Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-11-01

and all this talk about il is moonshinc,
a dream INDUCED in for partisan pur-
poses and to serve political ambition.
A friend of mine whom met here
tonight, [referring to Forney, said ~
can't 10 with the confederate army"
can. I'll be glad to have than all, to
bind North and South in indissolublc
bonds of everlasting amity and con-
cord. They call the last House the
Confederate House, but | have found
the Southern members sincere men,
men who, though once wrong on Sc
cession and slavery, are now firm in
their convictions in favor of the Union
The Republican party makes boast
that 1t fought tho war. Why the lead
ing generals of the Union army-Sber-
man, Sheridan and Grant, went from
the Democratic party, and likely Grant
would be in II yet, but that the Re-
publicans made him President. The
soldiers could not all have come from
the Republican party. 100000 were
on the muster rolls Of the army. Only
100000 persons voted for Lincoln.
Not halt Of these went to the army.
Conceding that they did, where did
the other l,b00,0 900 come from? Turn
to the rosters of the army, read the re-
cords of the dead, number the manned,
or count the widows and orphans and
you will find there were as many Dem
ocrats as Republicans Applause.
The time has come when there should |
lie an end OF this clamor. The people
saved the Union.
THE HARD TIMES.
Now we come back to the first point.
What has caused the hard timesY 1t
is simple story. In eleven years the
United States government has raised
s4,5OO, 900, 600 ofrevcnuc. Apportion-
ing this over the whole country, the
share of Lancaster county would be
$4,000, 900 or considerably over ST.
100000 per annum, from this county
alone. OF course this has not been by
direct taxation, but in more insidious
form The tax has been hidden in the
price of the article consumed. If you
take a glass of lager, you get as much
tax as lager, and if you should drink
whisky, you get three times as much
tax as whisky. [ [Laughter1 You can't
get at one match OF q box without
breaking stamp which cost more
than the match. Everything you cat,
drink, or wear is taxed. Light and
locomotion, food and raiment, and ev-
erything that affects any one of the
sensibiltios is taxed in this manner.
Suppose that your county commission
crs would levy tax Of 81 900, 900 for
single year. 1t would raise local
revolution. But this has been insidi-
ously done by the government to raise
revenue for prohigate expenditure, un-
til even well-to-do men cannot make
both ends meet This is the whole sto-
ry. The land has been drained OF its
substance Tor the support of misgov-
ernmcnt and the consequences that
have cnsued are as logical as the pov.
erty of Ireland from the abstraction OF
its land rents,
THE FINANCIAL POLICY
What has the Republican party done
to increase this depression? Chief
among its acts was the first ono signed
by Grant, which made the $40 bonds
payable in coin, when the agreement
was that they should be paid in the
money which was paid for them-the
legal tender Of the country. These
bonds, issued on basis Of 100000.
900 grccnback currency,wcre purchas-
cd with currency worth only go cents
in gold. Thaddeus Stevens declared
that that was the original contract.
Before the election of 1868 Sherman
declared that il was, and so did the
Republican platforms In Ohio, Indiana
and Pennsylvania. 1t was q good
enough Morgan until aftcrthe election.
1t was used to carry the election, and
Immediately after the election thissame
Republican party, under the lead of
this same Sherman, against the protest
Of this same Stevens, legislated that
these bonds should be paid in gold.
The result of this was to send them
abroad, and from this country to Eu.
rope there has ever since been steady
drain upon our material resources.
This act alone added $500, 900 to
our national debt without any reason
or justice.
THE DEMoEETIzATioN OF SILVER.
BY the act of a Republican Congress
in demonetizing silver, refusing to al.
low it to be paid for the government
bonds, ten per cent. has been added to
the entire Indebtedness of the country
government, state, municipal, corpo-
rativc and private. These aggregate
$40, ,O00, ,0O0,000,so that the actual bur
den imposed upon the people by the
decentralization Of silver is sl,0O0,000,
OO0-solely and entirely in the inter
est of the plutocrats Of England, Ger
many and Wall street. They have got
up "corncr" in gold by the aid OF tho
government. What would become Of
q farmer who having incurred debt
payable in coin at 6Oc. should be com.
PEELED to pay il in bushels Of wheat at
S1.O02
such are the great causes induced by
Republican legislation that have caus-
cd our ruin. ! have not time TO speak
Of the thousand party steals OF the
Babcocks and Belknaps and other
sources q corruption, whose influence
has pcrmcated the whole land and is
enough to ruin any country.
3. Which of the two presidential
candidates would bc more likely TO
bring about the desired rciorm2 Hayes
says reform is needful, but certainly be
cannot effect it. When man is elect
ed his party controls his administra-
tion. A party is made up of millions,
and IL is the average purpose of them
that gives color to an administration.
This is expressed in conventions, eau
cases and by party leaders. Morton
says president cannot break loose
from his party, and therefore, though
Hayes may be fair, honest and pat
riotic man, be cannot rcpudiate Morton,
Conkling, Chandler and Cameron.
Greater men than hc tried to reform
the party and failed. Sumner tried it
and failed. Greeley tried and failed.
Trumbull, Schurz, Henderson, and q
score of others tried to reform it, and
only found themsevcsr reformed outside
of the party lines Charles Francis
Adams shared their fate, and though
may not speak of myself in such com
pany, have had tho same experience.
No party ever reformed itself. no indi-