THE BONDHOLDER oh, the Bondholder rota in a onehlon'd chair, As be 'its at his table to dine While before him le spread out the daintiest fore, And the choicest of foreign wine, Then he think, of the wealth that he made by the war, For his heart ha. /crown selfish and cold, And he laughs, and he quaffs, and euiokee his cigars, AB he counts up his interest in told. oh, a rollicking fellow is be. is ho, And his life passes smoothly away, And what eareth be for you, nr rue, While he has no taxes to pay. 01101IUB. Then a rollicking lime will bare we, have we, And - eur days will pass innuothly pars sway When our country we see in prosperity And we have no taxes to pay. And the Bondholdeerwife In her coach and four, Knows nothing, of labor and care, ,A a be drives by the ■ufering tax payer door, Not heeding the misery there, The breve crippled moldier she Rees not now Nor his children so hungry and cold ; While the laboring man b► the caveat of his brow, But pays up bin In eee ee t In gold Oh a right merry life has she, has she, Tim Bondholder's w ffe gay, And what circa' the for you or me, WhilWey bare no taxes to pia?. Then a rollibking time, /cc., Then working men all pet your hand to the wheel, And let us no longer delay, For I tell you we're only beginning to feel The takes we'll.soo'n have to pay Qh ' roma crippled soldier, come rally lignin Till our Union restored we beheld, For our sons have been slain, and your blood shed in vain, Till w• wipe out this interest in gold. 'Then a rollicking time, kr Then ootoradem arouse for the people no OM Intend to be purc§Reed ter mold, And one kind of money for fIA and hr poor, We'll hare he that pp, or gold : Ilurrah bum hurrah, tOr the burdenn eo In the sweet merry aye of old, S When, on arurqa ht, by his fireside biught, The poor counts hia , wagoi in gold Then a rollicking time, nfe. Why A Change is Needed The national debt is now lwent: , -six hundred millions of dollars Lee sur rendered on the 9th day of April, Ifi6s; the National debt on thetdsy wits twen ty-three hundred and sixty even mil lions In th'ree years of pence the oleht ham increased two hundred and thirty three inillione The people havo paid into the Treas ury sn those three yearn, fifteen hundred and twenty millinne In 110i5, 551;1,!72 000, to INff, $190,631,000, and in 18(17. 8471.700,1100 The official statements show that in the taletwtilnoriths the debt has inerean ed $l3 2;i8,503 All of this money came from the earn ivies of the people, and eliould have been applied to paying the debt ; for it iv a ;nor 'l nge upon all of our pt gyp.rty un,l encumbers and upprennes us in our bubt Every article tha. enti.rm into our daily klße and conNomption 14 taxed to ra:se thim money The poor mml'l4 ten pun twruiy five seals to gold, Lis tivir fnur cents. his coffee fi•e cents, the leather out of which hie shoes are 111:141. the matche,a with which he lights lila fire, the shosei, the pick, the plow anti the the harrow, all hear their share of these taxer, and al ihese Increase the cost of living This system of likX al ion in more severe on the poor than the rich—for the ne 47,e811111e1l of a mail (and not Ilia property) are taxed, so that a poor man with a family of nix, paps three I imen an much tax an the rich man with a family of Iwo In the year ending Jude 30, ur hundred and 'evenly millions of dollars were taken from the comforts aunt ne ceneities of the lives of the people, and were put into the Treasury of the nation There are thirty millittise of people in te Union, and this is more than four teen dollars for each man, woman and child. This is mainly paid in puyinr what we rat, drink and _wear. About eight days work are now re quired (roil the laboring man to buy a barrel of flour, while in 1860 four day'. work would buy es good a one. i One day's work now will only buy five pounds of ooffee, while in 1860 it would buy twelve pounds. The fernier, the meohanie.