The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-09-11


imported into this country. which If
made here would be IL, 500. 600 more days
work of American labor. The same prin-
ciple applies to every department. of
home production.
Thus are built up American industries,
which develop our vast resources of
wealth, stimulate enterprise, cheaper
productions, employ, remunerate and
protect labor, bring to the farmers OF
America market in America, and in free
and honored labor lay the foundations of
the nations independence and prosper
ity.
The policy of the Democratic party on
this great practical question, as laid down
in the last State platform, is conun-
drum which their own magnates cannot
guess. The New York World says it is a
free trade platform. so says the Mansfield
iShietd and Banner, the home organ OF
their candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says it means
protection, and the Cincinnati Enquirer
says it is free trade, but not so strongly
as it ought to be- It seems to be willing
to be suited, as the platform says Demo
cratic principles are. ito all times and
circumstances" and it might have added
to all localities.
An Indiana school teacher was asked
by the Board of Examiners if he believed
the earth to be round or fat? He re-
piled that as it was disputed question.
upon both sides of which there seemed to
be good reasons, he would teach round or
fiat as the parents might desire That
party seems willing to make any platform
utterance that suits the special locality
on this question, but the practical effect
of their policy is, as it has proved in the
past, to break down these great indus
tries of the nation.
As the chief burden of Democratic op-
processes to be on the ground of extrava-
gance and corruption, it may be interest
ing to recall a few facts of recent finan-
cial history.
Most Democratic platforms contain
some very good didactic reading The
fifth resolution of their National plat
form of 1856 reads as follows:
.Resetved. That it Is the duty of every branch
of the Government to enforce and practice the
affairs, and that no more revenue ought to be
collected than is req1lred to defray the neees-
debt. F7-'>
On that platform Buchanan was elected
and came into power March A, 1857. Ju-
ly lst. 1857, his Secretary of the Treasury
reported the National public debt to be
the task of redeeming its pledge to the
people, for when did you ever hear of
that party going back on any of its plat
form literature. 1t was time of pro-
found peace. July l, 1858. the Secretary
of the Treasury reported the debt reduc-
ed to IA, ,9lO, III; by July /, 1859, it was
down to $58, ,754,699 Another year of
rigid economy" and gradual but GER
tain extinction" and it went down to
$64.769, ,703. And on the 4th of March,
1861, when the Democratic dynasty be-
came forever extinct, it was something
more than $T6.000,00O, and our National
credit so stained that every loan made
during the last year of that Administers
ton was at twelve per cent. interest.
Now, this great financial success was
brought about partly by custom duties,
for they had custom houses in those days,
though from Democratic denunciation
wesmight suppose them to be an inven-
ton of Republican prohigacy. The Off
cial report of the customs for 1857 as
given by the Secretary of the Treasury
for that year, shows that at the custom
house at Wilmington, Delaware, there
were collected $2004 %. To do this eight
men were employed, at cost to the ma
ton of SIS, S4S. SO. At Monterey, Califor-
mia, there were collected $40 Is, employ
ing three men, at cost of $1,000 95. In
North Carolina there was a custom house
located at place called "Ocrack" (wheth-
er it was named before or after this won
derful financial era. history does not tell, }
and here seven men, by faithful work
and stimulated by a paltry compensation
of $230l 81, were enabled to collect the
enormous sum of $S225. At Port Ok
ford, Oregon, two faithful Democratic of
ticials. by rigid economy, subsisted on
706.OS. and collected toward the certain
extinction of the public debt, during that
single year, no less than $685.
In 1867 the Legislature of Ohio was
Democratic in both branches Their bat
tie cry in the canvass was economy and
retrenchment. But the Fifty-eighth Gen
eral Assembly cost the people of the
State more than any one that had ever
met. 1t created thirty new offices,
costing $4,000; made eleven new Judge
ships, costing 1000 (although in the
sixteen years prior to 1867 there had only
six additional Judgeships been created J
The Legislative committees cost $S99l
more than twice as much as had been ex-
pended for that purpose in the ten pre-
vious years, and then closed up its lease
of power by figuring up and paying the
Clerk of the House for 244l days for the
four sessions of the Fifty-eighth and Fif
ty-ninth General Assemblies. And this
is Democratic economy.
But these modern Bourbons not only
forget everything, but they expect the
people to forget; and now with an auda-
city that has never been equaled more
than once in the history of the world,
they come forward as financial and eco
nomical reformers.
With about equal justice they are just
now exclafming with holy horror about
the Congressional salary steal" though
their record in that great no-party, all
parties infamy is worse than that of our
party, and it is bad enough. In the SEN
ate, of the thirty-six yeas, twenty-three
were Republicans and thirteen Demo
Gratis, and of the twenty-seven nays twen-
ty-one were Republicans and six Demo
Gratis. In the House, of the 102 yeas 50
were Republicans and so Democrats; of
the 9S nays, 65 were Republicans, and 33
Democrats Taking the Senate and
House together, of l61 Republicans, Is
voted for it and sc against it; of the l02
Democrats SO voted for it and 80 against
it. OF the l3 Republican members of the
House from Ohio only voted for it. OF
the Democratic members from Ohio
only 1 voted against it. Up to July 23d,
So Senators and Representatives have re-
turned their back pay" into the Treasu-
ry, and of these Al are Republicans and
ii are Democrats:
Thus it will be seen that large major
ity of the Democrats supported it, while
a majority of the Republicans opposed it,
so that any attempt to make party capi-
tai out of it by Democrats is only reck-
the "stop thief" cry of the skulking Grim
al honor m nnr State that