The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-30
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whether the Union was in danger. Why,
my comrades Of the field, if anybody,
East or West, North or South, undertakes
in any way whatever to break up this
glorious Union OF ours, although we are
a little older, a little sitter, and our ranks
are diminished by age and disease, we
will march again and strike one more
good blow for the Union and the Consti-
tuition, and teach these stay at'homes
one other lesson in patriotism and 10y
atty, as we did before. The Union in
dangerP Why who is afraid except our
stay at. home friends, but they were al
WAYS afraid. Therefore, let no man doubt
for a moment that the Union is in any
danger now or hereafter. Let me tell
you how to cement the Union and make
1t from North to South, East to West, the
home of free and independent men, gov.
erning themselves by equal power and
equal laws and enjoying equal rights and
by reaching out the hand of friendship
to each American, because he is an Amer
ican, independent of all other consider.
stions, thi. Union will be eternal. Eter-
nal as the sun in the heavens. LCheers.J
PROSPERITY OF THE coUNTRY-THE GREEN
BACK IDEA.
The next claim OF the Republican party
for power is, that you should not take
them out of power because they brought
prosperity to the country. Well, if that
is true, that is pretty strong argument
for leaving them alone. But is 1t true
Now, l undertake to say to you that ev'
cry business that can be affected by leg
islation is not prosperous, and every bu'
siness that can not be affected by legis'
lation is Of course prosperous. Twill try
to make this plain. We are prosperous
now in almost every part OF the country
Here in Pennsylvania the mining inter
est, the coal interest, are not as prosper
GUS as they ought to be, but it will come
all in good time. What makes US pros
porous? Why the good God in his be-
nefcence to this Country-for Providence
always seems to take care of us when we
don't take care Of ourselves-has sent us
for five years past such abundant crops
as the world has never seen. We have
raised provisions to feed the world. l
will give you but a single item, because
the time pushes. We raised last year
100000 bushels of wheat more than
we could eat or dispose of for our own
use. Now this would not have brought
prosperity to us, because having it sim
ply unused it would have lain over for
another year. At the same time the wis
dom of heaven chose to cut off from
England, Wales, Belgium, Germany and
Austria their harvests, 80 that they were
our customers and had to buy our wheat
and provisions for many hundreds of
millions of dollars-amost five hundred,
l think, in all, and that money came
pouring over here, and that makes us
prosperous. Do we owe anything to the
Republican party for that? But l will
admit for the sake of argument that they
gave US good gardens, but did the Repub
Iican party cut off the harvests of Europe?
[Cheers and laughter.
Now, my friends, l want to call your
attention to another thing-what gave
us tais prosperity? Whv this immense
amount of money pouring into this
country
Well, now the Greenbackers told us If
they would only let us have money
enough we would be prosperous. We
always said that and l say it now. The
money of the United States backed by
all the power and wealth of the United
States, backed by the loyalty Of it's Citi'
zens, and the enterprise of its people
is the best money God ever made or
the world ever saw. Now then my
friends let US 90 a little further. How is
it with the business that can be affected
with legislation? Look at your shipping.
A single line of steamers carries your
flag across the Atlantic ocean, another
single line carries it across the Pacific,
We have got 80 poor in navigation and
commerce that we, the second nation Of
the world before the war, that even the
Chinese tried their frat experiment in
commerce on US. That is Republican
legislation. l cannot spare the time to
follow this argument, but you can look
through from the beginning and you will
find it.
Now word to the working men on
this topic-why it concerns them. Four
years ago this country was on the very
verge of bankruptcy in all its business,
The fires we're out in all your furnaces,
the mills were stopped in New England.
All lsboring business was at standstill
and our country was full of poor men
seeking employment, wandering about
looking after employment, and who were
called tramps because some bad, mis-
guided, wicked men chose to take ad
vantage Of their situation and made it a
cover for plumber. What was your Re-
publican party about? Why in most Of
the States Of the North they we're trying
to pass laws to put all men who we're
trsmping about after employment into
the penitentisry. Cheers
Don't interrupt me. / would far rather
you would listen than cheer. Then the
honest workingmen in the country, who
work, feed these men in the penitentiary,
What brought the country to that con.
dition of tEingsP 1t was the Republican
legislation that undertook to bring ev.
erything to the price that Europe would
give for it in gold; that was the reason.
PROSPERITY CAME SINCE THE DEMOCRATS
WENT INTO POWER.
Four years ago the Democratic party
came into power and from that time has
come this prosperity. Now if were like
the Republican orators should say "see
what the Democratic party has DONE"
That would not be fair, and right, and
just, because they did not do it; it was
the Providence of God that did it. But
see, workingmen of Pennsylvania, what
was the effect2 Our prosperity has set
everybody at work. Who hears Of any
tramps now2 The whole of them have
disappeared from the face of the country,