The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-09-02

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prevent law from being made, This
length of time has passed, and what is
the condition of the country? That Isl
the question. Are you all contented
with the condition of the country? Are
you all contented with the immense mass
of taxation under which the country ISL
laboiing? Are you eontented to know
that you pay thirty millions of dollars
annually to the Federal Government, all
of which goes out of the country and is
spent abroad Are you contented to
know that the soil of this country pro-
duces very little moreat the hands of the
farmer than is necessary to keep his fam
lily in sustenanceY
Are you contented to know that there is
not farm which pays three per cent. on
its money value; there is not a farmer
who can lay up anything at the end of
the year, because so large a part of the
products of his farm is taken away In the
form of takes? Are you contenied to
see fully one million of the American
people seeking labor, and not able to get
it? Men who don't know three days
ahead whether they will have enough
bread in their houses to stay the out
stretched hands and cravings of their
poor children? Are you willing to see
this state OF things, and are you willing
to see it when you know that a very
large proportion of the takes you have
paid have been stolen and plundered un
der the name Of deialcation
Names mislead. Names may be the
expression of ideas, and at the same time
they may be disguised falsehood. The
public money, it seems, stands i'll diff
ferent relation from private money, as the
public officer stands in different rela-
ton to the law from the private citize
If man steals a horse, it is called |
stealing. Everybody knows what steal |
ing means, and the horse thief is arrested, |
put in Jail and tried before court and |
jury, and if found guilty, is sent to the
penitentiary, Ifthe law had defined the
crime of stealing as theft, instead Of de-
falcation, then tie people would under
stand what stealing public money meant |
Stealing public money by public officer
! is nicK-named deialcaton, and the de-
faulter, in all probability, instead of be-
ing put in the penitentiary, will be one |
of the leaders of fashionable society al |
Washington in the course Of month,
because he has got rich by stealing the
| public money, and can afford to drive |
splendid horses and erect magnificent
palaces and give big dinners.
Now this deIalcation is going on and |
has been going on for fifteen years, and a !
/ large part of the earnings of the people |
paid in the form Of taxes has gone to
! keep these demuters up There is not a !
few Of them either To say nothing
about The army and navy there are nearly |
| 100000 men that hold Office under the |
Federal Government.
At this very day, while nearly all the
members of the Cabinet have withdrawn |
their persons and therefore their vigil |
anCe from the capital of the country, a, |
regular system roguery, called rings, is |
being revealed, They have now taken
the form of Whiskey Rings. These
whiskeY rings have attracted so much
attention that the other rogues are taking
advantage Of it, and helping to halloo out
about crooked whiskey, while they them
selves are stealing deposited money.
Do they deny these things? | ask
any man here, and | give him the privi-
lege of interrupting me if he chooses-l
ask any man here to stand up and say
these things are false. There is not a
man base enough to do that in the goodly
county of Highland. And if they are
true, to say nothing about the crimes
and follies Of these people-if they are
true, do you want this condition of the
country to continue? Can change make
things worse, when they are already as
bad as human turpitude can make them?
No, sir.
Some time ago you heard it said by the
Republican people in Ohio-that is, poll
tcians, God be thanked there are very
few people among them-the Republican
masses are Just as honest as the Demo-
cratic masses, and as soon as they saw
last year what was going on, they turned
their backs on their leaders ana left them,
The Republican politicians in Ohio said
that a third term for Grant was out OF the
question. af
They talk about Bill Allen withdraw {
ing for fear he won't be elected. Great
God If that is their only hope in this
world they had better 90 to the preachers.
They told you before their convention
met that Grant was out of the question. !
OH he was out of the question. Why
was he out of the question? Because he +
had served two terms. But Grant said =
that was no bar that there was nothing :
in the Constitution to prevent him, or !
else, from serving third term,
or fourth term, or fifth term. There !
was nothing in the Constitution. As
Grant said, it would require Constitu +
tional amendment to bar him after a
second term, and he advised the people +
not to make any such amendment Lauh- !
teri Why did he put himself TO so ,
much trouble on the third term question? {
Simply for the reason he himself gave, r
that he was no more in favor of a third !
term than he had been in favor of first !
term. Exactly so, gentlemen; Grant !
will take as many terms as the people
choose to give him, but he will always
give hint to the people that he would I
like to have the thing. 1t would be
great convenience. An immense conve ,
nience to save popular elections would !
be to give the White House to Grant for !
life, and be done with it. The rank aud I
file of his party took the alarm and al J
though lnthelr conventions they solemnly
indorsed the whole of his conduct as a !
public man, including all the rogueries ,,
that he stood by and saw done and did 9
not punish. He had been guilty of evey J
form of negligence of public business,
and all this they endorsed. They said it
was right. They said those things, and
then they passed little resolution in !
their conventions, kind of a whisper, to ,
the effect that they thought third term J
was wrong. They had not the pluck and
courage to tell Grant righl TO his face that
they protested against the third term
principle, and would vote for no man who
aspred to the Presidency for a third term.
They could have told him but they did
not Why? Because they knew that
Grant held the Treasury Of the United
States in one hand, and that he held the {
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