The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-21
THE REPUBLICAN ADDRESS
DEMOCRACY AND REPUBLICANlSM
CONTRASTED.


THE RECORD MADE BY THE TWO PARTIES
THE ISSUES BEFORE THE NATION DISCUSSED
To the People Of he United States:
You win soon proceed to select your represen-
tatives for a new congress. The occasion invites
MS to submit for your inspection the record OF
republican achievements since the party was
called to the administration Of national anairs'
We seize the opportunity TO avow that record
not to apologize forit. We challenge yonr ap-
proval, not your pardon
The obligations of government and people,
like the obligations of servant and MASTER are
mutual.
The government like the servant, owes faith
fuI service. But the people, like the master,
owe honest recognition of faithful service.
Every thoughtful employer knows that be can
not with impunity decry faithful labor. de
who does so habitually will room nave no Ialtn-
ful laborers. The faithful servant will not SUD-
init to be treated as faithless one. lfso treat,
ed he himself will become Taithiess, or ne VIII
give place to one who Is falthless-
DEMOCRATIC sTATEsMANsHIP.
II is thirteen years since the republican party
was nrst called to the administration of the
national government. For more than thirty
wears previously the government has been al
most un interruptedIy under democratic control
OF that control there is hardly memory left at
which the nation should not blush. Seemingly,
il was inspired by but one ambition-tne PAD
ambition 10 make our foreign poney As lenoto.e
as our home policy was shameless. Our inter-
course with powers weaker than ourselves was
spirited enough. We buliied Austria Aust out OF OF a
portion of her territory. We demolished Grey
fown. We iingled millions in the ears OF Spain
as i1Te & or 40 onI ann ministers abroad assembled
at Ostend and issued manifesto, In wnlcn tney
declared: "After we shall have onereo spain
tnis shall have been refused, then IL VIII be time
to consider this question: Does CUBA ID tne pos,
clva aud internal
peace and the existence of our cheIishen union
Should this question be answered in the aInrn-
alive then by every law, human and divine, we
shall be justified in Wrestling 1t from spain IL
we possess the power"
two of the ambassadors who, in 1914, could
think of no way Of saving "our chersned
Pierre SouIe and John Y. Mason. The third was
James Buchanan.
But during all that time, and in spite Of all
that gasconade there was not single natural
lied citizen who could safely revisit his birth
place. for there was not one whose citizenship
was not absolutely denied by the sovereign
under whose dominion he was born:
No American, native or naturalized, could
Sitions' We had then formed postal conven-
tions with but seven foreign countries.
conventions was ten cents for a letter weighing
not more than one-half ounce The highest
rate OF postage for the same letter was thirty
We tamely relinquish to Great Britain Dor
tion of our territory IN the NorIneasti ano'ner NO. @
scribed the line agreed upon in the Northwest SO
loosely that Great Britain Immediately laid
Insulting claim was neither resisted nor admit
ted. II was compromised by permitting the
San Jaan' the most valuable of those islands
while we quietly squatted on the other END
Constantly adding to the area of the Cansdas
we stupidity relinquished to their products free
access to our markets, as the equivalent of beine
allowed to send similar products from the \ orth-
west through Canada channels, 10 such precarl'
Gus markets as they could hnd on the other side
such were the achievements of our diplomacy
during these years of democratic supremacy.
CHEAP GOVERNMENT.
The story of our home rule would be saddel
still, if anything sadder could be.
1t has been loudly vaunted that those wer,
cheap administrations Compared with the ex
penditures of these times they were cheap, very
cheap Compared with their worth TO the
country they were probably the most profigate
sjOOOO,UUO TO S75,U00,0O per annum. Those mil
lions maintained for us the empty pageant we
called government. 1t was the worst pageant
that could be contrived. 1t was not even snowy
il was vulgar. 1t had all the features OF a gov
ernment, but without It's faculties. There were
the three regular organs-Legislative, Ex.
ecutive. Judicial. There was a. constant
succession Of Congresses, residents ane %
hearing and dete mining private controversies
But what is there TO show from the labors Of
the political departments? 1t seemed TO be the
sole end, If not the sole aim, of government tC
collect money enough yearly to pay itself.s II
did not ALWAYS succeed in doing that as many
loan bills enacted in times of profound peace
still bears witness. Indeed, that party was pc
culiarly embarrassed n the collection of reve
nue.. itdared not levy tax except on the inn
portation ofa foreign commodity; and II always
commodity lest 1t might unwitIingly promot
some domestic industry No well educated
democrat could tolerate such result so den
aided by loans. Such was the case in lS4l. lS4
thirty-ffth congress, authorized the issue G
Treasury notes, and almost the last act of h
fnFbes loan of sSi 90 oco was AUTHORIZED. an
on the Sth or FebIu Iuary, 1851, an appeal was mad
to the market for SO 900 more.
Through all those years Congress as
sembied anngaiy The sr;09s Long 81 session ssxs
eight eight and " nfne months. But, long &C {
short the sessions produced little in the way
legislation hey ond the tax and appropriate
was accomplished in weeks. The first sessio
of the thirty second congress was prolonge
SIaee pages d ne All afs bP Se M
5pages are covered by acts approved on th
last two days of the session. Earli,
al capital, had framed the ieadin
features of our land system, had ded
the cause of popular education, and had con
menced the Cumberland road and other wori
Of internal improvement: when, lena sfter ter 1ear near
cratic party from power, the Cum oerland ros
was stin unfinished ana the party had been ed
Gated TO believe that the national governmel
had no constitutional power to complete sue
work.
That singular faith did not prevent the part
from entering upon such works, but, seemingl
only from completing them. They did not r
improving 2 rivers and harbors. Sometimes sue
appropriations were made regularly and som
times irregularly. Apparently they we
scrupulous only that appropriations should
made at such times, In such sums, and for sut
purposes as would promote commerce least al
interest most. the approaches
Wilmington, N. c., appropriations were ma
at various times, amounting to more than S3'
900. Wilmington has swelled from populate
of 900 in 1850, to 1900 in 1870. On the Red riv
in Louisiana there was expended at differel
times more than 100000. The river wash eig
counties of the state of Louisiana. Those eig
counties had a population in lSi0 Of $4,000; !;