Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1872-09-27
Results of Republican Administration.

1t is well, now and then, to take ac-
count of stock, i'll national as well as in
dividual affairs. And no fair-minded
man who will estimate, calmly and just
ly, the present condition of the country
Will pretend to deny that it is otherwise
than prosperous. This prosperity is, un-
der Providence, the result of Republican
rule. We have had practical possession
of the Government for twelve years.
| With the aid of the loyal people, we
have saved the Union from dismember-
ment. Carrying the burden of the war
and of necessary war measures, support
| ing 1000, 900 soldiers in the field and an
immense and costly naval establishment,
the country, under Republican admins
tratlon, was only momentarily arrested
in its career of prosperity. We have
been paying off the public debt at the
rate of 800, 100000 year, and we have
within twelve years, covering the period
of contracting the debt and making pay
ments on account of it, doubled the
wealth of the nation. While our re-
sources are multiplying at this unparal-
leled rate, the whole national debt will
be redeemed and eXtinguished within
twenty years without an addition of
dollar to the burdens of the people, if we
only continue in the present course. In
ternal revenue taxes are being reduced
or entirely stricken off as respects most
of the taxable property of the country.
The taxes are now confined entirely to
wealth and luXuries. Whiskey and to-
bacco pay the larger part wealth pays
the residue. Practically all the neces-
saries of life are exempt. Meanwhile,
our manufactures have trebled, and our
resources are being developed and util-
lied as never before. Agriculture, too,
especially in the Western States, has
been stimulated into an enormous devel-
opment within this period of twelve
years: our population has increased near
ly eight millions, Notwithstanding
wasting war. In word, the people
have thrived-are thriving now. indus
try never had better reward. Labor
never had shorter hours, and better re-
muneration. People of the laboring
class were never more cOntented and
happy. There are no idle looms-no
iron mills standing still. There are few
er idle people than ever before. Every
man who wants employment can easily
obtain it, at fair wages. Hundreds of
thousands who were in poverty twelve
years ago are living in comfortable cir
cumstances now, and some in atfluence.
We have the best currency the country
ever had. We have passed from war to
peace without the crisis which croakers,
and even wise men have predicted.
Gold has come down from 100 above par
to an average of about II cents, and con-
tidence and stability mark all the great
business interests of the country. To
all this, 1t must be added, that Pacific
railroad already finished has brought the
trade of China and Japan, across the
continent, by our very doors that other
roads in progress will revolutionize the
commerce of the world, and possibly
transfer the seat of commercial empire
to our Atlantic sea-board.
This is but faint outline of the prog
ress of the country during the past
twelve years, and of its present prosper
ity. This is the account we render of
this period of Government. 1t shows
beyond all possibility of cavil that the
party which defended and maintained
the Union when assailed by the most gil
gantic rebellion the world ever saw; the
party which abolished slavery and gave
civil and political rights and all the
rights of the citizen to the freedmen;
the party which built up what rebellion
had broken down; the party which pro-
tects and defends four millions and a
half OF loyal .colored citizens, assailed
and outraged by Ku-Klux ruffians the
party which has dared to do Justice, and
perseveres without fiinching in doing
Justice, has alone done more to promote
the peace and happiness, the prosperity
and greatness of the nation, than all
other parties put together, which ever
had place in American history. The
question of the hour is, "Do we want a