Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-10
Or, and you will find that every one

or, and you will find that every on,
has fairly repudiated its debt. AnG
now, do you think they are more anx
ious to paya debt contracted especial
ly for their subjugation than they are
to pay their own debts2 II is an ab.
surdity on its face. They are in fa.
vor of reputation. The surest way
to bring this about is to issue an un.
limited amount of irredeemable pa.
per. Why, few years ago, when ]
was trying to fight the battle of hon.
est money,a Southern Senator came
to me and said: ~ am sorry for you.
"What for ?" said /. "You are mis-.
representing the people of your State
and it will kill you. 1t will ruin
you." Said I, II think l know the
people of Michigan as well as any
other man who ever lived in it, and
[ believe they are honest people.
believe am representing their wish
es; at least, l am acting upon my
own convictions, and shall 80 act re.
gardless of the consequences" Ap-
plause. Said he, what we want y
and mark you this was four or five
years ago, "what we want is thons-
and millions of greenbacks lmmedi-
ately in addition to the amount now
out" l said, "Well, suppose you get
a thousand millions in addition to
what you now have afloat, how are
you going to get it into the hands of
the people? Do you propose to start
broker shops and loan this money
out to the people ?" "Oh, no." "Well
then" said /, "there is but one other
way to get them into the hands of the
people. That is, to purchase your
bonds. Now man who has got
bonds in his possession can get $12O
for 500, and he does not want any
more greenbacks." He thought mo-
ment, and said he, eve can stop col
lectiDg taxes and spend Them"
Laughter. Said l, "That will do !;
but how are you going to pay them ?"
Now, mark you, this was Southern
Senator, four or five years ago.
PLUMBER OF THE TREASURY THROUGH
THOUSANDS OF MILLIONS OF REBEL
CLAIMS.
Fellow citizens, what these men
want to do is to get their hands into
the Treasury. They have bills al
ready that amount to more than $2,-
QUO, 100000 for the payment of South.
ern claims, and the Improvement of
Southern lands, and the repayment
of cotton taxes, and in other ways.
They don't intend your greenbacks
shall ever be redeemed.
Then we come to another party
THE LABOR PARTY,
Now, that Labor party has q great
many honest, upright, honorable men
connected with it. But tell me, if
you please, who has favored the La
Dor party for the last seventeen years,
since the Republican party has been
in power? Through all our legisla-
tion, by protecting American indus
try, by furnishing home market for
their industry, by the abolition of
slavery, thus taking 4,0OO,OOO of serfs
from unpaid labor and making them
paid laborers, and in every other
way one of the most efficient friends
of the laboring man has been the
great Republican party. Applause.
But there is another party
THE CoMMUNIsTIc PARTY
the party that does not believe in
property; does not believe in the So
ciety relations; q party started awsy
back, for aught know, in the Dark
Ages; started, l think, by the devil.
| Laughter and applause.] We will
not discuss Communism. Commun-
ism will never take root in American
soil. It's contrary to our institutions,
contrary to our principles, contrary
to honesty, absolutely contrary to the
continuance of society.
THE so-cALLED NATIONAL PARTY.
Now, fellow citizens, all of these
four different parties have undertak-
en- to combine and call themselves the
National party. How they make
themselves National party is beyond
my power of comprehension unless
it be that they aggregate and con-
glomerate and bring together all the
elements of error, of rascality, and
OF wrong to be found in, the nation.
Laughter and applause
ORGANIZATION AND ARGUMENT.
But, fellow citizens, these things
have taken root. You must meet
these issues fairly and squarely, and
meet them with arguments. You
must meet them in your school dis
tricts; you must organize in your
counties, in your cities, in your viii
lagos, and in your towns. They will
not stand argument for half an hour.
You must meet them and put them
down by argument.
MISSION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
HAS 1T ENDED?
Now, fellow citizens, it is said that
the mission of the Republican party
is ended, and that the party ought to
die. What has that party done that
it ought to die? We have had con-
troll Of the nation for little over sew
enteen years. What have we accom-
plished in those seventeen years |
What have we done that it is time for
US to die? When we took control of |
this Government, in q time of pro-
found peace, when we had not had
war for long time, the credit of the
Government was so low that your 6 !
per cent. gold bonds sold for eighty
six cents on the dollar, or a discount
of IA per cent. We carried on a war
for the preservation of the Union.
We carried it on for four long years,
expending 1900, 100000, nearly one
half OF which we have paid and to-
day your 4 per cent. bonds, notwith-
you owe 2,OOO,OOO,OOO, in.
stead of being at IA per cent. discount
as the q per cent. bonds were when
we took possession Of this Govern
ment, your per cent. bonds are to-
day worth their par in gold. APP
plause. We have raised the credit
of the government; we have saved
the nation; we have restored the |
and we have abolished slav-
cry and we have broken the shackles
of from 1000 600 of slaves. We have
improved your rivers and harbors
we have carried out every pledge ev-
er given to the nation except one, and
that was to make greenbacks equal
with coin, and we have got within |
per cent. of that. The Republican
party is progressive. 1t is up with
the spirit Of the age, and it will keep
up with the spirit of the age.
The mission of the Republican par
ty will not be ended until every sin
gle citizen of the North, South, East
and West, black and white, enjoys the |
of freedom, the blessings of
self-protectioD, the blessings Of the |
elective franchise, and every blessing |
to free man under this
Government. Applause.
PARTIES BUILT UPON GREAT IDEAS.
Fellow-citizcns, I did not intend to
talk SO long, but one word more. |
Political parties are not made by any
man or set of men. They grow up
on great ideas. They are not killed
by any man or set of men. When
political parties die, they commit
suicide; they die because they
abandon the great principles
upon which they were created. What
great principle that the Republican