The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-03-29
OHIO. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 90, 1879.

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Of that issue, as it did in everything an
p on every issue Wepassed the hom,
N stead Ii |, and James Buchanan vetoe
ID it, and the Democratic party SUI
d ported him in that veto. The objet
Is OF that bill was TO save that vast pull
J. lie domain to landless men, that the
d might have small farms, rather tina
e that few men might have gres
l. plantations. We were defeated; bu
8. the first year the Republican part
d came into power, in the midst OF th
o struggle for national existence,
passed the homested bill and save
c the public lands to the free laborin
J, men of this country forever and fol
K ever.
n Here tonight point you to thes
magnificent achievements; 1 poin
: you to what has been accomplished i
e these twelve years for the working
8 men. the mechanics, the free laborer:
y the men who toll for wages and
: say again to you that those schieve
g ments surpass all that had bee
e achieved in our country from tn
! earliest settlement of the colonies vi
to the year 1861, when Abraham
Lincoln was inaugurated Presiden
( OF the United States. Wha
claim, then. has the Democratic party
to the vote of a workingman in
America? None, none whatever
The workingman who supports the
Democratic party, with its hostility oi
forty years. history to the equal rights
OF millions of toiling men, is not only
illogical and inconsistent, but indiffer.
ent and careless. l 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 l 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.
Persistent efforts are making to
convince the laboring men of New
Hampshire and to make them believe
they have had very hard time of it !;
that they have to pay taxes; are, in
deed, almost taxed out of existence.
A document is circulated to prejudice
the laboring men against the Admins
tratiop, on account of high rates of
duties. In my judgment, the wise
and sound policy is to tax luxuries
highly; to put the burden of taxation
upon articles that come in competition
with our own, and to make free list
as large as possible. We have a great
debt to pay. We shall have taxation
enough for many years. That bur-
den, the legacy of the slave Democra-
cy, will rest upon the labor Of the ma
ton tor years to come.
1t was my privilege last summer to
spend a few weeks in England. 1
hardly heard anything else there but
complaints of our tariff. If I went to
a dinner party, or met Englishmen on
ship board or anywhere, they had
much to say about our exorbltant
rates of duties. English importers,
German importers, French importers,
all berate our rates of duties. These
identical documents that the Demo
cratic are circulating IN New Hamp-
shire are not paid for by the Demo
cratic party, but by men who want to
take care OF foreign interests rather
than our own. Applause.
l 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 are a great agricul-
tural country; you ought to raise
products, and we ought
to make the manufactured articles"
SWELL" l 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 mil
lions OF dollars of corn, and only few
thousand dollars of it. in the United
States" / asked them if they would
give up their agriculture If we would
give up our manufactures. They
came right to the point, for they could
tell the truth on the subject in En-
gland their friends do not like to
tell it here. They said, "The price of
labor is too high in the United States.
You pay too much for labor. 1t has
a bad effect. 1t causes a great many
Of our laboring people to go to the
United States to seek better wages
it makes those discontented who re.
main at home; they demand higher
wages, and we have had to pay higher
wages this year than ever before.'
'Well,' l said, ''that does not hurt
my feelings great deal. l am very
glad they get good wages in the
United States; l rejoice that the toll.
ng men and women over here are
getting better wages
saw everywhere l went, especial
y on the continent, women engaged
n the roughest and hardest work.
Women have to bear heavy burdens
here. saw women doing all kinds
IF hard work. You have heard a
great deal said by our women's rights
,eople-ot whom l count myself one
about the rights of women to work.
They have that right in the Old /;
World to their hearts content.
Laughter and applause) I
am glad that workingmen are
/ am glad the work
ngmen in Europe are getting discon- .
ented and want better wages and
ire getting higher wages and fewer
hours. thank my God that a man
n the United States to-day can earn
rom three to four dollars in ten {
lours' work, easier than be could forty |
years ago earn one dollar, toiling from I
welve to fifteen hours. The first :
month / worked after 1 was twenty
ne years of age l went into the I
woods, drove team, cut mill logs, 9
yood, rose in the morning before day
ight and worked hard until dark at l
light, and / received for it the mag
lificent sum OF six dollars. Each {
# those dollars looked as large to me
s the moon looked tonight. Laugh
er 4
On the farm on which l served an {
pprenticeshIp l have seen the best
men who ever put scythe in grass,
for from fifty cents to four |
killings day in the longest days of
ummer. Yesterday I visited that .
arm. / asked the men who were
here what they paid men in haying
ime last summer, and they said from I
wo dollars to two and half q day. s
This was paid on the same ground q
yhere men worked forty years ago 1
or from fifty cents to four shillings, c
nd took their pay in farm products, /
lot money. 1 have seen some of the '
brightest women go into the farm I
,onses and work ior from fifty cents
O four shillings a week, milking the
ows, making butter and cheese, {
Washing, spinning and weaving-doing s
II kinds of hard work. 1 was told t
esterday that many young women t
rere earning in the shops dollar a
law, and that those who worked ID t
ouses were getting from two dollars '
nd a half a week to three dollars and t