National Republican., 1880-08-17
nrsINrss INTERESTS AND roLrr1cs.

BUSINESS INTERESTS AND POLITICS.
What guarantees can the democratic
party give the commercial, mercantile, agri.
cultural and manufacturing interests of the
country for the maintenance Of the thor
oughly sound basis of values that repubi-
can polity has established? This is a ques
lion upon which it behooves every honest
solvent business man, every industrious la
borer in every state of the union, to ponder |
well, since any unsettlement Of national |
hnance-bended as it is with the interests |
of every man who owns dollar or n dol |
lars worth of property, or who hopes to |
earn the one or acquire the other by honest |
toil-must necessarily involve all labor and |
enterprise in condition of misery and |
disaster which it may take long years to
retrieve.
The enormous expenditures which were
required for the preservation Of the union |
and the suppression of an entirely demo.
cratic rebellion created debt that would |
have produced condition of state and ma |
tional bankruptcy, and been destructive of
all our wealth and industry, had not repub- |
lican craftsmanship devised our present |
financial system-a system founded amid |
the chaos of the rebellion, and maintained |
and built up by the republican party to its |
present wonderful stability and grandeur,
despite the assaults of northern democracy |
during that rebellion and the combined |
and unremitting assaults Of northern and |
southern democracy since its suppression. |
This financial system is founded upon the
pledged faith of the nation TO deal honestly
and fairly with its creditors. How sternly
and un1inchingly and successfully the re-
publican party has maintained this pledge
for twenty years against every democratic
attempt to violate it, the political history
of the country, our wonderful development
of wealth, and the present general prosper
ity abundantly testify.
The national debt, while forced upon us
by democracy, was honestly and honorably
incurred for the preservation of the union,
so that the government of the people, for
the people, and by the people should not
"perish from the earth" The republican
party pledged tho faith Of the nation to the
men who supplied the sinews of war to our
armies of American freemen who volun-
teered for the preservation of that govern
ment to pay to the uttermOst iarthing, in
honest dollars, the debt incurred. No cred
itOr of the nation has lost dollar Its
promises to pay are everywhere worth their
face value in coin, and the national treasury
has resumed specie payments, and made re-
sumption universal in spite Of democratic
opposition, distractions and predictions OF
financial disasters to all business interests
if Presumption were attempted.
Fluctuations in the value of our currency
and apprehensions of business disasters
therefrom no longer hinder our merchants
manufacturers, importers, capitalists and
armies of industrial laborers and producers
or render them nervous in their industrial
and business enterprises The honest la
borer's toll is requited with honest dollars
The faith Of the nation, pledged and main.
tanned by the republican party, is redeemed
prosperity is universal wherever peace and
industry prevails, and plenty smiles on hon,
est labor under q government which repub,
lcan valor and republican faith would not
allow to perish from the earth. The re.
verse of this condition would have been the
result if God had not raised up the repub,
lican party and aided it to preserve the
union against the Vaccinations of democ,
racy and inspired it to wipe out the wrong
done to humanity by the party which main
tanned the system of human slavery. w,
have been true to the union, true to til,
divine command to raise up the lowly, ant
freedom, happiness and industry prevail
everywhere throughout the union, wher
schools and churches are supported, wher
the free expression Of opinion is allowed
where public honesty is Characteristic o
the people, where reputation of public
debts and pledges is unknown where IL,
chuued and blackened ruins of school
houses and churches attest the hostility 0
the governing classes to education and re
ligious liberty and where fertile soil ha
not been stained and cursed by the bloc,
of political assassinatons.
There may have been a few honest con
scientious men who adhered to the demo
cratic party in the northern states durin
the rebellion, but certainly they were to
small in numbers to have any controlling O
directing influence in it. Early politiw
associations, family traditions and othe
causes have drawn many thousands {
honorable, gallant mon who Tough
brayely against tho democratic rebel
lion back to~the ranks of that party
ranks from which they stepped out in 1856
when it was treason to the country to re
nam therein These soldiers are undoubt
sdly the only loyal element that can b.
found in the party, but they form yer,
small proportion Of its numbers, and ar
sadly out of place in its ranks. Its asso
Citations are demorali2ing.
The generally low tone of intelligence