„ and the merchant, find their profits all spent In the Increased cost of living; in the large taxes imposed for State, county, .muni oipel and oily purposes; imithe Increas ed cost of tools,of olothing,of labor hired. and of taxes upon income, and they have nothing left. increase of the debt means ihoreseed hours of labor, increased taxes and in creased privations to the mass of the people. The Rastieala have toasted your money and ought to be turned out. The reconstruction of the South,' With the negro above the 'white man, prevents prosperity there. The enourmous taxes we pay go to maintain the army and the Freedmen's Bureau in the South, for this purpose. Instead of us paying over 100 millions each year to do this, the South - ought to he pth to work to earn L VOL. 13 BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1868. NO. 35. 200 millions to help us to pity the debt end the taxes. Take away 'the army • and the Bureau and give She while man as good a chance as •he negro. and it will be dbne. They clatutot buy our iron, cotton add woolen manufactures as long as we per mist in keeping them poor. Put them to work to develop their resources, and allow them to aid in governing them selves, and we will relieve ourselves from a grevious burl ben. 1.6 • The Radicals hav'e put Me negro above the 'chile man and ought to be turned out. The exemption of bonds from taxation is unjust and oppressive. The poor man who owns a house and lot, has no right to be taxed to protect the property 1112 d educate the children of the rich man, who pay. none, because his pro pe.rtj in all in United Slates Bonds. The Radicals made this system, and de „(ead it, an d they-Q44,01 lo be hatted 2tul. A greenback dollar is now worth about's:xey-ciet cents in gold. There are sixteen hundred millions of 5 20 Bonds, which the Bondholders want pail in gold, but which the law promised to pay in greenbacks We now pay them one hundred and thirty millions in gold intermit every year, and we find this a grevioue load. The debt bearing gold interest has increased .sixty-seven and a half millions in the last two month, This has added (our in Wiens to our bur thens. If the principal of the 5 20s be paid in gold, it will add eight hundred millions of dollars to the value of the claim they make, and this aprrible debt will eru.di the energies o the people. They pair' greenbacks foil' Ora Bonds at fifty cents on the dollar, and the contract was they were to take the same iu pay. The Radicals are for paying the Bond holder in (Vold, and ought to be turned out Reduce the enormous, useless and corrupt expenses of the go•ernineni,and thus dispense with taxation and leave the motley with the people. Pay the debts as rapidly as possible ; remove the curse of negr.iiiimi io the South, and let the while mica goviiim himself and help tin pay our debt , tax the people equally' and reduce taxation (reduce the amount of interest we must pay by paving part of the debt in greenbacks , restore the I! tt tttn nett obey the Coriatitution l'ltreue ditin pulley and business will tin:Olen, our nationallroubles will be over. our - credit will be at par, 'and a acacia currency re eSIIII,IIIIIIIOII -- Erriaa "yr The Radicals refuse to do Mu and ought • to . le homed out (The debt Limit he paid, but we must ennimenee to pay it new or it will never he paid ; the party in power have learn ed to he extravagant, and cannot quit it if they wished to, a change will reduce taxation and ensure the payment of the debt Lel us yo fur a clmye and turn Me Rad lea!, out.—Lan. Intellegrarer Address of the Democratm l State Com- DlOllOl NATI,' STATIC GUM. 8.001 , 13, 901 Arch street. I'll LA I/F.11•111A, Aug 24, 1868 TO TII 1 1 1101.1.11. 01 PICNNIVELVANIA . The Radio!'le re-produce the, stale slander!' of the past, and try Co ignore the Arnim question of the present They prate of their loyalty and make it the excuse for their corruption, their extravagance and their misrule They imagine ihat yoU have slept du ring three years of their iniquitous min- government, and that you will forget that taxation opp you, that your commerce languishes, and that your buslnessis broken up. They have proven themselves pliwerful to destroy and powerless to reetore. Their only policy is hate, and upon Ibis they ask a new lease of poirer, for getful that a thinking and a practical people require them to arswer Why is lielp national debt greater now then 'ben. Lee eitrreodered, and why does it still morel's° ? Vilmt bee become of the fifteen bun drod millions ofdollors (bey bays wrung from the comforts and necessities of the people since 'June, 1965' Why •re more then one hundred mil- lions' of dollars annually wasted on the unstoonsteuoted South, and why is it not lo yield i■ as much, to ranee* us from taxation, and aid in paying our debt? fittf,ol rior of the negro in every Southern State? Why is one ohms of men totally ex empt from taxation whilst 411 others groan beneath the load they: should aid in bearing? gold when by the exprese term. of the eoniraoLthey were made payable in le gal-ten 4 er notes? the Union not restored, and why are our resources wasted, the people oppresed, the own of living trebled end ow; trade destroyed ? , Organizes speaking csntseein . syery looslity. too into the strongholds of Rocitheliem, and not to the passions. Confine them to the hying tveues of the present and of the immediate future Our grand old state moves steadily but surely into her true place in the Demo- erai io line news of g deftarrt and united Democracy, sod of s torpid sod dispirited foe Organiritibn, energy and tlithttl effort will bring you a glorious victory. =3 lIMM Would be Pico Prenident Colfax, in a recent epeeoh, asserted that I he ' , history of the Republican party is written in the brightest pages df our.country'e annals. ' The following are smite of the'pr eminent renulin of the sue :ess of the Radical party which now seeks by usurpations and military force to perpetuate its pewer,as stated in the New 1 ork Express I. The.history of the Radical part be gen in 1860, in a war which extremists North and South labored to perpetuate 2. In two millions •( men, North and South, in arms. (acing each other with the moot destructive weapons of warfare of modern invention S In the lona. North and South, of o•er 600,000 liven 4. In the expenditure of over four billirms of dollar for the North alone— s4,ooo,ooo ono b. In an existing debt of over two bil lions and a half— 2,500,000,000 fi, In the Leanest taxation ever im posed upon any people in any country, under which our labor is ao groaning, that it can no where coin() into Compeli -I,fon-cfreu with taxed Germany, England or France • erything 8. In an irredeemable currency of mere paper money. 8300,000A00 in Na tional banks, which are paying the own ere of them from 10 to 30 Lier cell' per annum, and in $400,000,000 of green backs, not good enough to pay the du ties to the custom•inemta; or interest. due the bondholders on their $2,500, 000,000 of debt. 9 In • standing• army of 60,000 men on paper, 86,000 men in fact, coaling millions and millions of dollars, nearly $2,000,000 for every regiment. 10. in" the hordes of freedmen's bureau office holders, paid for by the North to govern the negroes of the Bondi, costing millions per annum. 11. In tariff which drives off from the outer ocean (reserving for Ameri cans only the coastwise trade) almost every American ship, and which nearly stops all foreign ship builekog in the United Eltates.—Ex. —The poor man of the country is mad* to pay the taxes of the rich plan by the present Internal Revenue laws. passed by the Radical Congress. Every poor man who Wishes to be relieved from this burden of taxation. VIII vote the Democratic, tioket. "MULTI; RIGHTS AND rEnztRAL UNION." Why is the white man made the info Why shall the 5-20 bonds be paid in Why is the constitution ♦ioloted cod DEICOVIATII O► riPINISYLVANIA AROUIIII ?HZ PEOPLE TIAUIt Tl . UK I'IL#LE Direct your arguments to reason and I=l From every section comes the glad TEACH THE PKOPLE PL'aSUIL 411 E ENP:MT By order of the Democratic State Com WM A IVA MACE, The History of the Radical Party 7 In enormous high prices upon cv —Refresh lag—tbe rain of yesterday THE BONDHOLDERS SONO The bondholder •at 4n hie easy chair, Counting his bonds was he ; And he turned up hit .nose at Seymour and Blair, And called them a terrible traitorous pair, While he sang to himself In glee. "The people are aad,dled for us to ride; And booted and 4urfed are we ; We rowel well every painting side, And as safe on their brawny back abide As Sinbed'e Old Man of the Sea. "We gave theta paper/for whrt we hold, At not quite half et the face ; But we'll get lull payment in guld,hard gold (Though laboring me■ are