The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-10-07
GARFIELD ON PENDLETON.
Extracts from "a Speech Of
GEN. J. A. GARFIELD,
At Cleveland, O. Sept. %.

UENo d. A. UARFLELDs
At Cleveland, O. Sept. 22.
Now they have nominated Mr.. PEN
dletOn, and his views are set forth in
the carefully prepared speech recently
delivered by him. In that speech he
draws a sad picture of the present
state of affairs, and holds the Republi-
can party responsible for this alleged
condition of things. He asks the
question, Why are prices so low? 1t
is hardly worth while to insult the
intelligence of this audience by Civ
ing it a serious answer. Every school
boy, who has taken his first
lessons in political economy, knows
that over speculation always reduces
prices. Mr.. Pondloton dcprecates
cheap labor, and wants high prices
for products. How can the laboring
man be benefited if he has to pay high
prices for the articles he has TO buy?
Mr.. PendletOn says, from the Secrota-
ry of the Treasury's reports for the last
three months, he finds the statements
of receipts forthal period at the rate
of over five hundred millions of dol
lars. That is true-all true-that he
has there stated. There are two ways
Of lying-One by the direct statement
of Il falsehOOd, the other by stating a
part only of the facts in such manner
as to create a false impression. If
man is going to lie about it which
would be the most manly way of do
ing it? Laughter 1t was wholly
unnecessary tor Mr.. Pondleton to
make the estimates for the year, for
the report for the full year was pub
lished, and shows the receipts to have
been three hundred and fOrty-twO
millions; or, if he insists on reducing
The gold to greenbacks, the total was
not more than four hundred millions,
instead of five hundred millions, as
Mr.. Pendieton's jugglery would make
it. Now what do you think Of the
honesty of a public man who will re-
sort to such expedienls? The reason
why the quarter instanced by Mr..
Pendle:On shows so large Il volume of
taxes is that the income tax is nearly
all collected during that quarter. Mr.
PendletOn charges that diamonds arc
admitted at low rate Of duty, while
wOOlen goods are charged higher
rate. Mr.. Pcndleton knew, when he
said this-fOr he had served in Con
gress on the Committee on Ways and
Means-he knew that the reason the
tariff was put no higher on diamonds
was because the inducement to snug
Cling was so lessened thereby. For
diamonds were so small and so valua-
Bile that smuggling could be carried
on with impunity. Was it honest
was it fair-fOr Mr.. PendletOn to in
stance the articles as examples of the
Republican policy?
Gen. Garfield then CAV an exhibit Of
the leading articles Of import and the
amounts Of duties relieved, and de-
clared himself an advocate Of neither
extreme free trade nor excessive pro-
lection. lie would neither ruin
American manufactures by adopting
absolute free trade, nor foster them
by such excessive duties as would en-
courage and uphold monOpOIies. He
was surprised that with all Mr.. PEN
dletOn had to say about the tariff, he
had not referred to the Internal Rev
enue Laws. These laws, he proceed
cd to analyze, showing that the bur
den Of taXations thereundur falls up
on luxuries.
Mr.. Pendleton is in grief for you, on
account of the great burden you have
to bear. Did he say anything about
the burdens laid or you by our Dem
ocratic Legislature Your burdens
under the laws Of Congress were nee
essariIy high during the war, but af-
ter the war these burdens were stead
ily reduced from $3.50, 100000 one
year, to S490, 100000 the next year;
then to S4O5, 100000, and then to
S371 100000. How is it with the
Democratic burdens, imposed by the
Ohio Legislature in 1862, and after
ward? During the war our State eX-
penses were necessarily high. They
reached in 1862, ten and half mil
lions; last year they were twenty and
half millions; and this year they eX-
coed twenty-One millions. When your
neighbor asks you about burdens, it
is fair to ask him if he means these
Democratic burdens.
Mr. Pendleton says the army num-
bcrs fifty thousand. He has access TO
official documents. and should know
better than to make such statements.
A year ago last August the number of
enlisted mrn was thirty nine thous-
and, officers, two thousand, making Il
total of forty-one thousand. Since
then we have decreased the army
twenty-five regiments, and many en-
listmonts have expired, so that the
present number will not reach thirty
thousand. ....
T Mr.. Bingham-It is only twenty
one thousand.
Mr.. Garfeld--Mr. Bingham says it
is but twenty-one thousand. l meant
to keep entirely within safe figures
Mr.. Pendleton is unfair in his method
OF LEcdblilH tue uGDGs II . huONc Jllct6
what he calls a new debt is only an
exchange OF bonds. In noticing the
changes in the mode of stating the
debt, he omitted to mention that over
forty millions had been added to the
statement for interest. He omitted
this because it would make the state
ment better for the Government.
Mr.. Garfield then discussed the con-
ditiOn of the National Debt. Eleven
hundred millions Of bonds, National,
State and corporate, are heId in Eu-
rope. Nearly all our great institu-
tions rest upon such bonds Suppose
from any cause, as for instance, war,
or the prospect of war, the bonds in
Europe would be rushed home in such
quantities as to involve all business
men in financial ruin. Mr.. Summers
speech on the Alabama claims, being
regarded as warlike, sent our bonds