Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-09-06

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country-slavery-which threatened
to eat out the marrow and very heart
of the people.
If the boy had grown into youth
even at the outbreak of the rebellion,
he rapidly matured to manhood during
the war-heroic and valiant in battle
for liberty and the unity Of his coun-
try, magnanimous and noble after
victory achieved In blood.
aye victis" was translated into
pardon to the vanquished, and as
no leaf in history can show like
magnanimity of the conqueror over
the conquered, so likewise it has none
to exhibit of more humane justice
than has been extended since the war
toward the invalids and the relatives
of those who perished in the war
Even in Germany there are hundreds
of widows and orphans who, deprived
through the war Of their natural sup
porters, live by the pensions which
grateful ana just people allows them.
Nor was the liberal example of Ameri-
ca without a determining influence
when in the imperial Parliament at
Berlin pensions were decreed to the
victims of the noble German army.
That is what the Republican party
has accomplished. 1t has abolished
slavery, made the equality of all men
a truth, crushed treason against the
country, passed the Homestead law,
and removed the threatening difficult
ties with England. 1t has, notwith-
standing the three thousand five hum
dred millions of debts which the war
of the rebellion had entailed, raised
the credit of the nation, at home and
abroad, to the height such as no other
nation enjoys, and with steady re-
duction of taxes, liquidated more than
a milliard of dollars of the war debt,
without hampering agriculture, in
dustry, or commerce.; and who, lay
ing his hand upon his heart, will at
tempt to deny that, in spite of the
terrible war, the prosperity of the
country has increased, duringthe last
ten years, in much greater proportion
than during any equal period Of
Democratic domination? Even If the
Republican party had done nothing
more for the furtherance of commerce
/ than to construct the greatest wonder
work of the age, the Pacific railroad,
| bv that alone it would have given
itself title to the grateful recognition
1 of its contemporaries and of posterity.
To the sound policy of the Repub-
lican party on the tariff question we
are solely indebted for the growth of
our industry, and with it the material
prosperity Of the country. Orare we
| too we'll off that we should feel long
/ ing for those free trade Democratic,
so-calied ''hard money" times, when
\ the laborer, if he found occupations
at all, was paid his wages in worth
less scrip, or half worthless 'store-
paws" when the farmer had to squan-
! der his products? =? What would
! Akron be, what would Cleveland be,
what would our American industry
be without our tariff? Without our
! industry what would our land and
our productions be worth? What
would become of immigration if we
could offer laborers only European
starving wages? Is it a European
proletariate that we propose to estab-
| lish here-a new, white slavery?
OF monopolies speak you? If the
protection 0findustTy creates monopo-,
| lies, it creates, also, at the same time,
an aff1uent body of farmers and of
working men, general state of album
| dance. The dangerous monopol1es
are not those of industry, but those OF
the heavy capitalists, of speculators
and usureTs To abolish these first
| let it be your wisdom's, your philan-
| thropy's task. If we need revenue
tariff to pay our pensions, our interest
on the national debt, and the expen-
ses of our Government, why, in that
case should we not, in the determi-
nation of the articles to be taxed, have
a regard for our home industry? It
is not proposed by high tariff to
screw our home industry to an arti-
fetal height, but only to protect it in
so far as it absolutely requires such
protection in consequences OF the low
wages of laborers in countries abroad,
unless it is to cease altogether.
Do you know for what else we ought
to be grateful to the Republican par
! ty? For this, that it has given us
uniform paper currency, and abol-
| ished the hundreds of State banks and
wildcat institutions. The losses in
money saved to the people through
this measure, amount annually to
millions. Who does not remember
| the sad time when a man was not for
q minute sure that in the next minute
the few dollars he had so penuriously
saved would be worthless? Who has
not had his bitter experience of coun-
terfeits and notes of broken banks p
Who has not been compelled to pay
high tribute to banks daily, when
he had to exchange any kind of paper
money?
But in my zeal had almost forgot
ten to make mention of the best and
noblest work the Republican party
has done for the American people
1t has preserved for them their good
honest name. Besides a good con-
science, a good honest name is one of
the most precious boons of men as
well as of nations. No money, no |
wealth, nothing can supply its place
when it has gone. The firm adhe- |
renee of the Republican party to the |
principles of conscientious honesty |
toward the creditors of the country |
has promoted the material and moral
credit of the American people in a |
manner which can stand side by side |
with the great feat of the abolition of |
slavery. To the predicate "free and |
great the nation may now add "true
and honorable" 1 know, from my
own experience, during my recent |
soiourn in Germany, how highly this
American policy of honesty is valued.
There was not perfect assurance that
free people must also be an honest
and honorable one. But now the /
proof has been furnished. With feel
ings of exalted joy, I have Heard this
recognition expressed, and never was
I prouder of being an American citl-
zen.
Inow proceed to the
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
AS I propose to make my observa-
tions ON that, sine ira ct studio, shall
not lift the vail which covers its past.
Let the dead bury their dead. 1t is
with certain feeling of well-wishing
with which / met her in her partially
new garment.
In its last platform its obstinate re-
sistance to the achievements OF the
Republican party is given up, and
the amendments ID the Constitution
in regard toslavery and negro suffrage
are recognized; as existing at least in
fact if not of right, that is to say, we
put good face upon bad bargain
IfIhat is meant, honestly, and with
out mental reservation, it signifies for
the Democratic party, whose chief
essence was always rooted IN slavery,