The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-09-24

more arrest or divert the movement OF conn
meree from East and West than It would con,
troll the tides of the sea or change the cosifses
of the stars. Southern commerce. q simple.
tardy and dependent; Northern cognmeTce is
complex, intensely active, highly organized and
independent Northern methods and pro-
erosion have constantly increased their fruits !;
the reverse is true of Southern methods.
In 1850. the imports of New Orleans were
$22, 1872, 773; last year they were only $40 84O.-
254 They were less last year than In any wear
from 1860 1873. In 1850, exports from New
Orleans were So, 81, $50 last year they were
only $50, PAS, 874, less than theywerein $40 and
1874. The tonnage account varies this states
ment apparently, but only apparently, because
steamvessels have been used Of late, and steam
ers count more rapidly in tonnage than In car
goes. Like retrograde and stagnation appears
at other ports. Baltimore is not treated as q
Southern port, because it is the ocean terminus
of great East and West line Of traffic. ~ IN.
Now turn to Northern ports: - - go S
Boston, imports ..... $ 99,S66,56O s,61s,558
Boston, exports. l3,530,770 5S,023587
New York, imports. 233,692,941 543 1893
New York, exports $50. 12O63O,955 s4A 1904
philadelphia, exports, 55l2,755 y 49,5l2lSs
Baltimore, imports,..... 9784,T73 II 1885, 256
Baltimore, exports. 49,. 8,8O4,6O8 76,22O,S7O
The imports of these four ports III 1860. were.
$549, $50, 161. In 1880 their imports were $685.
122.604; their exports, $572, 29s, 9l5; total,
81, 240, 420, 920. In 1860 the foreign commerce
of New Orleans was "a per cent of that of the
four ports just named. In 1880 it is only g per
cent, falling off from $780, 735, 450 in 1860 to
$101, 092, 1913 in 1880. The, foreign tonnage of
New Orleans in 1859 was 659,083 in 1860 it
was 632, 1893 in 1880 it was 760, 910 The, for
eign tonnage of Charleston in 1859 was 129, 764:
in 1860 it was 126, 421; i'll 1880 it is 1928.
In 1860, year ending June 80, the tonnage of
vessels entered at seaports south of the Potomac
was third as large as the tonnage of all
Northern ports, both Atlantic and Pacific This
year, ending June 80, $780, it is only about one
seventh Democratic orators bid us look at the
exports of cotton. t-..s ~. n 7
have looked at them, and find these facts
touching cotton and breadstuffs: In 1860,
bales of cotton exported, 3,812,355 !; value,
$191, 806, 555. In 1870, bales of cotton export
ed, 2,O95,323; value, 1927, 027,6 24. In 1880,
bales of cotton exported, 1910, 1853 value,
$211, 535, 905-fewer bales this year than twenty
years ago. In 1860, the breadstuffs exported
sold for $24, 422, 800. In 1870, the breadstuffs
exported sold for $72, $50. 933. In 1880 the
breadstuffs exported sold for 1888, O36, 1885,.
Cotton has stood STILL while surplus breadstuffs
have multiplied twelvefold. Look again; look
at the value of all exports as they have risen
and fallen in one part of the country and in
others. The value of all exports from ports
south of the Potomac was in 1860, $199, 097, :
$50 in 1879, $780, 889, $780, in $780, $187, 140, 573
Here is steady decline. These unerring
proofs mark and locate the bulk and substance
of the nations wealth and business. sai
But some man may say, What has all this to
do with electing Garfield and Arthtirand Re
publican Congress? I answer, It has every
thing to do with it. Again some men may say,
Allthese vast enterprises and transactions are
managed by individuals and corporations as
private business, and what are they to party or
politics To them l answer that the good of
every one of them depends on just and friendly
laws and wholesome administration of the Gov
eminent. say this, speaking in the great
commercial metropolis of the Western henis-
phere, and speaking to men whose wisdom, in,
tegrlty and enterprise have made this one of
the greatest and, in my belief, the most gener-
GUS and benevolent city on the GLOBE I affirm
that the broad issue at this election is, whether
our colossal fabric of commercial, industrial
interests shall be under the management and
protection of those who chiefly created and
own it, or shall be handed over to the sway, OF
those whose share in it is small, and whose3ex-
per1ence, theories and practices do not fit them
or entltle them to assume its control IL, ,,,se.
