Year: 1867

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: Plain Truths for Tax Payers.


The Columbus Journal places o
; series of truths before its readers in
clear and cogent TERMS We copy
the article entire and wish 1t could be
read by every voter in the county
and State. Each Of the truths stat
cd contains within itself the materi-
ais for q speech. Friends see that
this is read to every Democrat with
in your acquaintance. r ..--.. -.
| 1t should be borne in mind by ev-
cry tax payer of the Nation that the
enormous burden of debt under
which the country is staggering, was
fixed upon it by rebellion fostered
and strengthened by the Democratic
: party. -e :,


/. should be borne in mind that
this debt was enormously increased
by the aid and comfort given to the
rebellion while in progress, by the
Democratic party, whereby the reb-
els were encouraged to prolong the
struggle against the Union armies,
after all other reasonable hope of
success had been extinguished.


/ 1t should be borne in mind that the
debt of the Nation was still farther
increased by the efforts of the Dem
ocratic party to cripple and destroy
the public credit. in the midst of the
struggle for national existence, and
that the national bonds were thereby
forced to heavy discount in contract
ing loans with which to carry on the
war, and the national currency was
thus largely reduced below its true
value in gold, thereby adding enor-
mously to the cost of all material
purchased for the use of the Govern
ment.


1t should be borne in mind by ev-
cry tax payer of the Nation, that the
Democratic party stands pledged to
secure compensation to the slave
holding rebels for every slave set
free by the Emancipation Proclama-
ton, thus adding an immense and
unjust burden to the already enor-
nous taxation under which the coun-
try groans.


1t should be borne in mind, that
all the Democratic members in the
House of the Fortieth Congress. have
placed themselves upon record by
their votes in favor Of the monstrous
proposition that the National govern
ment is liable, under the Reconstruc-
ton laws, for every dollar of the
State debts of all the States in rebel
lion.


1t should be borne in mind, by ev-
Iery tax payer, that the Democratic
party through its orators and writer's
for the press. Is committed to the un-
heard of proposition that the Con-
federate war debt contracted in the
struggle to overthrow the National
Government is justly chargeable
against the Government, and that
this party only waits the success of
its insiduous attempts to regain pow
er, to fasten this debt upon the peo-
pie of the United States. IT. j: .


1t should be borne in mind, by ev-
cry tax payer, that the Democracy
has made persistent and strenuous
efforts to injure both public and pri-
vate credit, and bring on financial
crisis, such as will make it impossi-
blo for the Nation to meet its obliga-
tions promptly, thus carrying wide
spread ruin throughout the country,
and reducing to beggary thousands
of widows and orphans and other
worthy persons whose little all Is in
vested in government bonds, for the
redemption of which the faith of the
Nation is pledged. ,l .e5s .-
1t should be borne in mind, by ev-
cry tax payer, that the Democratic
party persistently opposes every eff,
fort made to tighten the public bur
den, by levying duties upon foreign
imports, thus requiring foreign eapi-
talists and traders who have the ben
eft of our markets to bear small
share of our burden in return, and at
the same time protect our home man.
ufactures from the deadly competi-
tion of foreign capitalists who grow
fat upon the proceeds of pauper labor.


1t should be borne in mind most
especially by Ohio wool growers and
tax payers, that tthe Democratic par
ty has always and most strenuously
struggled to prevent foreign wool
growers from contributing anything
to tighten the burden Of taxation, and
that every Democratic member of
both Houses of Congress has met ev-
evy attempt to protect the great
wool growing interest Of the country
with the most deadly hostility, and
that they have thus, while prating of
the enormous profits made by the
manufacturers of New England, play
ed directly into the hands of these
manufacturers, without even the lame
excuse of saving to the consumer in
the price of the product, and all this
they have done while every Ohio Re-
publican member o. Congress gave
voice and vote to the passage of an
act to protect the consumer by dis
connecting the wool tariff from all
other tariffs, for the benefit of the
manufacturers


And finally it should be borne in
mind by every tax payer, and every
patriot who has had the good of the
country at heart, that the speakers
of the Democratic party openly avow
that their hope for the success of that
party lies only in financial disaster
to the country, whether caused by
failure of crops, by the discrediting
Of the national currency, by prevent |
ing the Nation from meeting its obli-
cations, or however resulting.


We earnestly hope that every Un- !
ion paper of Ohio will keep these !
facts before the people continually.
until after the next election shall
have rebuked the iniquity OF the
Democratic party by the largest Re
publican majority ever given in the i
State. --.- - --i -