The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-03-28

were there what they paid men in
hayiug-time last summer, and they
said from two dollars to two and
half day. This was paid on the
same ground where men worked
forty years ago for from fifty cents
to four shillings, and took their pay
in farm products, not money. L
have seen some of the brightest wo-
men go into the farm houses and
work for from fifty cents to four
shillings week, milking the cows,
making butter and cheese, washing,
spinning, and weaving-doing all
kinds of hard work. Z was told
yesterday that many young women
were earning In the shops dollar a |
day, and that those who worked in |
houses were getting from two dol
lars and half week to three dol
lars and a half.
In 1882, in the great debate in the
Senate on the tariff, it was said by
those who advocated protective du-
ties that they had raised the price
of labor in the United States so that
it averaged fifty cents day. How
is it now? This winter is the most |
prosperous winter the United States
has seen in its history. Everybody
is at work. There is very little
suffering anywhere. Why this
change? Why this Improvement?
1t is because we have smitten down
the slave system, broken down the
slave power; lifted up, dignified, and
hOnored labor, and tried to protect
and diversity our own industries.
To-day the laboring men and wO-
men of our country are earning
from three to four times as much in |
day as they could earn forty years
ago, and a days work is shorter
now than it was then. After had
learned a mechanical trade in the
place where 1 now live I worked
fourteen and fifteen hours a day, |
month after month, to earn forty
dollars a month. There are hun
dreds of men there now who in ten |
hours can earn a hundred dollars a |
month more easily than could earn |
forty in fifteen hours. am grateful |
to God that this is so. lido not care !
anything about few men or cor
porations piling up great amount |
of money. The wealth of the AS
tors, the Stewards and the Wander.
bilts has no allurements for me. / |
believe God made this world to
grow good men and women, and |
not to pile up money. That is my |
belief, and l want to see the men |
and women who bear the burdens
and do the work have full share of |
all they earn, and that an honest |
days work shall always have fair
days pay. Loud applause.]
Why is it that the Democrats of
New Hampshire are circulating free
trade documents, pictorials anu car
toons over this State? Why should
they strive to deceive poor laboring
men, when they were never so pros
porous as now under the system that
tends to diversity our Industries, in
crease our production, add to our
own wealth, and take care of our
own country? My heart goes out to
the workingmen of England and
Ireland, of Germany and France,
aye and of Asia and Africa, too.-
A man is a man, no matter where
he was born or what blood courses
in his veins. 1 believe God made
him and Christ died for him, and
that he is destined to an immortal in
heritance. 1 believe, too, in that
comprehensive policy that watches
over the poor and lowly and takes
care of the interests of all the world;
but, after all, I am for the Republic
Of the United States, one and indi-
visible, and the people of the United
States, before any other country or :
any other people. [Applause.l
1 am for taking care of our own
interests, and not allowing the i'm ,
porting houses of Englishmen or
Frenchmen or Germans to control
the financial or business affairs of
the people of the United States, nor
to direct the policy of the United
States. think we are old enough '
to take care of ourselves. Zap I
plause.]
One would suppose, to hear our
Democratic friends talk, that we +,
never had any corruption before; :
that they had always been pure, be. I
cause they never punished a thief. !
[ [Applause and laughter.] 1 pro-
pose right here to lay down this |,
proposition; that the reason why !
this Administration is so assailed is 7
not that it has been more corrupt, q
or as corrupt as IFS modern pre- {
decessors, but that it is doing much
to expose thieving and to punish :
men who steal. The Democratic
party-I mean the modern Demo-
cratic party-came into power in 6
1929, under General Jackson. r
One man, Samuel Swartwout, in
General Jackson's day, when the
Government raised only about thir- I.
ty million dollars a year, stole y
million dollars in the New York
custom house-nearly as much mon
ey as has stolen under this Admin