The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-21

| to get rid of the crushing weight of taxes and o
military expenses, and the Germans that hav
| done the same, do not seem to see that they are
voting for the lords of the loom and of the mine
IN Europe to crush the competition of America
! ana BRING down the wages here, and then the
Wages there.
| WHAT THE DEsIccATED DEMOCRATS.
wen: we have some experience about the rela-
tons OF this desiccated democracy, and WHY do I
canlt the 'desiccated democracy!' Why, be-
cause all the juices We're taken out of it by the
people that were opposed to the Lecomption BILL
to Kansas and Nebraska and the war against the
union and the war against the public faith and the
war against the suffrage. But now they say it is
Dem$ revived by the TRANSMISSION of the warm
Trumbull, Of illinois. Tht warm "1 SlooS I baa
been transfused into it, and since it cot some
what strengthened by the hot DOSE with the
sun hotter one OF Gen. Butler and Gen. Sickles
and Gov. Shepherd, of tho district of Columbia
until now this desiccated democracy has become
vlgorated and enlivened and is going throu Oh the
motions of patriotism and reform. What a sacri-
flee these statesmen have been willing to
make that they should by the process IF
TRANSMISSION, revive declining and decayine
party, and be satisfied with the somewhat obscure
though very useful function of corpucles in their
veins
| TINE GRCMBLlNG SOLID SOUTH.
Now, the solid south and this allied north pre-
| sent very curious records. You know they had
the house and the senate and the committees, and
more votes in both houses and everything and one
would suppose that they would be entitled to
some show but the moment they wanted-I mean
shouldn't they! l don't know why they shouldn't
choose a speaker. The law of our government is
that the majority IN a party should rule. They
were not allowed to choose speaker. They must
always have northern democrat for speaker and
! so on in various measures war claims and Others
Oh, no. they must be silent. And then thew turn
around to this northern democracy and say, aWhy,
are not you the north? We thong you were the
north" Oh, don't make such terrible mistake as
that. We are not the north. If you undertake
find out who the north is. We are only the small
boy that is put in at the side lights to let down tho
fastening; but the house-breaking will have TO be
done very silently and in the dark, and you must
not make noise.
| Well, it is like the case, when they srumbe
about it, Of the government ship that was on the
coast Of Africa in save-tradng times to suppress
the slave trade that seized the crew of the Ameri-
can slavers and when it came to night the captain
commanding the vessel with such raft Of these
them under there in the night timc-he could look
after them in the day time. Well, they came to
him. and said: well, this is pretty hot" "Yes."
he said l know it is" And they said IF you put
on the matches We can't Sleep" ''Wcll," said the
captain, "IfI don't put on the matches 1 can't
sleep. And You may be sure the matches went on.
! And that is the ship that the south must be kept
under the matches Of until the ship delivered over
and the democratic party then will come out from
under the matches and have good time.
| DEMOCRACY HELPLESS FOR GOOD.
Now, the democratic party does not propose
I q II <nh hi l..
But can not see that it proposes to do anything.
1t can not help your currency. That is good
enough. This country will ever be true to the
greenbacks that saved them through their day of
trial. When this nation sat ut the gate Of victory
and could not enter in because the finances of the
country could not be hurried up rapidly enough to
carry on the immense transactions Of the war
and when they cried for the financial aid of the
country, the government said to them, ''Sver
and gold have none, but snch rs have I give
thee and pledge the faith Of this country. If you
have faith in that, it will carry us through
And the crippled army leaped to its feet and en-
tered the gate of victory. VIII the American
people ever asperse this greenback currency that
represents the faith of the nation? Will they
ever fro"n upon its maintenance as equal to spe
ce' l think not, rs long as they remember the
occasion which gave it birth and the great service
it has performed.
| say, gentlemen, that I find nothing in the
politics OF the democratic party that proposes any
1 sAAso' ~ " 'hANo cNciJ InillS. ~ Is " HSAI
the war back from Appomattox to Sumpter. It is
to unravel the whole fabric Of noble and en-
panded nationality that the republican party has
woven for this people for ii glory and decoration
forever. 1t is aimess. 1t is in the condition of
the sage whom the YOUTH finding an opportunity
thought it reasonable to consult as to how he had
come to such wisdom and such fame and asked
him what was his aim in life. 'Why," said the
sage, "a little fire, have not any ann. have
fired" Nor, the democratic party has not any
aim. 1t has fired 1t has failed in its fire, and It
has no aim that touches the honor or the growth
r the prosperity of this country. Now, the party
hat [ have upheld to you for its great achieve
ments may be stricken down by the American peo-
pie for what it has done and in the only incom-
plete service that remains to fulfill its pledges and
consummate your honor, it is resolved that there
shall be free ballot, a full vote and fair count
in this land-all over it. If it is to be stricken
down by the American people for that resolve, SO
be it: Such party" to borrow the phrase of
Lord 1}ollngbroke. 'Such party may fall, but if
it fall truth, liberty and reason will fall with it,.
(Applause.
THE ex-Empress Eugene has not
been well since her return from Zulu
land" says Paris journal, s'and has