The New York herald., 1878-09-10
THE CHAMPION GROWLER.
BUrLER's SPEECH AT LAWRENCE, MASS
EVERYTHING WONG NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TO SHOW WHAT HE COULD DO If ELECTED.
'fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.

TO SHOW WHAT HE GUILD Oo 1r GLCS1ED'
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HEB.LD.]
LAwREScE, sept. Q. 1878
About three thousand people assembled in the City
Hall 10 hear General Buffers speech. Prominent
men OF both parties occupied the stand and
tho speech frequently Interrupted with applause
The General was greeted with cheers before and
after his speech. large number Of people wore
able to Obtain admission tho nall. He spoke in sub
stance as foows:-
FELLOW CInzExs, LADIES AND GESrLEsEs-rwo
years ago | came upon this stand ior !ss
ssps now assured ina. the
mont S abandoned over portion Of this
and ". nov not Svss on sos
OF finance. Industrial and business questions
now arc shs only interesting topics to h Tho
crops prosperous and storehouscs bursting we have
homeless vaarants and starving women anu children
Men desrous OF working are unable to ooialn u. md
be who says thero is no suGcrpg among the working
people w,lfully falsiAeS
Tho spesker dwelt upon the nnsnoisl question: his
upon this topic beng substa nttay the sam,
as elsewhere uttered BY him during ,ne campaign.
He tnat money was simply tho tool Of ex-
cuangc. aad attributed the present depression Of
values to Congressional Legislation in the interest Of
an. nciai theories the General quoted freely from
FRANKLIN, Jefferson and Calhoun, maintaining that
word Turning 10 the reporters he said, "Don't say
Tomorrow that General Butler made srcsnbaek
msss snsssA xrsonbsck so sps.ehos soa,sS The CEN
erai then won't to define capital and Oh
tcrpr,so. He said capital is mat money which s
go inv ssted as 10 yield profit whether the owner
lives or not. Enterprise requires care ana watching
order to got profit from H. and here is the DIS.
eleventh commandment, and that was all
he desired Depreciation In property has injured our
savings S.1 in ~ nSx
for 5000 In The times slnce then they have bcca re-
caperang especially tho years 1864 to 1859, until
nov E sssns x,rss.s.
Tho speakcr then turned his attention to State
since 1850 RON $s,ooo 600 TO ssa 200. Of which
$40 0O0, 600 due to the war This in
% s' 81 'sS ws Tias: pD. from s
creased thirtyour per cent taxes Increased 236 pcr
ceni Tsxes this CITY arc 81 80 sloo while about
tvc per cent per year Is the average revenue Of all
property that the taxes ara about one-,hrd OF his
inoome All this Is due TO maladminisration. The
creased from So 600 900 In 1857 to $50 oOoo 600 and
rings now control Stale Affairs.
= STATE AND MUNICIPAL ExTHAvAGASCk
Seventy comnissions ooss s25o,oOo annu-
ally or more than the expenses o. the
Executive Lss'sl1r;ys r , and j0s,.., dsS:r. par.
doubled since 1859 The speaker repeated the 6gures
in rsference TO the Danvers Hospital buildings,
Seioier.' Home, and referred to the expenses Of
tho pee Commission, which cost the state Tor
received account Of the lands they were appointed
to cell But, said tho speaker, Governor Rice
could hardly object 10 this b tor tho reason that
he has been exiravagsnt himeclL II cost the State
!" The Ho.sac tusnel, snd tho total cos. Of
eutsrtaiping the President was zoo, or, he added
ahan the value OF 5000 days labor at seventy
i've cents per day. Military expenses bave Increased
Ia4 pcr cen, twenty years. while tho judiciary
expenses have Increased from $los 900 IN 1859 to
s3ls 600 year Only one halt OF the property OF
the state taxed Money put into bonds 10 escape
taxation -
Bonds free OF taxation NAV havo been necessity
during The war; but what complain of Is that no
government continued 10 issue ana ~ now issuing
their nou-tsxabIe bonds He denounced tho repeal OF
the Law Of usuIy soossa go Mss ~. ns
banks He next referred to the stay Law
and said that while It might be necessary II was
Equally necessary to have stay Law that would pre-
vent the hanks from collecting tho 1922 600 900
they have Invested 10 mortgages The
attenNon, the speaker maintaining that there
should be similar to that In iliinsis which would
allow the mortaaror at least htecn months adj
rJ,,iou,L In con cIussn the General referred to tho
men and the papers that questioned his. motives in
ihis paen sayins tnst these people JudEsd nm ey
VT WANTS TRY Jrsr ONCE
They say these evils in state adminstratiou can
nnd man better nttcd who has had more experiepcs
IN pubiic Affairs, aud wbo 10 as we'll nara
sTss HIM a'a and sof0saaa ~ so % way sS
have honest ambition 10 devote my last years TO
the work OF reforming these sbusss and u ! was to
this campaign money no sum ccsid
tempt me 10 undertake II. AS Tor my com.
psent fortune, with which my enomiss taust
me eame IRON the New Hampshire bills As poor rs
auy boy 10 this community and was brought up
among The IaborIug CLASSES, to whom owe all am
and please God, shall never desert them.
Tng DEMOCRATIC GAUGES
Tho address occupied an hour ana thrse-qnarsers IN
osvery snJ elicited great snthusinsm. Al the cese
three cheers were given, ana hondreds rushed 10
shags hsnds with the General. The democratic
cnu;uses 10 choose delegates to the State Convsn ion
will be held thursday evening, and ~ ts now con-
ccdcrthat the delegation will be solid for Butler