The Democratic advocate., 1880-09-04

tlVn "SA the ifpepettN was ii"h al "Nl VI ''H ="
crops.
but elfl5cns OF Massachusetts, let Us conside
ailain little nearer home, with which We arc bet
ter acquainted. BEFORE the advent OF the Rcpubll
can party into power every river and harbor on ou
coast was engaged in ship.bdidlpg, !, was vas
and successful Industry. Now there Is not sinsl
ship being built in Massachusetts, and hardly hal
score Of smaller cran-
Under Republican rule our commerce has boe
swept fnam the sea- We have but single line Z
steamships bearing our hag ON the Atlantic, an
another ON the Pacific Ocean to do all our freightin
by steam Republican administration has given n
our trade with south America. The American ia
is hardly seen ON the ocean The port of Boston hu
not sufficient foreign commerce 10 give deceu
support to It's small pilot force Boston Is losing 4
importance as commercial city because OF Repul
hcan Legislation and administration lis siandar
insurance company can ind scarcely more marin
RISKS than enough 10 pay its office rent Al these fact
the merchants Of Boston who st around me know
Aud yet II is proposed that they shall still pern
Republican administration TO go on under whlc
this destruction Of 10 nterestsis being accomplished
when the war closed nearly every one of our sea
port towns had lcets Of fishermen, All those haN
passed away, save in one. Aud Why Under ke
publican administration we have been negotlaie
out OF the rights Of all our fisheries in the Northe
seas Claiming to be the party Of protection, th
Republican party have allowed the ish OF the Cana
dian provinces 10 come la free Of duty, the duties o
which would have been more than the value Of thl
entire catch ofOur fishermen in Canadian water
even AFTER the fish were caught aud prepared 70
market. To say nothing about their value whci
swimming In the sea And, at the same time, Re
publican Administration has taxed the couutr!
more than 1--we millions and half In gold that th
Canadian fishermen might have this privilege o
free market against our fishermen for twelve ycars
''Thc Republican party claims that they desire {
tariff for projection The Democratic party insists
as II always has Insisted. upon tariff ior revenue
! sec no difference between these two claims, 4
taritf for revenue must always work incidental pro
tcction No aritf will ever be devised In this ro'ln
Try hereafter for any other purpose than for ralns
a revenue, There can be no fear Of any diminuliuu
Of the revenue raised by the ulrid, Incidental pro
lection OF our products Will be necessity II th'
Democratic party have the power The inter,>t on
the public debt and the expenses Of the Government
must be paid from revenue either Internal or larih
and ifihc Democratic party should cut down ih'
revenue from the taiih, Il would reluU more reyc
nue from internal sources to.wit whlSkey and tn
hacco-io which their several States would nCye
assent
"lfanybody will tell me how can make nay idea
upon the finance and currency available shall lin,
myself busy In that direction. ! mean TO say N
word Of discouragrmcnt In thosc honest and cnthu
siastic men who feel Il their duty to sustain the Ma
tional party on that single ground. Thcryoles vii
be gallant, an honest protest against what the
find wrong in both parties upon this question @
finance. But this election presents to me practice
question ouIy-not atheoretical one. Ihaye waitct
10 these many years for the pacidcation Of the 1,
sues growing out ofthe war to reach ihosc inancia
and industrial ones Let war questions be settle,
as they will be settled for good or for evil by hi
election then we can turn our attention TO the nar
eial and industrial questions which interest US IN
the business mon OF the country but not til thcr
The Republican party Is pledged to the present 81
TEN OF finance, As long as II is In power It must b
the bounden slave Of capital with neither eyes ear
Judgment nor conscience Of its own. To the DcmC
cratic and National parties every progressive ma
must look in the futun for such correction an
amendments OF our financial system as enlightene
experience and conservative patriotism shall sho,
In future to be necessary"
General Butler passed next to a review Of the eou
neetion Of GARFIELD with the Credit Mobilier II
defended the veracity Of Mr. oakes Ames and chal
lenged Garield's denial concluding thus
The case Is not without parallel In history q
men not able To Withstand the pressure Of publ
