The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-18


you wear, or the tools with which you earn
your NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. being taxed. The
sugar plantations have been devastated, ana
row the people pay millions for imported sugar.
The radicals tell You that they do not tax your
wages. ] know they don't, but they tax all
your wages buy. You cannot make as much of
$3.50 aud $3.50 day now as you could off $3.50
and 50 day some years ago; and all because of
this burdensome tax, want of economy, and that
unparalleled extravagance which has destroyed
the nation. ..h.-.m AT
Iftbe business men of philadelphia want to
get at the cret of the depression of business
let them go down to the foundation, and see
why 1t Is that labor does not pay as 1t used to
pay, and then they will see why IL Is that trans
poriation and sales have have so largely fallen
of in this country.
I have Just returned from a trip to Mime,
whele the Democrats have made the noblest
fight that ever was made (Great applause.)
And where, on fair fight, made on national
issues, aud not the fight made last year about
the liquor and constabuary, the Democrats
have gained enough, that with the same ratio,
and the same increase in the Presidential elec
ton, Maine Will bear her issue with Seymour
and Blair. Great applause.) While | was up
in that State, had occasion to learn many
thugs which interest you, for Philadelphia was
once, II not now, great commercial port.
tell you, that from one end of Maine TO the other
blessed as II is with its magnificent forests and
harbors, five times as great as all England can
boast with twenty-five hundred miles of sea
coast, with shtp-yards from Passamaquoddy to
Kittery, where they used to make ships by the
hundred, now, from one extremity to the other,
there is business depression. There are but
four little barques building upon the stocks, and
| all the shlp-yards are deserted and idle Toe
steVedores, builders, mates and seamen are
all either idle or gone and the old art for which
Maine pri1ed hersefis fallen into decay. and the
commercial business of our country is departing
IRON our shores. There Is nothing done in the
foreign business with our Wn bottoms whereas
ten years ago we carried in our ships all our
imports and exports with the exception of about
one-ftth.
Three ouI ths Of our comm erce ia no VT tronsoct
ed through the the medium of foreign ships. Let
that speak to our Republican friends England
mas increased her tonnage in ten years from tour
10 nine millions; France, from one TO three
millions, while our country has decreased it's
| tonnage, all through radical misrule, repression,
and taxation. We have fallen of one-half in our
Tonnage. ana all the business Is passing under
| foreign control
| Let US economical The first thing to do is to
| strike out that Negro Bureau--tO lift off the
| burden OF the Amy incumbrance and expense,
| so that industry aud honest labor should not be
needlessly taxed and oppressed.
The Repuollcan party, after over three years
OF failure and delay, dnds its power on the
wane. Great States. east and west, fly from it
as from leprosy. Hence, it added resolution
| to its late platform-on motion OF General
Schurz -"comuendng magnanimity and for
besraDce towards Rebels who co-operated WITH
whom? WhaR With the country? With the
Constitution? With the States all? Not with
"ut!" Their test for the removal of disqualI6-
cations is their own partisanship. 1t is not
|
tions South have determined cuts off from
participation in the Government the great body
OF the best informed whites. This commenda-
ton OF magnanimity is tricky flash of rhetoric
| If not an ironlc taunt. 1t was proven to be
empty when it was sought to incorporate Hous-
ton, of Alabama, ana Jones, of Tennessee. in
the amnesty Dill. They were Democrats and
hence no grace for them.
Mr.. Cox then discussed at length the fiscal
questions, advocated equal taxation of all pro.
perty, whether in bonds or not: denounced the
| nk a1 nd an InhA III l.
reduction OF expenditures and the return to the
Democratic days OF economy and hard money.
He said the debt was growing: the cost of gov
ernment is now $l4 when 1t was the y9ar before
the war but ST. 60 per head; that whereas it
only cost us seventeen thousand millions for
seyenty.two years before 1851, l. has cost us the
| years past of radical rule. He pointed out
| various ways in which economy could be prac-
| ticed; beginning with Congress, bureaus, and
| army. He sad it had been proven that our
| commerce was dead. This was an evidence that
| production was dying. Our very skill even
in agriculture is failing. The burdens of
are already third-rate power in ships
| and commerce. Our imports are gro wing
| beyond our exports, with the lapse of time.
| Our bonds are going. abroad. We are paying
| There is only one relief for men of business and
men OF patriotism. 1t is in change. The old
! quack should be dismissed. A new physician
| should be called In all that gives stability to
| industry, freedom to trade standards to cur
rency, equality in taxation, economy in admin
| istration self-government to States peace to the
Union; at home, peace-abroad, peace aud
| glory-in all that makes up a la W-abidng and
| Constitutionreverlngp party-the Democracy will
stand in the next seventy years, as it has in the
seventy years before the war, as a wall OF ada
mant against the waves Of radicalism! It Is this
party that has made our land great and our
! Government strong, not by the collisions of
| civil war, but by the cultivation of concord.
| Under the control of Democracy, we should
before now, have had this whole continent
| banded under federal head, holding half our
| hemisphere, as gravity holds the stars, by the
| system of constitutional law.
Before the war the Democracy strove to save
the nation with earnest, patriotic, and peaceful
! endeavors. Dunn the war 1t commanded its
sons to the field with melancholy pride: aui il
| gave its sweetest blood to the cause, as it had
| given its kindest counsels. HoratIo Seymonr,
! by his speeches aud hls administration IN New
| Yolk, is a fair type and noble illustration of
| Democratic patriotism. His record is crystalline.
| In vain SANDER assails il. He, like the party
war as they were declared, as in honor bound,
and in,the spirit of Christian amnesty, with
| malice to lone, charity to all to bind no the
| nations wounds, and to do all that may achieve
| ald cherish q just aud lasting peace among
| ourselves and all nationsn In this spirit the
| democracy intend to contend. II they fail, then
| the stars in their courses are against them. If
| they succeed, the spirit of Christ will temper
| the people, and all that is forgivlng aud good
| will encompass the Constitution as sentinels
| for MS guard and its sweet honor. Then, over
and out OF the cataract seetnng and foaming
| with The passions engendered by our civil
strife, there will spring, like hope
| "a radiant arch. thar with prlsnlatic dyes
Links Moth TO South; its key JstOne in the skies"
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