bought and sold, If we only win the race' "The war is - over—so !Odle folks say, But certainly that iren'erte We wu•t keep it up 'till election day, (1111 awn at least we can wake it pay,) - Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue' Hurrah for that glorious hero, Grant ; "The bondholder's choice is he ; He'd speak if be could, but luckily he can't, ,A ad the -m - s erre - knirirlthire,- - rirgu I a Wont • ' A glorious hero eau be. "I have miegiviogs, I must confess, That•we can't put the ticket through; That the people at last are Seginning to guess A national debt is a I lesslng to bless A 'ring' of a chosen few. "But airway with misgivings , for who can pciseent - The loyal' from gettang their pay / It is only three hundred and fifty per cent On everrdollar of paper they lent Towiad keeping the war under way! ^Hurrah for the tlaq of our nountry, then ; For, writing on every fold, I see, ins, ribed by Jay Cooke's pen 'Down with the rebels,' which amens all men %VII° won't pay our bonds. in geld THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER. —The Radical cry :—"Relp us poet masters, or we oink —le the Union Tel ? Not accord ing to the (leant Iteconetruction platform rant anti Colfax - -*match 'ant Anti cause a apttntanettua nombustih --(len. rant leads the party of eland ing armies, h envy taxes tad negro supra Cho irman MILO) —Nebranka rolled up a thousand run Jority (or the Democratic anise, in her rc cent contest. —Democrats in New York are [tering to bet that that State will give Seymour and Blair 75,000 majority, but find no taker:, --- Gen. Wade Hampton ham been invited by the Democracy of Connecticut, to deli, er a eerie. .1 speeches in that State during the EZEIBM -- Tim Cl sgo bitbert. has re, k tined Illinois fur SS rani, begins 1. believe it is going for Seymour and Blair Messrs. Radicals, your cake II dough. ---Williamr, the unpearhor,has bean de (rated for a re now.nation in the Pittsburg district. Thus is "traitor Andy' . endorsed even by Itedicale. —Mr Pen ileton addressed n meeting of 25,000 people at Portland, Maine, a fan days ■g'. Extraordinary enthusiasm pre veiled. --Under Demorralie administration the nation! I debt was less than a million. Un der Radical administrations it has run up to thou rands of million:. —The Deintieraey are in fever of th. greatest good for the greatest itemiser. Th, Itaiiio.o4 are in laver of the greatest good for the mnailept number ----Only one member of tha-ortional Cub met of Lincoln% now in accord with Hindi ealtain, and that one in Simon Cameron,who wan turned out of oMeety 'Abe lifylyr: —A Itadmal newspaper recently asked with refreshing omuplicity, "Wha began the war ," The popular beliefont the present day, in, that it wan tleneral Tyndale'n pld friend John Itiown at Ilarper'n Ferry. —Bergner says the Democratic party is in In% or of negro equality because several Its members, is put years, were of sely minneeteill with negro women. He forgetm to say 'Wit all such living tube are shining lights in the Radical party. —lt is not what people eaWbut what they digest, that makes them strong. It is ,not what they gala, but what thy save that makes them rich. It iJ not what they pro fess, but what they practise, teat makes them righteous. Mind that as you go along. —An exchange says with great truth that in good old Demooratie times the poor man might go to market with kis money in his packet and bring beck his purchase In a basket. N. w the order of things Is reversed. He Lay take money to market in a basket and bring back the purchase in hie pocket. —lt the Radicals hold an extra session of Congress thls month, It will be because they have expended their money stumping for Grant, and want to make another raid on the Treasury. There can be no other reas on for Congress convening. The condition of the country does not demind it—the peo ple are averse to it: But if they have ex hausted their plunder they will meet. matt/( • Greenbacks foo bonds The Bondholder demands gold for his bond; the soldier must take greenbaisks for hie pension. The Bondholder demands gold for his bond ; the laborer must take greenbacks for his daily toil. The Bondholder demitntliS gold for his bond'; the farmer and the mechanic must lake greenbacks for their productions. 