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THE REPUBLICANS AND RESUMPTION.
For myself and believe that speak for the great
majority OF the Republican party, intend 70 take
no backward step. We propose to stand by the
promise OF the government and protect the laborer
and capitalist from further huetuation and loss by
an irredeemable paper currency: The Republican
party created the greenback in the face Of Demo
cratic denunciation and opposition, and they pro
pose 70 maintain IL in honor when 1t is
pionship OF its late enemies. II IS all tile more
necessary that Republicans should do this when
hhrd money Democrats, who have hitherto aided In
SUSTAINING the public faith are alhng away from us
support. One by one they are joining the ranks OF
the 1ntationists, dropping over into the wilder
neresies Of the Greenback party. can 1maglne me
surprise Of such hard money Senators as Bayard and
Herman when they read the late speech OF Senator
Thurman, their honored leader I shall be sur
pTised If some of them DO not respond 70 him IN MS
own words which he used in the Senate on the 18th
Of March, 1874, when he said:
"Mr. President Notwithstanding the pressure,
nave stood here in obedience to the dictates OF my
own mature Judgment to resist what considered q
dangerous and disastrous imitation of the cuFrency
but begin to believe that those who are opposed to
imitation are falling of one by one, and can not
but remember some words in the book OF Job. where
he reprOaches his friends which it seems 70 me may
be pertnently read:
f'My brethren have dealt deceitfuliy as a brook.
and as the stream of brooks they pass away; which
are bracksh BY reason Of the ice, and wherein tne
snow is hid. What time they waZ warm they van
sh; when it is hot they are consumed out Of their
place
And So sir. when Il has waxed hot under the
eloquenee of my friends from Indiana and Illinois
and Michigan, first the Committee on Finance van
shes out of its place and abandons the theory that
there should be no imitation. .
Zone by one they are consumed out of their
place and agree To go for q mOdemte increase OF the
currency. Wen, Mr.: President, do not know but
that this might justify me, mere sergeant or pm
yate soldier, if should say that all the leaders
have abandoned the flag. l, too, might not stand up
in its defense" Congressional Record first session.
Whatever others may do, let Republicans continue
to stand up in its defense.
DEMOCRATIC ASSAULT ON AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
The Democracy of Ohio denounee the present law
tariff for revenue only. 1t is admitted on all
hands that the present revenues of the government
can not safely be diminished; yet the Democratic
House OF Representatives seeks to reduce the tax on
whisky and tobacco, and YOGed almost unani-
mously for bill which would have fatally crippled
our leading manufacturing interests. Pretend
ing that it was a tariff for revenue only, their
bill largely increased the duties on several leading
Southern products and heavily reduced them on the
leading Northern products. For example the pres
ent productive duty on sugar is 625 per cent RdVa
lorum. This makes the sugar product Of Louisiana
possible and profitable. Without It not ton could
De produced Yet the Democratic House in the
name of revenue reform increased the sugar duty to
20 per cent-an almost prohibitOry duty-and then
turned to the great iron, wooen. and spinning in
terests OF the North and struck them blow, which
would not only have crippled the owners but would
have thrown out of employment half the artisans in
the mills, forges and factories of the country. am
not believer in prohibitory tariff; but l do be-
lieVe in fair and reasonable protection of AmeIi-
cdu Wnlcl enable our people 70 CLONE
themselves, to make their own implements Of indus
try. TO be, in short, selfsuppOrtng and sefreliant
nation. Twenty-Five pei cent. of all the labOring
men of the United States are engaged in mining and
manufacturing; and as a member of the Committee
OF Ways and Means, l do not hesitate to
say that the tariff bill which a Democratic House
sought to impose upon the country would have
thrown of employment half of all this great body
Of American labOrers. Il was defeated by the al
most SOLID strength Of the Republican party and a
few volunteers from the other side. But the Ohio
Democracy, in their platform this year. denounce
the protective policy without stint or qualification.
and then have the effrontery to declare that the
DemOcatic party is the champion OF laboring men.
ECONOMY.
