The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-14

labor alone, and by thus attempting to force an
65-cent dollar on the laboring man you swindle
him daily out Of $780, 900. Twelve hundred
millions are paid yearly for labor alone, land, by
thus attempting to force an 05-cent dollar on the
laboring man, you swindle him out of $780,
600, 900 year. The amount which the produc-
ing class would lose is absolutely incalculable /"
1t will be seen that made no allusion what
ever to any legislation that preceded this pres
ent session of Congress, and it will likewise be
seen that arraigned them for the attempts to
do that wicked thing / was misrepresented
Now l1t these men who say that was IN the
wrong tell me whether they are in favor Of the
original Warner bill, which authorized the free
coinage Of all the silver that all theWOrld might
present to be coined at the minis Of the United
States +, The very moment YOU issue these sill
yer certificates that are worth S. cents on the
dollar you do away with a bi-metallic standard.
and that moment the laboring- man, the raiser
Of wheat, the producer of every product, re-
ceiyes IS cents and no more. and gold becomes
a mere article of traffic. To-day the laboring-
man can take gold, or silver, or bank-notes, it
is immaterial which, Do away with these, and
he must take silver whether he would or not
A distinguished citizen of Wisconsin, who has
been making great ado about this silver cues
ton, applied to one of your Judges, who took
the bill and looked it over, and said: &
q With one amendment, will join YOU
"What is it?"
"That every man who makes legal tender
of 81, GOO in payment Of o note shall give
mule to carry it away"
pounds; 100000, 800 pounds, and 81, 900 600,
5000 pounds, or thirty tons. And they want
to force the laboring man, and the farmer, and
the mechanic to take this deprecated dollar for
the benefit, the sole benefit, of the owners of
the bullion. Now, Mr.. Chicago Tribune, are
you in favor of the original Warner bill.
Mr.. Chandler then resumed where he had
left off,
What has this great Republican party done?
1t has been in existence twenty-five years
What hasn't it done? In the first place. it
fought the war through, and saved your ma
ton That every mothers son of you will
admit After the war was over certain Demo-
Gratis of the Copperhead school and persuasion
advocated the reputation of our national debt,
or, in other words, TO pay itin greenbacxs and all
the nations of the earth said: "These people
will fight There is no doubt about it, They
have shown it in the Mexican war They have
shown it in the war for the preserva ton of their
Government; but they will never pay their
debts" The Republican party, and, thank
God! every loyal Democrat stood up and said:
"We will show you that we value our national
honor even higher than we do our national life"
and we have gone on ever since the close of the
man on earth can count the money Three of
the $4,000 100000 we expended have been paid
1t cost 300 COO lives and s., 600 0000 900 to save
this great nation And now these people, the
Democrats, assert that all these precious lives.
and all that vast treasure were expended for
raught, and that there is not yet nation
upon this continent called the United States of
America.
Isaid before that we saved the national, life
nd thn nat II HOY roll Won lo
condition Of things when the Republican party
came into power. We borrowed all the money
we could borrow to pay our soldiers in 1861,
but a time came when we could borrow no
more, and we owed $40, 100000 for food and
clothing and supplies for our army, and we
owed the brave soldiers from two to four
months pay, and hadn't one solitary dollar
question was, "What shall we do next?" I'll
tell you what we did do. We came out frankly
and said to the people of the United States:
We have no money and can borrow no more.
We have these vast armies in the field Will
you trust for food and clothing, for pork, beef,
potatoes and forage, and take our promises to
pay tle very moment we are able for in no
other way can We carry on the WARP" With
one accord, from East and West. from every
nook and corner of this great country, came
the response: "Take anything, take everything,
take all we have, and give us your promise to
pay whenever you are able"-and thus and
there started the Greenback party I don't
want anybody to claim the paternity of the
Greenback party. because Twas there myself
when that child was born. 7 acted as both
wet and dry nurse to that infant, and no man
shall claim the paternity. We issued and con-
tinued to issue greenbacks, and the Republican
party was responsible for them, and was
pledged the moment it was able, to redeem
them in the coin Of the realm. The time came
Jan 1, 1879. When we were able we kept the
pledge given in the hour of extremity.
We resumed specie payments, and specie
payments have come to stay. While there was
no purchaser for bonds in 1861 at SO cents, to-
day the per cents are 1929 in the markets of
the world, and the credit OF the United States
stands higher than that of any other nation on
the earth save one; and yet it is said that the
mission of the Republican party is fulfilled,
and that the party ought to de- If there ever
so far as the future is concerned, we
are. But my fellow citizens, we have
made other arrangements. The great
Republican party, whose twenty fifth
anniversary we are celebrating, has accom-
plished more in that twenty five years of it's
existence, than any other political party that
ever lived on earth accomplished in 1 600 years.
It is the only party that ever existed for twenty
five years, that, at the endo that period, had
not solitary unfulflled pledge. I defy it's
worst enemy to name one single pledge
ever made by the party that is not to- day full
filled to the letter. We promised to save your
territory from the blighting curse of human
slavery, and we not only saved them from it.
but we wiped the accursed institution from the
continent of North America. We pledged our
selves to give you q Homestead law, and we
did it, We pledged ourselves to build Pacific
railroad, and we did it. We pledged ourselves
to give you an Agricultural College Land bill,
and we did it. Every pledge we ever made is
to day fulfilled Who are the men who utter
anathemas against the Republican partys All!
they are the men who rejoiced at every Union
defeat and mourned over every Rebel defeat
They are the men who said your greenback was
not worth the paper they were printed on.
They are the men who said, and now they say
right here in Madison, "Let by-gones be by
cones Let us forget the past" We'll,
if. was a Copperhead ] would say,
"For Gods sake, let by-gones be by-gones!"
But / "a don't feel disposed to forget
the past. So far as we Republicans are con-
cerned, we have made a record that will go
down through all the ages as the most glorious
record ever made In human annals and the
Democrats want us to forget the past but we
will not let them forget their past No my
friends, the mission of the Republican party is
not ended, and it is not going to die It's mis-