The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-10-19
+, speaker Randall.

HIS ADDRESS At LAbdE hhss-assfiiNH
WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN PHILADELPHIA.
= A large mass-ineeting Of the Democratic
citizens OF the Third Ward was addressed
wednesday evening by Hon. Samuel j.
Randall in the, bali at the corner OF Eighth
and Christian. streets. He spoke almost en-
tirely upon the financial Question, and
among other things be said. ~ 81
q The Democratic party, in IT'S iife-iong
history, has given support, SO lar as It was
able, to the laboring man against the en-
roachmcnts OF those who attempted to make
unjust laws in favor of. the CAPITALIST as
against the laborer.. 4. The 'laborer' is as good
as the capitalist, and no better. The CAPT.
talist is as good as. the laborer, and no bet
AS labor in prosperous times aids cap
ftal. it Is my belief that In hard times capital
should. extend to labor that same reel procai
feeling and aid. The Labor 0" Greenback
party demands an unlimited, irredeemable
Daper currency, and that the bonds be
paid in that CURRENCY. Our Radicals say
that the. bonds should he paid In gold. l.
would ask of every Republican in this dis
trfct how he can, with any political Iconsis-
tency, expect: to have that principle enunci-
ated upon the floor OF Congress by my hon
orable opponent, MI. Shedden, who stands
upon the platform of the Greenback party.
He must be for either one or the other.
He can't vote both ways. I believe that
there are gross abuses existing IN connec-.
ton with our misunderstanding system.
Ranking is nothing more nor less than q
business, and our present laws create a dis.
tinction in favor of banking as against any
other business" and the Democratic party
proposes, so far as can understand, that
no longer shall double interest be paid
the banker. You all know / voted against
the resumption act. ] don't believe you can
bring about specie-payment by any law.
I believe it may be reached by natural trade
results, and I do not believe that act has
brought the country to the condition by
which we may resume ON the LIST OF Janrla-
nv. That condition has been brought about
by the balance OF: trade being in our favor
for the past three years. This it is that has
brought about that condition by which MIR.
Sherman may be enabled to resume on
January 1st. But what has been the condl-
ton OF the manufacturers during this pc
riodS They are strewn along the WaysIde;
bankrupt and broken, and this spectacle
was produced by the enactment OF a law
and the pursuit OF a policy which might as
well have directed water to run up hill as
to bring about resumption by an unnatural,
arbitrary law. -. -
cit has been said that public debt is a
public blessing. a public! debt is public
curse, especially when that debt is, not held
among the people themselves, but held IN
foreign country. It is a continual source OF
blood-ietting. :. It is with great pleasure that
see the people now becoming economical
and the country consequently 1ase growing
rich. The next House will be Democratic,
I think. think can safely say that we viii
have ,ooiaritv in it larger nv twenty than
we had at the last session. The Senate, the
first time for twenty years, will be Democrat
lie. With the power in the two legislatures OF
the land, we can, believe, so promote le-
sislation that its benefits, like the rain from
heaven, will fall on all alike. I want to say
to the laboring people OF this, district, to
those who may believe that they are going
to better their condition by changing, their
previous political associations, vote cast at
this election for the Greenback-Labor ticket
is q vote thrown away and given practl-
cally In favor of those evils which we want
done away with. The road to prosperity
is only through. economy, and there,
fore on the floor OF Congress l. have
attempted to check the wasteful extrava-
gance OF the Republican Administration.
Now will tell you what am in favor OF.
am in favor Of an abridgment of'the bank
ing. system. Lop off the rotten limbs.
believe ;greenbacks should be made redeem
able in the constitutional currency Of this
country, and that their volume should be
regulated by the demands OF trade. think
the Constitution made gold and silver the
constitutional currency of the country, and
1 say the greenback should be made equal
to and interchane eable with gold and sill
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