The Portland daily press., 1879-05-09
Wit and Wisdom.
WHAT HORR HAD TO SAY.
Sound Sense on the Finances and Go cd
Advice to the South.

While would like to discuss this ouestio,
and give you some of the reasons for the alarm
which pervades this country at this time, / an
| compelled for want OF time to do it but for
moment only. TIE alarm which is felt Al
| over the North is owing to the fact that mi
governmen is about to pass into the bands .
the men who 80 recently tried to destroy il
| But there is another serious cause of unes ST
ness, and that is that the Democratic party hs
gone over and given itself IN to the "gran,
center 10 this House the "Greenbsckers.
Now l know something about that Green
back disease. When 1t first strikes q man bt
will com mnence "running at the mouth" like
one who has been sslivated. The next thing
you will hear him bellyacbiDg around sbou
bondbolders and national banks; then his bow
els of compassion will begin to yearn for th,
poor OF the country, though I never yet knew
one OF them to give poor man q meal or
single days work in my life, Take the case Of
my honorable friend from Indiana, (Mr De La
Matyr). Does he know what be has done
Have you read the bill he has introduced for
the creation of greenbacks to supply the wants
OF the people, as he calls il? [ have read the
bill, and its provisions would make a borse
laugh nnleso he as entirely de void Of the sense
OF the ludcrous. Now, what do we fiod here
When our country net ds rest and quiet; wher
the business interests of this land demand tha
we should come here and pass tht Sc sppropria
tion bills pure and simple and then 60 home
about our business, ssy what do we find
We find the Democratic party uniting with
these men to flood the country with a mass OF
! trash.
l have been doing some figuring upon this
subject and do you know if you should pass
all the bills now introduced for increasing the
volume of the currency, how long 1t would take
to print the money? It would REQUIRE, without
doubt, the use of 10 power presses and engines
to be Bept running night and day for Tire next
SIX months.
Some man who has figured it out, claims
that 10 order to'produce The flood it had to rain
800 feet OF solid water every day. Now, sir, in
order to N eet the requirements of these gentle
meo, and supply the currency provided for by
these bills they would have to get their chap.
lain here to ask our Father above to open again
the doors and windows of heaven aud have it
rain g greeDbacks" instead of water for the
next forty days and forty nights.
Why, sir, the eloquent and elegant gentle
man from Iowa Mr.. Weaver) had the temsrity
the other day to intimate here to us that God
was about 20 raise no new David for political
honors in 1880, intimating thereby, suppose,
that de Was about to advance the Interests of y
gentleman at the other end of this Capitol who
always writes or has others write after his
name independent" Now / am not here to
contend that such thing is impossible with
God. have too much confidence in His DOW.
er TO doubt that he could perform even that
difficult operation; but ask the gentleman
from Iowa, in all candor If it isn't asking too
much OF Providence; altogether too much!
Why, who are these independent men? As q
rule they are good for nothing IN cases where
anything is to be done. They are always on
both sides of every question. and never square,
ly on either side of any. They may be called
political mermads-half fish and half woman.
Too much woman to be good for anything as Q
fish, and too much fish to be worth anything as
woman.
have said that what our country needs is
IN nd nd
set in motion the productive labor of the nation
the real and only source of wealth in every
country. l am aware that we have q large
number OF men in this ball who think to revive
trade and set in motion ths great enterprises of
profit in this land by simply running a paper
mill backed by legal enactments. No gre ater
telusion ever maddeDed the brain of mortal
man. 1t is not simple nonsense, but nonsense
boiled down to syIup-sugared off.
We Of the north do not seek sectional strife.
All we ask is that the laws shall be respected
and executed all over the Uoited States, north
aud soath alike. Did it ever occur to you gen.
tler,an to ask the question why It is that the
north is filing up so with immis grafton while
the south lags behind? Have you ever studied
this question any? While canvassipg my dis
trict last fall my attention was called especial
ly to that fact. Way mp n the northern most
part of the lower peninsula of my State 1 found
& new county filling up with astonishing rapid
ity. In three counties Of my district there have
been Opened d up and put in cultivation during
the last year over 45 900 acres CT wild land, and
from what can learn there has been in that
district alone during the past three years more
immigration than into any southern State, ex-
cept Texas.
