Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-29

bne SbaIIlng pOlDb VI tuo ioNohuo iOiVim
ers l., that in levying tax for revenue,
YOU shall pay regard to the industries of
the country. Levy your tariff, say |, but
only so much and no more, that these in
dustries can flourish with certain and fair
profits and no more, and put them down
so low as to exclude mere temporary in.
ments of manufacturers, merely Tor the
moment. The policy of the revenue re-
formers, and of our party, is, as under |
stand it, to lay such tariff upon goods |
imported into the country as Will give but |
a mere plain profit to the men who are |
carrying on industries, not to favor them |
in an unfair way, and not to take them
under the wing of this party that we may
confer special advantages upon them-no
such thing. The Republican party is not
the enemy of the industries of the coun-
try, nor is it the enemy OF the laboring
man, for its platform says it will vote
always for liberal wages for him. That is
the way the larty stands in regsrd to the
maintenance Of the laboring man in
this nation, that so far as it can form our
revenue laws they shall not be formed
with reference to reducing his wages down
to the miserable plttance of bread and
water that he can live on from day to day,
and he will put up with no such condition
of affairs This party is not going to pander
to the wishes of the high tariff men,
neither is it going to act upon this ques
ton of revenue so as to destroy the hope
of the laboriBg men. There is mean
and middle way that we wisely pursue.
What is our platforms What are we all
bound to, Including General Beveridge,
whom all of us like for his private
character, and honor for his devotion to
the cause of the Republican party, and for
I. I'D 1Nn1 n oNl ~, thn AA
fense of our country. You may have
made mistake in not nominating one of
the gentlemen who were defeated to-day,
but you have made no mistake in nominal
ing him. Applause. l say there need
be no trouble in this Republican party on
this question of finance. We mean to be
honest; we mean to pay the public debt
from year to year. Is it not a beautiful
thing to occupy our position to-day? AT
tthe end of every twelve months what do
we do? look and you will see our
report laid before the American people,
and you will see there the taxa
ton reduced, the national debt re.
duced, and the interest on the national
debt punotually paid, the expenses of the
government all cleared, and some paid
down every day. We have large reduc-
ton of the public debt, and also our ma
stantially. Can you have any better re-
cord than that? Applause Can you do
any better than that? Ten let us go
along, gentlemen, and manage the affairs
of his nation from year to year, reducing
taxation.
Why do l say this? Because the Re-
publican platform pledges you and to IT.
The platform made at Chicago in 1860
pledges the party to the equal zation and
reduction of taxes, internal revenue, and
the tariff, too. We have gone up to the
highest point of that tariff, and now see
the other splendid position that we occu-
py. We are in the best place we have
been in to settle this question Of tariff
| Why? Because we ran up to the highest
scale, and now we are dropping down,
dropping down, year by year, having re-
gard to the millions and millions of capt.
tai invested in the industries of the coun-
try, and by bringing the tariff down to the
advantage of the country. We can tell
exactly what imported goods can best bear
tariff, and we can tell what articles 10
the country can best bear taxation uGdel
the internal revenue system, year in and
year out. We have been to the high
point; we have not to climb any more,
and all we have to do now is to judiciously
calmly, honestly, and discreetly slide
down the pole. Laughter and applause.
Is not that healthy state of affairs
Who could get better system of political
economy than that today Who eau
write better book upon that question
than the Republican party by its own ex
perience? We can study political econo
my as well as any other fellow, and VT
can write book upon our own persona
experience of the subject; for two.thirdi
of the science consists in abstruse dedni
consideration and study, but / Would no
give the practice this eduoatoi ra2nle.,
this great thinking, justiceloVng 1AHisia Alisls
can people thIeiNt0 and the Lower House
and honest President and Cabinet, whicl
We have had would not give their ex
2 perience in regulating this question o
taxation for all the books that We're eve
written on the subject.
Why do you talk 8bou
having this grand party perish? VIII,
must we give up hope of the party be
cause man feels a little sore sometimes
and thinks the nation Is going to wrecl
, and ruin because he is overlooked for
day? laughter Put on the armor of
new faith; put on the strength of a new
! attachment to your country and you
party, and it will all be well. l hope tn
; day will never come, seriously speaking
when it shall be my sad and melanchol,
fortune to say, 81 was once Republican
once belonged to the Republican party.
, What on earth can join or go to that vii
. do me credit, or character, or respectable
: ity if leave the Republican party. Tn
; Democratic party does not expect us to q
to them. They are in their dying mC
ments and they are the longest wir de
fellows in death that ever knew. Laugh
: ter They expect no man from the RI
publican party to join them; they hav
) better sense than that, at least They d.
+, . not expect this party to divide and go t
l them; they are only expecting 1t, by
I little biz of trickery dislngenuous machir
| cry, to get up little bit of miserabl
+ imitation of our great principles, and Goa
some poor fool off to lick the salt frOr
that ladle. Laughter They ratify tn
1 Thirteenth Amendment? What if the,
, do; what if they do not? They ratfy tn
! Fourteench Amendment? Well, what
! they do not? What difference would
make if they did not, and, so far as takin
control this great nation is concerned
l what dfftrence would it make
E; they did? They do not expec
5 to be trusted with the helr
e of political affairs; they have no right
: | CApCCb ~ L am NClJ Ihdnhlul W IilCll
s however, that they have at least had tn
wit and manhood 10 make staggering e.
= fort to recover respt ctability, an
: that they have ceased, so far as one or tw
; little platforms are concerned, to wag
: war upon us and upon the poor, friendlef
: African. Free, he is to-day, KNOWN
{ is an American citizen to-day. / kno,
1 you ana and this great party made hir
! so, but, gentlemen, he is not an educate
+. man yet; he has not the clear intellectuG
grasp that you have. He has not the powe
!, of self protection in eleven or twelv
States of this Union, panoplied thong
4 he is by the beautiful badge of politics
I equality, and bearing upon his bosom tn
8 ballot that makes him a man. With a
E that, he is helpless as yet, and propos