The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-10-31
ISSUES OF THE HOUR.
SPEECH OF HON. GEORGE II. PEN
DLETON,
Al Pittsburgh, Pa, Wednesday Evening, Oct. 23.
[From lhe PIttsburgh POSI-, Oot. "A |

From the Pittsburgh Post Oct. "a
On being introduced to the audience by Samuel
p. Patterson, Esq, Chairman Of the Democratic
Counly Committee, Mr. Pendleton was greeted
with repeated rounds Of welcoming cheers. He
spoke as follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS OF PITTSBURGH II am op,
pressed by this presence tonight The cause, the
auditors, the consequences, all oppress me- The
cause is of the people-all the people -ofthe hum.
ble the unfortunate, the suffering of those whose
daily toll prOCures their daily bread, whose idle
ness from whatever cause means hunger. Youare
citizens Of the State Of Penn the gentle and just
philanthropist The consequences Of your action
involve the speedy success Of the cause,
John Bright was plunged into the depths Of
grief "Al that was left Of bis young wife, ex
| cept the memory Of a sainted life, and too brief
happiness, was lying still ard cold In the chamber
above. Richard Golden came to comfort him
with exquisite tenderness he said, there are
| thousands of homes in England where wives and
mothers and children are dying with hunger
Come with me, we will work together and we will
never rest until the corn laws are repealed ,
Bright accepted the invitation, and gave his voice
to the work. He says: I'VE we're Joined not by
scores but by hundreds and afterwards by thou.
sands, and afterwards by countless multitudes !;
and afterwards famine, against which we had
Warred, Joined us, and great minister was con-
| verted and min0rities became majoriues and,
finally, the barrier was entirely thrown down.
And since then, though there has been suffering,
and much suffering in the many homes of Eng.
land, yet no wife and no mother and nOlttle child
has starved 10 death as the result Of famine made
by law"
| PENNsYLvANIAs RESPONSIBILITY.
II the voice of one man, enlisted in the cause of
humanity, could attain such results, what perfect
triumph cannot imperial Pennsylvania, this
mighty State second in the Union, secure for a
like cause2 Her seven hundred thousand voters
the farmers, the miners, the laboreIs the mer.
chants, the capitalists, the mountaineeTs, the ma.
| riners, from the schuylkill to the Ohio men OF
every country and cline, are an epitome Of the
world, They speak the aggregate opinion of he
world their judgment has never been overIuled
by the country their potent voice In advocacy of
any cause has always persuaded the sister States.
Ipray you, my fellow citizens, that the voice of
noble old Pennsylvania may now be heard for the
tight and that through her efforts the right may
goriously prevail,
| When this canvas opened, throughout the west
1t seemed likely that several questions would oc.
cupy public attention. Some Of the Republican
speakers endeavored to raise the bloody shirt" as
| the flag under which they should achieve victory
But since President Hayes whether from choice
or necessity, yielded to the dictates of wisdom
ana adopted the policy long since enforced by the
| Democratic party, and withdrew the Federal
| troops from the State Houses of Louisiana and
South Carolina, 1t was found that tie Republican
troops could not be massed and marched under
that banner, because the first antagonist they met
was their Commander.in- Chief
Some Of the Republicans drew frightful pictures
Of the raid which would be made by victorious
Democracy in behalf Of Southern war claims up
on the Federal Treasury, even to its very exhaus.
ton. Bnt since 1t was discovered that Secretary
Sherman had bOasted In speech In Ohio in 1876
that the Republican party had in ten years after
the war paid one hundred millions of dollars on
account of such war claims ten millions Of dol
lars each year Of Courst all to loyal men-and
that the Democratic party during all the years of
| Its control o. the House of Representatives had
recommended the payment Of only few hundred
| thousand dollars IL was found that the less said
on that subject the better. Loyal mem You know
who they are Every Confederate who has turn.
| ed Republican ls loyal. Every Onion soldier who
has remained Democrat is disloyRl.
