The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-29

they digbanded their great army OF q
million men. They have now force of
about 26,00O men. 1t 10 not maintained
for the purpose Of war abroad (hear,
hear) nor Is it maintained for tho pur-
pose of suppressiDg liberty at home
(cheers), and yet there is no country in
the world that is more universally res
pected throughout the globe than the
United States of America; and there is
no country where, on the whole, the
laws are better obeyed, and public order
more constantly maintained. (Cheers) }
Another thing ia this in which they diff
fer from US, that they have, | believe, al
most no political treaties. daughter and
hear, hear.) Washington, their first great
President, advised them to haye no pc.
litical treaties - as many commercial
treaties as they liked, and as much trade
as they could have with all other coun
tries. They:have not followed his advice
in that so much as | should have liked,
but with regard to political treaties, in
the main, they have followed his ad-
vice, and yet ! believe there is no Coun.
try with whom all other countries are
more friendly at this moment than the
United States. (Hear, hear.) think
mention has been made of the fact that
there were no Bishops in their Senate.
(Hear, hear.) Well, have no doubt
there are people in England who COM
miserate their condition in regard to
that. don't loud cbeers) They have
not constructed machine mostly polit-
ical and partly religious in which the
State holsters up the religion on the con-
dition that the religion holsters up the
State. loud Cheers.) They have not
got any favored great church organiza-
tion-(hear, hear, which will lend to
the crimes of mOnarChs and statesmen
the sanction Of the simulated voice of
God by which Christianity is demoral
lied and degraded. loud and continued
cheers,) l said also---and it is the last
point ON which l will refer to the diff
ferenCes Between the two countries
they have no land monopoly, no system
of law which is intended maintain great
families in possession of vast estates that
they may confer on these families great
political power which may be used, and
has always been used, in opposition to
the true rights and freedom of the peo-
pie. (Cheers.) They have not preferred,
as we have preferred in this country, to |
maintain thousand great houses and
great proprietors, when we might have
had hundreds of thousands Of comforta-
BILE and happy homesteads. (Cheers.)
/ spoke Of France as Republic, of the
United States ks Republic, lfyou have
read history and considered it, you will
find that the wars and extravagance of
Louis XIV. of France, the proAigacy of
his successor and his mobiles, laid the
foundation of the French Republic,
(hear, )and you will find that the folly
and tyranny of George Ill. and his Min
listers, and the perverse obstinaCy oftheir
majority in Parliament, laid the founda-
ticn Of the North American Republic.
(Cheers) I wonder whether it ever oC-
ours to the crowned heads of Europe
what will become of the policy they are
now pursuing. (Hear) Everywhere
great armies eating up the comforts of
the people, everywhere military exact
ness becoming more and more unendur.
able-everywhere menaces and acts of
war--everywhere extravagances and
growing debt. (Hear and Cheers) These
things create disGontent, invite disorder,
make insurrection almost certain. If it be
not absolutely necessary, and lay the
foundation of fundamental changes in
,he States such as we have witnessed in
France and in America.
Mr.. Bright then proceeded to speak of
he tariff restrictions of America, and
old of the beauties of Free Trade. Said
le:
"The farmers in the United States who
IRE growing all that prodigious quan ity.
# food which is coming to Europe have
10 protection at all, and they cannot
rave protection when they export. Ev. !
,rything that they sell they sell in the
,pen and cheap market of the world, but t
hey buy everything that they buy in 9
he dearest market in the world. Now
axe man, he has to sell everything !
hat he has to sell at the cheapest price 9
possible, and he buys everything at a
cry dear price. One says that he is in {
N unfortunate position, and he cannot g
10 doing very we'll in the world, and :
till ID is a curious thing that during th Q +
ast FIVE years the only great interest in
he United States that has not i
Uttered has been agricultural inter tt
SITS. What a grand thing it would n
70 if England and all her colo n
les, including the colonies OF the a
United States-for though a separate c
alton they are yet, historically speak. h
lg, colonies of England-if England and Is :
or colonies, including the United States cI
1lony Of Canada, the colonies of Austria "
a and New Zealand, the colony Of the 81
ape of Good Hope, and the whole of 81
ne Indian Empire, altogether now near
lg, and will soon attain to, population
flour hundred millions-prObably near "a
: onethird of the whole population of 81
ne world--what a magnificent thing it t@N
ould be il these nations alone adopted Ii
le principles of free trade, and set that ~ y
reat example to the world which the ii
orld must before long inevitably fol- II
w. Not only would the influence on pC
le world be enormous with regard to o.
le creation and distribution of wealth,
1T with regard to another question OF
interest-the question of a
sace, With the fall Of tariffs, by the
non Of peoples through free trade be-
7een nations-with the fall of tariffs,
Q shall find also that there shall be