Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-22
SPEECH OF HON. GEORGE f..
HOAR.

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AS Massachusetts comes to take her
place II the line for the great struggle
of 1880, congratulate you as patriots
and as Republicans upon the auspices
Of the time. For nearly six years bust
ness depression and distress, unexampled
in recent times, have extended over the
civilized world. Our country has felt it
severely, but she has felt it least. She
has borne it long, but she is now first
to recover. From all quarters come the
reports of abundant harvests for the
farmer and Of well-grounded hope for
the manufacturer. If the laborers' wag-
es have not yet reached the nominal
hight which they attained after the war,
they compare most favorably in amount
and in purchasing power with those Of
other countries.
The Secretary of State has caused
careful inquiry to be made from sources
of undoubted authority The result is
just made public. Wages in the United
States to-day are more than twice those
in Belgium three times those in Den
mark, France and Germany once and a
half those IN England and Scotland;
and more than three times those in Italy
and Spain. At the same time. in all
these countries the necessaries of life
are dearer than than in America so
that it is within the truth to say that
in America is fully three times the aver
age of Europe. (Applause.)
The country, prosperous at home, is
strong and respected abroad. The
great statesman and warrior, as he pass
es from nation to nation and from CONT
nent to continent, is received by all
mankind with uncovered head as the
living representative of the restored
unity of that Republic in whose life
Freedom lives, in whose hope Humanity
hopes. Your flag, without rent and
without stain, floats everywhere over
peaceful seas, and is welcomed every
where in friendly ports. These bless.
ings are the common good fortune Of
Americans, without distinction of party
But it is you who have saved your Dem
ocratic fellow-citizen from the result Of
his own doctrine, and the policy of his
own party. daughter and applause.)
To you the Democrat owes that he is 8
citizen of United America. To you HI
owes country whose soil no slave
treads, whose air no slave breathes. T,
you the Democratic laborer owes it tina
the greenback he gets for his work is to
day worth gold, on demand. the worlt
) over. (Applause.)
TO you the manufacturer and mer
chant and the farmer owe it that gam
bling has been eliminated from business
! that the dollar which measures the pric
at the time of sale is sure to be wort
the same when it measures the payment
You have restored their natural securit
to the enterprise of the workma
and the calculations of the employer
What the future may have in store fo
us we know not. But surely the organ
> ization that now celebrates its twenty
fifth year has deserved well of Americs
Her unity, her strength, the respec
: everywhere manifested for her flag. th
: maintenance of her national faith an
: honor, the prosperity of her industry
L are due to Republican victory over Den
ocratic opposition. (Applause.)
The Secretary of State tells US that
Il short time half million laborers wi
g come to this country from Englan
:. alone. He might have made far bolt
y er prediction. This emigration is a
} ready on its way. The instincts of me
} are at least as sure as those of bird
= Some of these emigrants may be indu
- ed to vote the Democratic ticket. b
~ they will shun, as plague-infected, Il
y States cursed by Democratic policie
~ (Applause.) Some of them will rema
i in New England. where every dollar
g the rich mans wealth is pledged to gi
Of the child of every poor man an educ
70 ton. (Applause.) Some will stay
- imperial New York. Some will fiji
y homes in the broad Northwest, that
~ main given by Freedom to the Republ
y on her birthday. More still will tar
in Kansas and Nebraska, children
al the earliest victory of the Republics
VI party. Others will seek distant Ca
;" fornia, now taking anew her. place
50 the line Of Republican States. Othe
~ will blend with that vast stream of m
40 of all nations and of all races, from t
" free States of the East and the crowd
'e populations Of Europe, who, on grand
scale, and on the shores of more /
~ cl6c sea, are to enact anew the gre
," drama of civilization. They will tn
~ with loathing from murder haunt
~ Mississippi. and from the places VIII,
VI the ghost of ancient Virginia gibbers
'u' secession and State rights, and reso
'u' tons of '98-"mumbling somethil
III but what it is they hear not" a
plause.)