The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-30
TILDEN SERENADED.
GREAT GATHERING OF PEOPLE AND
GREAT ENTHUSIASM
Gov. rilden Says IA Great Deal in a Few
Words.

ALBANY, June 29.-Gov. Tilden was
serenaded tonight by the Jacksonians.
Fully 5000 people surrounded the execu-
tive mansion. After the conclusion Of the
congratulations, hand shaking, etc.. the
governor addressed the concourse as fol-
| lows:
Gentlemen of the Jackson Corps
cordially thank you for this manifestation
OF your kindness. do not forget that last
year you enrolled me among you as an
honorary member, | regard with salts
faction and pride your excellent discipline
and training as a military body. |
recognize in you many representatives of
the working men of Albany, and when |
say working men do not forget that in
our country the number who live upon the
income of what they haye accumulated or
inherited is extremely small, and that
nearly every citizen of our vast republic
lives on the product of his daily toll. In
America we are nearly all working men.
! Therefore the interest and prosperity of
that class may almost be said to be the
interest and prosperity of the country.
No country which the sun ever shone on
has had so many blessings as our own.
Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
from the great Lakes of the north to the
Gulf Of Mexico, with a generous climate
with fertile soil, with every natural and
artificial facility for travel and transporta-
ton, with all the arts and industries of al
civilizations, ,Aourishing amid the boundless
natural wealth Of virgin continent. We
ought to be to day the most prosperous
most happy and contented people in The
world. But what is our actual condition
All business is depressed, every industry
languishing, labor without employment
and the wolf at the door of nearly every
home in the land. What is the matter
J We know that for the last eleven years
! since peace, the earnings of labor, the in
: come of capital, have been consumed
: or wasted in government expenditures
The taxes drawn from the people Of tn
. United States have been larger than tn
!. entire net earnings of the whole $4,000,
600. These taxes have increased within
short period four-fold and its inhuenc
is felt upon every business and every il
dustry, and in every home throughou
= our broad land. What next do we find
In the public administration, everywhere
abuses, peculations. frauds and corrur
ton, until we are almost becomin
ashamed of the institutions of our cour
try. Instead of holding them up as ez
amples for the imitation of the oppresse
= people of other countries, we are confess
! ing them as a scandal 10 the eyes of mar
kind. The government no longer exist
, for the people. The people exist only fo
: the government. Our centennial Pre-
duct is evils license and wrongs, to es
cape which our ancestors abandoned the
homes in the old world and planted then
selves in the wilderness Now ask, ,wha
is the remedy for these public evils, fc
this private distress, for this disorder
business which carries suffering into ever
household, a voice in the crowd, "th
election of TiIden.'l 1t is comprised
one word reform" Reform of th
public administration. Cheers. l al
heartily with you in sympathy and actor
| am happy to meet you to mig ght. tru
| shall have an opportunity of seeing yo
hereafter again Thanking you for yor
kind attention, / bid you good evening.