Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-07

lie opinion is, therefore, task worthy
the noblest men in the land and to
which everybody can contribute who
is searious about the restoration oil a
better condition of things.
now proceed to he consideration
of parties and their principles.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
remember the day it was founded
at its baptism. Iwas of the thou
sands, one of the sponsors. 1t is flf
teen years now since that happened.
Not painless, like Venus Aphrodite,
did it emerge from the foam of the
sea, but amid severest throes, poor as
the child of the proletarie The
mother. one high and respected, died
at the birth of the child unwept, be
cause she had allowed herself to be
seduced by her sister, Democracy,
to prostitute her traditional princip
! les.
The infant grew up. Prosecutions,
ill-will. calumny, and irreconcilable
hate, were the companions ofits child
hood. But it had friends, also--no-
bic, true friends, who nourished and
cherished it, and whose number wax
ed greater from day 10 day. Among
them were the best of the land--the
philanthropists, the humanists, that
gathered around it.
When yet at a tender age it slew, in
knightly combat, its implacable ha-
ters and opponents, the myrmidons
of the Democracy. With this great
est of victories recorded in history,
was also sealed the doom of the Hydra
of the country-slavery--which
threatened to eat out the marrow and
very heart of the people.
II the boy had grown into a youth
even at the outbreak of the rebellion,
! he rapidly matured to mankind during
the. war--heroic and valiant in battle
for liberty and the unity of his coun-
try, magnaninous and noble after vic
tory achieved in blood
q Vae victis" was translated into
"Pardon to the vanquised," and has
| no leaf in history can show like
magnanimity of there conqueror over
the conquered, so likewise it has none
to exhibit of more humare justice
than has been extended since the war
toward the invalids and the relatives
of those who persisted 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 tbe pensions which a
grateful and just people allows them.
Nor was the liberal example of Amer
lea without determining influence
when in the imperial Parlian1 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 hun
dred millions of debts which the war
of tht 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
reduction of taxes, liquidated
more than milliard of dol
lars OF the war debt, without ham-
pering agriculture, industry, or com
merce; and who, laying his hand up
on his heart, will attempt to deny
that, in spite of the terrible war, the
prosperity of the country has increas-
ed, during lie last ten years, in much
greater proportion thad during any
equal period of Democratic domina-
tionf Even if the Republican party
had done nothing more for the fur
Iherance of commerce than to con-
struct the greatest wonder-w work of
the age.Ethe Pacific railroad, by that
alone it would have given itself title |
to the grateful recognition of its CO.
temporaries 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, aad with it the material
of the country. Or are
we too well off that we should feel a
longing for those free trade Demo
cratic, o-called "hard money" times,
when the laborer, if he found occu-
patton at all, or half worthless '.store |
pays" when the farmer had to squan-
der his products What would Akron
be, what would Cleveland be, what
would our American industry be |
without tariff? Without our indus
try what would our land and our pro-
ductions be worth What would be |
come of immigration if we could offer
laborers only European starving wa
ges 2? Is it a European proletariate |
that we propose to establish here-a
new, white slavery?
OF monopolies speak you? If the
protection of industry creates monop-
olies, it creates, also, at the same |
time, an affiuent body of farmers and |
of working men, a general state of
abundance. The dangerous monop-
are not those of industry, but those
of the heavy capitalists, of specula-
tors and usurers To abolish these |
first let it be your wisdom's your
philanthropy's task. If we need
revenue tariff to pay our pensions, our
interest onthe national debt, and the
expenses of our Government, why, in
that case should we not, in the de- |
termination of the articles to he taxed,
to screw our home industry to an arti-
fetal height but only to protect it in
in SO far as it absolutely requires
such protection in consequence of the |
low wages of laborers in countries
abroad, unless it is to cease altogeth-
er.
Do You know of what else we
ought to be grateful to the republi
can party ? For this, that it has given