Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-07-11
a,lD Sr0uo.
Logan at Galeshnrr.

vs. : SANOP bAut tuo RIOIieS which ne lnen
attributed to the Democratic party he
now credits to the Grant faction. Captain
Rynders and numerous other Democrats
made the same speech prior 10 1860, and
We think General Logan is fairly entitled to
the credit of reviViBg tan idea which
implies no small originality on his part.
lha speech is in substance as follows?
Farmers, are you not prosperous? Don't
your cows give twenty four quarts Of milk a
day, and don't your oats grow forty bushels
to the acre and sell for twenty seven cents
Don't your wife have a new baby every
year, and don't you send one new pupil an
nuslly to the public school? Isn't remiss-
ion of sins free to all of you who repent,
and cant you have a pew in the church by /
paying for IL? And now l demand Of you,
as farmers, as husbands, and as Christians,
under what political party have you en-
| joyed all this prosperity? Under the /
Grant party, you answer. Then vote for
| Grant,
| General Logan says:
Name the time that you ever received the
same prices for the produce of your labor that
you have had since the Republican party has
had the power to rule in this country. What /
merchant ever sold so many goods as now what
tradesman farmer ever made so much money
! as now i VIII not attsmpt TO describe the
| difference between the condition of our people
in those days and the present time,-the diff
erenee in their cultivation then and now,
the difference in everything then and at this
time.
Politicians are apt to mistake their own
interests and condition for that of the coun-
try. General Logan has been getting rich
of late; has been in the receipt of more lib
eral pay for the product of his labor than he
did when he went to Congress for the Demo
cratic party he has probably made great
deal of money, and has become highly cul-
tivated 1t by no means follows that this
has been the fate Of most OF our trsdesmen
and farmers. During the past four years
the farmers of Illinois have not, as a class,
been making money, but have been quite
content to pay expenses. a very large mi
nority offarmers, who had prospered during
the eight years previous, have mOrtgaged
their farms to pay expenses aud taxes dur
ing the past three and four years.
On the Large erop-and good prices" ar
gument, the farmers might have been asked
to sustain Andrew Johnson as logically as
to re-elect Grant. Certainly, the prosperity
OF the whole country, except, perhaps, Gen
ersl Logan, was as great during the former
Administration as the latter The period
of Republican Administration in which
farmers, as a class, made money fast, was
during the years 60, 'G3, aud "a, when
depreciation in the currency enabled them
to pay Of. their mortgages for half their face,
and when the rise in the prices Of their crops
doubled their incomes. Since those yesrs
the farmers Of the Northwest have been
raising crops for falling market, and have
been subject to far heavier bills for labor
tbsu they ever were before the war. Be
twsen these Two infueuees and excessive
- taxation, many Of them have been losing
money.
General Logan's most amusing character
is when he appears, as be does in the follow.
ing sentence, as an Oid-Line Wing. He
says,
/ 60 back for thirty years and the Democratic
party have had control for the msjo part of that
time and l demand to know, and challenge
any Democrat to chow me when, in the discus
sion of any question n the interest Of harmony
= or humanity, Of advancing civilization. ofeduea
tion CT liberty TO part or freedom To all, # theJ
were not On the wrong side (Chesrs.
During two-thirds Of this period it hsr
been popularity supposed that Logan va
himsef very active Democrat. Ia avo~
ing bis belief that the ms ority Of the Amer
lean people were wrong Ia everything The
r did for tue twenty years prior to 1861, th
General shows himself worthy Of ad mis-
sion, nuHc pro tHac, into the old Wing pal
sst ". The chief features Of Democratic poll
cy, during that time, we're the aDnexRlio
~' of Texas and California, and the attemp
- by compromises and concessions, to avert
civil war between the North ana the Sout
- over the slavery question. Few will no'
N. dispute that the anneXstions of Texas 81
California we're wise and fortunate poicie
We, as Republicans, we're among those VII
believed that the compromises and conce'
SONS to slavery had gone too far. Bot tn
y belief on the part of the Republicans ger
orally arose partly from their confidence ii;
there would be nc civil war; belief whicl
- as the result showed, exhibited less foreca
he than the Rrtver apPreheEsons of DOuRlG
AID other Democratic leaders, that thel
ole would be war if an anti slavery Presidei
~ we're elected.
~. While the Justice snd humane intent
M the Republican Platform Of 1856 60 are i
oisputable. vet it may well be doub,l
.'ts whether the party would have succeeded
. eleotug President Lincoln if It had n
proc'ai 10 its platform that his eiectiC
. would be followed by four years war.
charging the Democracy with too gre
- fair, therefore. to credit them with p know
|. edge that there would he sn stremPt
I dissolve be Union aud = Ioor sag
We have given berry TO four millions
slaves; bus At cost Que million Of anlts q
disrs, and large dssuuci'ou %; pgoyeft
e, General Logan defends Grants app.ia
mants OF relatives OF The ground that eTs
man Is bound TO provide Tor ms own hous
10 hold. Boz is every public officer bound
use his appointing power so as 10 cause
'-' coun ~ 10 provide for them Does I
Scripture go so far2 If il does. so mu
the worse Tor the Scripture. In the estiu
ton of the purer statesmen OF our earl
. days, this IVES su indirect mode of hlchi
from the Treasury, and was dishouor&b
~ As to ''giit-taKing.' Logan is enabled to
- fend it easily by assuming that the often
does not consist in taking the gift.
- when the MAKER of the gift is appointed
NJ office, as Borie, Hosr Murphy. Jones, a
Stewart we're, under circumstances that
dictate that sUch person would not have be
appointed had he not made the gift tt
gift-taking becomes odious. Logan
dorses also the payment Of the Secor ella
on the ground that The evidence oles
] showed ths' the Govern ment Of the Uni
States uEder their coutrac; wss indie ted
Lo Mr.. Secor in the amount paid BY the Sec
XXI tary Tie facts do not sustain this sta
inert, AID we are glad TO notice that
with audience whom General LoCsn sddres
were too intelligent to applaud this pert
Har- of his speech.
'isno AS 10 The ciAUcr that 5 nhde BY La
ines aud others over the payment Of the d
and reduction of taxation, il is onls meet
'ches arg to remind them that the rate Of red
tiou of taxes was twice rapid dur
raus Andrew johnson s term as during Gran
pooh johnson paid of more Of the debt than
"a oo been paid during Grants Admiuistrht
: 90 And yet Logan voted TO impesch johns
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