The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-22
C0NKLING At WARREN, OHIO.
The Distinguished New Workers. Ablest
Effort.
Good, solid Shot and Well delivered.

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come 10 great and NO warm beg you all to re-
ceiye II strangers hearty thanhsi and yet not
all stranger, because find tho Western re-
serve peopled with those whose brothers
and whose kindred are neighbors OF mine.
This il, indeed, o grand meeting. Its presid-
inc officer Ia the most iustrious citizen OF the
republic. II IL held In o grand Republican
state. State which, trust, will give to the
co,,,trv the next President Of the United States.
| sco the ~oods and even the rafters are full OF
them. Ohio " the child OF Virginia. Connec-
iicnt ceded the Western Reserve, but ONO IN
Inc child OF Virginia. Ohio IL n years old TINS
wear. Within the manory OF men still living
the tomahawk aud tins Hcalpig-h'o 1i ra";"r
OF savage cruelty where VOW temples OF rensioli,
tc,onIcs "A education and temples Of industry
! ontgbtter each other in tlfs broad sunlight
| wonderf,f civilization. When Ohio
began her people were few, and they were
s,,Sngers In the land. she began with 4on
pcopis To-day she has s,% ~" pNI a. u tb"y aSe
say ,na. SS,, to be tickaN with hoe to laugh
m n,ts' on,! they say that more than hall OF
witi narvos. Jar. far distant regions =
oi"an ca,,o ,nJ In ga, led by tho surge ana the
DRIFT Of gigantic prince, forests ip Not !" onv
ical OF the people ace ar, cd England, from
from Now England, b,tt froin~ vi Norway and
Ireland, from Scotland, from 20. from every
| Sweden, from warm, sunny FraDc~ to Ohio
cline whore humanity struggled, cans then
| men and women willing and eager tn -. What
| bread in tho sweat Of their brow ' Il
brought these men and women here; w,
| made Ohio the rendezvous and asylum Of siitif-
Cling humanity i'll all natio lalitles2 Liberty
| and free labor Ohio, the child Of Virginia; NJ
she rose from her cradle, turned her back lip3n
the procepts and cxaiinlcs 81 the mother State.
The people who came here Of all nationalities
were bound by one common tic they wOrshpcd
ono God under different forms, and they be-
hevcd in the batherhOod of God and the broth
orhood Of man. Here, OH this soil, parent and
| child have illustrated two opposing systems
OF civilization. OHIO, respecting tn dignity Of
labor, believing honest labor tho truo folnda-
ton AMI passport TO all real progress
and greatness, has risen like meteor
into tho very zenith Of the great republic
Virginia, believing that labor Is degrading, that
drndgcry IL mental and bnsc, that ca tal should
own labor, has stagnated and weltcred half
smothcrod III the pool Of serviio labor. One of
these systems has prospefed exceedingly the
other system has been cncrvated, has remained
PROSTATE, has cursed and robccd, and at last
drowned itself and slavery in its own blood
Hand IN hand with respect for labor has gone
in Ohio what We have learned to call The Amer
lean system. That il system Of LAYING duties
ON imports 80 ns to tax those which come in
competition with our domestic industries
What has been the result OF this? Diversified
enterprise. The farmer has found at his own
door II m rket for his productions, and the
manufacturer has sold Ia the farmer and
American labor has found reward, not in the
starving wages Of the Old Wor d., but in wages
which could buy the comforts and the Injuries
OF life.
In the inexorablc logic of events twenty
years age one 1T the SYSTEMS triumphed in the
choice of national rtrirra. BY clear, plain
majority the people chose for President Abra-
ham Lincoln. You may we'll cheer him. for
Lincoln WA one of those who darkcn nuhun.
when they die. The Virginia system refused to
abide by tho result, and upllited the bloody
banner, of revolt, plunged the country into
rod sea of revolution, drcnched the land with
blood, buried 1t with taxes. and dmped it in
mourning. Ohio sent 300,0u0 of hor brayest
ana her best to tread path over burning plow-
shares-for whatp In order that the great re-
pnDlic of human rights might not perish from
the earth The dark eclipse Of war could not
put out the bright torch Of liberty, Of freedom,
and of equal rights for man. And OHIO has
continued TO prosper, until she stands to-day
one Of the grandest, one of the frccst, one of
the most glorious commemorative III human
history. Her sister State Of Pennsylvania, and
every other State which has piled the plow the
loom, and the hammer; every other State
which before God and man has believed in hui
man equality and In the dignity and the rights
Of free labor which has chung to the system
OF protection Of home industries. along with
her has prospercd also. Bat . II, the midst of
ail this prosperity a harsh voice rings through
the land demanding change. What change?
