Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-12
Judge Him by His Deeds
Is a Change Safe

Reduced--PubHc Debt
1 Reduced Currency
r Sufficient Industry
Increased--Com-
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From the Cincinnati Gazette, August 29.l
The eelection will ybeE decided, not by
disappointed office seekers, nor by am
bilious demagogues. :It viii be decided
by millions of intelligent men who care
nothing for the miserable soreheads or
the petty sintriguers who don't care a
straw if Greeley, Sumner and Trum-
bull and their fol lowers wereiH the bot
tom of the sea, but who do care, and
whose business, in fact, depends upon
it, that this country should be prosper
ous; that its government should be sta
BILE; that its debt and taxation should
be reduced that the Union should be
maintained, and that no new rebellion
Or overthrow in politics should damage
if not ruin, their business and employ
ments; for there is no business or EN-
ployment which may not be interrupt
ed, if not destroyed, by political
changes. To this great body of intelli-
gent men, we wish to state some great
and all-important facts-facts which the
canvassers for Greeley do not even deign
to consider, but which ought to place
the administration of Grant as one of
the most successful recorded in history.
l. Under Grant the Union is restored.
To take this fact fully in, remember
that lin 1seSO the Democratic party
charged that Congress was "frag-
ment;' that the acts of reconstruction
were void, and the country dismember-
ed. In proof, read the resolutions of
the Democratic Convention, and the
letters Of Blair. Now the Democratic
| Convention acknowledges the Union is
restored and the country at peace. The
Democratic party denies all that it said
lin 1868, and assumes, matter not to be
denied, the triumph of Grants admin
istration. That is fact. .... ..r....
2. The country is at peace, at home
and abroad. When Grant came in the
Ku-Klux were ravaging the Southern
States, and if not suppressed the ne
groes would not merely have been de-
prived of votes, but they would have
been deprived of all civil rights, and
left in condition equivalent to slavery.
Now, the Ku-KluX are put down, and
societyis as peaceful and orderly in the
Southern States as it is in Ohio. So al
so, we have peace abroad. Grant came
in as President, finding a dangerous
and embarrassing question with Eng
land, Bit a treaty of arbitration has
been made which is. likely to settle, not
only for us, but for all nations. a great
International question. 1t is certain
that we shall have damages for the reb-
! ell privateers fitted out in England, and
we shall settle the question for all time.
Hence, Grant has partly carried out the
idea he announced in the beginning.
Let us have peace said he, and peace
at home and abroad we have. Peace
has come to the South by the suppress
sion of the Ku-Klux. Peace abroad
comes by an open, manly vindication of
our claims against Great Britain. Peace
has come in Grants administration:
That is fact. ft %, .t.. i,-...r.
3. Taxes have been reduced in Grants
administration. All the internal rev.
enue duties, except those on whisky and
tobacco, have been taken off substanti-
ally, and the whisky tax has been re-
duced two thirds. The income tax has
been taken off. If we take up the whole
list Of, taxes in 1867, and compare them
with what we have now, I'VE shall find the
rate of taxation has been reduced more
than one third. The taxes have been
reduced. That is a fact.
4. The public debt has been reduced,
1t has been reduced II per cent. in three
years-a fact which never before occur
red in history. In Grants administra-
ton the public debt has been reduced
three hundred millions, And now it is
so much reduced we can pay it off-if
we think that best-in ten or fifteen
years. A vast reduction of the public
debt is fact. ....-
8. The currency of the country is sta
Bile, uniform, and abundant. Since the
adoption of the Constitution in 1873, we
have never had a currency as good and
abundant as to-day. Grants admins
tration might have upset all that by in
sisting upon specie payments, or repeal
ing the national bank act, which the
Democrats say is all wrong, but pre-
ferred the welfare of the people and the
prosperity of the country. 1t kept the
currency stable and uniform, and every
business man in the country has reason
to thank the administration for doing
so. The currency is good, uniform,
and abundant. That is n fact.
6. The industry of the country has in
creased as it never increased before.
Looking to the increased production of
iron, wool, and cotton We should think
it within bounds to say that the produc-
tiOns of the country in all those de-
partments which are properly called the
departments of industry has increased
fifty per cent. in the last five years. In
fine, the industry is increasing at Il most
enormous rate. If the tariff had been
suddenly reduced, if the currency had
been reduced, if specie payments had
been made by the administration, all
this would have been checked and all
branches of business thrown into con-
fusion. In one word; it is the courage
and good sense of the administration
which has alone preserved the stability
and prosperity of industry. Industry
has increased under Grants admins
tration at most rapid rate. That is
q fact. .i.,- .4- .s...
/ Z. The commerce of the country is
greatly enlarged. The aggregate of ex-
ports and imports exceeds by far any
thing known in this country. The for
eign commerce of this country has in
creased forty%per cent since Grant came
in. Nothing lil>e'it has been known in
this country. Rcmember this is under
high tariff, which has operated In IA
vor of both industry and commerce
Commerce has increased. That is Il