The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-11-20

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the love the people bear to their Gov
ernment, and that cannot be legislated
in aud it cannot be legislated out. The
whole ofthis claim of the power to enact
Congressional election laws e nothing
in the world but an attemptsto prolong
the present office holders in their tenure
of power beyond the constitutional term
That is its translation in English. II
could never have been Contended that
the party who went into power under a
Constilu ion had right TO use that po wtT
to procure their reelection or prolong
their power in any way,
When we come to the office of Presi
dent the Constitution expressly declares
that no man can be an elector who holds
Office under the Constitution. No Office
OF honor or profit can be held by man
who acts as Presidential eleCtor. The
meaning of that is that men shall not use
their official power as stepping stones TO
other Offices or TO continuation in power.
When you come to popular election it
means that You must have hands Off
and that is the true principle. And our
people seem to have lost sight of the fact
that the man who is President cannot
call himself, with any degree of decency,
the head ofa party"
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.
"What makes the West free trade as
against our line of thought in Pennsyl-
vania for protection, or is that going to
be question:"
81 haveno doubt that all that with the
other economic questions to which the
public will have to address their minds
the question for protection is one. That
seems pretty well settled. The capaci-
ties of the country are unlimited for
production, but the great question that
arises now is as to distribution. The
question Of distribution is one of enor.
nous importar Ce. TIE manufacturing
capacity of the United States is twice as
great as our naive market needs. We
can supply the demand twice over; and
the question is, what are we going to do
with the surpIusP tbs evident you have
to find markets for it. do not see how
our manufactures can be successful in
foreign markets 30 long as they are
handicapped by high duties upon the ar
ticles that enter into their manufacture
If they are to meet in the markets o.
South America or of Asia similar manu-
facturers, none of whom haye paid taxes
in the shape of high duties, do not see
how they can be successful, because the
ingenuity which our people have in the
way of labor saving machinery will MOI
enable them to compete with man who
buys free material He is like a mar
running race, stripped and ready, anC
the other numbered with clo,hing. Itit
not fair race, and l think, therefore, il
is clear to me that if We expect tosee oul
people 90 abroad with our products, VIZ
must let them go, as nearly as we can
unembarrassed by taxes upon the art
Cles which they take there for sale. Tina
is the question. You must consider tina
to sell to country means exchange, anC
to exchange you must take their goods
you must take theirs or else they canno
take yours. We, through Congress, have
introduced the system of taxation upOI
an enormous body of things. Two thous
and five hundred articles are upon thu
tax list ofour Imports. | have no doubt
however, that the free list will be very
largely increased from time to time.
think that tariff reform is very necessary
but it ought to be based on principle
which is staple one, 30 our people Shal
not be induced to enter into eLte
prises of manufacture with un
certainty. l believe that we can ther
compete with any people most success
fully. Think there is splendid future
opening, but l do not think that it is fai
to our manufacturers to bear them dow
with taxes upon every material, and ye
expect them to compete with men in for
eign markets that pay no such taxes.
"The South does not need legislation
the South needs sympathy and respect
In my judgment what they need is re
aIizing sense that they are safely aud Sc
curely within the Union, bound up in it
destinies, in which they are to share th
blessings as wei as the burdens; but the,
are not in the Union except upon term
thoroughly consistent with their self-re
spect. Everything is gained by appeal
ing to all that is higher and better amOnI
them, and to cease this spirit of domin
alton and constant expression of self con
scious superiority, sending men dow
there to see that trials are conducted a
they think they ought to be, tellin
them they are on trial and all that sor
of thing No such spirit ought to exist
and I would not treat this Union as al
experiment. would treat it as fixe,
fact, that they are in the Union, and ar
going to stay there; that they are goin
to be part of our people, and part of tn
Government, and not only expect then
to help sustain and help it, bat make ths
part Of the country a source Of strengt
to the whole. ] want the people of th
South to feel that they are respecte
and essential portion of this Union, an
they cannot be anything else. Now, il
order to do that we must make their pc
sition in the Union one of honor in tn
; first place, and then if they fall ava
from tnat, it must be their own disgrace
but the honorable recognition must pre-
Cede the other, and that they have nc
yet had from the hands OF the Republ
can party. The people of the Norther
. States, whose representatives want t
make solid North, if they are wis'
must see that the South must be to ther
one of two things-a source of weakness
or source OF strength, hut their preser
course ard their present feeling is calcr
lated to make the South second lrC
) land"