Whence comes this cry for changer Who
wants change? Voices, Hancock" "NO-
body" and "Jef Davis wants il. y Well, now,
which do you meanp One says Hancock, and
another says nobody. That makes me think Of
ncighbor Of my TREND here pointing to Gen.
Grant,, who told about his horses, and he said
one looked 30 much like both that lie could not
tell the other from each. ask
you who wants change, and what
change? Is not the debt melting
awayp Has not the interest charge-the grind
ing feature. never forget, of all debts-been
falling falling, falling2 Has not taxation
rapidly disappeared? IL not the currency
solvent stable and honest? What Is the
trouble2 The South wants change. Why?
l. the South unfortunate2 Whyl Mr.. Presi-
dent, Jonahs gourd, according to tho good
book, grew az tho South has grown il we are to
believe tho wonders of the 'ensus. South Caro-
Ina IN ten years has increased 43 per cent. III
population. They are a wonderful growing
people. You know and know that there In
hut ono way under God i'll which that census
can be true, and that is by foreign immi-
grafton. No, sir, it has been good State
to go from. As to immigration in South
Carolina, let me say in passing that, having
taken some pains TO ask, am able to say that
in ten years the foreign immigration TO South
Carolina amounts 10 exactly l31 persons. 1
have read from distinguished sources that tllis
census in South Carolina il not impossible. l
say II Ii, for great many reasons, one OF when
only am going to give you. Whenever III u
State you find three men where before there
were only two, ninety men where before there
were only sixty, You may be sure that the pro-
duction and consumption and tho hundred
other te-tale tests will testify to the fact Here
the speaker gave the production OF south
Carol ma for the past twenty years, showing,
~ in his Now York speech, her sad and lament
nll IL. thak I
Vallandighnm had once said III Congress that
politics was King. Politics had been too much
King in South Carolina. Had there been more
OF u disposition after the war to go To work and
pay ess attention to politics there would be M
increase. and no such attempt AZ this to over
count the people forpolitlcal effects. Well, now
let me say here, sec gentlemen close around
me busy with their pens, and expect to hear
that even III the few words have uttered, l
have been stirring up the smoldcring embers Of
sectional hate that have been fighting over
again the issues OF the war that have been
making an attack upon South Carolina and tue
South.
Nowhere in earthly annals was there an ill.,
stance in which the vct0rs were 80 generous, M
magnanimous to vanquished foe. II anybody
did no. believe it, let hun read the terms which
Grant prescribed to Robert H. Lee ut Appomat-
tOx. Robert II. Lee, who, educated ut the ma
tons cost, and presented with the nations
sword, drew that sword against the nations
life. When in the hour of humiliation and
prostration he came to surrender, and present.
ed the ht of that sword to the great Captain
at whose feet he had been compelled to lay 1t,
the victorious General Of the Union said
"No; put up thy sword 4; go and sin no
more" UncOwed in their defeat, they were
told to go home TO their fair fields, and make
them blossom as the rose. When Napoleon
made his raid on Germany and failed, what did
Germany. with the Emperor and Bismarck to
dictate terms, requre2 When u Democratic
administration falsely declared that war existed
by the act OF Mexico, In order to take in Texas
and spread the cause OF slavery, what tribute
did America take of that feeble and yanquished
people an empire rich beyond oil the dreams Of
svsrce? Isut when tho South was overcome
and ~. $40 paid for every Southern slave, not
n farthlng Of tribute was laid, 10 contribu-
tion was levied, not one estate Of u
rebel was confiscatcd, though the fathers
had not hesitated efter the Revolution to con-
iiscate the estates Of Tories. Not one man was
ever by national authority, after the Southern
States resumed Their relations with the Union
denied the right TO vote. The Oldest citizen III
Ohio had been no more free To cast his vote
than JEFF Davis in mississippi. What, then,
was tho trouble in the South? Carpet-baggers
had gone there yes, and most of them with
knapsncks on their backs prepared TO stop.
What of it2 Was the Government jailer to
arrest men for removing from one state 10
another2 Ever since peace was established
there had always been an ever-begnning,
never-ondng outcry Of complaint.
Tho Democratic party was against every
measure by which tho rebellion was crushed,
against every measure sincs the war closed
down to the present time. lie would thank
any Democrat Ia the audience to tell him what
the Democratic Jarty was for to-day. Laugh
a.. aud ynica Free trada VI IL the Dem-