The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-28


cratic party to the vote of work
ingman in America? None, none
whatever. The workinglnan who
supports the Democratic party, with
its history of forty years hostility
to the equal rights of millions of
toiling men, is not only illogical
and inconsistent, but Indifferent and
careless. can see how the lawyer,
the manufacturer, the banker, even
the farmer, who stands on his fee
simple acres, may vote the Demo
cratic ticket, but cannot see how
the emancipated black man of the
South can do it, or how the labor
ing white man who works for wages
can do it. .
Persistent efforts are making to
convince the laboring men of New
Hampshire and to make them be-
lieve they have very hard time Of
it; that they have to pay taxes; are,
indeed, almost taxed out of exis-
tence. A document is circulated to
the laboring men against
the Administration, on account of
the high rates of duties. In my
judgment, the wise and sound poll
cy is to tax luxuries highly; to put
the burden of taxation upon articles
that come in competition with our
as possible. We have a great debt
own, and to make the free list as large
to pay. We shall have taxation
enough for many years. That bur-
den, the legacy of the slave Democ-
racy, will rest upon the labor of the
nation for years to come.
1t was my privilege last summer
to spend few weeks in England.
1 hardly heard anything else there
but complaints of our tariff. If 1
went to a dinner-party, or met
Englishmen on ship-board or any
where, they had much to say about
our exorbitant rates of duties. En-
glish importers, German importers,
French importers, all berate our
rates of duties. These identical doc
umeDts that the Democrats are cir
culating in New Hampshire are not
paid for by the Democratic party,
but by men who want to take care
of foreign interests rather than our
own. [Applause.1 -
I asked these men abroad what
they wanted. "Why," they said,
awe want to sell more goods in your
country" I had no doubt of that
They said, "You are great agricul'
turaI country; you ought to raise
agricultural products, and we ought
to make the manufactured articles. u
"Well," 1 said, 81 find that you
bought thirty-two million dollars
worth of wheat last year, and only
eight millions of it in the United
States. / find that you bought
millions of dollars of corn, and only
a few thousand dollars of it in the
United States" 1 asked them i
they would give up their agriculture
if we would give up our manufac
lures, and they said their agricul
ture was worth a great deal more
than their manufactures. They
came right to the point, for they
could tell the truth on the subject
in England; their friends do moi
like to tell it here. They said, "The
price of labor is too high in the Uni
ted States. You pay too much for
labor. 1t has a bad effect. 1t cause;
a great many of our laboring people
to 60 to the United States to seek
better wages; it makes those discon
tented who remain at home; they
demand higher wages, and we have
had to pay higher wages in thi:
country this year than ever before
"Well,"I said, "that does not hur
my feelings great deal. am very
glad they get good wages in the
United States; rejoice that the toll
ing men and women over here ART
getting better wages"
I saw everywhere 1 went, espec
tally on the continent, women en-
gagged in the toughest and hardes
work. Women have to bear heavy
burdens there. 1 saw women doinG
all kinds of heavy work. Yol
have heard great deal said by ou
women's rights people-of whom
count myself one-about the righ
of women to work. They have tina
right in the Old World to thei
hearts content. Laughter ant
applause.]
1 am glad that workingmen ar
complaining. 1 am glad the work
ingmen in Europe are getting dis
contented and want better wage
and fewer wages and fewer hours
thank my God that man IN tn
United States to-day can earn from
three to four dollars in ten hours
work, easier than he could fort.
years ago earn one dollar, ,toiling from
twelve to fifteen hours. The frs
month l worked after 1 was twenty
one years of age 1 went into tn
woods, drove team, cut mill-log:
wood, rose in the morning befOr
daylight and worked hard until a
ter dark at night, and 1 received fC
it the magnificent sum of six dollar
Each of those dollars looked as larg
to me as the moon looked tO-nigh
[Laughter.]