Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-09-05
the only means by which the coin shall be supplied.
and by which the paper shall be kept at par
THR REPuRIIcANs AND EEsUNrTIoN.

THR REPUBLICANS AND REsUNFTIoS.
For myself and believe that speak for the great
majority OF the Republican party, we intend to take
no backward step. We propose to stand by the
promise of the government and protect the laborer
and capitalist from further huctuation 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 to maintain ii in honor now when II is
threatened by the dangerous and and reckless cham
pionShip of its late enemies Il is all the more
necessary that Republicans should do this when
hard money Democrats, who have hitherto aided IN
sustaining the public faith. falling away from Its
support One by one they are joining the RANKS OF
the infationists, or dropping over INTO the wliner
heresies of the Greenback party. can imagine the
surprise of such hard money Senators as Bayaro and
Kernan when they read the late speech OF Senator
Thurman, their honored leader. l snail DC sur
prSed if some of them DO respond TO him IN his
own words which he used in the Senate on the ZoIn
of March, 1874, when he said;
Mr.. President Notwithstanding the pressure,
have stood here in obedience to the dictates OF my
own mature Judgment to resist what CONSIDERED
dangerous and disastrous imitation OF the currency
but begin to believe that those who are opposed 10
initiation falling off one by one, and can net
put remember some words ID the oook OF yoo, ~ - @
he reprOaches his friends which II seems to me may
be pertinently read:
my brethren have dealt deceilfuliy a brook,
and as the stream OF brooks they pass away; WhiSn
brackish by reason of the ice and wherein the
snow is hid. What time they wax warm they van
ish; when it is hot they are consumed out OF their
place
And so, sir when it has waxed hot under the
elOquence OF my friends from Indiana and limos
shes 0i its place and abandOns the theory that
there should be no imitation
One by one they are consumed OUT oi Of ge the
currency. Well, Mr.. President do not know but
that this might justify me, mere sergeant or pm
vate soldier if should say that as all the leaders
have abandoned the flag, L too, Nigh! not stand up
in its defense Congressional RECORD hrS1 seSsion'
| Forty-third Congress, March D. page 2,4SS.
Whatever others may do, let Republicans continue
| to stand up in its defense.
| DEMOCRATIC ASSAULT ON AMERICAN INDUSTRY
The Democracy Of Ohio denounce the present law
for the protection of American industry and demand
| q 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 10 reduce the tax on
whisky and tobacco, and voted almost unanl,
mousy for bill which would have fatally crippled
our leading manufacturing interests Pretend
| ing that it 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 sugar is 62z per cent adva-
lorum. This makes the sugar product OF louisiana
| possible and profitable Without it not ton could
name of revenue reform increased the sugar duty TO
| 20 per eent.-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
nave thrown out OF NJ nan nan Ine ARTISANS an IN
| not believer in prohibitory tarif; but do be-
lieye in fair and reasonable protection OF AmeIl-
can industry which will enable our people to elothe
themselves, TO make their own implements OF indus
try, 20 be- in short, Sefsupporting and self reliant
| nation TWENTY-FIVE pei cent of all the laboring
men of the United States engaged in mining and
manufacturing; and as member OF the Committee
| of Ways and Means, / do not hesitate TO
| say that the tariff bill which Democratic House
| sought to impose upon the country would have
thrown out of employment half OF all this great body
of American laborers II was defeated by the al
| 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 efroutery to declare that the
Democratic party is the champion oil laboring men.
| ECONOMY.
During the last three years Democratic friends
have been loud in their Pretensions OF economy ny
| boast of great reductions of expenditures. They
| have made some reductions for which they are en-
tended reduction was made by refusing to make
what they knew were necessary appropriations. and
which afterward they compelled to pass in the
form of deficiency bills The result is stated by
Senator Window, Chairman OF the Senate
Committee on Appropriations, that the deficiencies
and extravagances of the present House have in
creased the appropriations for the current year sS,
600 above those for the last year. NOtvithstand
ing the great pretense of economy made during the
first two years of the Democratic rule in the House,
since the books have been balanced and deficiencies
supplied, 1t is found that theirreducnels ior those
made during the last two years OF the Republican
House.
In discussing the question OF economy Senator
Thurman has eontrasted 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 falr
basis for comparison. he omits to notice the fact
that every year since the have paid large sums
for bounty and back pay TO soldiers and for claims
growing out of the war 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.
Ii is hardly becoming for Democrats to make esuch
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 parta reoelon
born and nurtured in the Democratic party and 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
upon to exhibit an intelligent and seadfast courage
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 period oil unusual peril Ia
which the foundations of civil order threatened
and the dearest interests of society are imperiled
How has the Democratic party met these dangers?
In the face OF the alarming facts of july, 1877, when
10000 900 Americans trembled in the balance of un
certainty for davs, not knowing whether the torch
and blood would mark the pathway OF anarchy
across our continent, order aud peace
would rule; i'll the face of the fact that in great
group of States extending from ocean to ocean the
lives and property OF many millions OF citizens were
rescued from sudden and imminent peril only by
the prompt and efficient response OF our gallant little
army to the constitutional demand of the States for
aid in the face of all 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 as the
appropriation bill finally passed, the House insisted
upon clause so shaekling 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-
dienee to any popular demand, for during the last
eight years not petition has been sent TO Con-
qress praying for the reduction of the army. But
during our late session numerous petitions came from
the boards of trade and from leading citizens of our
great cities asking for its increase to insure the pub
lie peace against the growing spirit of mob violence.
An 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 A SECTIONAL PARTY.
have no disposition to reawaken the passions
and prejudces of the war; but it is just TO that
the country ought to hesitate before it places in
mower a party whose councils ruled by men who
were lately in rebellion. Twothrds OF the DEM
ocratic members of the present House Of Representa-
tyes are from the Southern States and year by
the Union Democrats of the South have been
| d-onnad and their places in Congress supplied hy