The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-16

And that grand and immeFlat achieve.
ment is not all. We have opened that
eight hundred thousand square miles To
free laboring men; they can go there
nOw-they arc going there now.|Fhe
German, the English, the Irishman, the
New England Yankee, the man Of. tue
middle States, Of the Northwest, cen go
there now, engage In the mechanic
arts, cultivate the soil, and, In oil
the pursuits OF life, no longer feel
the degradation that rested upon
workingmen when labor was extorted
only by the lash. Let the man who tolls
for wages, whether in the mill or on the
farm, or In the mechanic shop, realize
what has been done during. these last doz,
en- years 10 lit from toll the ijadge Of dis.
honor, and to open the great South to the
free laboring men Of the world. Let him
remember with grateful heart that he
owes 1t all, under Providence, 10 the
Republican party.
The Republican party was brought es.
peCially into being and won the Victory,
when Il elected Abraham Lincoln to save
the magnificent territories Of the United
States to the free laboring men OF our
country, their children, and their child
ren's children, "while grass shall grow
and water run" 1t saved that magnifi.
cent territory to freedom. Auction.blocks,
blood hounds, the lash, chains, manacles,
cannot go there now. They have sunk
down TO the place from whence they
Came-tO the bottomless pit and the
lower depths of the bottomless pit
The Republican party maintains the
policy of the small farms against the great
plantations. The Democratic party Joined
with the South on that issue, las II a on
everything and on eVeryoissue. We passed
the homestead bill, and James Buchanan
vetod II, and the Democratic party sup.
ported him in that veto. The object OF that
bill was to save the'vastpublicN domain to
landtess men. that they might have small
farms, rather than that atew men might
have great plantations. We were de-
feated; but the first year the Republi.
liCan party came into power, in the midst
oil the struggle Tor national existence, 1t
passed the homestead bill, and saved the
public lands TO tue free -labOring men Of
this country forever and forever.
Here tonight T point you to these
magnificent achievements; ! point you to
what has been accomplished in; these
twelve years for the Workingmen, the
the free laborers, the men
who toll Tor wages; and l say again to
you that those achievements surpass all
that had been achieved in, our country
from the earliest settlement 81. the colo.
MES up to the year 1851, when Abraham
Lincoln was inaugurated President OF the
United States. What claim then, has The
Democratic party TO the vote Of o work.
lngman In America, - None, none what.
ever. The Workingmsn who supports
the Democratic party, with It's history OF
Iorty years. hostility 70 The equal rights OF
millions Of toiling men, is not only illogi-
cal and inconsistent, but Indifferent and
careless. l can see how the LAWYER, the
the banker, even the farm.
er, who stands on his fee.simple acres,
may vote the Democratic ticket, but |
cannot see how the emancipated black
man of the South can do 1t, or how the
laboring white man who works for wages
can do It.
1t was my privilege last summer to
spend few weeks in England. hardly
heard anything else there but complaints
of our tariff. If 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. English i'm
porters, German importers, French i'm
portcrs, all berate our rates Of duties.
These identical documents that the Dem
Ocrats arc circulating In New Hampshire
are not paid for by the Democratic party,
but by men who want.to take care Of for.
elgn interests rather than our own. Ap.
plausc.
asked these men abroad what they
wanted. "Why," they said, 1--WE want to
sell more goods in your country" had
no doubt Of that. They said, you arc a
great agricultural country; you ought to
raise agricultural products, and we ought
10 make the manufactured articles:
well" said, ~ find that you bought
thirty-two million dollars worth of wheat
last yeayAnd only eight millions Of it in
the United States. I find that you
bought millions of dollars OF corn, and
only lew thousand dollars of it in the
United States" l asked them If they
would give up their agriculture if we
would give up our manufactures, and they
said their agriculture was worth q great
deal more than their manufactures. They
came right &c the point, for they could
tell tie truth on the subject in -England;
their friends do not like to tell It here,
They said: 1.-THE price oflabor is TOO high
n the United States. You pay too much
or labor. 1t has bad effect. II causes
great many Of our laboring classes to 20
% the United States to seek better wages;
t makes those discontinued who remain
lthome; they demand higher wages, and
We have had to pay higher wages IN this
country this year than ever before"
Well" l said, "that does not hurt my
ceilings great deal. l am very glad
hey get good wages In the United States:
rejoice that the toiling men and women
over here are getting better wages"
saw everywhere went, especially on
he continent, women engaged in the
toughest and hardest work. Women
ave to bear heavy burdens there. I saw
women doing all kinds Of hard work.
\ on have heard great deal said by our
rights people-ot whom l count
myself one-about the right OF women TO
work. They have that right in the Old
World to their hearts content. Laughter
Ind.applause.
lam glad that workingmen are CON-
am glad the workingmen in
Europe are getting discontinued and want
Detterwages, and are getting higher wa.
,es and fewer hours. l thank my God
hat man in the United States to-day
IAN earn from three to four dollars in ten
lours' work easier than he could forty
years ago earn one dollar, toiling from
.welvc TO fifteen hours. The first month
worked altcr l was twenty.one years OF
ago went into the woods, drove team,