The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-28

The foreign tonnage Of New Orleans In 1859
was G59, Os3 In 1860 it was G32, $685. In 1880
u IL 7G,,0l0. Foreign tonnage OF Charleston
in 1859 was l29,7 6i. In 1860, 126,4l1; 1880,
llG,2S3. Foreign tonnage Of Savannah In
1859 was 8G.52i. In 1860, 32,6is. In 1880,
lS3,s95 Foreign tonnage Of Mobile in 1859
lSl, 600. In 1860, 1G0,9O9. In 1880, 81, All.
20 reign st tonnage OF Boston in 1860 was
I TorS;sn tod tons o, In no I lssS Tx 49,
l,973,sl2. In 1880, 7,G5l,2s Foreign ton
mage OF Philadelphia in 1860 was 1875, 1862. In
1880, 1891 1872. Foreign tonnage of Balti-
more in 1860 was 1856 AT. In 1889, 1902, us.
In 1860 (year ending June 3O,) tonnage Of YES
sells entered ut seapOrts south OF tho Potomac
was one-third AZ large AZ the tonnage Of all
northern ports, both Atlantic and Pacific.
This year (ending June 80, $780, 1t IL only
about one-seyenth.
Democratic orators bid us look at the ex-
ports OF cotton. have looked at them, and
find these facts touching cotton and bread
stuffs:
laO-Iialcs cotton exported ,Sl2,Sj Sl9l sos 655
ls1O-l.a les cotton exported y, ,iss 2!EG.7gN
lsso-liaes cotton exp0rtcd,a slO.lj3 2ll,5 1896
Fewer bales this year than ten or twenty
years ago.
In 1860 brcadstuls exported sold for s2i, AZ $40
IN 1870 brcallstuiis exported sold for 72,25O tS3
In 1850 brcadstuis exported sold for 30, OBS 1856
stuffs have multiplied twelve-fold.
Look again-look ut the value OF all exports
as they have risen and fallen in one part of
| the country aud in others. The value of all
| exports from ports south Of tho Potomac was,
IN 1860, Sl93, 900, IT'S; in 1870, Sl92, 49,, $40;
ia 1850, sls7, liO,573. Here ID seen steady
decline.
I The value Of all exports from Northern ports
was, in 1860. s173 279, 400; iu 1870, $780,
J l02 1913; IN 1850, sG4G, l53, 673 Here IL o
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,
s22, az 513; in 1880, sl7375,73G. Here again
IL steady decline.
| The value Of imports at Northern ports was,
in 1860, S33l,37G,02l; in 1870, 5i39, 633, 0l4;
in 1880, $7I3,6l3.2G0 Here il an enormous
conrtsnt increase. The value OF imports at
the ports Of south Carolina was, IN 1860
81 ,5G9,57O; III 1870, s50G, 1894; in 1880, $751;
535. Here is rad decay. The value Of ex-
ports at the ports OF South Carolina was, in
1860, nss2l 1913, 1913; in 1870, $l0,Sl8, 500; in
1880, vi, $685. G3. Here il slagnati0n for
twenty years.
WHAT Is At STAKE IN THE ELECTION.
These unerring 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 Republican Congress- | answer
1t has everything to do with 1t. 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 themp I
answer that the good Of every one OF them
depends on just and friendly law, and whole
some administration 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 Id whether our
colossal fabric of commercial, industrial and
! financial interests shall DO under the manage
ment and protection of those who chiefly crea-
ted and own II, or shall be handed over to tho
sway OF those whose share in it is small, and
whose experience, antecedents, theories and
practices do not tit them or entitle them to az
sumo its control.
Tariffs, tax laws, finances, currency, banks,
courts, appropriations, the maintenance and
endorsements OF national as well AZ State laws
these are the things upon which prosperity
depends, and these are the things ut stake in
this election. The party which represents the
tax-payng portions OF the country il the party
whose representatives can best 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 its caucus; but II 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 1t is still more certain that
II you place the tax paying power III the hands
Of those who do but little OF the tax paying,
your situation il like that of the man who sat
on a limb and sawed of the limb between him
self and the tree.
The consideration OF relative interest, il 1t
stood alone, ought to turn the scale in deciding
whether 10 pnt the government into the hands
OF the Democratic party 'as now constituted
and controlled" III the language of General
Grant. lApplause.l But inferiority Of inter-
est or antagOnism Of interest, il, unfortunate
ly, not the only consideration. Banded Sec
tional resentments and sterile hates dis1gure
aud prevent the political policy Of those who
dominate the South, foreboding Unreasonable
peril aud 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 affairs. is
too patent and tlagrans to be denied or doubted.
One glance ut Southern elections proves Ostra-
cism. tyranny and wrong III monsti GUS proper
tiOns. In 1865 eight Southern States gave
msj0rities for Grant. In 1872 seven States did
the same thing. Their Il publican vote was
very large Only four years afterward 2GO, 900
votes disappeared from the count In the
nine other Southern States, III the same four
years, 100000 Republican vote. disappeared
from the returns also, making an absence OF
500, 600 votes. Most OF these stitied votes
were the votes OF men who had bt on slaves
freedmen, only just crowned with the crown
OF AM rican citizenship, and proud and eager
more proud and eager than the most OF us
TO exercise tho right to vote Applause.l Does
any sane man doubt that they would have voted
II they could, or that those who dared and
could, did vote, and that their votes were not
honestly counted? II any man does doubt 1t,
lot him 10 * at the spectacle presented III indi-
vidual States.
VIKING OUT THE REPUBLICAN VOTE IN THE
SOUTH.
The votes OF Georgia were registered before
the election in 1866. The white voters num-
bered %. 303, the colored 45S
In 1876 the whole Republican vote counted
was 5O.4i6. Only two years later the whole
Republican vote counted was 5257. Pretenses
have been made that the freedmen of Gsor-
gia do not care 10 vote, and often vote the
Democratic ticket. Only read the sav 'ge laws
OF Georgia under the fiction of yagrancy and
prison management, and then learn OF their
sickening, beastly administration, and human
nature will tell you that the freedmen Of GeOr-
gia do not support the Democratic party, but
would cast it out If they could.
In 1876 the Republican vote OF Louisiana
was 77,l7i. Two years afterw trd the Repub-
hcan vote disappeared from the election re-
turns. Yet in 1867 in this same State the reg
istry Of voters showed As. 1893 VIII to votes aud
~, i3l coOred votes and III 1876 the registra-
ton showed Republican majority Of %, 3l4.
In North Ca DINA III 1876 the itepubl eau vote
cast was SAT-. At the next congressional
election Republican votes scarcely appeared in
the count. In Alabama in 1872 the Republic
ans cast 9J,.72 votes They elected five of the
seven representati, o. 10 congress, and the leg
islature by large majority. Ia 1876, ~, $50
Republican votes were counted; two years