Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-10-22
SPEECH OF GEN. wOODFORD AT
ST. LOUIS.

18th;
MIR. CHAIRMAN AND CITIZENS OF ST. LOUIS
For this great welcome l give you hearty #,
night and SO do !. Applause, Ana IN. , there, re,
at the work of the hour. When on the hoorot
the recent Democratic Convention mt Cincin.
natl, distinguished soldier OF the late Con
federacy prophesied and promised that the
candidates of the Democratic party should re.
ceive the solid 1888 Electoral votes OF the solid
south, he uttered that which was at once n
challenge and n threat. It was threat
against the Industrial interests a the country.
For the land is at peace. Crops are good.
Wages are paid in good money. A wise pro
tective system has developed our industries.
Every forge is aname and every factory is
humming, and when he said That the south
would vote to change all this, IL was threat
against the welfare of every man who works
in all the land. Applause.1 IL was more, MIR.
Chairman; it was challenge; Now know
that he was not afraid of us and think by the
time he has dgested the election returns of
Indiana and Ohio lapplausel he will be equally
certain that We are not afraid OF him Ihe
solid South has borne every fruit but one that
Il could have borne. II might have borne the
cowardly fruit of National surrender. II did
not. The only other fruit IL could have borne
was the solid North, and that hangs full.
fruited on every fruit-tree In your neighbor-
ing States. | am glad that the issue has come,
1 am glad that the solid South died at sunset
last night [applausel, for am looking for
ward TO what is better than solid North, bet
ter than solid south
THE SOLID NATION.
loud applausel l know that there remains
work to be done. We have some OF IL in New
York, and you have some of II in St. Louis
We shall give to Garfield the thirty five Elec-
toral votes OF New York. [Applausel DO
YOU see to 1t that st. Louis sends three Repub-
lican congressman to sustain them III.
Gentlomen, hope that no Democratic
friend will think that intend anything dis.
courteous when frankly say this; Missouri
the Republican party needs Missouri. Jap
plause.1 Missouri needs an honest currency
You are n State oil labor. Your heids arc as
fertile as any that the sun shines on IN ms go
ing across this imperial republic. Your mis-
are rich with iron, with lead and with zinc.
our aglfcul ural products OF corn, tobacco,
hemp and wheat; your industrial possibilt-
ties require that Missouri should have the
best kind of dollars and the best kind OF tnan.
cial system that it is possible for an intelligent
Government to give TO this country. This
kind OF currency you have to-day. You owe
it not to the Democratic party. There has
not been an hour since the war began IN 1851
that the Democratic party has not done every
thing it could do to debase the currency, to
cripple the finances, to interfere with OK
CRIPPLE, EMBARRAss AND INTERFERE
with the financial, the industrial and the mer-
camille growth of this State of Missouri Have
Iput It too stronglyr "a voice-N9.l
When in time of war our gold and silver had
been spent and we were compelled to literal.
ly coin the credit of the Nation, Missouri
Democrats and Northern Democrats, the en-
tire land over, argued that the greenback
issue was unconstitutional, and threatened
that If issued IL would certainly be repuutated; /;
didn't they? [Noces-Ies IL any Demo-
crat thinks to the contrary let him speak
frankly out. When we attempted to make n
market for the National bonds, by requiring
that security for the National bank system,
almost every Democrat in Congress opposed
the establishment of the National banks, You
men know what the old system of State banks
was; you know tnat If you took Missouri
money into Arkansas It was at n discount; +;
that if you carried Arkansas money into I'LL
nois it was at discount; II you took Illinois
money into Indiana it was ut discount, and
all the way from 3 to 20 cents on every dollar
that labor earned was lost because under the
old State bank system there was no real Sc
curtty for the paper money that you had in
your pocket. To day the National system
gives you bills that when offered to you you
never think OF asking in what State they were
issued. Bank bills issued in Oregon, in Maine,
in Florida, in Louisiana, in New York, or in
Missouri are each equally good, and no work
ing man to day loses one dime on the paper
money that is paid him, for that paper money,
whether it be greenback or National bank
bill, is
REDELMABLE IN GOLD
--redeemable in gold, not merely in this land
of ours-it is literally a gold certificate wher-
ever commerce goes in all its dealings lap.
