The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-10-05

upon a pOunQ OF TEA. ana because
/ parliament would not grant relief,
what did our fathers do? They COM
bined as one man. They united around
\ the standard of Washington, and the
/! Wareof the Revolutions the indepen-
dence of the Colonies, the confederate
Union of the States was the result.
To-day, instead of a tax of three pence
on pound of tea there is q tax of fif-
teen cents. Now, we propose to equi-
tably tax the bonds and repeal the tax
I on tea, COTE, sugar, salt and other nee
essaries of life, and thus give relief to
the people. 1iall e.-f tl1j-9.ia G9sU
Citizens, most of you are strangers
to me. j cannot tell from looking
through this crowd whether this man
or that is a Democrat or Republican.
| 1t is immaterial to me, my kind friends,
whether You be Democrats or Repub-
licans, butd know one thing-wheth-
er we belong to this party or that
we are countrymena and should be,
friends Our rights are the same, and
our interests are the same; we are
kith and kin; our fathers fought unit
edly in the same common cause, and
so should we. What is for the inter-
est of one farmeris for the interest of
all farmers! WHAT'S for the interest
of one mechanic is for the interest of
all mechanics; what is for the interest
of onesnniner is for the interest of all
miners. Now, citizens, when election
| day comes around you will find the q
4 kbondholders all voting together. You
xviii find the bondhelders marching up
! to the polls in united body, and vot-
! ing for their interests which are or u
posed TO yours. v oting for whom ? b
| Voting for themselves. " oting against
whom Voting against you,3 farmers,
mechanics and working men. Voting
to make you pay their taxes. Then I
why should not you0combine to
make the bondholder pay his OWN
4 taxes? Why should not the people
combine together in their own de-l
| fense? Why shouldino all the farm-n
eEs vote for their own Interests, as the
| bondhoidervotesf for his 2 Why should
not the mechanic vote to protect his
family as wellas the bondholder to
aggrahdize his2 stHnoniGj ii 1Gt-oI- s4Jy
In his Toledo speech, delivered but
few days ago, Senator Sherman tells
the people that " the general condition
of the country is highly prosperous
1t so happens that but little while 81
ago was in the town in which SeDa-
tor Sherman lives-the town of Mans d.
field--and there / saw. one of the grand g
monuments of the "prosperity of the
to which the Senator refers.
/ AS every man, and even the Scna-
tor drivessto1and from his luxurious
home, where he tells us he has been
s enjoying q delightful repose during
the hot summer months" he passes
what was one of the largest manufac-u,
turing establishments in that part Of
Ohio. The hustle and hum of its work B
oh L., L.
repose,i for "prosperity" has struck
the establishment with death, and the
silence Ofsthe grave and the gloom of
disaster well within its walls. Large
numbers of men have been thrown out ug
of employment, and their wives and r
children left without the means of 10
support. But let US leave behind this
monument in the picture of sprosperi-
ty' drawn by the Senator, as the peo-
pie viii soon leave him behind, and .e
glance at Canton and Alliance, neigh z
boring townslto the Senator's home.
In Canton l was told that large num-
bers of men had lost their places, not y
because they were not willing to! work,
but because there was no work for
them. Sherman's breath of prosperi. %
ty had touched them, and partial par
alysis was the result. :f4aIgGo oG10a.
went on to Alliance, a place of en-
terprise, known to many of you, doubt
less, and found there another manu-
featuring establishment shut up by o
:" prosperity and when invited by
Mr.. Lawson, the efficient superinten-
dent of a white lead foctory, to visit it,, s-
which did, he told me the lead they on
was not only CONNER r9
clally pure,c but chemically pure, and M
they could sell it for $50 a ton lessqe @
than the lead manufactured in Pitts415l
burg. said to- him -" Why, Mr.. Il "
Lawson, ifyoum make parer lead thand 2
Is made in nfPittsburg,2 why don't you lfl
1rive the ,Pittsburg lead out of the %
market pro He replied: 4" We could 10
Jut for the want of money, whichois Jn
worth here fromUtwelve to eighteen ns
per cent, and the want of money pre-To
rents us from developing our busi- O
less.H Such are evidences of the gen-iI
,ral prosperity of the country, so far u
IS its manufactures are concerned : 7Iaf
Now let US look for a moment at the
gricultural interests, of the. ccountry.1o
The general condition of the country =
$ highly prosperous says Senator re.
Farmers, how do you find iii.
What do you get for your wheat?s @
What do you get for your wheat in r..
S7l in comparison with what you re-
eived f0rrit in 1866? In 1866 the farm .uo7
rs ofiOhio receivedIthe average price jHc
f $3.50 per bushei for their wheat. sis,
hen one bushel of wheat paid $2,50I Ia
+ taxes. Then twenty bushels of in,
7heat paid 500 oftaxes forty bushels In
aid OEof taxes. Now how much gcI'
Theat does it take to pay SI00 of tax i y,
S? Instead of forty bushels, it takes uoa
ne hundred In the payment of thatls4o
lOO taxes there is loss of sixty BUSH si
Is ofwheat to the farmer. ta3qp r. yen,
How is it with commerce? Our aI.fr
,mmerce is absolutely dead. Nearly 70
l theproduets of our farms and man. EIi =
tacturihg establishments that we ex-.ystf
ort, seek foreign lands under foreign O
ags. Shortly after the close of the
ar, an attempt was made to revive
but it failed. To-day
lr commerce is dead; and as long as MT
ese people stay in power it can not,
i'd will not be revived. Why /? Be- ....t
use they impose such taxes on all ri
e articles used in building that
e American ship-builder can not
mpete with the ship-builder of Eng
nd, or Scotland, or France; and s
nee, instead of having our proud a
d flag waving over our own ships,
merlcan products are carried to the =
arts of the world under the flags of
reign nations, snd the profits of the
rrying trade, instead of coming
me to enrich our own people, go to- T
e people of England, Holland, France (
'rmany, and other countries which
. governed more happily and wise u
than ours. ..-,s ~
CONTRACTION OF THE CURRENCY.
Why was it that in 1865 you receiv-
50 so per bushel for your wheat,
TO day get only dollar and few
ITS for it? Why all this prostitution
by this stagnatiom in every branch
business? The reason, citizens, isa
" simple one. In 1866 the volume