The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-10-14

| honest and as patriotic as Jim Ash |
| ley. daughter and prolonged ap-
plause.)
1 cling to the old instrument. I may /
have old fogy notions. They may |
not SUIT the progressive spirit of the
times, but they are mine. My father
lived and died under the old instru-
ment. 1 have lived thus far under it,
and trust that there may be but few
changes made IN it while live. do
not want any more Congresses that !
are Radical, and have to suggest six |
| ty-nine different amendments to the |
| Constitution of the United States in |
one session. Laughter. She may |
have her faults and defects, but, in |
Gods name, let us stand by her, for
she is the Constitution, and that is
everything to us now. Beneath our |
country's Constitution, in the eye OF
God and man, is the temple of patri- |
OTIS love and honor.
And yet the leader of the Radical
party, :Thaddeus Stevens, the man
over whose memory convention after
convention has been called, for the
purpose of making it holy, declared
that the legislation of Congress was
outside of the Constitution OF the
country. And every man who has
studied it kcows it and feels it, that
they have gone beyound any prece-
dent established by the action Of the
fathers. Now, we call upon the men
of the country to rtand by the Consti-
tuition; to forget their prejudices and
their passions, ther party affiliations,
and to act according to the necessities
, of the times and the requirements of
duty.
If men say they are to be simply
| partisans, nothing more, are to disre-
gard the action of this Congress, there
, is no use in talking to them, whatev-
| er. But if men wish to act according
} to duty, to right with proper regard
t for their own interests and those who
e are to come after them, there is but
] one course for US to pursue and that
q is to change the American Congress
8 and give to US an entirely different
p class of men. 1t seems to have be-
: come a question at. the present time
J, of one of two things; man, to be
= loyal. uust be either bondholder or
The advocute of the negro.
want to talk to you little about
the bondholding question. L am nc
financier. 1 have never had much
:. finances of my own, and the little
n have had I have not been able tc
}: manage very we'll. But still have 6
It few simple notions upon the question
q I know that it is said "the love o
d money is the root of all evil"
IS know that when God Almighty is
d sued his commandments to Moses up
20 ON the Mount he said. ''thou shalt no
a covet thy neighbours house; thou shal
n not covet thy neighbor's wife," h
" put the property in advance of tn
D. wife. L know great many of m!
- neighbors whose houses 1 would
es laundering sight rather have thai
Ir their wives. At my age, you know
e. men are more inclined to look afte
ID property than women. When tn
Id devil tempted Christ the last thing h
W offered him, the greatest induce
- ment, was the possessions of the earth
10 1t was God that answered. If it ha
a been bOndhoIder, Christ would hav
a dropped on his knees so quick tina
ty the devil would have thought that th
at lightning had struck him.
h; These are the men you have to cor
ct tend with. Read the advertisemer
he that Jay Cooke & Co. put out, and Sc
he whether that talks as mach about risI
til ing to save the country as 1t does aboJ
nd the profitable investment that is to /
en- made, and how well it will pay
N, Suppose the country had gone dow
ut under the throes of that terrible rev
luton what would any property hay
Ite been worth, of any sort ? Nothing
1i- all. Then these men could risk the
ne money by investments in bonds, b
-ty cause the bonds would be redeemed
l I anything were redeemed. If Il
ou bonds were worthless, everythiI
We else would be Valueless. They inve
-ty ted because it was q good operatio
ny They talk about your washwome
ply les all going into this work so ear
ISL estly. and putting in their $50 al
:, I 800. The way to test this matter
the 10 find out what is in the cocoa n
led by bursting the shell. Where is t
left laborer in this town that has bono
mt. Where is the WashWoman that has
be bond? No; tell you that our bon
my are held by the monied men of t
.ht. country, the rich men; your banke
|, is your operators and capitalists, a
an, they have done well by their inYe
ie a ment. Their bonds are good thinl
e of What do you men here in Sandl
my Ky pay as tax here every year-ht
cart much on the hundred dollars.
I'd 1 voice, "$3. .4O."] Now suppose one
nor you men lent a hundred dollars
for somebody, according to the lawful
terest of the State of Ohio, he gets
the per cent. That wuuld be six dolla
the Now subtract your $3.4O from tt
the and you get $3.50 for your money
nose How much does the fellow who oV
get the ponds getE ne ge1S ten uollarS
now least for it-and less than ten per ce
' at Now why ought nst you to make
ioht much money as he makes? Wha
am sauce for the goose ought to be sal
as - for the gander. [Laughter.l
ther General Geiger then entered VI
use. a discussion of the practical workil
of the National bank system. S
nod pose a man went to one of tn
> 70 banks to get accommodation" 1
ID of commentator, he salu, was ny p p
What ing very snarP knlIe uo"h -
ia to him and letting out his entrails.
tand banks generally had a shaving-sl
-, close at hand where thew sent meL