ISSUES BORN OF THE WAR.
Some OF the Republicans were shocked-their
| sensitive patriotism outr8ged-at the attempted
MexicanizstiOn of the American Government.
| Indeed there was never an attempt TO Mexican.
| ize either our Government or It's policy except
when Federal troops were sent into the Southern
| States to preVeD free elections. And since Mrs
Eliza Pnkston-the modern Maid Of Orleans
| who, surrounded by her staff Of visiting states
| men, under the Dretense Of outrage and wrong
Il the attack successfully against free ballot
| and an honest cOunt-has declared that all her
| acts and statemepts-even her being carried on q
sofa to the room of the Examining Committee as
If she was too much injured to walk-were sham
and fraud, instigated and paid for by Republi.
can pArti2ans, 1t was found not profitable to Con-
tinue that line of discussion.
And so these questions, born OF war, and intend
ed to revive Its passions and prejudices and bit
terness, have disa ppeared from the canvas and
We have remaining only those which concern the
economic administration Of the government on y
those which concern finance and taxation and
the payment Of the public debt, and their effect
on the trade aud commerce and industries of the
country. These touch the pocket Of every man,
and therefore his household, and appeal not to his
passion and prejudtces but to his reason, his judg
ment, his common sense.
THE "oHIo IDEA."
I am glad Of it-glad that we have gotten away
strife and sectional hate Glad that we have
reached purer air Of political controversy. Under
its exbilerating influence the Democratic party
has already this year broken the Republican
phalanx Of Maine and Vermont and Iowa, and
goriously carried Indiana and won tie substan-
tial fruits Of q complete victory In Ohio.
1t has elected majority Of the members Of
Congress, and thus secured the State If the elec.
ton OF President should devolve upon the House
of Representatives. 1t has commended the DEM
t,a a. Ill,
vote and 1t has done all this in spite of the most
persistent and shameless Misrepresentation Of its
policy; in spite Of the false and WantOn attack
upon its motives and purposes, The kind Of cur |
rency--the power which shall issue IT the vol: !
ume Of eurrency-the rates and distribution OF
taxes-the economy Of their exPenditure-these
are the questions which confront us.
Latterly 1t has become quite the fashion to say |
that Democrats exeggeTae the prostration Of In |
dustries and the distress OF The people In this |
country. shall draw no pictures, l shall make |
no ass ertiOns. appeal 10 you. see men around |
me whose gray locks betoken the arrival Of the |
allotted three score and ten years-yOunger men |
Of every age. l appeal to every one Of them,
whether they ever knew, In all their experience |
period when labor was 10 lily paid or 90 uncer |
tain Of employment when industrial enterprises |
were so prostrated when industry, activity, en-
ergy, adventure, had so precariOus reward.
EVIDENCES OF INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION.
EShu lLOLu tnS AON hyoOA oSptouuDeE IL 1otos |
I'VE have no complete figures later than July
LIST, showing the condition Of coke and bituminous
blast furnaces. At that date 40 per cent alone
were In blast. Since then q number have been
blown out for various reasons, and we know Of |
but one or two that have blown in.
Among the iron mills there Is still worse
condition Of affairs. Some Of the largest and |
most in portant mills in the West have been closed
by bankruptcy proceedings during the past three
months; others have shut down because there
was no profit, If return Of cost In the prices ru-
ing.
ION the list of September, at Pittsburgh all the
exclusively hoop mills are running. or the sheet
mills, 6S out Of S5 pudding farnacss are running
more or less regularly OF Is bar rolling mills in
Pittsburgh, 6 are idle and II are in operation
THE sheet mills are making between One-third
an d ORe.hdy the usual product-and the par mill
mills about ORe-hlH fr
I'VE do not give the idle mills but any one in.
terested can very soon make out list, which will
not be very pleasant reading Some of these mills
are hOpelesSly idle. -