The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-09-12

cheers Yes, gentlemen. it is true
and every man in the land knows il
/ Whenever = Democrat undertakes to
talk to you about finances and the
currency, just remind him of his
prophecies, and what he has said dur.
ing the past twelve years, and he will
soon turn his back on his past before
he says any more. Laughter.1
OUR IMPROVED CONDITION.
When Gen. Grant came into power
we owed $, 800, 600, 900 of funded debt.
/ Democrats told US over and over agan
We would never pay il, We said il
was but trifie; that this nation was
adding to its wealth s., ,OOO. .OOO. 600
every year that the mere Increase in
national wealth would in fifteen
months extinguish the entire debt.
/ We looked at it as q mere question of
I good faith and the appliance Of prae-
| tical sense. It was safer to pay tie
/ debt than to repudiate it, even if we
could do it honestly. Loud laughter. 7
/ Well, we paid S337, 200, 900 of that debt
in three years and five months. APP
! plause. Where did we get the money
from? will tell you; by a more
honest and faithful collection of the
revenues; byreducing expenses. Your
bonds are to-day worth eighty-twO
cents on the dollar l want YOU work
/ ingmen to remember that your bonds
are worth 800, ,00O,O 900 more to-day,
measured by the gold standard, than
they were when Gen. Grant came in
to power. [Great applause.
You have seven hundred million
dollars of currency, greenbacks, and
eurreney-and one is as good as the
Other-and that is worth one hundred
and forty million dollars, measured
by the gold standard, more than when
Gen. Grant came into pOwe. This is
a question, that comes home to work
ingmen; if you receive two dollars for
days work on the 4th of March, 1869,
and you now received the same nOmi-
nal rate to-day, your two dollars,
measured by the gold standard, is
worth forty cents more than it was on
the day Gen. Grant was inaugurated.
LCheers. In other words, the mill
lions of wOrkingmen, if they receive
the same nominal wages they did,
are, in reality, getting twenty per
cent. more than they did at the time
of Gen. Grants Inauguration.
THE RIGHT WAY TO RETURN To GOLD.
Do you then, gentlemen, wonder
why We are prosperous? Why should
we not be professions ? We are fast
fastening to resume specie payment,
not by following Horace Greeley's adj
vice, and hanging out a notice say
ing, 1--WE resume" but by following
sound, practical ideas, like far seeing
merchants. We are in fair way to
extinguish our debt, raise our credit,
our currency, till it be
comes equal to gold and silver the
world over.
1 ask you, gentlemen, can you af-
ford to change? ] ask merchant, !
mechanics, and farmers, who are now /
strong, and powerful, can
you afford to peril your interests, and /
peril the welfare and prosperity of the /
country by deserting the Republican
party, and abandoning the adminiss
tratiOn? Loud cheers, and cries of
Never, never, hever, never r'1
l knew it was the poor men of this
country that filled the ranks of the
army, 1 knew that the tOiling millions
had to bear the brunt and give most of
the blood. and I wanted them and
their wives and children to pay as lit
tie as possible for the support of the
war, and to let the men who were put
ting their hands into the pack mainly
help to carry it on. LCheers.
l was in England last year, and
tariff men there. They
thought that our war resulted from
IN attempt to impose tariff on the
South. They were unwilling to be-
ieve that it was a slavemaster's re-
Dellion. They would like to supply
Is with their manufactures. They
aid the laboring man was too well
paid in the United States; that the
Effect was to draw away their best
making labor scarce and
wages high. / told them 1 thanked
God it was so. [Cheers.
REVENUE REFORM.
Another thing, gentlemen, I would
'efer to. We hear a great deal about
'evenue reform. 1 know pretty well
he material of which these men are
made. There is class OF theorists,
excellent men; there are your blatant
Democrats, and there is another class,
/ pretty considerable class, that would
'ather advocate British than Ameri-
IAN industry. Now there are duties
hat we may impose TO raise money
% pay our debts, and the expenses of
)ur government. But l am in favor
If assessing revenues on luXuries and
IN articles that come in competition
With the products of our own labOring
nen. 1 am in favor of making tea
md coffee free making free as many
If the necessaTies of life as possible, L
I'm in favor of those measures of re-
ief to the labOring men as was dur
ng the war, voting with other Re
lublicans to exempt the small in
ZONES of the poor, and double the in
come tax on the rich. lCheers.
THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
There is another thing we did-but-
some men OppOsed-SOuthern states
men opposed il and certain Northern
who always sneeZed when
heir Southern masters took snuff,
opposed it-and that was to unite the
and Pacific seas by a great
railway across the continent. Right
in time of war, when We We're crowd
ng hundreds of thousands of gallant
men to the front to save the nation,
we passed the bill and the Pacific Rail-
road was opened. That it has added
i've times to the wealth of the cOun-
try what it cost, no sane man in
America doubts. They talk about the
amount of land given. The lands is
not worth one dollar and fifty cents
Der acre, and the concern would glad
Iy sell it all for that. Thousands Of
miles of the road goes over land that
are worthless and barren, that no one
would accept as a gift.
You and l both know that it is
these railroads sweeping by the West
here that connect New York and
Buffalo with the grandest and finest
country the sun ever shOne upon. 1t
Is these railroads that have done so
much to build you up. and you know
it. From the Canada line to the
Mexican line, west to the Mississippi
and the Pacific Ocean, you find vast
stretches, much of which is worthless
land, and there is a great deal good.
There, as it stood, the Indian and the
buffalo roaming over it, and civilized
man had not fixed his habitatiOn
there he would not take the land if
YOU gave !t ID him for nothing; if
there, he would get away. There were
no lines of communication with the
rest of the country.
Now, up here in the North, eight
years ago, we passed a bill granting
vast amount OF public land to build a
railway. There is a great deal of
good land there, some Of the best land
the sun looks down upon to-day; but,
as 1 said, no people would take it for
q gift.
That railroad is building. Two
years ago they came to Congress
they had hoped to get money subsidies;
had tried every way; had used their
influence, as other railroads do, TO get
subsidies. Gen. Grant was opposed
to giving further subsidies, or guaran-
tee of interest to any Of these lines.
They then said, we will build the
road, if we are allowed to take land |
forty miles beyond our line, and TAX
ing up no land from actual settlers /
where they may be located. The ef-
feet of building this line is that your
city is rising and prosperous. am
told that your shops have hundreds Of
skilled mechanics; why did not they 1
90 and take this land T.? They would |
not have it for gift. Without this
road it was not worth ten cents an 4
aora The road beiug built does not /