The Morning herald., 1876-10-19
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commercial In the NOrh1 Go along Mar
ket street, and bow many shops and stores
are there for rent? What tale does this
tell Don't II spoak of the continual de-
preston Of manufactures, commerce and
lrades Look. ar our neighboring city Of
Philadelpbia-twO weeks ago last Monday,
the sheri6's hammer fell 1I73 times In one
day, and with every fall brought woe to
some poor mans heart. Eleven hundred
and seventy-three sherif's sales Why ID
this3 Because FOUNDERS and ringsters
have risen in two or three years
from earning 81 so a day to be millicnaires,
living in palaces, driving thousand dollar
horses and drinking wipes Of the costliest
vintage. Sixteen years ago w0rkiDgman
could rent comfortable house in Philadel-
phia for six dollars month !; he cannot pnt
his nose into house now under fifteen or
twenty dollars. Wages, payable In paper
money, have come down almost to tho
standard of gold in 1890 There are twenty
six working days 10 the month-at ono
dollar per diem, that is twenty six dollars.
1t used to take one fourth of that for house
rent sixteen years ag0-three- e-fourths is de-
manded to-day, and 1t is not the landlords
fault. There are In Philadelphis to-day,
not withstanding the Fictitious excitement Of
the Centennial Exhibition, at least twenty
Thousand idle men, the city has mortgage
upon every mans house amounting to more
than 80 per cent. of the rental If 1t rents
for twelve month, the city takes four!
Republican officials live on the taxes wrung
from the people--such are the men who are
responsible for this terrible condition Of af-
fairs.
If you have farm or any business In
the hands Of an agent or manager, and any
thing goes wrong, whom do you hold re-
sponsible Do you not charge tho manager
or agent with the fullest 1esponsibility Of
any disastrous consequences. Assui edly 1t
is fair 80 10 hold and charge him II 10,
we may fairly lay upon the party IN
power all the evils that exist and now AZ
flict the body polite. Before A. D. 1850
would ask aoy man ia his large assembly
II the cry OF famine Was ever heard In this
land? The cry that we thought was con-
hned TO he Quarter Moutmarte in Parts-to
some of the Chimes" cities of Asia-the cry
of 'bread or blood, We thought was cry
which would never find its echo upon
the sir of this land. Such q thing as the
gaunt wolf OF famine, bowling ct the door
o; the workingMan, we felt never
would be listened 10 in this free land. When
the cry of "bread" came up from Sheffield
and Manchester, we freighted ships and
sent them there filled with the necessaries
of life. (Applause.) ;.
One hundred and twenty thousand men and
fif,y thousand women are now walking the
streets of New York asking, praying for the
opportunity to earn the bread which pride
| will not permit them to beg! Asking the
chance to earn their bread by the sweat Of
their brow, as God promised that man
should earn it. Our savings banks are de-
pleted with the constant demand upon them.
No less than seven savings banks have failed
in the city of New York because the small
deposits that 30 to make up the immense
aggregate have all dribbled away. So with
tue Pbiladelphia savings banks. In the
| first institution of the kind founded on this
continent the average receipts have run
down nearly million dollars in the three
years past. Who are the losers and gain
ers9 When you read that q cabinet officer
was scourged out OF his place for stealing
money that was wruug from you by unjust
taxation, and feel that they were the saw
ings you had laid by for rainy day;
ought it net make your blood boil If you
are poor man, gradually approaching beg
pary, you have but one name for the Of
f.nce. Look at the record of RobesoR, the
Secretary Of the Navy, that was sworn to
before the investigating committee Of the
House of Representative. When he went
into Office, he had been returning $500 per
year income; and 1t was sworn that he
could not pay bill of twenty dollars with
out being dunned dozen times. In fourteen
months he had q uepositt In five banks Of
$464, 900. Why are you hungry 1t is because
Belknap, Robeson, and Cresswell, live on the
fat of the land, and their wives dress in the
richest of silks, and roll by In the finest Of
carriages. Such u state OF things existing
among the leaders Of the Republican party
is the exact reason why your men are idle,
your children famishipg, and your wives
suffering the pangs Of starvation. CAP
plsuse.
In every city of the nation there are
thousands of idle men. How long will an
idle man be able to keep roof over his
head2 Some of you who are, perhaps,
members of the Republican party, If you
have been idle for several months, and have
eaten up your last dollar, If you don't get
employ ymeut-how long will 1t be until you
are houselesss Do you see precisely the
same condition of things that led to the
degradation and depopulation of other
countries, has commenced in our own; and
unless you stop it, that the same results
must necessarily follow?
Before the American people two great
parties stand; you are to Judge Of the tree
by It's fruits. 1t is said in the Scriptures
that "a good tree bringeth forth good fruit,
and bad tree bringeth forth corrupt fruit
J by their fruits ye shall know them,''
Patrick Henry, in one of his grandest flightl
| of seloquence, said: 1--WE know of nc
| means Of judging of the future but by the
past" allude to this merely to suggest
the method upon which I am going tx
speak and l want to refer now to tht
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