The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-09-21

to burn down New York, and they did set fire
III some twenty places and they used Greek
fire, as he said In his letter, and ingenuously
adds: II shall never hereafter advise the use
OF Greek fire." They knew that IN the smoke
and ruins would be found the charred remains
Of mothers and children, and that the flames
leaping like serpents would take the child from
the mothers arms, and they were ready to do it
to preserve the infamous institution OF slavery
an the Democratic party never have objected
to it from that day to this. They burned up
steamboats, and many men with them, and the
hounds that did it are skulkng In the woods OF
Missouri. While these things were going on,
Democrats in the highest position said So Not
one cent to prosecute the war;"
The political principles of the Republican
! party are as broad as this continent-as ex-
| tensive as humanity itself. They welcome
every one to this country who is friend of
humanity and of human progress. They have
q welcome for the Methodist, for the Catholic,
! for the Old School Presbyterian, and for the
infidel, provided he is in favor of the eternal
equality of human rights. loud and pro-
| longed applause.] And the Republicans go
| further than that we believe il is right to
allow every man to do his own thinking, and
to express his own thoughts. We will suffer
no fetter on the brain, no chain on the hand
of man. [Renewed applause.l
PAYING THE NATIONAL DEBT.
| The next question we have to consider is
about paying the debt contracted in procuring
munitions of war to enable US to shoot the
Democrats. ELaughter.1 This is the first
question. The second question is the protec-
ton Of the citizen, whether he is white or
black. [Applause.] We owe large debt.
| Two-thirds of that debt was incurred in conse-
quence of the action and the meanness of the
Democrats. There are some people who think
that you can defer the payment of promise so
| long as the postponement Of the debt Will serve
in lieu of it's iquidation-that you pay your
debts by putting off your creditor Laughter.
Some people have an idea that the Govern
ment can pay its debts when it substitutes one
| piece Of paper for another-that the Govern
ment can make money by stamping it's sove-
reignty on a piece of paper. But this is not
the case. The Government is a perpetual pau
per. 1t passes round the hat and solicits con-
tributions but then you must remember that
the Government has 8 musket behind the hat.
The Government produces nothing. 1t does
not pillow the land, it does not SOW corn, it does
not grow trees. The Government is perpetual
consumer. The people have to support the
| Government the Government cannot support
the people. TO suppose that they can issue
money to the people is as absurd as to suppose
! that my hired man ca1l issue certificate of my
| indebtedness to him for me to live on. The
| Government has no money but what it re-
ceived from the people. 1t had, therefore, to
| borrow money to carry on the war. Every
greenback that it issued was a forced
loan. My notes are not a legal tender.
though, if I had the power, 1 might posi-
bly, make them so. Laughter We borrow
money and we have to pay the debt That
debt represents the expenses of war; The
horses and the gurpowder and the rifles and
| the artillery are represented in that debit
represents all the munitions of war. Until we
pay that debt we can never be a solvent nation.
| Until our net profits amount to as much as we
| lost during the war we cannot be a solvent
people. If man cannot understand that there
! is no use in talking to him on the subject. The
alchemists in old times who fancied that they
conld make gold out of nothing were not more
absurd than the American advocates of soft
money They resemble the early explorers of
our continent who lost years in searching for
! the fountain of eternal youth, but the ear of
age never caught the gurglo of that spring.
| We all have heard of men who spent years of
labor in endeavoring to produce perpetual mo-
ton. They produced machines of the most
/ ingenious character, with cOgs and wheels and
| pulleys without number, but these ingenious
machines had one fault, they would not go.
You will never find way to make money out of
nothing. It is SIS great nonsense as the foun-
tain of perpetual youth. You cannot do it.
Gold is the best material which labor has yet
found as measure of value. That measure of
value must be as valuable as the object it
measures. saw the sovereignty of Rome i'm
pressed on piece Of Caesars coin. Caesar died
as long ago as the Democratic party ought to
have died, but the coin was lntr1ns1cally valu-
| able though the sovereignty it represented lad
disappeared from the face of the earth. The
sovereignty of country is to be got in diff
ferent way. 1t has to be raised. 1t has to rep
resent labor. The value of gold arises from
the amount of labor expended in producing it.
gold dollar will buy as much labor as pro-
duced that dollar. tell you another thing.
| This debt has to be paid. We ought to make
the Democrats pay it, for they lost the case AMI
should pay the costs. Loud cheers and laugh
ter. There is a mortgage on the continent
on the land of the country, on the honor of
the Republican party, and that mortgage must
be paid. Loud and prolonged cheers. Every
blade of grass is a guarantee that it will be
paid; every field Of corn, every hammered hill
that rises in the length and breadth of this
republic is a guarantee that it will be paid
every penny of it. Loud cheers.] All the
minerals Of the country are a guaran-
tee that it will be paid. Ali the coal
that was boarded in the bowels of the earth
millions OF years ago by that old miser, the
sum- is a guarantee for the liquidation of this
| debt. So is every ounce of silver and gold
slumbering in the strata of this continent
waiting to be xcavated-waiting to give back to
the sun the flash which it received from his
radiance. Every good man and woman-every
| babe in the cradle and. every boy in the coun-
| try that is going to vote the Republican ticket
| is a guarantee that the national debt will be
paid. Long and prolonged cheers.] Here
| the speaker opened telegram from Maine,
which he read to the audience amid perfect
tempest of applause. 1t contained the follow
| ing words 'sWe have triumphed by an I'M
mense majority, something we have not
achieved since 1861 Loud and prolonged
applause. voice" Three cheers for Maine,
which waas enthusiastically responded to by
the entire meeting. The speaker resumed.]
And this dispatch is signed by the man who
clutched the throats of the Democrats and held
them until they grew black in the face, James
G. Blaine. Enthusiastic cheers.l Now the
| question is, who is most apt to pay that debt
Those who swore it was constitutional, or those
who swore it was unconstitutional Every
time Democrat sees greenback, it says to
him, g vanquished YOU" [Applause.] Every
time Republican sees greenback, it says,
''You and Iput the rebellion down." [Cheers.]
There is another question which must be
consider, after the debt. There is a gentle
man who has written an essay on finance.