The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-16

i lAAAN%SA NS"A WV uAuNS
down tho slave power, lifted up, digni.
fed and honored labor, and tried to pro.
tect and diversity our own Industries.
To-day the laboring men and women Of
our country arc earning from three to
tour times US much In day rs they could
earn forty years ago, and days work Is
shorter now than II was then. Alter |
had learned n mechanical trade in the
place where l now live, worked four.
teen and fifteen hours n day, month after
month, TO earn forty dollars q month.
There arc hundreds OF men there now
who In ten hours can earn a hundred
dollars more easily than-I could earn
itnrty 10 fifteen hours. ! am grateful To
God that this Is so. lido not care any.
thing about few men or corporations
Ipiling up o great amount Of money. The
wealth Of the AstOrs, the Stewards, and
the vanderbilts has no allnrements for
me. / believe God made this world to
grow good men and women, and not to
pile up money. That Is my belief, and
want to see the men and women who
boar the burdens and do the work have
full share OF all they earn, and that an
honest days work shall always have q
fair days pay. Loud Applause
Why is itthat the Democrats OF New
Hampshire arc circulating iree.trade doc.
uments, plctorials and cartoons over this
Slater Why should they strive to deceive
poor laboring men, when they never were
SO prosperous as now under the system
that tends TO diversity our industries, In.
crease our production, add to our wealth
and take care Of our own country MY
heart goes out to the working men Of
England and Ireland, Of Germany and
France, aye OF Asia and Africa, too. A
man Is o man, no matter where he was
born or what blood courses in his veins.
believe that God made him and Christ
died for him, and that he Is destined TO
an immortal inheritance. l believe, too,
in that comprehensive policy that watches
ovyer the poor and lowly and takes caro-
Of the interests of all the world; but, after
all, l ana for the Republic of the United
States, before any other country or any
other people. Applause.
/ am for taking care OF our own inter.
ests, and not allowing the importing
houses Of Englishmen, or Frenchmen, or
Germans 10 control the financial or husi.
ness affairs Of the people oil the United
States, nor to direct the policy of the
United States. think we are old enough
and large enough to take care Of ourselves
Applause.
One would suppose to hear our
Democratic friends talk, that we never
had any corruption before; that they
had always been pure because they
never punished tibet. Applause
and laughter. propose right here to
lay down this proposition: that the rea.
son why this Administration is 80 assail-
ed is not that 1t has been more corrupt, or
as corrupt as It's modern predecessors, but
that it Is doing much to expose thieving
aud to punish men who steal. The Demo.
cratic party-I mean the modern Demo.
cratic party-came into power in 1920,
under General jackson.
One man, Samuel SwartwOut, in General
Jackson's day, when the Government
raised only about thirty millions year,
stole million dollars in the New York
custom house-nearly as much money as
has been stolen under this Administration
in three years, in collecting and paying
out nearly twenly.one hundred million
dollars. The percentage Of loss under
the Administration has been less than un.
der any Administration since General
Jackson was inaugurated President of
the United States. There is not q shadow
Of doubt OF it. assert here and now,
that there has been less percentage of
loss under General Grants Administra.
ton than under that of any other Admin.
istration since the days Of John Quincy
Adams. John Tyler, son Of President
Tyler, in q letter recently published,
states that there were, in Van Buren's
Administration, ninety.eight receivers of
the public money, ninCty.six Of whom be-
came delaulters. Ninety.six out Of ninety
eight Laughter Is there any man
here tonight who knows that any, one Of
those men was ever sent TO the peniten.
tiary?
l believe Republican thief is worse
man than Democratic thief. Laugh
ter. He has not had so many bad exam
pies. Laughter and applause. A Re.
publican thief Is the meanest and wicked.
est thief in all the land. He joins a great
party that was brought into being to give
freedom to the slave, maintain the unity
OF the country, and preserve the lie Of
the nation. In the ranks of that party is
q large mass OF the intelligence of the
country, of the praying men and women
OF the country. A man who joins that
political organization, betrays his trust,
and steals the money of the government,
Is base creature, and the penitentiary Is
the only place where he should dwell.
The difference between Republicans
and Democrats on this question is this:
the Republicans try to discover and pun.
ish their thieves; the Democrats never
punish theirs. You cannot tell me to.
night Of q man who stole from the Nation.
al Government under q Democratic ad.
ministration who was sent to the peniten.
tiary. Under this administration sever |
thieves have; been sent there. Most of
their stealing was under the late admins.
tration, for there has been little stealing
under this Under Andrew Johnson'S
administration mean men got office. He
went back on his party, on his record,
upright Democrats paid little attention to
him, honest Republicans kept away from
the White House, and mean men OF both
parties sought the benefit Of his patron.
age. About forty collectors Of internal
revenue under his administration became
defaulters for million and three quarters.
Under the three years Of General Grants
administration four collectors became de-
tanlts, and for amounts less than two hun
dred thousand dollars.
During the war we paid through the
paymaster's department Of the army
mere than q thousand million dollars.
That money was paid sometimes when
the troops were on the march, sometimes
when they were under fire, and we lost
less than a quarter OF million dollars.
Never in the history OF the human family