Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-08-06

lars, six thousand pounds; and a million
Of dollars weighs sixty thousand pounds,
or thirty tons.
Now they want To force the laborinc
man, the farmer, the meehan'c, and the
purchaser of every kind TO take this sill.
yer money for the sole benefit of the own.
ers of the bullion. Now, Mr.. Chicago
Tribune, are you in favor of
THE ORIGINAL WARNER BILLY
[Laughte- You will pardon ME, fellow
citizens, because it is personal, for this
little interruption. Ii l had time would
like to talk finance TO you, and most any
thing else but | am talking about the
25th anniversary of the formation Of the
republican party. lApp!anse
Now what has this great republican
party done? 1t has been in existence
twenty-five years, and what has 1t done
Well, fellow citizens, what has it not
done? In the first place it fought the
war through and saved your nation. 1t
was over certain democrats of the cop
| perhead school and persuasion, advocat
ed repud alton of our national debt; or
IN other words to pay it off in green
backs. And all the nations on earth said
these people will fight, there is no doubt
| about it; they have shown il in the Mex
| lean war; they have shown it In the war
| for the preservation of the government;
but they will never pay their debt, and
no nation that votes its own taxes will
even pay its debts The republican party,
l lhink, and every loyal democrat stood
up and said, we will show you that we
value our national honor higher than we
value our national life. even Iapplausel
| and we have gone ON ever since the close
| Of the rebellion
PAYING OFF OUR NATIONAL DEBT,
faster than any man on earth could count
! the money. Three thousand millions of
| the five thousand millions that we ex'
pended, has been paid. We expended
! five thousand millions of dollars and
more than 100000 precious lives
to save this great government. And now
this people assert that all of that vast
treasure and all Of those precious lives
were expended for nought; and that
there is not yet q union upon this cont.
ncnt tc call the United States Of Amer
| lea.
| say fellow citizens therefore, that we
! saved the national life and the national
! honor but what was the situation of the
! government when this great republican
| party came into power? l have shown
| you
now WE STOOD
as to arms and to money, to ship and TO
material. But what has the republican
party doneg 1t came into power in 1861,
when your treasury was bankrupt and.
as | said before, when your arms were
scattered and your ships were scattered,
and it took this nation when it was in
the very lowest depths of humiliation.
This was the condition oe the nation
when the republican, party took the reins
OF government. For the first time, we
took the rens on the 4th Of March, 1861
We borrowed all the money that we
could borrow to pay our soldies during
the year 1861. The time came when We
could borrow no more money, and
THERE WAS A TINE
when we owed forty millions of dollars
for feed, clothing and supplies for our
| army, and when we owed our poor sol
diers from two to four months deficiency
o. pay, and we had not one solitary dol.
lar in the treasury OF the United States to
pay our honest debts then the question
was, what shall we doneyt9 Well, fellow
citizens, | will tell YOU what We did do.
We came out frankly and said to the PEG.
pie of the United States, we have no
money and we can borrow no more
money. We have this vast army in the
field; will you trust us for food and
clothing? for pork, beef, potatoes and
| -four? Will you trust us and take our
promise to pay, for in no other way can
we carry on the war; and with one &C.
cord, from north 10 south, from every
nook and corner Of this great country,
CAME UP RESPONSES:
take anything, take everything; take all
that we have got and pay whenever you
get able and thus and there started the
greenback part Laughter. l don't
want anybody to claim the paternity of
the greenback party, because | was there
myself when that child was born. Laugh.
ter. | acted as both wet and dry nurse
to it laughter, and no man shall claim
the paternity of that thing. Laughter
We did issue, and we continued to is.
sue, and the republican party is respon
sible Tor the issuing of greenbacks, and
they were responsible to fulfill that
pledge the very moment they were able,
and they aid redeem its pledges in the
coin OF the realm. Applause. The
time on the first OF January,
1879, that we were able to re.
deem that last pledge, given in
THE HOUR OF EXTREMITY,
to the people Of the United States. zap.
plause.) And the very moment the day
came, We cid resume specie payment;
fulfilled the last pledge ever given, to
pay in the coin OF the realm our obliga-
tons, and specie payment has come to
stay. (Applause) AS l said a moment
ago, we took charge Of this nation when
its credit was SO low that it found no
purchasers for its bonds. We carried ii