Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-10-06

it is 76O,910. Foreign tonnage of Charleston
| in 1859 Was 129, 7G4. In 1860, 1875. Al; 1880.
l16, 203. Foreign tonnage of Savannah in
1859 was 06,524. In 1860, 92,648. In 1880,
1873, 1876. Foreign tonnage of Mobile in 1859
l31, 6OO In 1860, 10000. In. 1880, 81, All.
Foreign tonnage of New York in 1850 was
l,973,o12 In 1880, 1861, 252. Foreign ton
mage of Philadelphia in 1850 was 1876, 1872. In
1850, 1881 ,312. Foreign tonnage of Balt-
more IN 1860 was 1876, AT. In 1880, 1902, 713.
sells entered at seaports south of the Potomac
was one-third as large as the tonnage of all
northern ports, both Atlantic and Pacific.
This year (ending June 80, $780, it is only
about one-seventh.
Democratic orators bid us look at the ex
ports OF cotton. [ have looked at them, and
find these facts touching cotton and bread
stuffs:
Value
186O-Bales cotton eXported3 S12 ,345 $191 SO6 $50
lolO-Bales cotton exported, 095, 1923 227 OPT 624
lo8O-Bales cotton exported, 381O,l53 2l1, 535 905
Fewer bales this year than ten or twenty
years ago.
In 1860 breadstufs exported sold for 1924, 422 800
In 1870 breadstuffs exported sold for ~, $50 1913
In 1850 breadstuffs exported sold for 288,036,835
Cotton has stood still, while surplus bread
stuffs have multiplied twelve-fold.
Look again-look at the value of all exports
as they have risen and fallen in one part of
the country and in others. The value of all
exports from ports 81 nth of the Potomac was,
in 1860, $199 909,7 IT'S; in 1870, 1892, 889, 900;
IN $780, 1887, lac, 573. Here is seen a steady
decliae.
The value Of all Exports from Northern ports
was, ia 1860. $173 279, 499; 10 1870, $685.
1O2 423; in 1880, $646, 153 673. Here is
steady increase of nearly four-fold. The value
of import, Of all kinds to all ports south of
the Potomac WAS. in 1860. $50 79O. 1888; in 1870.
1922, 774 573; in 1896, $17, 375, 796. Here again
is steady decline.
The value of imports at Northern ports was,
in 1860, 1881, 376, 021; in 1870, $439, 633, Ola;
conetant increase. The value Of imports at
the ports Of South Carolina was, IN 1860,
81 500, $40; in 1870, $500, 1884; in 1880, $231,-
$685. Here is sad decay. The value of ex-
ports at the ports OF South Carolina was, in
1860, $21 1913 1913; in 1870, $1O,818, 1863; in
1881, $2l 669, 763. H're is stagnalion for
twenty years.
WHAT is AT STAKE IN THE ELECTION.
These unerrng proofs map and locate the
bulk and substance of the Nations wealth and
business. But some man may say what has
all this to do with electing Garfield and Ar
thur and a Republican Congress? I answer
it has everything to do with it. Again, some
man may say, all these vast enterprises and
transactions are managed by individuals and
corporations as private business, and what
are they to politics or politics to them? I
answer that the good of every one of them
depends on just and friendly laws, and whole
some administra ion of the Government.
say this, speaking in the great CONNER
cial metropolis of the Western hemisphere,
and speaking to men whose wisdom, integrity
and enterprise have made this one of the
greatest, and in my belief the most generous.
benevolent city an the globe. [ affirm that
the broad issue at this election is whether our
COLOSSAL of al ind al
financial interests shall be under the manage
ment and protection of those who chiefly crea-
ted and own it, or shall be handed over to the
sway of those whose share in it is small, and
whose experience, antecedents, theories and
practices do not fit them or entitle them to as
sumo it's control.
Tariffs, tax laws, finances, currency, banks,
courts, appropriations, the maintenance and
endorsements of national as well as State laws
these are the things upon which prosperity
depends, and these are the things at stake in
this election. The party which represents the
tax paying portions Of the country is the party
whose representatives can bet be trusted to
vote upon drafts on the treasury. A congress-
man whose constituents "foot the bills" may
not stand up alone, Or with few others,
against his party and it's caucus; but if ne be-
longs to the party all Of whose congressman
represent tax-paying constituencies, they may
be trusted to stand together against raids on
the treasury which they know ali their districts
would condemn. It is still more certain that
II you place the tax-paying power in the hands
of those who do but little of the tax paying,
your situation is like that of the man who sat
on a limb and sawed off the limb between him.
self and the tree.
The consideration of relative interest, if it
stood alone, ought to turn the scale in deciding
whether to put the government into the hands
Of the Democratic party "as now constituted
and controlled" in the language of Gene, al
T0,,4 e., - s-.41~
est or antagonism OF interest, is, unfortunate
ly, not the only consideration. Banded Sec
tional resentments and sterile hates disfgure
and prevent the political policy of those who
dominate the South, foreboding immeasurable
pt ril and evil should they come to WELD the
whole forces of the national government.
Intolerance of FREE action, and of equal
rights in political or even business sffairs is
too patent and fragrant to be denif d or doubted.
One glance at Southern elections proves ostra-
clsm, tyranny and wrong in monstrous proper
tons. In 1868, eight Southern States gave
majerities for Grant. In 1872 seven States did
the same thing. Their Republican vote was
very large. Only four years afterward $4,000
votes disappeared from the count. In the
nine other Southern States, IN the same four
years, 100000 Republican votes disappeared
from the returns also, making an absence Of
$50, 900 votes. Most of these stlfed votes
were the votes of men who had been slaves
freedmen, only just crowned with the crown
of American citizenship, and proud and eager
more proud and eager than the most of US
to exercise the right to vote Applause Does
any sane man doubt that they would have voted
if they could, or that those who dared and
could, did vote, and that their vo' es were not
honestly counted? II any man does doubt it,
let him 10 ok at the spectacle presented in indi-
vidual States.
wIPING OUT THE REPUBLICAN VOTE IN TIE
SOUTH.
The votes of Georgia were registered before
the election in 1866. The white voters num-
bered 95 3O3, the colored SO. 458-
In 1876 tie whole Republican vote counted
was SO, 446. Only two years later the whole
Republican vote counted was 5 257 Pretenses
have been made that the freedmen of Geor-
gia do not care to vote, and often vote the
Democratic ticket Only read the savage laws
of Georgia under the fiction of vagrancy and
prison management, and then learn Of their
sickening, beastly administration, and human
nature will tell you that the freedmen of Geor-
ga do not support the Democratic party, but
would cast it out it they could.
In 1876 the Republican vote of Louisiana
wa IT TIA Two wears afterW ard the Repub-