pause lin all its dealings round the civilized
globe; and yet the same Democracy that op-
posed the issue of the greenback In war, that
would rather have seen the Nation die under
the danger of rebellion than issue the green
back with which to pay soldiers and with
which to buy supplies, that same Democratic
party whi Ii fought the organization of the
National banks IN 1868, practically pleaded for
the reputation of the National debt, and
when, on the 18th of March, 1863, our Republi-
can President had come into power, when the
act to strengthen the public credit was intro
duced, almost the entire Democratic party in
both Houses of Congress went upon the
record as opposed to tue payment OF the Ma.
tional debt in coin. More than that; when in
1870 we tried to refund the National debt so
that we might pay only four per cent. interest,
or four and half, rather, in place of six, this
Democratic party opposed the funding
scheme. Why, even so distinguished hard
money man AS Senator Bayard, of Delaware
and If any Democrat be hard money, Senator
Bayard surely is-even so distinguished aman
as Senator Bayard, moved an amendment to
the Refunding act of 1870 wiping out the Ma
tional banks and returning TO the old State
bank system. Then, again in 1916, when our
industries were locked in this death grapple
with imitation, the Democratic party here in
Missouri, over in Illinois, over In Indiana,
over in Ohio, stood on the side of the Green
back heresy, and we were compelled, in
order to maintain the credit of the Govern.
ment to
ACTUALLY THROTTLE AND BIND
the Democratic party by that act. Nay, one
year later there gathered in n city-you may
remember it well-if my memory serves me
right | think it was the city of ST. Louis, there
gathered great Democratic National Con-
vention, which announced the astonishing
financial doctrine that the way to keep a
promise was to tell lie; that the way to keep
the Resumption act, which promised gold in
1879, was to repeal the thing; and all Demo-
Gratis threw up their hands and cried Eure-
ka." Loud applause and Laughter; We had
have now got to beat a half st. Louis candi-
date in 1880. [Applause.l
So by this brief review of facts have shown
you by history which can not be gainsaid that
in all these years, from the commencement of
the war, the Democratic party has stood in
solid opposition to every measure that looked
towards sustaining the National credit. 1t has
stood in favor of every measure that looked
towards imitation; so tell you, men OF Mis-
souri,, you need Republican ideas of hard
money, of National credit, far more than the
Republican party needs the State of Missouri.
lApplause.
/ go one step further. State so peopled, a
State with such resources, a State with such
wondrous possibilities lying before IL, needs a
wise and efficient tariff system that shall pro
tect the labor and industry of the state of
Missouri. Cheers Where stands the Dem.
ocratic party on this? Its National platform
asks for IA tariff for revenue only. Now, there
must be Democrats in this audience, and l
hope there are, for have not come to call the
righteous but sinners to torepentence. laugh
ter and applause. L want any Democrat,
whether he be worSingman or capitalist 10
ask himself honestly this question; Is the
Democratic party as reliable on the tariff
question as the Republican party? [Cries,
mo Nopl You Democrats say that you are
for tariff for revenue only. We Republicans
say that we believe in such adjustment of the
tariff as shall afford
THE MOST COMPLETE PROTECTION POSSIBLE
to every kind of American industry. Jap
plause.J
When tho first gun of rebellion broke the
awful silence of the spring of 1861 this country
was practically administered In financial az
fairs upon a tariff system that was entirely a
tariff for revenue only. With the necessities
of the war, compelling us to raise large
amounts of money, we not only raised the
money, but we sought TO so adjust the tax that
we should develop our labor, set our spindles
humming, start the water wheel beside every
water course, kindle the fire in every furnace,
and gave 70 labor constant and remunerative
employment. [Applause.l
In 1860, under the old time system, there
were in the city of st. Louis 3,l57 manufacture
ing establishments; these establishments
used capital of S20,034 ,22O In ten years,
during the war, under the operation of our
present tariff system, those manufactures
grew in number to II 81, and I'm that year, of
1870, the capital employed in manufacturing
establishments in the city of ST. Louis had
reached the enormous amount of Ss0,257 ,224.
lApplause.l Within the ten years that are
gone, from 1870 TO 1880, although Democracy
has ruled St. Louis and the state, although
Democracy has tried TO tear down this tariff
system, although Democracy has cared much
for the South and but little for Missouri, with
in these ten years your
MANUFACTURES HAVE ALMOST DOUBLED,
sQNen noaa