Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-16

In D0th houses. Ihey prove themselves
false guardians, for they abandon the trust
at the very moment when they should
have most carefully guarded it. They did
invent the greenback, and they drove out
Of the country gold and silver, which have
value in every nation of the world. Gold
and silver are stamped by every nation in
the world, not to give them value, because
God gave them that: 1t was be who taught
men in every age to value these precious
metals, and since the sun shone they had
been the medium of exchange between
people of all nations. 1t was to this
party of moral IDEAS" which proclaims
itself the great party of finance in this
country, that we owe the accursed pres
ence of dishonest money. One of the
great men of this country, the great
Webster said that San irredeemable
paper money was the most remarka-
BILE invention to fertiize the rich
mans fields by the sweat of the poor
mans brow that had ever been evolved
from the fertile brain of man." and it is
to-day from this invention of the Repub-
lican party that men receive money that
can be increased by the vote of an acci-
dental majority in Congress. ask you
to carry home the fact that down in the
bottom of the human heart lies the value
of truth, and he who pays another by
force for value that which has no value
cannot be called an honest man. What
else has this Republican party done
After the bounty of Providence had given
to this land Of ours enormously productive
years, after the same wise Providence had
withheld his smile from other nations.
and with deluges of rain had injured the
crops OF all Europe, so that our superhuity
gave bread to those needing it-in view of
these facts the great American industry,
agriculture, the foundation stone of the
country's prosperity, was encouraged, and
by these means, by the labor of such men
rs l see before me, the balance of trade
was turned in our favor and the precious
metals brought here in payment of our
products. 1t was by the industry of the
American people themselves, by their own
honest tolls and hardy work, that the
country was enabled tC commence the
redemption of its money The proof
that there was no money with which to
redeem the currency was found in the
issuing of new notes. A man does not
| renew note when he has the money in
his pocket to pay it with. That is plain
matter of fact, and say that the evil was
| this, not that the Government in time of
trouble must borrow money-credit is a
blessing-but don't attempt to turn the
convenience into curse and by arbitrary
rule compel man to receive as cash that
which is but half credit. The abundant
crops with our industry brought us back
to the condition in which we could say,
"Bring us our money" The notes are
brought forward and the money is there to
meet them. But it didn't stop there. The
same disposition to juggle with the truth
and to deceive the people, which has
marked the course of the Republican
| party for the last 10 years, marks to-day
the course of their Secretary of the
| Treasury, and has induced them Just as
the note is paid to reissue it. What sort
of redemption is this2 II you knew a
merchant who owed great many notes
and you distrusted his financial status,
because you thought he owed more than
he could pay, would it strengthen your
confidence in him il he should announce
his readiness to meet his notes and at the
same time should reissue new ones2 He
owes as much at the end of six months as
he owed when he began, and this is what
they are pleased to call redemption. At
| said in the Senate once, it is trying
to bail out boat with seive. II
flows back one way as fast az you take il
out the other What wanted to say was
not that we should distrust our Govern
ment, not that we should diminish the
value of our circulation and restrict
business, but | said this--that | would
deny the right of the Government tc
compel the honest man to take dishonest
money if he did not want to do ii, and
advocated that from aud after January
next no note of paper should be compul
sorily receivable, and that the people
should be allowed to take it for what it i,
worth. Don't compel the man who hat
worked all the week and is entitled to hi
$40 to accept that which is only worth 81
or IS. II 80 you have wronged that man
This was the doctrine of the Democratic
party, of Andrew jackson, of John q
, Calhoun, and of every man who ha
. adorned the Democratic roll since tn,
beginning of the Government. What wal
the answer to this proposition of tina
guardian of the public honor and credit
, MIR. John Sherman? Upon the intro
duction of that resolution canvass wa
held by the Republican Senators, and i
/ was resolved that the measure should
, never pass the Senate. Such was tn
, manner in which a Democratic attempt t,
, secure honest money was met at the hand
of Republican administration and
} Republican Senate
Another thing: Do you believe that ii i
. safe and right that this land of ours upol
, which we live, and of which all huma
o power cannot create one foot, do you thin
3 it right and just, do you think it states
{ manlike, do you think it patriotic, tina
0 millions of acres of Textile lands capabl
r OF bearing glorious crops and filled wit
. rich mines should be given away to hal
a dozen artificial bodies called railroad col
a porationsp Is the text of the America
Y people "Eat, drink and be merry, for tt
: morrow we die T" mo; we look to th
r future and we say that this great domai
shall be preserved for future generations
q that they may reap the fruit of our goo
v guardianship. That is the doctrine Of tn
4 Democratic party, but the doctrine of th
O Republican party is to feed fat those VIII
l. do not need fattening, to make the stron
a stronger at the expense of the weak,
If make the rich richer at the expense of IL
A poor; and in proof of this L point
"a those land gifts by act of Congress froi
d 1868 until a Democratic majority in Il
ar House put stop to them. Fellow cit
i zens, this is not subject to be discusse
" lightly, it is subject upon which v
le might spend more than day to show tt
" terribly reckless course of this party th
D. has made grants without regard to oomir
8, generations. / can recollect that when
Or first entered Congress, II years ago, how Il
le lobby haunted itself in the face of the pu
9, lie. Subsidies and grants of all sorts we
to distributed with lavish hand. No wol
ut der the wine ran freely, and that Washin
n. ton was a ''gay place." and that Il
ys Republican party was popular with ella
OF the class that was fattening on this &C
1y ruption. When the Democrats came in
or power in 1875 in the House and put
ho end to all their grand dinners their pow
he was gone. Another thing l would like
lis call your attention to is the attitude of 1
he Republican party towards the color
les people of the country. There has beer
10, contemplate meanness towards t
ne negroes that meets my most hearty &C
lot tempt. They knew the negroes we
Is ignorant They knew they were weak a
of not able to protect themselves, and wi
by have they done2 They have professed
nv be their warm friends and advisers. Th
ey have told them they were fit to occupy a
:, station in. the Government. They Il
IL IL ~em they were the equals of any man
pe anarr n :. -soeet, and what has it all come
80, S eIS ~, >nortunity is given to g
sal When the opt Ihs;x lova and ADM