The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-03-18

was tne war or cannon, this Is the
war Of thought; and We have got to
beat them in this var Of thought; reoollect
that The question IL, shall the mon that en-
deavorod to destroy this country rule it? Shall
the men that said this is not q nation, have
charge Of this nation? The next question, shall
we pay our debtsr We had to borrow some
money to pay for the shot and shell to shoot
Democrats with. We found that we could get
along with few less Democrats, but not with
any loss country, and so borrowed the money,
and the question now lie, will we pay it, and
which party is the most apt to pay it, the Re
that swore it was constitutional or the party
that said thatit was unconstitutional! When
over q Democrat seos . greenback, tho 81 cen
back says to the Democrat, II am one Of tho
fellows that whipped you" Whenever Re-
publican sees groenback, the groenback says
and Saved The 'eS eoun H9s ScR my fpsS
You have heard a great deal about finances
Nearly everybody that talks about it gets as
dry-ss dry as II they had boen in the fnal
home Of the Democratic party for forty years
ces. In tho first place, the Government
don't support the people; the people support
the Government The Government passes
around tho hat, the Government passes around
tue alms- dish. True enough, it has a musket
It passes, told you, the aims dish, and We ali
throw in our share-except Tilden. This Gov
ernment is perpetual consumer. You under
stand me; the Government don't plow ground,
the Government don't raise corn and wheat;
the government is simply perpetual consum-
idea that the Government can make money for
You and to live on-why, it is the SAME AZ
though my hired man should issue certificates
of my indebtedness to him for me to iva on
Some people tell me that the Government
can impress its sovereignty on piece of pa
per, and that is money: Well, it it is, what's
Why not make $1,000 bills? Why not make
81 l,OO1, 1,OOo, ,OOO bills, and all be 6illionaifes?
Ii tho Government can make money, what on
earth does it collect taxes flom you and me for? ?
Why don't 1t make what money it wants. take
the taxes out, and give the balance to u.s.? Mr.
Groonbacker, suppose the Government issuel
sl,OoO. 100000 to- morrow, how would you get
any Of il? IA voice, "Steal it'll was not
speaking to the Democrats. You would
not get it unless You had something to ex-
around and give you your average. You have
TO have some corn, or wheat, or pork to give
for it. How do you get money: By work.
Who're from? You have to dig it out of the
grounl That's where it comes from. In old
nmes oal, there 1e were some men who thought they
into gold, and old gray haired men, trembling.
totterlng on the verge Of the grave wore luut-
ing for something to turn ordinary metals into
gold; they were searching for the fountain OF
eternal youth; but they did not findit No hu-
man ear has ever heard the silver eurele Of the
spring Of immortal youth. There used to be
mechanics that tried to make perpetual motion
by combinations of wheels, ,shif fling weights. and
rolling balls; but somehow the machine would
never quite run. A perpetual fountain Of
greenDacks, OF wealth without labor, is Just as
foolish as fountain Of eternal youth The
idea that you can produce money without labor
ls just Is foolish as tho idea of perpetual mo-
ton. They are old follies under new names.
Let mo toll You another thing. The Democrats
seem to think that you can fail to keep prom
Use so long that it is as good as thong you had
kept It, They say you can stamp the sover-
other day saw piece of silver bearing the
sovereign stamp Of Julius Cesar julius
Caesar has been dust about 2, 600 years, but that
piece OF silver was worth just as much as
though Julirs Caesar was at the head of the
Roman legions. Was it sovereignty that made
it valuable? Suppose he had put it, It upon n1 a
piece Of paper. It would have been OF no more
value than = Democratic promise. Another
thing, my friends, this debt will be paid; YOU
need not worry about that The Democrats
ought to pay the costs. But we are
paid. Tho holders of the debt have
got mortgage on continent. They have a
mortgage on the honor OF the Republican party,
and it is on record. Every blade of grass that
grows upon the continent is guarantee thatthe
debt will be paid; every field OF hammered corn
the debt will be paid; all the coal put away in
the ground millions Of years ago, by that old
miser the sun, is guarantee that every dollar
OF that debt will be paid; ali the cattle on the
prairies, pastures and plains, every one of thom
Is guarantee that this debt will be paid; every
pine standing in tho somber forests of the
North, waiting for the woodman's Ak, is q
guarantee that this debt will be paid; all the
gold and silver hid in the Sierra Nevadas,
waiting for the miners pick, is a. guarantee
with its muscles Of iron and breath Of flame.
and all the boys and girls bonding over their
books at school, every dimpled child in tho
cradle, every good man and every good woman.
and every man that votes tho Republican
ticket, is guarantee that the debt will be
paid.
What is the next question: Tho next ques-
ton is, Will we protect the Union men in the
south? tell you tho white Union men there
have suffered enough. It is a crime in tho
southern States to be Republican. 1t is
crime in every Southern State to love this
country, to believe in tho sacred rights OF
man: l tell you the colored people have suf-
fered enough. They have been owned by
Democrats for 20O years. Woreo than that,
they have been forced to keep the company of
their owners tisa terrible thing to live with the
man that steals from you. They have suffered
cattle. Yes, for 200 years every human tie was
torn asunder by the cruel hands of avarice and
greed. For 200 years children wero sold from
their mothers, husbands from their wives,
brothers from brothers, sisters from sisters.
There was not during the whole Rebellion
willing to be reconciled to our Southern bretl-
rem when they will treat onr friends as mon.
When they will be just to the friends of this
country; when they arc in favor Of allowing
every American citizen to Lave his rights, thon
We are their friends. We arc willing to trust
them with the nation when they are the friends
Of tho nation. We are willing to trust them
with liberty when they believe in liberty.
We arc willing to trust them with the
black man when they cease riding in
tho darkness of tho night-those masked
wretches-to The hut OF the freedman, and,
Notwithstanding the prayers and supPl;cations
cease to consider the massacre Of Hamburg as
Democratic triumph, then, 1 say, VIC will be
their friends, and not before Now, my friends,
thousands OF the Southern people and thousands
of the Northern Democrats are afraid that the
negroes are going to pass them in tho race of
llfe And, MI. Democrat, he will do it unless
you attend to your business. The simple fact
that you are white cannot save you always.
You have got to be industrious, honest, to cult
Vat0 sense OF JQ6tlco II you OOn't, tne COL
ored race will pass you, as sure as you live l
am for giving every man chance. Anybody
that can pass me is welcome. believe, my
friends, that the intellectual domain of the
future, like the Land used to be in the State
Of Illinois, is open to presumption. The fel-
low that gets fact first, that is his; that gets
an idea first, that is his. Every round in the
ladder OF fame, from the one that touches
tho ground to the last ono that leans against
the shining summit Of human ambition, be-
longs to the foot that gets upon it first Mr.
Democrat Il point wn, because they are nearly
all on the first round of the ladder) If you can't
climb, stand one side and let the deserving ne
gro pass. must toll you ono thing. have
told it so much, and you have all heard it, /
have no doubt, fifty times from others, but
am going to tell it again, because like it:
Suppose there was great horse race here to-
day, free to every horse in the world and all
the mules, and oil the scrubs, and all the dom
keys. At the tap Of the drum they come into
line, and the judges say sit IL 60" Let us
ask you, what does the bloodod horse, rushing
ahead, with nostrils distended, drinking in the
breath of his own swiftness, with his name ay-
ing like banner Of victory, with his veins
standing out all over him, ~ IL net OF life had
been cast around him-with his thin neck, his
high withers, his tremulous fanks-what does
he care how many mules and donkeys run on
that track But the Demo cratic scrub, with his
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