The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-09-17


an ahS hwSers dlhd, teesase tbi4ws
his first attempt at speaking this sea
) SON." Pie event was such that none
felt inclined to doubt either the prqprie
~ or validity Of his excuses but at ths
same time, It clearly demonstrated Nh
lamentable ignorance Of politiQp and
mental arithmetic, his utter, disregard O
facts IND hts CREST natural ability ~
pe::;:ssger.
He. asstp announced the interesting
and remarkable fact TINT IN his youthful
days he believed in the motto, "knowl
edge 10 power; (who would have
dreampt it?) but experience had taught
him (no wonder) that '.wealth is power !
This conclusion is, perhaps, owing to
another teaching of experience; nansc-
~, that ocealh might be secured without
brains, but knowledge, never. After
treating his hearers to a series Of basele.s
assertions concerning the "class legisla-
Etion" Of the dominant party, in favor Of
the rich against the poor, the speaker
waded Into the deep waters of the public
debt.a He announced that the present
debt was over p hundreds of millions !;
but that some one had predicted that it
! would become four thousands OF mil
lions, and some one else that it would be
three thousands Of millions: for the
sake Of fairness he would take the small
Ter amount as the basis Of his remarks.
Three thousands of millions Of dollars
then is the national debt; and there
being property in the United States to
the value of fifteen thousands of mil
lions, Sir John fell into the funny mis-
take of calling 3 ZOO, O0o, 900 one third Of
Ii, 900, O0O, 900; which he continued dol
orously, until some kind brother came
forward and pointed out the error.
But. We will not follow this speech
further, suffice it to say that he fell into
circle, the circumference of which was
composed Of three arcs, viz: debt, taxa
ton, and tariff; and here he wandered
blindly around until his hour was UP,
when he sat down remarking that he
intended to have said something about
reconstruction, to which he supposed
his opponent would ailude. Mr.. Lane
did allude to it.; but as Sir John again
ignored it in his closing half hour, we
suppose he had not his piece" learned
quite that far, as yet.
t4 HON. JAMES r. LANE,
the Republican speaker, upon taking
the floor, deprecated the high estimate
put upon his abilities by Sir John, al
luded feelingly to that gentleman's ex-
cessive modssty in speaking of himself;
and then proceeded to an able and COM
prehensive argument upon the real live
political issues of to-day. The first half
hour of his time was consumed by
comparative review Of the principles
and accomplishments of the Republican
and Democratic parties for the last ten
years. This portion of his speech was
particularly able aud effective, and when
he asked the Democrats ''How long they
supposed the war would have lasted if
the entire Democratic party North,
through the press and on the stump, by
influence, money and good right arms,
had come Us one man to the support Of
the Government against traitors" they
all looked and no doubt felt as if the
Democratic party, as an organization,
stood convicted Of an immense respon-
sibility in the war of rebellion and its
concomitant evils Of debt, taxation and
the chaos of State governments. AS Mr..
Lane had previously stated clearly and
distinctly that when he made charges
against the Democratic party" he did
not mean any individual private men,
bers Of that party; but the men who
made It's platforms and controlled its
nominations; that is, the party as al,
organization, no one had any right to
feel personally offended at any Of those
charges, even though they were grave
charges, and clearly proven to be true
ones. ~ t
Abiding briefly to the tariff question
introduced by Sir John, Mr.. Lane show
ed how the rates Of tariff upon the diff
ferent articles OF import were in favor Of
the poor and against the rich classes,
instead of uicc Cersn as stated by his OPP
'poncnt. Next taking up the subject of
national debt, the speaker showed be-
yond cavil that it had been actually re-
duced nearly one halfundcr Republican
Sir Johns statement
that it was constantly increasing to the
contrary, Notwithstanding. He showed
the contemplate faliacy both as regards
honesty and good policy Of the Demo-
cratic plan of paying the debt in green
backs. He gave q synopsis of the