Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-11-01

lican party, so called, Is going t.
economic aid retrench. Fancy, 70
instance, Mr.. Blaine the advocate 0
retrenchment! Laughter. Fame,
Schuyler Colfax the apostle Of econo
my! [Laughter,] Why, citizens, i
is a great joke. If Mr.. Hayes really
did wish for economy, re,renehmen
and reform, the moment he succeeded
in becoming President every good
: wish of his would be couDtcrac,ed by
the men that of necessity would be
his Cabinet, his ministers, his advisers,
and overseers. They would make the
thing impossible, because their sup.
porters -thn men standing behind
them--would not all1w it. Citizens,
| am not talking vague political theo-
rles to you. AS look down this
hall, l see the faces Of many men who
earn their bread by the sweat of theit
brow, and whose wages are not very
much more than is necessary to sup
port them honestly in comfort. Re
member, my fellow citizens, that the
wages Of these ofliceholders come out
Of your pockets. All the taxes come
out OF the pockets of the workingmen
The others, the landlords, the manu-
facturers, the merchants are only the
collectors OF the taxes from you; it is
the workingman pays all in the end.
There was an old sign over an innin
London long time ago, and it was
this: There was a king standing upon
the shoulders of soldier; the soldier
was standing upon the shoulders OF
parson ; the parson was standing up
on the shouldesr of an artisan, and
this was the legend written above:
"The king says, i govern I'LL : the
solder says, 4 fight for all the par
son says. i pray for all ! aud the
worEingman says, 4 pay for all. .
[Laughter.] Now, that is the fact,
These things come home to Your
selves. don't mean to say that, if
the Reform party elects its candidates
by any sudden magic, your wages will
he raised, and the difficulties OF life
be made easier. But | mean to say
that the party Of Reform, If it gains
power in the Administration Of the
United States, as Il matter of neces-
sity must cconomiZe, as 9 matter OF
necessity must turn out half Of these
useless otiiceholders. Ten men are
employed nova DAYS in doing Que
mans work. These nine men will be
sent away to turn tneir attention to
digging or carpentry work, or some
honoat occupation, and the United
States will pay only the one man that
does work, and your pockets will be
saved 50 much by the reduction.
Some people say that the commercial
and financial difficulties of this coun
try arise from what is called over pro-
ducion. 1t is no such thing. What |
hurts us, what makes our prospects of |
the future full of alarm, what dimin-
ishes the profits Of capital, what raises
rents, what reduces the wages Of labor
is not the over,producnon of com
it is misgovernment, it is
public plumber, and it is over-taxatioh.
Applause. That is what does the
harm, and | tell you, citizens, that the
time has come when this over-taxation
must be stopped somehow. We men
who stand for Reform, show you
plain. peaceable constitutional way of
extravaganza in the Govern
nent; but if it is not stopped in that
way it will be stopped some worse
way, tor the people can bear no more
.axation without being turned into
oaupcrs from end to end of the land.
And so, fellow citizens, this second
Excuse, which these gentlemen in
" ashington put forward as ? reason
If employing them for the future
hat is that they will reform them
to nothing. The
'nly reform that can be is the reform
complete and effective that will be ap-
died to them when they are sent back
0 their own homes to consider their
'ast, and learn in quiet, and at their
'wn expense, to be better citizens in
he future. [Applause.
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