Tariffs, tax laws, finances, currency, banks.
courts, appropriations, the maintenance and
enforcement of national as well as State laws,
these are the things upon which prosperitv de-
ponds, and these are the things at stake in this
election. The party which represents the tax,
paying portions of the country is 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 if he belongs to
party, all of whose Congressman represent the
tax, paying constituency, they may be trusted
to stand together against raids on the treasury
which they know all their districts would con-
denim. 1t Is still more certain that if YOU
place the tax-leyying power in the hands
of those who do but little of the tax
paying, your situation is like that of
the man who sat on limb and sawed off
the limb between himself and the tree. The
consideration of disparity of interests, if it
stood alone, ought to turn the scale in deciding
whether to put the Government into the hands
of the Democratic party, "as now constituted
and controlled" in the language Of Gen.
Grant. But inferiority of interest or antag-
onism of interest is unfortunately not the only
consideration. Banded sectional resentments
and sterile hates disfgure and aperYerts the,
political policy of those who. dominate the
South; forehodlng lmmeaslrable peril and evil
should they come to WELD the whole force of
the National Government. Intolerance Of free
action and equal rights in political or even
business affairs is too patent and fragrant, to he
denied or doubted. One glance at Southern
elections proves ostracism, tyranny and wrong
in monstrous proportions In 1868 eight of the
Southern States gave majorities for Grant In
1872 seven States did the same thing. Their
Republican vote was very large. 0nlyfour wears
afterwards 26O, 900 of those votes disappointed
from the count. In the nine other Southern
States in the same four years 300 600 Republican
votes disappeared from the returns. also maxi,
ing an absence of $50, 900 votes Most of these
stified votes were the votes of menewhos had
been slaves. freedmen, only just crowned With
the crown of American citizenship, and, proud
and eager, more proud and eager than the most
of us, to exercise the right to- vote.
Does any sane man doubt that they
would have voted if they could. or that
those who dared and could did vote. and that
their votes were not honestly counted? IF any
man does doubt, let HIM look at the spectacle
presented in Individual States I, The votes Of
Georgia were registered before the, election in
1866. The white voters numbered 95. 800. tie.
colored SO, 45S In 1876 the whole Republican
vote counted was SO, 446. Two years later the
whole Republican vote counted was s. 257.. Pre-
tense being made that the freedmen of Georgia
do not care to vote. and often vote the Demo-
cratic ticket, only read the savage laws of Geor-
gla under fiction OF vagrancy, and prison man
agement, and then learn of their sickenig. beast
~ administration, and human nature will ttalvoa1
that the freedmen Of Georgia do not support the
Democratic party, but would cast it out if they
could. In 1876 the Republican vote of Louisif-
ana was 77,1T4 two years afterWard the Re
publican vote disappeared from the election ne
turns Yet in 1867, in this same State, the
registry of votes showed As. 1879 white voters,
and S4, AL colored voters and in 1876 thereg4
istry showed Republican majority of q. 314 Z
In North Carolina in 1876 the Republican vote
cast was 108,417. At the next Congressional
election the Republican vote scareIv appeared
in the count In Alabama in 1872 the Iaepubi-
cans cast 90.272 votes They elected fiYe of
the seven Representatives to CONGRESS, and the
Legislature by alarge majority In 187668sz30
Republican votes were counted. Two years
later, when q Governor and members of Com
gress were elected. there were but 213 counted
This was very carnival of fraud and devil
try. Voting plaeesin Republican regions had
been established twenty-five miles apart and
the Republicans of South Carolina do not ride
By night or by day. They go Oh foot They
are poor and Ignorant, but they know What
emancipation means. They know what the bal
lot box means. They know which side they
prayed and fought for in the wai.. They know
-N. L.