opinion. Peter. when he got among the servant
and retaincr Of the high priests denied his MAstg
three times over. and cursed and sWote to II un,i
she cock crowed shame on him, and then he wen
out and wept bitterly, But then should not hav
voted for Peter as President to stand up IN a cris
should have preferred one Of the other disciples
even the doubling Thomas vi no stood By his Maste
after he was convinced. but the thing most regry
about this matter-parily because Il has caused IN
all this troubles that the nominee should have dc
layed his defense-wheh he issued in pamphlg
form, In which Mr., Ames Is accused OF uniruthful
ness In his tcstimOny-unul aiter Oakcs Amess eye
werr closed In death aud the honest tongue whcl
would have repelled the slander was silent forever
Upon this question, whether the Republican
nominee for President has the courage and deter
mined manhood to stand by his own conviction
regardless Of public clamor take leave 10 call t
mind another public matter Ia which was some
what personally concerned | refer to the increas
Of salary bll called by some OF the yituous Repul
l.can papers the baek-pay steal which, accoriin
to the custom Of all parliamentary bodies on lik
occasions was made retroactive. The nominee a
Chicago was on the Committee on Appropriation,
aud although the bill for increase Of salary was =,
ported by me AZ an amendment 20 the Appropriate
bill, never had any reason 10 fear his opposition
IL passage through the House lie might have bee
to it'll do not say that he was not-but hi
made no such impression upon me that
can remember IT, Aner the bill became a law h
IA a. hat -. h..H
have done-he took his back pay appropriated "a
him by Congress, The bill was passed to meet ex
actly such cases as his-nen who had no Legitimate
lucrative profession and no large private foriun,
aud who could not without making such sacrifice
as they ought not To make remain In Congress, Ia,
ing families 70 support upon the salary they were r,
ceiying. And they ought not To ~ do. II expose
them 10 temptations. soon after new spapor siorr
arose-eyery man WAS attacked who had the stead
iastness to stand by what he thought was rieh
Under these attacks the nominee wllted. lie ccul
not stand the pressure lie paid back into the Trca
nry the increased salary which he had drawn Gu
IL he ought 10 have done that because he was uo
entitled 10 IT, OF course II elected President he wi
never draw the s2iDOO year additional salary A
President which was passed In the same bill, espe
eiAlly as he voted put back his own salary as men
Der OF Congress where Il was before Is this man
leader for agreai peoples Turn your contemplate
for moment towards the gallant General nomin,
ted at Cincinnati, who Ia long public life has hel
many positions OF the highest responsibility, Wherei
his course Of action must be decided by his own M
aided judgment and sense OF right. and show me a
Instance where he has ever shrunk from any dun,
however painful, when It was his duty. 1 hay
never heard but single act Of his even cri,icisc,
and that, in my Judgment. rebounds 10 his erell
He had what all agree 10 have been most unplea
ant duiy-the carrying into cxecutioa Of The impe,
alive orier Of his commander in -chlefin the cas-
Ars. surrait need not here do morr than expny
the opinion that gave In Congress in itss that IN
execution was murder, under judicial form. of A
innocent woman. All agree that our candidate al
everything that he might do to have that Gun ma
nom him, but when that could not be. in the Ia,
guage ofourown poet Whittier. he "sOuude, the dee
bass OF duty done" doing the thing tina, he ought
have done, however abhorreut 10 his feelings IN
lesa said about the case Of Mn. surratt by Rcpubl
cans the better for that party. II was grIeyot
mistake, the outcome Of the aroused passions
men under the excitement afler the most horrIbl
murdero Of Abraham Lincoln, President OF the In,
ed states. Whenever ho has been called upou
aci COR candidate has shown that he determined T,
himself wisely and acted upon that delcrmlnatlor
aud has no step 70 rctrace no act TO apoisisc for
shaaowof turning II any one desires d read hi
mind and search out the springs Of his action. 1,
him read that most admirable letter 10 Gen. shcrma
upon the unhappy condition Of Affairs arising oDt
the Presidential election Of 1876. Written An I,
confidence and under the seal Of private corresno,
denee, il exhibits Gen Hancock innernos, ,ho,,,
a. the ols.ffIeDf soIafer ,xitht,, a.. a. -, . .