Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-03-28

struggle for national existence, 1t pass
. ed the homestead bill, and saved the
public lands to the free laboring men Of
J this country forever and forever.
Here tonight l point you to these
J magnificent achievements; point you
to what has been accomplishment in these
twelve years for the wOrkingmen, the
mechanics, the free laborers, the men
who toll for wages; and say again to
!, you that those achievements surpass all
that had been achieved in our country
from the earliest settlement of the col
onies up to the year 1861, when Abra-
ham Lincoln was inaugurated PreSi-
II dent of the United States. What claim
\ then, has the Democratic partyEtoa vote
/ of a workingn1an in America? None,
j none whatever. The workingman who
supports the Democratic party, with its
I history Of forty years hostility to the
equal rights of millions of toiling men,
is not only illogical and inconsistent,
but Indifferent and careless. l can see
how the lawyer, the manufactures, the
banker, even the farmer, who stands on
his fee-simple acres, may vote the DEM
ocratic ticket, but l cannot see how the
emancipated black man of the South
can do it, or how. the ,laboring white
man who works for wages can do it. u
i Persistent efforts are making to conr
vince the lah0ring men of New Hamp-
shire and to make them believe they
fhave a very hard time of it; that they
have to pay taxes; are, Indeed, almost
taxed out of existence. A document is
circulated to preju.ii the laboring men
against the Administration, on account
Of the high rates of duties. In my
Judgment, the wise and sound policyis
to tax luxuries highly; to put The buzz
den of taxation upon articles that come
in competitiOn with our - own, and to
make a free list as large as spossibles-
| We lhave;a great debt to pay. We shall
have taxation enough, for many years.
| That burden, the legacy of the slave
Democracy, will rest upon the labor OF
! the nation for years to come, I'D = vi
1t was my privilege last summer to
spend a few weeks In England. hard
ly heard anything else there but COM
plants of our tariff. II T. went to. a.
dinner-party, or met Englishmen on
ship board or anywhere, they had much
to say about our exOrbitant rates of du-
ties. English Importers, Germans i'm
p0rters, French importers, all lberate
our rates of duties, y These identical
documents that the Democrats are CIR
cu1atinS In New Hampshire are not paid
/ for by the, Dem ooratio party, but by
men who want to take care Of foreign
interests rather than our own. Zap
T asked these men abroad what they
! wanted, t".Why,p they said, 1--WE want
to sell more goods in your country"
had no doubt of that. They said,
You are a great agricultural country;
you ought to raise agriculture products
and, we ought to make the manpfaetur-
ed articles ." 80 Well said, find
that you bought thirty-two milliondol-.
| lars worth of wheat laft year, and only
eight millions of it inithe United States.
| / find that you bought millions of dol
| lars of corn, and only a few thousand
dollars of # in the United States" ii I
asked them if they would giveup their
agricultu1e If we. would give up our.
! manufactures, and they said their agri-
culture was worth 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 not like to tell it here.
! They said, 'srhe price of labor is too
high in the United States. = Youpay too
| much for labor. 1t has a bad effect
! 1t causes great many of our laboring
/. people to 60 to the Uqited States to seek
better wages; it makes those diSeoG--
tented who remain at home; they de-
mand higher wages, and we have had
| to pay higher wages in this country this
year, than ever before ."Well, ~ said,
EEathat does not hurt my feelings great
deal, I am very glad they get good
wages. in the United States; I rejoice
that the toilipg men and women over,
| here are getting better, wages" ~
/ / saw everywhere went, especially
on the continent, women engaged in
the rous hest and hardest work, l saw
women doing all kinds of hard work.
|. You have heard a great deal said by
our women rights people-of whom /
count myself one-about the right of
women to work. They have that right
in the Old World to their hearts con-
tent. ( Laughter aud applause. ~ =" y
I. / am glad that workingmen are COM
planning. am glad the workingnen
in Europe are getting Disseminated and
want better wages and are getting high.
er wages and fewer hours, !. T thank my
God that a man In the united States
to-day can earn from three to four, dol :,
lars in ten hours work, easier than he
could forty years ago earn one dollar,
The first month worked after I was
woods, drove team, cut mill logs, wood,
worked hard until after dark at night,
sum of six dollars. Each of those dol
| Ioo nc, L., ,.,,a 10 ny n fhn
looked tonight. Laughter. -fl ss,l.
On the farm on which I served an ap=
premiership have seen the hest men
who ever put scythe in grass working
! for from fifty cents to four shillings q
day in the longest days of sumnier.-
Yesterday / visited that farm. l asked
the men whowere there what they paid
men in haying-time last summer, and
they said from two dollars to two and a
/ half day. This was paid on the same
/ ground where men worked forty. years
ago from fifty cents to four shillings, and
| took their pay in farm products, not
money. I have seen some of the bright
est women go into the fslrm-hoases and
work for from fifty cents to four shil=
lings week, milking the cows, making
butter and cheese, washing, spinning,
and Weaying-dOing all kinds of hard
work. was told yesterday that many
young women were earning in the
shops a dollar day, and that those who
worked,in the houses were getting from
two dollars and q half a week to three
Iiollarsand a half. @ '.,i,-.'+'
In 1882, in the great debate in the
SENATE on the tariff, it was said by those
who advocated protective duties that
they had raised the price of labor in the
I United States so that it averaged fifty
cents a day. How is. 1t now? This
winter is the most prosperous winter
I the United States has seen in its history.
4 Evervhotl q ia nj work. There is very