The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1859-02-11

for tho widows and the sUEerdH. q
rudted, is not jot less. | hope, than that ;
which throbs in tho bosom of my generous q
and kind hearted friend. ButMr. Speaker. q
VIC arc not just now acting in tho capacity \
of alnonors of some grand Charity We
are not sitting here as tho Board of Trus- {
tees of some fno old Hospital Tor the reliut I
and comfort Of the unfortunate aud tho do.
crepid. We arc no Pension Board. But I
the legislators of great and growing Com
monwcalth of two and half millions of
mostly young. active, robust working people.
Isn't such tho fact ?
Mr.. Speaker. know not, neither have !
hoard of any other class, or interest in Ohio.
which has been benefited by this enactmont
which VIC now seek to repeal.
Well, who or what has It injured Labor |
is the foundation tho source of all wealth.
No man will dony that proposition. Capt. |
tai may greatly aid, may gvu labor the op- |
portunity oil successful employment, but 1t |
is bona fde LABOR which adds to the wealth |
Of nations as OF individuals; and that Legls- !
laton which discourages Labor il persisted
in, will bankrupt any people.
Aud never was there a law, sir, better cal
culated to discourage and cripple labor than
tho ono under consideration. Directly has
this law, in it's operation, robbed the State |
of hundreds of thousands of dollars by
changing largo producers Of woalth-into
mere moncy-lcnGers; Transforming thou
sands of our best farmers into men who no
! longer producB even the bread thcy cat -
| through tho entire year not adding ono dol
lar to tho absolute wealth OF tho State.-
! Everywhere mas this result of the 10 per
cent. law been manifested. This was among
! its earliest, and has continued its most abun-
= 4 fs,,f Ion. ya.ln Fanr Nnf
from their abors upon their farms, so they
turn their farms Into money and cease their
labors aud Just so much is lost from tho
wealth producing power of the State. Can
any man gahsay this Is thore any theory
! that can override this stubborn FACT
And then again, hundreds and thousands
! of active young mcn--arrsans and manu-
| facturcrs-with skill in some handcraft,and
will to uso it--men lacking nothing but
| Capital-suek this capital that they may
build up some mechanical trade, or manu-
featuring interest. Loan them capital, and
! thoy will give remunUratigo employment 10
scores aud hundreds of other laborors. Vii
| lagos and towns at once spring into being
Real Estate feels the hualthlui iutlueuco-a
market, and that best of all markets,a home
market, is created for the farming commu-
uity around, and all material and socia! in
terests of the State are strengthened aud
pushed upward. But under the influence ot
: the ten por cent law, your mechanics and
manufacturers cannot build up themselves
and evorv good interest OF the State. fol
they caunut pay such rates, aud then sue
ccsstully compete with the manufacturers oI
, other regions, where money may DO had al
per cent. So manufactures and the me
, chanic trades langush in Ohio, and so hun.
1 4. ;T,I rod
in mid growth. And what is far worse, the re-
is not oEly this loss of social and material
growth-this Encouragement of productive
. iudustry--but there is u loss of the Young
= Men themselves. Our enterprising yoanl
0 mon 90 abroad to sock friendlior Legislation
g and moro encouraging fields Of enterprise
o Hore IS loss of social elomont-of tn
u very vigor of tho State-which cannot b.
is measured by dollars aud cents. Who cal
guinsay this most lamenta6 10 fact : Tbes
o arc tho men you lose, in legisating cxclu
@ syely for the Interests OF tho brokers ant
@ money lenders, and the "superannuated.
is Is such an exchange wiso one for u youn
% and not yet halt developed State like ours
h And what manufacturing State Obi
l. might be. What field for the triumph @
d human labor. What resources-rich an
5. exhaustess has the Almighty givcn us 70
It such career of prosperity. Conside
a for u moment tho great fact, full Of sugges
e ton, that nearly one-half tho State is under
d laid with inexhausIible beds of Coal and lroI
= -(and this coal and iron in our neighbor
y hood)--Ihe two elements of manufacturing
10 development which have so greatly increas
10 cd the power aud wealth OF Great Britain
IN Coal, in strata near the surface, and thu
easily worked, In thirty of our counties. an
ut ham
q, square miles-and Iron already mined
or twouty OF these same counties. And the
10 our opportunities for quick and cheap a
he cess to tho markets of the world ; two hui
r. drcd miles of Lake coast, connecting by
an rect navigation with the st. Lawrence al
Is. tho Atlantic; four hundred and thirty mill
% stretching by tho Ohio river, and connec
al ing thereby with the Mississippi and Il
of Gulf, and all their tributaries with the tot
I'd grand lines of East and West Railways rui
ue ming across our territory.
D. Aud then agRin such Agricultural resource
X. whereby to feed these ten thousand mine
yle and mechanics and manufacturers, when /
no arc once at work. Scarcely an aero of o
whole broad State but that may be broug
/ a under the dominion of the plow and yle
ito bountiful crops. Why, such counties
n Ross, Pickaway. Franklin, Fairfield, Ware
he Highland, Fayette, Butlor, each of toe
he produce more bushels of Corn that son
is entire States.
IRE But the tendency and result of the Il
he per cent. law has been to initiate reckle
Al" speculations, and to induce the transfer
he capital from industrial and agricultural pu
no poses, to investment in loans for these spe
ulative schemes. So the productive enc
IN gies of the State have been palsod-ar
3D. manufactures languish-and our vast co
OH and iron fields still slumber in tho unbrokt
he sleep of ages and our State struggles slo'
no rly towards that high eminonce OF mater
he and social greatness which God designed f
at her
he Tho honorable gentleman from BelmOr
n in his speech the other day, contendcd til
10, with this law, the course of our State W
Dir onward" Indeed, Ohio, during the years
las the existence of this statute has made son
N. adyanccment-but her steps arc but d
lw haltng steps Of giant in felters. Lit fro
IT. her energies this great 5urden--let capt.
,w aud labor striko hands in mutual right al
en- fraternal friendsbip-let money flow in
ss- natural channols, asking but an equitab
ch division of the profirs-and two and ha
ut millions of free hearts will tako courage, al
ng twice as many free arms strike together
er one common cause, and Ohio will mount q
ns to such Il heighth of material prosperity
a will at once make her tho glory OF the WORT
A few months since, tho whole clVIlIz'
H. ! earth reiOiced at mo success of the teN