The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-04-11

if in every section of the country,
d greater than during any period 5 n
e the struggle in 1859.
= The equal rights Of citizens a
n enjoyed and protected by law in evel
C State of the Union as they never we
a before since the adoption Of the Coz
:, stitution.
e Notwithstanding all this, we he;
= murmUrs Of discomfort from the Den
2 Ocratic party.
The Constitution, which they col
: sidered il unlawful and criminal I
c defend against treason, is, they asser
+ violated By the enactment Of laws f
: its enforcement and for the prOtect;o
{ of lives, the liberty and the prOpert
e of the citizens of the United States. =
E The laws thus condemned have no
: yet been declared unconstitutional b.
{ any court in the land. 1t might b
2 well for these geptlemen to await tn
judg ment of the courts. l cannO
! doubt that the great struggle, will b
: that the party which opposes the de
fences of the Constitution by arm
T against armed resistance, which Op
poses the amendment of the COnsti
, tuition for the better security of tlI,
citizen and of the nation, and oppose
the enforcement of the same by law
is not to be trusted with the interest
Of the republic.
What IS a constitution or govern
ment worth that il is not to be enfOrc
ed?
Ashamed of their record, the Demo
cratic party seems ready to take shell
ter in any and every organization,
that thereby the people may be Undue,
ed to commit their interests to theiI
keeping. What il this but a cOnfes-
sion that the party cannot, and ought
not to, command the public conf
dence?
We have the Labor Reform party,
and the Liberal Republican, party to
/ which the Democracy look for success.
/ Of the first, l am glad to say, that in
/ its declaration of principles it reeOg-
niZes the duty Of the government to
I foster American industry by a tariff.
That IS not a new discovery. 1t has
been the practice OF the government
from its organization, under every
administration from Washington to
Grant. Whatever is defective or eX-
cessive i'm the existing tariff of the
United States, will be and ought to be
corrected. The policy cannot and
will not be abandoned. America Is
organized labor, American institu-
tiOns are the product of honest toll,
and under them industry in all its
diversified forms, has been encouraged
and rewarded, as never before since
nations were upon the earth. The in
terests of labor in America are in the
care of the people. The body of free
men, who cover the continent from
ocean 10 ocean, are laboring NEIL
They know their rights, and have
thus far maintained them. Under Re-
publican administration the home
stead law has been enacted, securing
to the citizen without money and
without price q hundred and sixty
acres Of public domain. The policy
approved by every President, to secure
the labOripg population of the country
against the pauperized labor of Eu-
rope, has been maintained.
The, Labor party is therefore but
another name for the Republican
party. Sure l am, it has no sympa-
thy with that Democratic party,
which in the interests of foreign cap
itaI, declares for. free trade, and de-
mands that we shall sell where we
can sell dearest and buy where we
can buy cheapest. Reform your tar
if laws As you will, the people will
not consent that they shall be REFORM
ell against American and in favor
of European production. A fair days
wages for fair days work has been
secured by America to Americans.
This is we'll understood the world
over. The workers of Europe are
here by the million, because under our
laws labor is secured a Siir and just
reward. By means of this policy this
country has been enabled to draw
from foreign lands, by voluntary i'm
migration, that productive power
which was the want of the country.
These hardy sons of toll have come
by tue hundreds of thousands ANIMAL
ly to these shOEes, and, following the
sun westward as he walks in his Max
er's steps of fire, bearing with them
the symbols of civilization, have
largely aidedin girdiing tnis continent
from the shores of your beautiful river
to the Pacific seas with free common
wealths, whose governments are so
equsl, SD just, and so strong, that none
VINO obey the laws are so humble as
to be beneath their protecting care,
and none who violate them so high as
to be above their avenging power.
Everywhere in our country to day,
as the direct result of our own Ameri-
can system, are industry, and thrift,
and intelligence, and that compe-
tence, which, humanely speaking, is
4 - - hfnin tho niffVnFa
NAV Stand erect, unawed by power
and unbribed by gain.
The Democratic party clamOr for a
change in this policy The demand
of that party is for free trade; down
with the tariff, is their partiZan cry: it
creates mOnOpOlies, and makes the
rich richer, and the poor poorer. Free
trade means the admission of all for
eign imports free of duty, and raising
of the national revenues by internal
taxation alone. No administration
ever recommended that, nor has the
party yet dared to embOdy
any such proposition in national
platform. The argument is that
duties Of imports, are tax on the con-
sumer, and a bounty to American |
Every duty, ifthis be so,
whether for revenue or protection, is
subject to the same objection. Log
ically, the party that SO denOunces
tariffs, ought to inscribe on its ban |
ner3 free trade; that labor may be !
pauperized in America, and that the |
capitalist and nOn-prOducer may buy |
where they can buy cheapest. The |
party prefers to stand by
the tried policy of the country; here !
tofore sustained by all parties; 4 tar
iff for revenue, discriminating in the |
industries of the United safes, and in |
the interests of the consumer of such |
as are Of general use, and not |
in this country. No longer |
AGO than the last contest for the Pres |
idency, the Democratic party declar- |
ed for this American policy in its ma
tiOnal platform. l dismiss the sub !
iect. America, l repeat, is a nation
Of laborers. The only nobility is that |
which comes from honest toll, the toll |
ofbrain or hand. The people know
that there Is no success, either indi-
yidual, or collective by, the citizens
or the State, without intelligent labor
that there is diviueness in it; that
there is genius in it; that there is n
spiration il it; that there is the en-
during glory of duty performed in it,
from which comes the strength Of ma
lions and the safety of men. Under
Republican administration every serv-
lie fetter which bound the hands Of
the toiling millions in One-half the
Republic, under the sanction of State
has been broken. with
ont the aid, against the protest Of the
Democratic party. The party OF la
Dor is the Republican party-the par
ty of the country, now As in the past,
and is strong enough and intelligent
enough to take care, in the future As
in the past, Of the interests OF labor.
The Liberal Republican party, which
is another device of the Democratic
party, employed to hide their record
and mislead the people, seems TO have
two chief purposes First, to destroy
the confidence of the people in the
President by defamation. In this age
an enlightened people do not accept
the pagan rule, that the citizens who
have saved the Stats, and crowned its
arms with victory, should be bauish-
ed, not for mis- crimes, but for his vir-
tues so illustriOus as To make his pres
ence dangerous, in the judgment of
demagOgues, 70 Republican equality.
The man who organized the nations
victories. and carried your banners
triumDhautiV from the trenches of