The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-12-05
The United States Ahead sr no Ma
tton Except the IRdians--PronI
Eoombs'> speech at Atlanta.

, government was carried on Tor les
than $50, Geo, coo. Tue public deb
: did not amount TO $50, 600, 900 W
/ hsd a small army OF about 6000 men
We had $ little navy and were an in
dustrious, hsppy people. The reve
nue hau been brought down 10 tn,
wants Of the people. The tariff wa
brought down 20 per cent: Every de-
partmeDt OF the government was ruI
with honesty and integrity. But tn,
men OF the Eastern State3~ did not de.
sire that state of things to continue.
From the time our fathers sat with
them at the council board at Philadel-
,phia, and all through the struggles
that followed down to that day, they
wanted to carry on the government on
different principle. They wanted
protection for all their manufactures.
They wanted to bring money into the
treasury aud apply ifustheir bwn ben
eft. They sought to sequester the
l,public lands and put them to their
own use. ana not those of the people
of the L nited States. The first thing
they did was to commence carrying
cut that policy. They enlarged all
your expenditures; they ISSUED
tens and hundreds of millions of
paper curren ncy, the furnishing of which
bad hitherto belonged to the people of
the different States. They then got
other institutions to help them. They
commenced throwing away in millions
the public lands OF the country, the
common domain of all the people, and
! turning hundreds of millions out of
the treasury In carrying on war-not
in any view that they cared for the
| principles at Issne-they cared not one
half as mach for the negro as the pee
pie of the South-but simply to retain
| control of the government. They car
ried on the government in 1887 for one
! term under the elder Adams-a very
good man-but the best of that class OF
men that the people trusted until Lin
coin came into power. When Shey got
into possession of the government the
first object was TO overthrow the South,
to overthrow her institutions, to invade
her soil and to murder her inhabitants.
| And to effect this purpose they brought
all the people they could from Ireland,
Germany and the lands beyond the
sea. They got hold of the government
seventeen years ago and inflicted upon
us the worst race of thieves upon the
face of the earth. Applause. No
body disputes that. They take
all the premiums for that. Ap-
plause. They stand out as a re-
got so common that the public sensi-
A.. 80 \
war they flooded the Treasury with
seven hundred millions of greenbacks
and a hundred millions of national
bank notes. There never was a GOV
ernment on the face of the earth that
could make money. There never was
a government on earth that could make
a fig leaf to cover the nakedness of eur
mother Eve. They could draw money
from the Treasury and appropriate it
to their own use, but they can't make
dollar of money. 1t seems to be the idea
of some gentlemen in these days. and
when | was boy they had a good deal
of that idea, that il you want money,
you can just stamp it. All the govern
ment has to do is simply to stamp it.
You may stamp all you please, but how
are you going to redeem il? On that
subject / believe very much in my old
frland prUstUu's iriCus rG1ccmip5 It.
Il am against redemption" said he.
''Take all The money and burn it up"
Laughter
These people thought they would
protect the raw material of the coun-
try. Finally they caught up with the
consumption Of the United States. and
it was a loss on their hands. Every
body could compete with them, and
successfully. And what was the re-
suit 2 There were no United States
ships that tloated on the ocean. The
fact was that we were ahead of no ma
tion on earth but the Indians. Laugh
ter After that work was accom-
plished the Congress of the Usitcd
States exerted all manner of means for
retaining the power they had obtained.
Frauds everywhere in the elections be-
came by-word, and you all know
that to cap the climax they stole the
Presidency. They went on until
they brought up the nstional debt
to $4,000, ,000,0 We have not
done as much, perhaps, because
we have commenced later. Laugh
tel They robbed some of our
States by. their deputies. North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
the other States of the Sluth went
through second robbery complete
spoliation. Their great idea was to
develop the country-to make every
body uch. If should make new
dictionary to succeed old Worc' ser,
would make a new defiuition TOR de-
velopment. Development simply means
robblng the people. AS | haYe said,
here were the national debr, State
debts, railroad debts. Then the t4rllI
touched everybody. 1t protects the
manufacturer, but plays the deuce with
the consumer. Laughter. Building
railroads whenever the State woulI in
dOrse the bonds got US for some thirty
or forty millions. We threw off some,
and l wish the rest had gone with it.
| shall not cry because my people will
not pay for thefts, any more than
would pay for my own chains. APP
plause.
When the Republican party got
through here we were ten Thousand
millions in debt, everybody breaking,
everybody ruined, and that is the con-
dition t,-lay throughout the Uai.ed
States. The money changer and the
bondholder IS the only one that holds
his owu, and he has to keep his hand
on it all the time aud pray for it.
Applause and laughter. God AL
mighty curses them for il. Here is the
vast number of people all over the
country tOilng and struggling, and
there never was q country on the face |
Of the earth tha. worked harder aud |
lived worse than the people of the |
Southern States. They haye lived |
hard, worked hard and made nothing.
1t becomes US, and especially our leg
islators, 10 know how this is. 1t is |
not all the fault of the government. |
Our own folly has something to do
with il; but the great part of it has
been done by bad government.
Brevity is thought to be a great
merit in Thanksgiving proclamation
but that OF Governor Thayer, of Ore
uon really epema IN he a Hffla foo