Now, how is it? When I was up in that
county, 1 asked men why 1t was that they
sought homes in such cold climate when the
South was full of unoccupied lands? One GER
tleman told me he had tried to live in the
South, but that. having been Union soldier,
and having settled in Mississippi near where
CHISHOLM aud his family were murdered, he
was compelled to flee for his life. He claimed
that these people were murdered on account of
their politics, and added that had they not
been Republicans they would all he alive to-
day. A gentleman now in this city, who lived
right there at the time, tells the same storv.
Now, the first man left all he had in this world
and sad took upa home 10 the wilds of northern
Michigan, with nothing to rely upon but bis
own TWO bands, rather than risk his life at the
South Another very intelligent appearing
gentleman stated to me that he, too, bad tried
the South; that while he lived there he was I'M.
der DO fear for his life, but he claimed that the
people treated him with so much Indifference
on account of bis political potions that he could
not stay. He said that the habit in that coun.
try was to ostracise men from all good society
uDless they yielded obedience to the notions of
the party in power. He said further that he
would not have stsid there for the entire State
there toward strangers from the North who
settled among them. Is such the case? Do you
thus ostracise men who settle among you be-
cause they differ from you in politics? II 80,
why do you wonder that men refuse to live
among you?
Why wor der that your lands lie unimproved
and that immigrants turn from your shores
with hasty tread? L do not wonder that your
rivers which contain power to run the machn.
cry OF the world, yet go unused to the ocean,
no hum of industry on their banks and without
turning a spindle The reason for it is plain
1t is because of your hatred of Northern me |;
because Of your Intolerance toward the opinion
of others; b-"ause of your social ostracism
exercised toward strangers who co not
share your notions about the superb
ority of the Southern cbivalry or agree
with you as to the destiny of the colored race
An iDtfatlon OF the currency will not save the
Sonth. You should have more schools. more
enterprise and thrift, and less recklessness of
life, less hatred of wba' you call carpet-baggers
damned Yankees! Your business enterprises
with pistols. WHAT Mississippi needs to-day Is
more corn and cotton and less cussedness, more
mills, more manliness; less murder, less moon
sinners. What wonld improve South Carolina
is more hams and fewer Hambnrgs. She should
raise hor es and hogs more, and hell less
/ would like for moment to discuss one 9TH
er question, and approach it trembliDgly, be-
Cause 1t brings more or less into view the ques-
ton which has been pending here for the last
five weeks; pending because we gentlemen on
this side of the House will not adopt certain
policy and join with the other side in their ef-
forts to ruin not only the political but the com.
mer cial interests of this country. Because we
will not DO this We are denounced as section.
alists." A dozen gentlemen on the other side
Il have kept tally) have been continually max.
ing the charge against US on this side of the
chamber that we are seDsationalsts, that we are
contDually trying to create sectional strife, and
they ask Us II We are never going to stop wavina 9
the "blc ody shirt" want to ,aIk for moment
about this bloody shirt business. l find from
careful examination of the list that there are
among the majority members of this House
about 20 men who have served in the Conf.d.
crate army Now you gentlemen complain bit.
terly of u If we even in any way refer to the
late war, and you seem to take great delight IN
tsuntipg US with this "waviDg of the bloody
shirt" But how is it down there among your
selves? 1t would seem that you do not hesi
tate to hoist your own bloody garments, sc
much so that 1 sm told that Q man in the
South who did not serve in your army stands
no chance for political preferments It is sale
that in your conventions, at the bustiDgs, ev
erywbefe upon the stump you gentlemen are
wont to b, asst of having worn the gray, anG
that it is b. comm custom among you at oil
tint s, in st ea:on and out of season, to unfold
aud call attention to your Confederate uni.
forms. Is my Information correct? Ii so, tber
it would follow that it is not 90 much the blood
you object to ss It is the kind of blood 1t Il