The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-07-07
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''We denounce the Republican party
for its failure, for all these eleven years
to make good the promise of the legal
tender notes which are a changing
standard of value in the hands OF the
people, and the non-payment o. which
is a disregard of the plighted talth OF
the nation.
eve denounce the improvidence
with which ia eleven years of peace
has taken from the peple in Federal
taxes thirteen times the whole amount
of the legal tender notes, and squan-
dered four times this sum in useless
expense. without accommodating any re
serve for their redemption.
We denounce the financial imbecil-
ity and immortality Of that party which,
during eleven years of peace, has made
no advance toward resumption, no
preparation for resumption, but in
stead, has obstructed resumption by
wasting our resources and exhausting
all our surplus income, and while an
nualiy protesting to intend a speedy
return TO specie payment, has annually
enacted fresh hindrances thereto. As
such a hindrance, we denounce the
resumption clause of the act of 1879,
and We here demand its repeal.
We demand a judicious system of
preparation by public economies, by
official retrenchments, and by wise
finance, which shall enable the Nation
soon TO assure tie whole world of its
perfect ability and its perfect readiness
to meet any of its promises at the call
of the creditor entitled to payment.
We believe such system, well de-
vised. and, above all entrusted to COM
petent hands for execution, creating
at no time an artificial scarcity of cur
rency, and at no time alarming the
| public mind into a withdrawal of that
vaster machinery of credit, by which
95 per cent. of all business transactions
are performed, a system open, public,
and inspiring general confidence,
would, from the day of its adoption,
bring healing on its wings to all our
harrassed industry, and set in motion
| the wheels of commerce, manufactures,
| and the mechanical arts, restore EN-
| ployment to labor, and renewing in all
its National sources the prosperity of
the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and
moSe of Federal taxation, to the end
that capital may be set free from dis
trust and labor lightly burdened.
We denounce the present tariff,
levied upon nearly four thousand
articles, as masterpiece ofinjustice in
equality and false pretense. 1t yields
dwindling, not yearly rising, reve-
nue.. 1t has impoverished many indus
tries to subsidize a few 1t prohibits
imports that might purchase the pro-
ducts of American labor. 1t has de-
graded American commerce from the
first to an inferior rank upon the high
seas. 1t has cut down the sales of
American manufacturers at home and
abroad, and depleted the returns of
American agriculture, an industry fol-
lowed by half our people. Itcosts the
people five times more than it pro-
duces to the Treasury; obstructs the
processes of production, and wastes the
fruits OF labor. 1t promotes fraud,
fosters smuggling, enriches dishonest
officials, and bankrupts honest mer-
chants. We demand that all Custom
house taxation shall be only for reve-
nue..
Reform is necessary, in the scale of
public expense, Federal, State and
municipal. Our Federal taxation has
swollen from $50, 900, 600 gold, in 1860.
to $500, 600, 600 currency in 1870. Our
aggregate taxation, S1S, 600, 600 gold,
in 1860, to S730, 600, 600 currency in
1870, or in one decade from less than
S5 per head to more than SIS per head
Since the peace, the people have paid
TO their taX-gatherers more than twice
the SUM OF the national debt and more
than twice that sum for the FederaI
government alone. We demand Wig
orous frugality in every department,
and from every officer of the govern
ment.
Reform is necessary to put stop to
the profiigate waste of public lands,
and their diversion from actual settlers |
by the party in power, which has |
squandered 2,000, 900 acres upon rail
roads alone, and out of more than |
thrice that aggregate has disposed of |
less than sixth directly TO tillers of |
the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of Il Republican Congress
and the errors of our treaties and our
diplomacy, which have stripped our
fellow-citizeDs of foreign birth and
kindred race recrossing the Atlantic of
the shield of American citizenship, and
have exposed our brethren of the Pa
cific Coast TO the incursions of a race
not sprung from the same great parent
stock, and, in fact. now by law denied
citizenship through naturalization, as
being neither accustomed to the tradi-
tions of a progressive civilization, nor
exercised III liberty under equal law"
THE MONGoLIAN RESOLUTION.
MIR. Dorsheimer-l will say that at
the end of the resolution relating to
the matter of Mongolian importation
there were two or thee lines of the Ian
guage adopted by the committee which
were written in lead pencil, and which
| was unable TO read, and the Secreta-
ry, when have closed, will supply the
omission.
Mr.. Brown, of Oregon-We want
Oh that committee myself. demand
that that shall be read in conjunction
with the other. Cries of NO"
"No."I
Mr.. Dorsheimer-Your committee
have also had referred to them, and
the adoption of the follow
ing resolutions:
"ReSolced, That this Convention,
the Democratic party of
the States, do cordially indorse the
action of the present House of Repre-
sentatives lapplausel |, in reducing and
curtailing the expenses of the Federal
in cutting down salaries,
extravagant appropriations, and in
useless offices and places not
required by the public necessities, and
we shall trust to the firmness of the
Democratic members of the House,
that no committee of conference, and
no Misrepresentation of rules will be
allowed TO defeat these wholesome
of economy demanded by the
Applause
-" "ResOLDed, That the Soldiers and
Sailors of the Republic, and the wild
ows and orphans of those who have
fallen in battle, have a just claim up
on the care. protection and gratitude
of their fellow citizens" Applause.
Gov. Dorsheimer-The resolutions
closes as follows: ''We denounce the
policy which thus discards the liberty
loving German and tolerates a revival
of the Cooley trade in Mongolian wo-
men, imported for immoral purposes,
and demaud such a modification of
the treaty with the Chinese Empire,
and such Legislation, within constitu-
tional limitations, as shall prevent the
further importation Of immigration of
the Mogolian race" Cries of good
bully and cheers