The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-03-29

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ct years ago, and days work is short
b. row than it was then After / b:
ey learned a mechanical trade in Il
IN place where / now live / worked fou
at teen and fifeten hours day, mon
ut after month, to earn forty dollars
ty month. There are hundreds of m,
ne there now who in ten hours can eal
it a hundred dollars more easily than
I'd could earn forty in fifteen hours. a
lg grateful to God that this is so. / {
r. not care anything about few men
corporations piling up great amour
Sc of money. The wealth of the Astor
Mt the Stewarts, and the Vanderbilts h,
in no allurements for me. believe Go
3 made this world to grow good me
$, and women, and not to pile up none,
L That is my belief, and want to Sc
e the men and women who bear th
N burdens and do the work have fu
lie share of all they earn, and that a
p honest days work shall always have
N fair days pay. Loud applause.
1t Why is it that the Democrats {
1t New Hampshire are circulating free
y trade documents. pictorials and car
n toons over the State? Why shoul,
:. they strive to deceive poor laborin.
e men, when they were never so pros
Il porous as now under the system tina
s tends to diversity our industries, in
crease our production, add to GU
: own wealth, and take care of ow
e country? My heart goes out 10 tn
:, workingmen OF England and ireland
8 of Germany and France, aye and Q
. Asia and Africa, too. A man is
v man, no matter where he was born o
e what blood courses In his sveins be
: lieve that God made him and Chris
/ died for him, and that he is destined
to an immortal inheritance. Ibelieve
, too. in that comprehensive policy tha
watches over the poor aud lovly ant
} takes care of the interests of all tn,
world; but, after all, / am for tn,
: Republic of the United States, ont
and indivisible, and the people of the
United States, before any other coun
try or any other people. Applause.
1 am for taking care of our own IN
terests, and not allowing the import
ing houses of Englishmen or French.
men or Germans to control the ffnan-
cial or business affairs of the United
States. / think we are old enough
and large enough to take care of our
selves. Applause.
One would suppose, to hear our
Democratic friends talk that we never
had any corruption before; hat they
had always been pure, because they
never punished thief. Applause
and laughter. 1 propose right here
to lay down this proposition that the
reason why this Administration is so
assailed is not that it has been more
corrupt, or as corrupt as its modern
predecessors, but that it is doing
much to expose thieving and to punish
men who steal. The Democratic
party-I mean the modern Democratic
party-came into power in 1929, un-
der General Jackson.
One man, Samuel Svartwout, In
General Jackson's day, when the
Government raised only about thirty
million dollars year, stole million
dollars in the New York custom house
nearly as much money as has been
stolen under this Administration in
three years, in collecting and paying
out nearly twenty one hundred million
dollars The percentage of loss under
the Administration has been less than
under any Administration since Gen.
eral Jackson was inaugurated Presi-
dent of the United States. There is
not shadow of doubt of it. / assert
here and now, that there has been a
less percentage OF loss under General
Grants administration than under
that of any other Administration since
the days of John Quincy Adams.
John Tyler, son of President Tyler,
in letter recently published, states
that there were, in Van Buren's ad-
ministration, ninety eight receivers OF
the public money, ninety six of whom
became defaulters. Ninety six out OF
ninety-eight Laughter. Is there
any man here tonight who knows
that any one of those men was ever
sent to the renitentiary,
/ believe a Republican thief is a
worse man than Democratic thief.
Laughter He has not had so many
bad examples. Laughter and ap-
plause. A Republican thief is the
wickedest and meanest thiet in all the |
land. He joins j great party that
was brought into being to give free
dom to the slave, maintain the unity
of the country, and preserve the life
of the nation. In the ranks of that
party is a large mass of the intelli-
gence of the country, of the praying
men and women of the country. a
man who joins that political organiza-
ton, betrays his trust, and steals the
money of the Government, is base
creature, and the penltentiary is the
only place where he should dwell
The difference between Republicans
and Democrats on this question is
this the Republicans try to discover
and punish their thieves the Demo
Gratis never punish theirs. You can
not tell me tonight of a man who
stole from the national Government
under a Democratic administration
who was sent to the penitentiary Un-
der this Administration several thieves
have been sent there. Most of their
stealing was under the late administra
ton. for there has been little stealing
under this. Under Andrew Jobnson's
mean men got office.
He went back on his party, on his
record, upright Democrats paid little
to him, honest Republicans
kept away from the White House and
mean men OF both parties sought the
benefits of his patronage. About forty
collectors of internal revenue under
his administration became defaulters
for about million and three quarters
Under the three years of General
Grants administration four collectors
became defaulters, and for amounts
less than ten hundred thousand dol
lars.
During the war he paid through
the paymaster's department OF the
Army more than thousand million
dollars. That money was paid some
times when troops were on the march,
sometimes when they were under fire,
and we lost less than q quarter OF
million dollars. Never in the history
of the human family was there any
higher evidence OF integrity. In the
war of 1872, in paying out the little
money we paid during that war, we
lost about two million dollars. Since {
General Spinner entered upon his
Office as treasurer OF the United
States. s55 900, ,OOO,OOO have passed |
through his office, counted by from {
three to four hundred men and women '
We have lost between fifty and sixty
dollars in these eleven years,
while $4,000, 100000 have gone {
through the office. We punished one ,
man. fined him, and he is now trying
to get back $4,000, for he says we /;
made him pay $4,000 more than he
stole. laughter We have sent
TO prison three trusted clerks, men of
capacity and ability, whom everybody