The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-09-11
WHOLE, NO. 1873.

Democracy, whose platform is sort of
1eath-bed unrest, dare assail single line
of the proud record our party has made
| in Ohio. This is canvass for a Chief
Executive and State officers in Ohio and
the Democracy give as a reason, if they
give any, why General Noyes should not
! be reelected Governor of this State and
why the Republican party, which has
borne itself so clear in its great office"
should not be continued in power, and
| that inscrutable reason is, a declaration
| that President Grant has improperly in
terfered with affairs in Louisiana, and
| further because the Democracy at last
believes that old Republican truth, that
the public lands should be sacredly re-
| served for actual settlers" The Louisi-
ana election is question of interest in
that State, but will hardly come within
| the range OF issues for our next Govern
or's decision. Was any party ever SO vim
dicated at the hands of its enemies as is
the Republican party of Ohio to-day?
Thus practically indorsing our State
record our adversaries assail the National
party. If they desire comparison be-
tween parties, surely we need not object
or shun the scrutiny. The great achieve
ments of the Republican party in the
past have already filed the proudest and
most instructive pages of our history.
But what is this great successful, Nation
al party doing in the present, and what
does it promise for the future?
That its principles are right our adver-
saries have confessed by adopting them.
Its great measures have become the set
tied policy of the country, and many of
them have been sanctioned as part of
our Constitution, and are, in the eloquent
words of one / will not now name, for he
is with you, valid in fact, binding in
law, and destined to stand unrepealed
forever" - $40 ra. rgHsF -rset
But how has this party met the just
expectations of the people in it's conduct
of public affairs?
One of the supremest tests of a wise
administration is sound and healthy
condition of its finances. This admins
tration is amply vindicated by tie ma
tional balance sheet Just before the
election of General Grant in 1868, our
Government bonds, bearing six (6) per
cent. gold interest, were worth Just III
cents to the dollar in New York, and still
less in European markets To-day they
are worth par in all the money centres of
the world, making difference of $780,
O0O, 900 in their cash value and within
few weeks 100000 900 more have been
negotiated at per cent. saving to the
people of the country So, 000, 600 in inter-
est alone Within the four ando half
years of its rule it has reduced the public
debt Ito. July 1st) $377, ,644, ,546, or over
S9OO0 for ever hour since it came into
power. ss..g.l a
The Democratic Tammany ring of New
York increased the debt of that city
S2574 for every hour of its supremacy.
In 1915 the public debt of England was
S4,325, 100000 Since that time, a period
of SO years, it has reduced that debt
1865, 900, 900 less than our public debt has
been reduced in four and half years
While this vast reduction of the public
debt has been going on, the industry and
enterprise of the country have been grad
ually but constantly relieved of the bur-
dens of taxation. Since the close of the
war, by the repeal of the revenue taxes,
and the reduction of tariff duties, there
has been total annual decrease of those
revenues to the extent of $289, 100000
Another evidence, and one of the most
conclusive in favor of the present admin
istration, is the universal prosperity of
the country. The plain common sense
of the people sweeps away the cobweb
theories of hungry politicians (who pre-
dict general ruin if they fail to get office,)
in face of the abounding and increasing
prosperity that is every where apparent
In 1860 the value of the real and, per-
sonal property in the United States was
$l6,000000, 900. In 1870 it was $30.O6S,-
507,5 ,5lS, though during four years of that
time the best energies of the nation were
largely Withdrawn from wealth-producing
industries. ~ seci9
In 1860 the product of manufacturing
in the United States was 81 1885, ,S6l,776,
while by 1871 it had increased to S4,305,-
932, ,032, Even in the South wasted and
desolated by war. as much of it was, its
aatI
doubled during the past decade. Last
year it produced nearly 100000 bales of
cotton, worth $300,000.000 All over that
impoverished country enterprise, free
labor, common schools, and the arts of
peace are covering the scars of war and
laying the foundation of truer prosper
ty and higher civilization
In no previous year have the United
States exported so much of the products
of their labor as in the fiscal year just
closed The increase at the port of New
York alone is 100000 over the year
preceding 4.sa
In the year ending June 80, 1873, the
United States exported to England alone
2,400, 900 bushels of corn, Is, 900, 600 bush
els of wheat, POS, 900 barrels of -four,
100000 bales. of cotton, 10000, 600
pounds of leather, $4,000 tons of bacon,
$4,000 tons of cheese, 100000 pounds of
butter, 2l 900 tons of tobacco, 100000
pounds of hops, besides vast quantity
of grain and provisions exported indi-
rectly to England by way of Canada; our
total export for the past year amounting
to more than $7S2,000,000. Within the
last few months our country is even prof
itably exporting iron into England.
These are not the surplus products of
overtaxed and crippled industries, nor is
this the balance sheet of misgoverned
and oppressed nation. These great facts
attest with mute but amazing eloquence
the crowning fact of the prosperity of the
Republic. .F
The policy of the Republican party has
been to so adjust the duties on imports,
which are necessary for revenue, as to
foster, promote and protect the varied in
dustries of the country. The practical
benefit of this wise policy is manifest, not
only in the building up of great indus
tries, which furnish profitable labor to
hundreds of thousands of men, but in the
constant cheapening to the consumer of
the products of the branch of industry
thus promoted. This truth is strikingly
illustrated in the case of Bessemer steel.
Prior to 1862 Bessemer steel rails import
ed from England cost in this country
5000 per ton. Congress laid duty of
one cent pound on its Importation. In
1864 they were furnished by American
manufacturers at $50 per ton, and are
now entirely supplied by home producers
at 800 per ton. Before 1916 we were
buying American bar iron at $50 per ton.
In that year protective tariff was broken
down, and after few years of revenue
tariff we were paying $50 per ton for
British bars.
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