The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-09-18
PLAIN WORDS FROM THE
EMPIRE STATE.
Address to the People.

/; thusiastic meeting on Thursda
!. night. the 9th inst. in Tamman.
Hall. The attendance was large
and at 8 o'clock every seat in tn
wigwam was occupied.
r The following address from tn
committee of three, Samuel Como
yer, General Spinola, and Luke F
Cozans, appointed at last meeting
was eloquently read by Maj. Quincy
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.
In entering on the fall campaign
the Democracy of New York accept
the issues made by events. The
country is suffering from the effects
of five years of unparalleled depres
sion. the result. almost solely, ol
Republican neglect and misrule.
Business of all kinds has been par
alyzed, productive industries have
stopped. thousands of merchants
and manufacturers have failed, three
quarters of million of laborers are
out of work, and twice that number
are working for halfpay. The cry
of the suffering laboring class fills
the land. The Democratic party
the party of the people-the party
that historically represents the ideas
aud interests of the common people
recognizes the needs of the work
ingmen of the country, sympathizes
with their sufferings. and is pledged
to remove the causes of their pres
ent distress. The great want of the
country is trade. commerce, inereas-
ed demands for the products of in.
dustry of all kinds. The working
people. on whom the burden of So
ciety falls the heaviest, should have
q larger share of the results of their
toll, and of the protection and fos-
tering care of Government. The
Democratic party protests against
the Republican tendency to legis-
late for the exclusive benefit of cap
ital and leave the labering class to
its mercy. 1t denounces the perni-
cious notion that the Government
should take care of the rich, and leave
them to take care of the poor, as
relic of feudal barbarism, It pro-
claims anew the fundamental prin.
ciples of our institutions, the equali-
ty of all men under the law, which
should secure the greatest good to
the greatest number. America is
land of working people, and its gov
ernors are false to the cardinal
principles of the Republic If they
sacrifice the interests Of the people
for the benefit Of class. The Ia
boring men of the country do not
want charity, but Justice; and this
the Democratic party is pledged to
give them.
The Democracy deplore the mis-
chievous meddiing with the curren-
cy, and experimenting upon it by
Republican Congresses for the last
sixteen years. The Republican par
ty Is responsible for the enormous
imitation of the currency during and
after the war. the act making the
bonds payable in coin instead of
legal tenders. the decentralization of
silver, the forced steps toward re-
sumption, with the enormous shrink
age in values, making thousands of
rich men poor and doubling the bur-
dens of the debtor class. Public
confidence has been destroyed, and
capitalists, afraid to invest their
money in business and productive
enterprises, which would furnish en-
ployment to working people, look it
up in Government bonds. We hold
the Republican party responsible for
a financial condition which has de-
stroyed prosperity and made the re-
cuperation of the country almost
Impossible.
The stricken condition Of our COM
merce is directly chargeable to Re-
publican neglect. That party has
done absolutely nothing to win back
the commerce the war drove from
the seas. While our agricultural
products are rapidly increasing aud
our exports already exceed the inn
ports, it is with shame that we have
to confess that the carrying trade
of the country is mostly in foreign
hands. The Republican party has
insisted on maintaining navigation
laws which make the purchase of
ships impraeticahle, and protec-
tive tariff which puts an effectual
check on American enterprise, and
virtu ally excludes cur products from
half the markets of the world. We
demand such notifications of the
tariff and navigation laws as shall
leave American enterprise free to
compete with that of other nations.
The Democracy cannot ignore the
growing power and overweening in
fuence of corporations in The land.
The tendency toward immense ag-
gregations of capital under charters
granting enormous privileges. and
the temptation to use the power