During the last three years our Democratic friends
have been loud in their pretensiOns of economy,
and they went into their last campaign with the
boast of great reductions of expenditures. They
have made some reductions for which they are en-
titled to credit; but large portion of their pre-
tended reduction was made by refusing 70 make
what they knew were necessary appropriations, and
which afterward they were compelled to pass in the
form Of deficiency bills. The result is stated by
Senator Window, Chairman of the Senate
Committee on AUTHORIZATIONS, that the deficiencies
and extravagances of the present House have in
creased the appropriations for the current year S2S
100000 above those for the last year. NOtwithstand
ing the great pretense OF economy made during the
first years of che Democratic rule in the House.
since the books have been balanced and deficiencies
supplied it is found that their,reduches for those
two years were 100000 less than the reductions
made during the last two years Of the Republican
House.
In discussing the question of economy Senator
Thurman has contrasted Democratic expenditures
previous to the war with Republican expenditures
since the war, and seems to imagine that by leaving
out from both periods the payments for interest on
the public debt and for pensions he affords fair
basis for comparison. He omits to notice the fact
that every year since the war we have paid large sums
tor bounty and back pay to soldiers and for claims
growing out of the He omits the fact also that
many of the civil departments OF the government of
necessity have been greatly enlarged in order to
transact the vast increase OF business which The war
imposed upon them.
It is hardly becoming for Democrats TO make such
acOmparisOn when they remember that nearly all Of
the increase of the public burdens under which the
country now suffers was made necessary by the re-
bellion in which no Republican took para rebellion
born and nurtured in the Democratic party ana sus
tanned only by its members.
THE DEMOCRACY AND THE PUBLIC PEACE.
Just now, more than at any recent period in our
history, the two great political parties are called
in resisting the dangers that threaten the honor and
peace of the nation. Never before have the old
world doctrines of the Commune made any threat
ening demonstration in this country. But now We
are passing through 6 period OF unusual peril in
which the 1onnqatlons Oh eVl 3raer are tnfeatehed
and the dearest interests OF society are lmperled
How has the Democratic party met these dangers?
In the face OF the alarming facts of July, 1871 when
100000 Americans trembled in the balance OF IN
certainty for davs not knowing whether the torch
and blood would mark the pathway OF anarchy
across our continent or order and peace
group of States extending from ocean 70 ocean the
lives and property Of many millions of citizens
rescued from sudden anu llnullellb peril only pg
the prompt and efficient response OF our gallant little
army to the constitutional demand of the States for
aid in the face of sll these facts, the present Demo-
cratic House Of Representatives sought BY every
means in its power to reduce the army and cripple
its effectiveness. They wasted many days in assaults
upon the military academy, upon the army and its
organization and but for the resistance of the Senate
would have cut the army down by 5000 enlisted
men and 500 officers. Even the
appropriation bill finally passed, the House insisted
upon clause shackling the President that it is
now doubtful whether he could in sudden emer-
gency protect the great interests of the country from
mob violence. This course was not pursued in obe
dience to any popular demand, for during the last
eight years not one petition has been sent TO Con-
gress praying for the reduction OF the army But
during our late session numerous petitions from
the boards of trade and from leading citizens of
great cities asking for its increase 10 insure the pub
lie peace against the growing spirit OF mob violence.
All the warnings and entreaties resisted by the
Democrats of the House, and several speeches were
made either in apology or defense of the late riots
THE DEMOCRACY SECTIONAL PARTY.
have no disposition to reawaken the passions
and prejudices OF the war; but 1t is just TO say that
the country ought to hesitate before IL places in
pOwer a party whose councils are ruled by men who
were lately in rebellion. TwO-thirds OF the Dem
ocratie members Of the present House OF Representa-
ves are from the Southern StaIes and year by year
dropped and their places in Congress supplied by
men who gave their best efforts 10 the destruction
of the Union. l say again the Republican
party welcome all such men II they come
hack heartily to the support OF the Union,
-,oogpiginC 'the rightfulness OF the catiye