence.
The Knights Of Labor can do them
selves and their State a patriotic ser
vice. They are confined principally
TO the cities in this State, so is the
use of the coupon. Let the boycott
be applied to every man in city or
county who shall pas or tender coupons
in payment Of taxes. Let no man be
pa,ronized. whether merchant, lawyer,
or what not who, shall be SO
indifferent to the rights and in
terests Of others. or so unpatriotlc
as to pay his taxes in coupons, thus
leaving the burden Of government and
the schools on the shoulders of his fell
lOw-citizens who are compelled to pay
their taxes in money or who patriot
cally pay them froM choice. Let no
such man be voted for for any Office or
position of trust and honor.
Public opinion. which makes and I'M
makes kings. rulers. and governments,
thus brought to bear, will as eilectually
exterminate the coupon yermin on the
| body polite AS paris green eXterminates
the velmin which destroys vegetation.
Sour dear old Commonwealth has
withstood the rayages OF war. pestl-
lence. and famine, aud now the people
will not tolerate subjugation by mis-
cradle coupon, which is selit-act-
| ing preference mortgage upon the pre-
sent and all future revenues of the
! State.
1t is an absorbent.
Ii is an instrument Of abdlcltiOH.
Ii is an instrument Of coercion.
1t is an instrument Of appropriation.
II is an instrument Of spoliatlon.
II is an instrument Of diShonor.
1t robs the schools.
1t robs the asylums.
Ii robs the executive.
It robs the legislature.
IL robs the judiciary.
IT rObs the citizen.
! 1t robs the soldier.
1t robs the prisons.
1t robs the p9uper.
1t robs the employer.
1t robs the employee.
Ii robs the creditor.
1t is a fraud" WAsHINDIoN.