'the soldier's pension of $l5 is worth but about $lO in gold; the Bond holder's $l6 in gold are worth $22 In greenback's. $1 in gold will buy as much as $1 50 in greenbacks The Bondholder obtains his gold and he grown Heber; the soldiers; the labor er, the farmer, and the mechanic, must take the greenbacke, and they grow poorer' The Bondholder pays no taxes upon his Itonds,for they are exemlied by kw; the soldier, the laterer, the (inner and the mechanic, pay their clip taxes and the boodholikqus-too. The Bondholder gave greenbaoks for his bonds 11e has drawn the interest in gold, and now he demands gold for the principal In 18 63 the average of a greenfilick dollar was seventy one ceola ;on 1864. fifty cents; and in 1863, fifty ninecents In 1864, the Bondholder paid $250 iu gold for a 15(8) bond lie has drawn interest in gold upon it to the amount of $l2O, which wan worlb al least $2OO in currency, If hie bond is in gold he has cleared $250, worth now $375, and this added to the interest. makes a neat pro• fit of $555 in four years- on en istrest ment of $230. The gold to pay both principal and interest comes fidm the tariff that the governtnent lays on the poor tuau's tea, coffee and auger, for all other taxes are paid in currency Every pound of tea pays twenty five cent!, in gold to t he Bondholder' Every pound of coffee pays five Cent) in gold to the bondholder' Every pound of sugar pays four cents in gold to the bondholder ! The whole debt iv now twenty nix hundred millions of dollars In the month of July the interest hearing por• lion of it increased sixty-reran milliona thus adding .n one month nearly lour millions of annual interest to the bur theme of the people Sixteen hundred millions of the debt are, by they contract, payable in green backs, if this in paid in gold it adde eight hundred miUutns to the value of the Bondholder's olaim, and to the terri ble load that now oppresses the people and destroys their business The bondholders demand that, labor and production shall be taxed for their benefit; they claim that they are aprivi• leged claire, and exempt from taxation. Pay the debt in greenbacks, and you rnuce 'titer burthens of the people. Everything we eat, drink and wear, are now taxed' to pay the bondholder. Pay the debt in greenbacks, and you pay it in the currency the Ilondboider give for his bond Pay the debt in greenbacks, and you stimulate industry and invigorate bum nese Pay the debt in greenbacks, and you pay it according to tho coolraal. The Radicals say pay the Bondholder in Gold. The Democracy nay pay Bond holder according to his contract. What are Principles.? Are you in favor of Negro Suffrage? If so, vote for U S. (rani. lie •tends upon the platform which pledge• the continuance of Negro Suffrage in eleven Stales of the Union, by the interference of the Federal Government.. Are you in favor of one ruleofsuffrage for twenty-six Slates, and soother for the remaining eleven 1 If so, ♦ote for U 8. Grant. lie is pledged to this unequal dootrine by the Chicago plat• ~,,, form. • Are you in favor of the impeachment and removal of the President for poli tical resolooe I If+eo, vote for U. S. Grout. The Chicago platform endorses the impeachment conspiracy. Are you ha favor of negro legislatu res, negio governors, and a negro bal ance of power? If so, vote fir U. 8. Grant. The platform which he has ac cepted swishier the Recionstruotion acts by wioh these things have been forced upon an unwitting people. Are you in favor of a large standing army and navy.•zaintained at •an ex pense of one hundred and fifty millions per annum? If • so, TON for U. 8. (Irani. Ile etandit upon a platform whiebprOposee to govern the Southern people by the military despotism of the Iteconetruci ion Cole. Are you in favor of ihe eontinuande of the Freedman's Burevu ! If 5 o,•ote tor G. S. Grant. Ile !ti the candidate of the party which establtehed and which continues iti-ealgtenee that expansivi in stitution. Are you in 'favor of exempting the wealthy, bondholders from taxation? It no, rote for U. S Grant. Ile in the candidate for the Money-King, A. T. Stewart, and stands upon a platform that it/ silent upon this subject Are