The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-29
THE CAMPAIGN IN OHIO.
Gov. Aliens Views Of the Currency
Questions
From, the Cincinnati: Enquirer, july 20.

: Governor Allen paid visit to Newark,
Saturday, to consult about some matters
of local politics, and was induced by the
Democrats to make them speech in the
evening. The weather was intensely hot
and the hall crowded, so that be did not
speak more than half an hour. The fol-
lowing is full report of his speech:
FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS +:
Many time before this have you and I
stood face to face to discuss the public
questions of the day; but atno time have
we come together under circumstances 50
profoundly interesting to the American
people as on this occasion, when forty
millions of people, inhabiting one of the
largest and most fertile portions of the
globe, feel that something oppresses
chem deeply and seriously. Every Gov
ernment, whatever may be its form,
makes itself responsible for the condition
of the people to a very large extent. IL
8 free Government, based upon popular
suffrage, and acting through the repre-
sentative principle, the action Of the
Government upon the people in their
dearest rights becomes a matter of the
most serious import to the people. For
more than fifteen years one class Of men
have had absolute and unrestrained con-
troll of the Federal Government, and,
during all that period, the control of
almost all of our State Governments.
Whatever there is of happiness, of pros
perity, dependent upon the action of the
Government; whatever there is of suffer
ing or misery, dependent upon the action
of the Government, is ascribable to that
party, for good or for i'll. They had it
all. The great Democracy of the Union
had no function but that of paying taxes.
[Applause. The other party had all
the power, all the taxes, and all the prof
its that necessarily grew out OF them.
(Applause.
Now, if the condition of the American
people is prosperous and happy; if no
man is discontented if no man is dis
satisfied; if there is no clique or ring
usurping the public authority and con-
suming the public taxes; if every man
who wants to work is employed and well
paid; if every factory is running, with
it's blazing fires throughout the entire
day; if the farmers, without being over
burdened by taxes, are reaping the full
rewards of their hard labor in the long
summer sunshine, and have enough to
subsist and educate their families; If
every farmer finds his farm without mort
gage, himself without debt, ready to ex-
tend the hand of fraternity to an unfor-
tunate neighbor; if this be the condition
of affairs, then we ought to thank the
Republicans for bringing this state of
affairs about. Laughter and applause
With these long years of absolute rule
the war did not last all these fifteen
wears: thew is not to be used as an
excuse for what happened after peace
was restored-if, when the war closed,
and when this party took the entire mass
of the Southern States into their own
hands, and said, eve will govern as we
please; we will reconstruct" if the ope-
ration of their reconstruction has restored
the Southern people to their wonted pros
perity; if it has established peace without
discord, they are entitled to the approba-
ton of the country. That the Congress
of the United States was responsible for
the government of the South and its
turbulence and discord is manifest from
the fact that the party dominant in that
body was the only political power that
had any efficiency there. If they could
not rule the Southern States after the re-
bellion had been disarmed, how fit are
thew to rule forty millions of people
throughout this whole continent? Ap-
plause.
They spread banefnl blight over the
entire South; they promised peace and
prosperity, and they gave them the sword
and have fulfilled their promise by pro-
ducing anarchy and pauperism. Ap-
plause. They were loading down the
people of the United States with taxes
eyerv day, and at the very time they
were piling up the taxes on the people
OF the North they had so desolated the
Southern States that they had no taxes
TO contribute, and all that the Southern
States were unable to contribute was
added to the taxes of the Northern States.
That is part of their doings.
Well, they were in situation to set
an example of economy, of purity, to the
whole American people.
They had all the power, and the De-
mocracy had none. They could have
economical the expenses of this Govern
ment twenty-fold more than they did,
but they will not choose to. do it. They
went on increasing the taxes, increasing
the expenditures, and large per cent.
of all the taxes paid by the people never
reached the public Treasury. 1t was
confscated on its way. They mildly
termed it confiscated; and the number
of these defaulters would almost rival the
innumerable multitude that st. John saw
in his vision.
Now, want to define what this word
defalcation means. You have not the
least difficulty, if man, although hun
gry or prompted by the cries of nature,
When his little child Lifts up his hands
and says, "Father, I want some bread"
and he has none to give, forces his hand
into bakers shop and takes loaf He
is indicted, put in jail, and probably sent
to your Penitentiary. 1t is all of no
avail to him that he pleaded the importu-
mites and tears of his wife and poor little
children for food that he could not give
as q palliation for his offense. He is
hurried off, he is called thief, burglar.
A Government officer appropriates to his
own use a hundred thousand dollars.
THAT is not called stealing; not at all.
There is dignity about that kind of
rascality, because it is nothing but the
neople's money that he has stolen. He
IS called a defaulter, not thief, and the
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