Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-28


of lesser prominence. He has no Will when
importuned by men, even inferior to himself.
After brief tribute to General Hancock
the speaker dwelt, in conclusion, OH the
danger of letting Delaware pass from Demo
cratic hands into the control of party which
az it is in other States, is composed of both
white and black citizens. II the Republican
party gets into power it will do Just as it has
done everywhere else-elevate the colored
men to positions of trust and influence. Then
let lis be true to ourselves ; let lis keep the
reins of power in oltr own hands. Let us
treat the colored people with Justice and re-
spect. but let III determine that they shall
never be our masters. Great applause.
The band then played tuno.
MR. MONAGHAN SPEAKS.
Robert e. Monaghan, Esq, of West Chester
then addressed the meeting. He began with
short allusion to the tariff, which he said
was subject belonging to business men and
not politicians. The difference between the
parties is that the Democrats want tariff for
revenue and incidental protection, the Re-
publicans want tariff for protection and
incidental revenue. The worst men on Gods
footstoul are the men who are dragging this
business question into politics. II am q
lawyer by trade" said the speaker" but
would kick the first man ont of my office who
came into 1t to organize a party to make my
PipiSnHibh luOluitlA DulltiCh, lou Dllkl-
ness men will never have continued prosperity
while you let these politicians make political
capital out of your business"
Eaton's bill, he thought was common
sense. 1t proposes to take the tariff ont of
politics and place it in the hands of commit
teeof manufacturers and experienced business
men. That bill was originated by the Demo-
cratic party passed unanimously Demo-
cratic Senate and would have passed the
House had there been time. 1t is now lying
on the speakers table in the House.
touching upon Intimidation by employers.
the speaker said ''the workman who
makes the manufacturers fortune and gives
him prosperity, if he will submit 20 Il threat
of discharge to be reduced from the proud
American to the meanest serf on Gods earth,
does not deserve a vote if he submits to this :
and the manufacturer who would submit Il
workman TO such pressure and threaten his
wife and little children with starvation il not
lit to live in the land of the free and the home
OF the brave.
THE TRIAL OF CASE.
The speaker came to try casc The
plaintiffs are 500O0,00O tax payers: the
defendants 100000 oflice-holders. He was
| there to vindicate the cause of every tax
payer, he cared not of what party, position,
association or color.
| He alleged, without fear of contradiction
that the defendants in this case, for the last
| 20 years, in the General Government, in
States. in cities, wherever they have had con
| trol, have laid their hands upon them to
wrong, ruin aud rob them.
Take the general government. Twenty
| years ago the Democratic party surrendered
| power. In that year the government cost
less than s6OOO0,00O to carry it on. 1t il
! right and proper to pass over the years of the
war and those immediately following because
there was in those years necessarily an
extravagant amount of money required to
carry on the government.
| Therefore, we come down to 1870 when i;
cost sl36,OOO,O0O to carry on the SAINT
machinery that the Democratic party in 1861
carried on for S60.0nO,00O In 1874, under
the worst President this country ever had
who was the common slanderer of a better
man the latchets of whose shoes he i,
unworthy to unloose, General Grant, who die
more to corrupt the big officials and manu-
tactllre more villains iii power than all the
presidents before him put together: he did
some service i'll the war, and do not want tC
rob him of single laurel that he Justly Won
but ~ a civil officer he has debaucled hi
country. In 1874, under his administration
the annual expenses of the government Wof,
run mp to S2,0OO00O.
And so it continued until the people revoltec
and checked this wild extravaganza and tool
from these conspirators tho lower house "A
Washington. and then they wrested tn
Senate from the same spoilers. And what di,
they do? Reduced Immediately the eXpcndi
lures of the government SiO.600.0OU Il year
Is not that an endorsement of the ability an,
Willingness of the Democratic party to rul
you well?
cAIrEr-BAH ENTRAyAdANCE.
At the close of the war the Southern States
after having repudiated without hcsitatio
their Confederate debts, were left in com
paratively good circumstances. Let Ills loo
ut the record of the succeeding years.
In l5dG the debt Of Alabama wa
SG,0OO,000. These conspirators took po.
session Of the State and III seven years la
the debt up to c32, ,0OO.0 900.
In Arkansas the debt was $4,000. 900 and. il
six and a-halI years, they ran it mp t
$4,000, 900.
In Florida the debt was Si,OOO.OOO and il
seven years they ran it up to SlG, 900.
lii Georgia the debt was 55,00O,OG0 aud, il
six years, they ran it up to sSs O0O,OOO.
LII Louisiana the debt was Sl3, ,On0. 900 am
in six and a-half years, they ran it mp t
Sil l,O0O,0O0.
In Mississippi the debt was 2gOO.OOO an
in seven years, they ran it up to $4,000, 900.
In North Carolina, the debt was SIS. 0OC
In six and a-half years they ran it up /
S32, 900, ,00OI
In South Carolina the debt was :l3000. .OOC
In six years they ran it up to S22, 900, 900.
In Tennessee the debt was 500. 900. 900. |
seven years they ran it up to $50, ,OOO0O0.
In Texas the debt was ono third @
Sl,0O0,O0O. In six and-a-half years they ia
1t up to ;l2,0OO.0O0. .-..
In yirginin the debt was al .0O0OOO +
seven years they ran it mp to 81 7000.0OD.
In other words. in between six and sevc
years these oilce-ho!ders ran up the debts O
these Southern states SIP. 900 6OO.
In Gods name amt thcre a reason VIII
there should be a solid south
Take nv own State of pcnnsvlyanin wber
for twenty wears this same ORGANIZATION i'm
held undisimted control. In 1850 il co.
900 to run the executive department 4
the State. In 1877 they had RIM this mn I
S4s. 900, The expenses Of the State royerl
ment were! In 1854. $1,000; in 1886,
SSls 900; in 1876. 81, ,27l. 900 The member
of the Legislature used TO receive salarie
of -3OO or -lOO aniecr. at the last scssio
thev received II 'l,T9 TaLe tbe Iepislatiy
Department. In 1860 il cost 4l77.0nO; j
ISIS, @lg6, 900, Take the judicial depa11
ment Sl45, 900 in 1860 SIS. 900 in iS7'
Take the public printing; 5}l 900 in 1866
sl37. 900 in 1870. Don't this rise aboy
party? Don't it come home to YOU. mani
facturer and laboring man? 1t il vonr prul
erty that these people are suuandering. Yo
produce it, Won have coined vour energy an
, sweat into dollars to keep this mnchinel
going: you are the tax producers: the defent
ants in this case are the wastofu tax col
sumers.
In the municipal affairs OF this ro1nt,r
wherever they have placed their hands mo
T peoples property They have done it to was
and plunder. | quote from the Anterico
IllndHdc published bv United States I.ibr
rian Spofrord. Republican authority. | W
take northern. southern. eastern and westei
/ cities.
/ Take Boston In 1866 its munirinal de-