The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-10-29

than this wiping out almost entirely of
our State tax on internal commerce APP
plausc Our prosperity has been made
by this policy of the state to a great de
gree. Every Republican will admit that
the Democrats were foremost in pre-
serving this
"While muchshas thus been gained in
the way have narrated, what has been
done by republican administration for our
commerce upon the oceans We have
lost the extending, prevailing agencies
that once sent the American tiag aud
American products into every port
That the black cloud that hangs over
our future. Now the party that ruined
our foreign commerce declare that the
general government has jurisdiction over
the canal we made a' Our own cost, and
they propose in CONGRESS- to take control
Of them. Not content with doing the
Democratic party wrong, and doing the
state gross injustice, with regard to its
canals, the Republican leaders call upon
the manufacture. as n distinct interest
to come out and array themselves rs a
partisan body, and to WELD their power
over the great multitude of laborers in
their employment. y more unwisr or
improper movement has never been mad,
in the political history of our country.
More than this, they are called upoulto
exert their influence over those in their
employment. If this he done directly. it
is crime under our laws. Applause
But it i. said this may be cvadrd by as
sertons that the election of Gen Han
cock will harm the employees and that
Mr.. Garfield will help them.
"There is one thing manufacturers or
those in their employment. haveto fear
That is the check upon exports. which
will turn the balance of trade against us
and put an end to the prosperity of all
pursuits The efforts which are now
openly made by officials connected with
the general government to get couirol Of
the carrying trade OF our country is full
OF danger. When government officials
lay their hands upon the rights and in
tcroSts Of the people there are no laws
of commerce, no competitions that can
hold them in check. just what Mr. Gar
field says he wishes to see. The gravi-
tatiou of more power in the hands Of the
Government has led to the corruption
and downfall of most of the world. The
republican officials ask of YOU more jur-
isdiction than wise men seek or honest
men want
Cam manufactures, can business men,
can the laboring class be- guilty of grca
ter folly than that of placing the control
of their interests in the hands of those
over whom they can exercise an influence
so remote and SO weak
As Mr.. Seymour sat down loud cheers
were given for him and for General Han
cock. EX-Gov. Hoffman was then in
troduced He said, among other things:
''Since Congress- had been in Demo
cratic hands every security and every
interest in this land has increased in val
ue, and there isn't a bondholdcr who
will now sell government bond at one
per cent. discount, in anticipation of Il
Democratic victory. If the employer of
any laboring man tells him that the el-
oction of General Hancock is going to
make him shut up his shop, tell him to
shut up his mouth. 1t is nonsense. The
old Federal party and the old Wing
party, supposed to be dead forever, are
now appearing again in the republican
party. It's now about time that the
Democrats who went over to that party
ON war issues leave it, or they will soon
become embarrassed