The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-09-12
VOLUME 24-NUMBER 48

UME 24-NUMBER AZ
5 sons thought ought not to be appoipi
I ed. Somebody, 4 thOusandth eousil
{ Of the Presidents wife, hes been an
! pointed Some little psltry things
2 small IN themselves, haTeily wOrrI
: talking about, and so insignifean
! that they will find no one to reeor,
. them in the history OF the country
! can be brought against this man, VIII,
is now before the American people.
But the American people are q brave
trustluI generous people. They nev
er will allow Gen. Grant to be smit
, ten down to crafty the revenge o
any class Of disappointed politicians
: IN the country. L'"That's so p'eheers.
: His fidelity to the great causes on
hearts love can not be gainsaId.
say to you tonight that on the ques
ton of devotion TO the rights of tn,
black men from 1863 to this day
nine years-Gen. Grant has been sur
passed by no living American. Ths
eOlOred people know il, and they viii
vote for him with unanimity and ar
earnestness that will amaze some o.
their friends There are 100000 black
voter in the United States. Not one
quarter Of one per cent. Of these men
viii vote for Horace Greeley on No
yember next. Cheers.1 Out Of 76.-
600 eOlOred voters in North Caroliua.
where we seemed to have achieved 3
vietOrp after all, not more than one
hundred voted the Democratic ticket.
Everywhere / went the cOlored men
were earnest. Their hearts burned
with love and devotion to the Repub.
lican cause. Why should it not ?
They knew Mr.. Lincoln, and they
know Gen Grant, but they do not
know much about sJme Of these men
I up in our section of the country who
suppose that their names are engray-
! ed on every negrO's heart in the
southern country. Laughter ana
applause. "Charles Sumner.D1 They
know more about Gen. Grant than
they know about all the members of
Congress Put together.
will tell you why. These poor
black men in North Carolina have
had their churches burned, their lit
tie school houses burned, their own
cabins burned, their wives lashed, in
suited, degraded. They have been
whipped by the thousand, they have
been murdered by the hundred.
They know that q law was passed,
through Gen. Grants Influence and
signed by him, to punish their mur-
derers. And tell you that men who
leave their homes to go out into the
forests to sleep over night for fear Of
being whipped or murdered by secret
armed, disguised assassins before
morning, appreciate the man who
has protected them. This feeling
pervades that Southern country, and
the black men of the country will
support Gen. Grant, no matter who
may advise to the contrary.
LABOR AND WAGES.
European employers complain that
wages in this country are so high thar
we take all their good Workmen from
them, and those who are left demand
higher wages They told me that
when 1 was over there, and told
them liked it: that / thanked God
it was so. / was glad that in my
country the wages or labOrers had adj
vancPd. In 1882, in the great debate
on the tariff, il was laid down as a
principle in COngress-shOWing the
rapid progress of the nation under the
protective system-that labor was
worth in the United States, on an
average, so cents a day. Look at it
now! The labOring man can earn
three or four dollars now easier than,
thirty or forty years ago, he could
earn one. l will state a fact. When
boy ten years old, i went out and
served an apprenticeship on a farm
for eleven years, and went 70 school
a month in 8 year, and received a
yoke of oxen and six sheep, which /
sold, when came of age for SSi. lAp-
plause.
For four or five years 1 could hoe, or
chop wood as much as anybody in the
country. God has given me- a body and
arm, and a hand, and l can generally
ly work aslOng and as fast as most men.
have moved in the field with some
Of the best men that ever swung
seythe-and among them my own
father-on a farm. They worked for
fifty or sixty cents day, taking their
pay in pork, cheese, mOlasses, &c.
Laughter and applause.
/ have seen farmers daughters,
good, beautiful, intelligent girls,
brought up in the country, educated
in our country schools, come into the
very house where / was brought uD,
and work for fifty cents week, get
ting up in the morning to milk, weav-
ing, spinning, and DOING all the work
that was done i'm farmers houses
forty years ago.
Last February / went to see my ma
tive place, and went on the old farm
where / was brought up. / asked the
man who was on the place what ne
paid for hired help, as we call it in
that country. We never used the
word servant" it CRATES on my ear.
never heard the word servant
used without pain, or the words
working classes" without pain. GGd
knows We have no working Glasses in /
the country. LCheers.1
/ asked the man what he paid for
help, and he said, s. to 50 50 per day.
l asked him what he paid girls who
came into the family to work. He
had a large farm, and had To have
hired help. He said three dollars a
week and further than that, he told
me that i'm the manufactures in the
neIghbOrhOod many Of the young
women were earning 81 n day. And
know there are men working in
the shops who are earning 500 per
month.
When I was twenty~One years Of
age / worked Oh a farm, hired out 3
month, got up before dByligh. fed
the cattle, took my dinner with ne
in a pail, went OFF 10 the woods, sat
the pail against the side Of log, aud
chopped mill logs all day. / worked
fourteen or fifteen hours a day, and
got the magnificent sum Of So for the
months work Applause and laugh
ter
That was what It was 10 work on
farm in that section Of the country
where / was born. Then / took my
pack on my back and walked to the
place in Massachusetts where l live
now, one hundred miles distant, and
it cost Ine Just five cents. Laughter
and applause. ] went into a shop
there and learned to make shoes.
see a pretty large one here to-day.
LCheers and laughter. think il IS a
little larger than those / was aeeus-
toned 20 make [laughterl, but / tell
you l made some pretty large ones.
Well, learned 10 make shoes. /
used TO work fifteen hOGrs a day on sn
average, lntil earned what / sup
posed was money enough to 90
home and 90 TO school, and get IN ed
ucatiOn- Working fifteen hours q
day could make about $40 a month.
In that same neighbOrhOOd to-day
there are hundreds Of working men
who are earning Sl00 a month at the
same work, aud working only ten
hours a day-Yes many Of them earn
ing that and board right straight
through A good workman can earn
in that town to-day s. q day as easy
as / could earn 81 day in the winter
OF 1884.
Why are they 20 prosperous now (?
It is because the policy OF this nation,
under Republican administration, has
been for freedom, for elevation, for
education, for lifting up Of the people,
and il has cared more for the indus.
tries Of the American people than any
other nation on the face Of the globe.
ICheers.l My sympatbies are with
the tOiling millions all over the globe.
When was in Europe, carefully
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