Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-08

! time. Let us keep at it. But, my
friends, there must come time with in
fation, the point must be reached,
when all the government notes, in the
world would not buy one pin-that all
the government notes in the world
would not be worth as much as last
years Democratic platform. Laughter
and cheers, 1 have no fear but what
these debts will be paid; I have no fear
but what every solitary greenback will
be redeemed. But, my friends, we will
have some trouble doing it. Why9 Be
cause the debt is great deal larger
than it should have been. In the first
place, there should have been no debt.
Ii 1t had not been for the Southern De-
mocracy there would have been no war.
1t 1t had not been-for the Northern De-
mocracy the war would not have lasted
one year. Cheers. When we put out
the greenba ks, the Democrats went to
all the markets In the world and swore
that we never could redeem the paper.
They stuck to it until during the war
gold went up to 200. What did that
mean. It 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 -greenback; they were maligned,
slandered, and illuminated out of the
greenback by the Democratic party of
the North. [Cheers. Whenever a
Democrat talks about hard times, tell
him, "Your party made the hard times. J"
Whenever Democrat wants to get
sympathy on account of the ma
tional debt, tell him, ssYour
party made the national debt"
There was man tried in court once for
having murdered his own father and
his own mother. He was found guilty,
and the Judge asked him, "What have
you to say why sentence of death should
not be pronounced upon you?" "Noth-
ing in the world, Judge" said he,
"Only hope your Honor will have pity
on me, and remember that I am poor
orphan" Loud laughter. The Demo
cratic party made this debt; the Demo-
cratic party caused these hard times,
and how they go around the country
and ask sympathy from the people be-
cause the Democrats are suffering such
hard times. Laughter and cheers
When you think about this debt,
charge two-thirds of it to the Democ-
racy of the North, and charge the other
third to the Democracy of the South,
and if you have to work to get this
money, and in working blister your
hands, pull off the blisters, and under
every blister you will find
A NORTHERN DEMOCRATIC LIE.
Laughter. L have no doubt, I say,
but that this debt will be paid. We
have got the honor to pay it; and we do
not pay it on account of the avarice or
greed of the bondholder. An honest
man does not pay money to a creditor
simply because the creditor wants IL.
An honest man pays at the command of
his honor, and not at the demand of his
creditor. Applause. The United
the creditor demands it, but because
we owe it. The United States will
lquidate every debt at the command of
its honor, and every cent will be paid
War is destruction; war is loss: and all
the property destroyed, all the time
lost, put together amounted to what, SO
to speak, we call our national debt.
When we shall have made as much net
profit as there was dead loss during the
war, then We shall be solvent people
then the greenback will be redeemed. We
expect to redeem it on the LIST day of
January, 1879. Cheers We will fail
If the prosperity of the country fails,
but we intend to try and do it, and if
we fail, We will fail as soldier fails to
take fort high upon the ramparts with
the flag OF resumption in our hands.
Cheers. We will not say that we can
not pay the debt, because there is day
fixed when the debt is to be paid l
had to give my note, and [ recollect
distinctly that every man I gave my
note to insisted that somewhere in that
note there should be some tender hint
as to the cycle, as tc the geological
period, as to the time, as to the century
and date, that [ expected to pay that
little note. [ never understood that
having time fixed would prevent my
being industrious, that it would inter-
fere with my honesty, or with my
activity, or with my desire to discharge
that debt, and if any man in this crowd
owed you 81 900, due the LIST day of next
January, and he should come to you and
say, 81 want to pay that debt, but
you must take the date out of that
note" 'Why ?" he would say.
"Why," he would reply in the language
of Tilden, 81 have got to make wise
preparation. ''Then," you would say,
''Why don't you do it ?" ss-But T can
not do it while you have that date in
that note Another thing, he says, 81
have to get me central reservoir of
coin and. do you know, I have al
ways thought [ should like to see the
Democratic party around a central reser-
voir of coin. Laughter would like
to SET it. Suppose this debtor also told
you, ST want the date out of that note,
because I have got to come at it by
very slow and a very gradual process.
"Well," you would reply, 81 don't
care how slow or how gradual you are,
provided you come round by the time
the note is DUE" What would you
think of man who wanted the date out
of note? You would think he was a
mixture of rascal and Democrat
Laughter. No, my friends, we are
going to pay that money. Every man
II Lo,