The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-23
DOMINANT DEMOCRACY.
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their advent a date, and make very simple COM
parison Eight years ago the wages OF every labor
ing man within the sound Of my voice ranged from
two dollars to two dollars and half per day and gold
ranged from los to ll2- To-day his wages range
from dollar to dollar and quarter per day and
gold ranges from 81 IL to 81 Is. (Applause) Eight
years ago farmers were growing
rich. To-day oRe-half the farms be-
tween the Ohio river and the lakes are
under cut throat mortgage to eastern capitalists.
Eight years ago merchants carried large stocks of
goods and sold them at fair profit and met their
bills promptly To-day your stocks are small your
give you trouble. Eight years ago
every mechanic in the land employed.
To-day, thousands upon thousands of them are beg
ging for work that their wives and little may
not beg for bread nor suffer from the cold of the
coming winter; Eight years ago every factory and
day one-half of them closed, and the
highways and by-ways filled with tramps, and
the red flag of the sherifrs may be seen upon
every street. Do exaggerate? Do you not know
that 1t is painfully and undoubtedly true, that for
three years or more
DARK CLOUD OF DEEP DEPRESSION,
growing darker and darker every day,
slowly but surely, has settled like a
funeral pail upon the business and commercial in
terests Of the countryi The very first question that
suggests Itself is this-whO is responsible for this
condition Of things? And methnks hear a thOus-
and postmasters cry out, the rebellion, the rebellion
and from out the jalls and penitentiaries of
Indiana and Illinois comes the plaintiye echo from
the trembling lips ofreyenue thieves The rebellion
caused it all. That the and substance of
your distinguished senator's arguments here a week
ago. That if there be depression in the country, if
there be hard times, it was caused
10y the rebellion. Lee Across the Atlantic is
state of Texas In 1870 the sword and the torch and
the needle-gun and the bayOnet held wild carnival
within her borders. The ambitious monarch
who then ruled her destiniss brought upon
her with Germany. Her vineyards were
trampled into the earth; her cities burned;
her commerce was destroyed. The red plowshare Of
WAR CAST UP ITS FRIGHTFUL BURROWS
from the Alps to the. Pyreenees and from
the English channel to the Meii-
terranean, and up to the very heart
of the capitalize city of Paris. And then came
finally, the crushing defeat starvation DEATH and
all the bloody horrors of the commune. The con-
querOrs took from that nation her richest provnces
eXacted from her indemnity of 1000
100000 of dollars in coin. But five
years have passed and France, France, the country
We have often sneered at incapable Of self govern
ment has paid the last cent of that indemnify owes
no foreign nation a single dollar, has equipped
cent navy, prosperity reigns throughout
her borders and to-day if officer of her govern
ment were charged with fraud, and they should cry
out the German war, they would put his guilty
slider for moment this example of France Consider
the vast resources of the United States. Consider
that have had eleven, not five years of peace aud
during this eleven years have paid into the federal
treasury twice as much money the national debt
amounts to- Consider that all this time
the Democratic party th has been aS
has had absolute and undisputed cont rol of every
department of the government, and where, ask
does the responsibility belongp Youand both know
that it is cowar0ly-comiLg from craven
lips, when hear these politicians
The last Democratic Congress spent $50 600 DO less
of the peoples money than the Congress did the year
before Did the rebellion that? To-day poll
ticians are