Ottumwa weekly courier., 1876-11-01
our share, but we want them to pa,

lator that was caught with propert.
on his hands upon which he 0wes
more than the property Is worth
wanted the. game to 20 on littl
longer. Whoever heard of maj
playing poker that wanted to Qui
when he was a loser. Laughter.
He wants to have a fresh deal. HI
wants another hand, and he dom
want any man that Is ahead to juml
the game. Laughter and applause.
1t is so with the spectators in thi
country. They bought land, they
bought houses, they bought goods, ,an6
when the crisis and crash came the,
were caught with the property OF
their hands, and they want another
Imitation, they want another tide Il
rise that will again sweep this drift
wood into the middle Of the grca
financial stream. That is all. Every
lot in this city that was worth $500
and thatis now worth $2,O00-do you
know what is the matter with tha
lot? 1t has been redeeming. 1t ha,
been resuming. That is what is thu
matter with that lot. Every man tha
owned property that has now faller
so per cent, that property has beer
resuming and if you could have an
other imitation tomorrow, the day
that the bubble would burst would
find thousands of speculators who
paid as much for property as property
was then worth, and they would ash
for another tide of affairs in men. They
would ask for another imitation
What for? To let them out and pu
somebody else in. Laughter.]
We want no more imitation. W.
want the simple, honest payment o1
the debt, and to pay it out of the
prosperity of this country. "But,'
says the greenback man, 1--WE never
had as good times as when we had
plenty of greenbacks." Suppose o
farmer would buy farm for $iOO, 600
and give his note. He would buy
carriages, horses and wagons and ag-
ricultural implements, and give his
note. He would send Mary, Jane and
lucy to school. He would buy them
pianos, and send them to college, and
he would give his note and the next
year he would give his note for the
interest, and the next year again his
note, and finally they would come to
him and say, 1--WE must settle up; we
have taken your notes as long as we
can; we want money! "Why," he
would say to the gentleman, 81 never
had as good time in my life as while
I have been giving those notes.
never had a farm until the man gave
it to me for. my note. My children
have been clothed as we'll as any,
body's. We have had carriages; we
have had fine horses and our house
has been filed with music and laugh
ter, and dancing,and why not keep on
taking those notes 2" So il is with
the grcenback man; he says, "When
we were running in debt we had a
jolly time--let us keep it up.' But
my friends, there. must come time
when imitation wonld reach that point
when all the government notes i'm the
world wouldn't buy pin that all the
government notes in the world would
not be worth as much as the last
years Democratic platform. Laugh
ter and applause.
have no fear but what these debts
will be paid. | have no fear but
what every solitary greenback dol
lar will be redeemed but, my friends,
we will have some trouble doing it.
Why? Because the debt is great
deal larger than 1t should have been.
In the first place there should have
been no debt. If it had not been for
the southern democracy there would
have been no war. If it hadn't been
for the northern democracy the war
wouldn't have lasted one year.
Cheers-voices, "That's so..1 When
we put out the greenbacks, the demo-
Gratis went to all the markets in the
world and sworc that we never
could redeem that paper. They
stuck to it during the period oi
the war until gold went up to 800
What did it mean? 1t meant
that the greenback dollar was only
worth 81 cents. That is what it meant.
What became of the other 66 cents
They were lied out of the greenbacks.
They were maligncd and slandered
and illuminated out of the green
back by the democrats of the North.
Whenever a democrat talks about
hard times, tell him, "Your party
made the hard times" Whenever q
democrat wants to get sympathy on
account of the national debt, tell him
"You made the national debt
There was man tried in court fol-
having murdered his own father and
his own mother. He was found
guilty and the Judge asked him
"What have You to say that sentence
of death shall not be pronounced or
you! 7" "Nothing in the world
Judge" said he, "only / hope your
Honor will take pity on me and re.
member that | am poor orphan
Laughter and applause; renewed
laughter.] The democratic party
made this debt The democratic par
ty caused these hard times, and now
they go about the country and ash
sympathy from the people because
hard times. When you think about
this debt, charge two-thirds of it Il
the democracy of the North; charge
the other third to the democracy O
the South, and if you have to worl
to get this money, and in working
blister your hands, pull off the bills
ter, and under every blister you will
find a northern democratic lie
Laughter and applause. l say, ]
have no doubt but that this deb
will be paid. We have got the honor
to pay it, and we do not pay it on &C
count of the avarice or greed of tn,
bondholder. An honest man dom
pay money to creditor simply be
cause the creditor wants 1t. The hon
est man pays at the command of hi
honor, and not at the demand Of tn,
creditor. Applause. The United
States will pay its debts, not becaus,
the creditor demands, but because W,
owe it. The United States will liqui
date every debt at the command o
| its honor, and every cent will be paid
War is destruction, war is loss, ant
all the property destroyed, and tn,
time that is lost, put together, amour
to what we call national debt
When in peace we shall have made q
much net profit as there was wealtl
lost in the war, then we will be .
solvent people.
| The greenback will be redeemed
we expect to redeem it on the 1st day
Of January, 1879. We may fail; w
will fail if the prosperity Of the coun
try fails; but we intend to try to d.
! it, and if we fail, we will fail as sol
dier fails to take fort, high upon tn
rampant, with the flag Of resumption
in our hands. [Applause.] We will
not say that VIC cannot pay the deb
because there is date fixed when tn
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