Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-09-18

and saves $40 in week or month over
and above his necessities is the owner OF
a money power to the extent of SO; is he
not? He has the purchasing power that
80 gives to every poSSeSsor OF that much
At the end of year he has
saved 800, and he has the money power
of that much money. By and by he saves
81 900, and he has the money power OF
81 900. Now, 100 such men, who have
created each $1,000 out of his labor,
club together under the foam of cOrpO-
ration and they put their 100000 in d
great enterprise like this mill, and they
WELD the money power of 100000. That
is their rightful power in the cOmmunl-
ty. All capital simply represents the
surplus earnings of labor. The man who
is industrious, temperate and economical
saves his surplus and employs it as a
producer in order to increase it, and in
the process of doing so gives other men
like himself chance to earn their SO,
their 800 and finally their $1,000 each,
or in other words, he creates opportunl-
ties for other men to create succession
and finally an aggregation of money
powers that make up the savings and
the wealth of the nation, Now in this a
crime? It's thing to be rallied at by
demagogues. Are we to turn society
into chaos and make men communists
Is every ldler, every waSter, every un-
productive member of society to be
clothed with the right to come to every
man who laborS and saves and demand of
him a division of his savings. If so, pam
demOnium has come, and there is an end
to civilization. And yet the Democratic
leaders have been at work incalcaing
these nefariouS principles among the peo-
pie during the dark days of the panic.
And now we bring them to the bar of
public opinion to answer for such cum
munistic and anarchical sentiments.
AN EPISODE.
At this point Welshman in the au-
dience sung out something about con-
demning them at the polls. Gen. Gar
field remarked upon the dialect of the
man, and said, hear the voice of man /
take to be Welshman. His countrymen
have felt the effects of panic as much as
any class of men in the country. They are
largely engaged in mining and the miners
have had hard time of it. And yet the
Welsh with that patience, patriotism and
heroism, so characteristic of their race
have borne their hardships in manner
becoming the people who kept the eagles
of victoriOns Rome at bay when they had
Overrun all other parts of Britain. I'M
perial Rome could not conquer Spartan
Wales, and to this day she has ever re-
mained an unconquered country. Hel
heroic spirit has been well illustrated by
the spirit of heroic self denial with which
WelShman in the United States have
stood by the honor and integrity of theil
adopted country throughout this panic
And now, as in the case of their ancestors
they have their reward in the return Of
better days.
This episode called forth hearty
round of applause
THE TARIFF.
Gen. Garfield next took up the tariff fol
consideration, ,and proceeded to give his
tory of the Wood tariff bill introducedintC
the last Congress. The General is mem
ber of the Committee on Ways and
Means, of which committee Fernando
Wood was Chairman in the last Congress
He said; The South having come back
in full force into Congress, their briga
dierS, as in old times, proceeded to make
dead set against Northern industries
They seemed inspired by all the Old-time
desire to break down the prosperity OF
the North, and as usual the Northern
Democracy became their frightful hench
men. The brigadiers rule the Democrat
ic caucus in Congress, and the caucu;
rules the party. These brigadiers, while
while seeking to break down the great
industries of the North by reducing the
duty on iron, glass, wool, cotton and
wooden goods, actually raised the dutie:
on sugar, rice and hemp, which were
Southern products. For instance, while
they reduced the duty on pig iron from
81 per ton to So, they raised the duty on
sugar from 60 per cent to u. And why
Because sugar is a special industry of
Louisiana, and Louisiana is a Sonthei n
State. And in like manner they kept
up or put up the duty on rice and hemp
They protected the South from the pau
per labor of foreign lands while opening
the flood gates to break down iron, glass
wool and cotton and wOOlen manufac-
ture. Randolph Tucker, a Virginia
statesman of the States Rights School
said that if the people of Pennsylvania
could not make iron pigs they could raise
Bershire pigs, and so far as he was con.
cerned they might do it. He and such
as he would turn the Northern people
into community of hog-herds, while ell.
couraging and building up the specialties
of the South. They recognized that il
was the diversity and industry in the
North-the brain and skill of eight hun.
dred thousand artisans - that had
broken down their Southern ConfederacY
1t was the skilled labor of the Moth that
had made her so all-powerful and ire.
sistable in the war. Hence the Southern
brigadiers were willing and anxious to
see her humbled in the dust. And in
this attempt they had as usual the faith.
full services of their humble servan, IS
the Northern Democracy. When the
Wood bill-an iniquitous bill as 1 char
acteriZed it on the floor of the House at
the time was brought in and put on its
passage, every Democrat in Congress
voted for it except three or four from
Pennsylvania, and every Republican
save one solitary membervoted against
it, and to the Republican party is due
the credit for saving the country from
the great calamity that would have come
upon it had that bill become a law
Among the Northern Democrats who fol
lowed the lead of the Southern brigadiers
in this business, and voted for that ini-
quitOus bill, were Gen. Ewing and Gen.
Rice, candidates for your votes for Gov
ernor and Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.
This disclosure produced a visible
sensation in the audience, and it was
plain to be seen that to most of the peo-
pie it was piece of news they had never
heard before.]
Yes, fellow citizens, these are the
friends of your Frustrated industries,
who proposed to prostrate them still
further-to crush them utterly out of ex-
istence by flooding the country with
the products of the pauper labor of
Europe. Gen. Ewing and Gen. Rice are
two. of the men who voted for that
Wood bill. You will find their names
on the record.