you-in favor of a double-faced finannial policy If no, vote for U. 8. Grant. He is the candidate of a party whose platform is construed by Oreely and Forney to mean the ppymeni of pub lic debt in gold, and by Steritt,l and Butler to mean the payment of tbeettine in greenbacks 'Are you lefavor of a. candidate who deolores be will have "no poliuy" if oleo ted f If no, vote (or U S Grant. He seoureo you, in his letter of acceptance, that he will not trouble the country with • policy. On the other hand are you opposed to Negro Suffrage ? Are you in favor of ouegule of Suffrage for the whole coun try, and that rule the regulation of that queetion by the people of each State for themselves? Are you to favor of rebuk ing the impeachere ? Are you opposed to negro Legislatures, negro Governors. and negro balance of power? Are you opposed to a large standing array, and he continuance cane Freedmin'■ lan reau ? Are you in favor of taxing the hotule r etail-of the payment-o,f lila public debt. as speedily as practicable, in the lawful currency of the country, when not otherwise provid , d by law? Are ,you to favor of a candidate who willhare a policy, the Poliel laid down by the Democratic platform' If so, vote for Horatio Seyttuur, the atalesu an, the scholar and the Christian gentleman.— Ilarrisbury Palm! Rights of Labor 111 eft "Fiii•o a natural right to lire, and government has not a right to deprive them of life except where it is forfeited by the commission of crime no danger ous to society that the latter can lie pro treed in no other way, or it becomes ni ceosory for the mainrnonee or the pub lic liberties, rightn or honor It-has not a • lA/ to La.c Me_ Wizens to death Ily no system of taxation, however imposed, or for whatever objects. has g)yernment the right to deprive the citi zens or that portion of his earnings ne cessary for the support of himself and This Is our yoverilinent to day All the want and dWireas existing among the se)rking CiltrntS. es the re stilt of the high prices of the necessaries of lifer, produced mainly by taxation. The taxes which the owners of property, producers, and middle men pay, are charged over ion) rents end•the price& of commodities, and have to be borne t i n the end by the ooneunters. In this way the working man, though his name does not appear upon the .tax lint, and the tax-gatherer never •ultra him, pays a large share of the taxes. Every article be 4n -chases for bimsel or family-is charged beastly with taxes. and he has to pay them in the price. The landlord, too, charges his tax into the rents, and he gets them back from the tenant Thus, under a just and econo mical government, and with the taxes ~ rranged in the fairest way possible, la bor bears an undue proportion• It is, at the but, unequally burdened! , ISut when, as now, the system of taxa" lion, which presses so bristly upon the people, is not just, equal and impartial, and not necessary to meet the legitiMate objects of government, but imposed to put money into tho Tr easury,to be stolen out by Jacobin thieves i to glee bounties to greedy manufacturers, and pay ex empted bondholders gold usury. h // a high crime c . aainst human nature ! It is usurpation and tyranny, and may be justly resisted as such, if no other re dress oan be bad, It ts robbery and murder to deprivals bor, by taxation, of its occeseary sop pore The broad of the laboring man us sacred! A wicked goternment, which robs We poor to give to the rich, is Ihe greatest curse which oan be allicted upon the people This our government has become under Jacobin rule!—N. Y, Democra 1. • t —Radiceli boast of the generosity of the Alabama carpet-baggers,in relieving a portion if the people from disfratiohise ment. But carpet-bag magnanimity is better illustrated by the , Radicals in Florida, w here they have taken away the franchise entirely. - 9 The Radios' party, sines the New York nomination, is in • similar condi ticu to the boy's veal. It hasn't exact died, but it has "kind o' gin out." hundred trades unions, rep resenting : forty thoneand workingmen, are claimed for New York city. —Susan B. Anthony'has ftadinalialn, and oomes out for Bsymbor. Bully for Susan.
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