The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-07

OF Cl0uu anu u6pTtbblOu uhNo u00h uH
der the rule of this immaculate party
called Republican. [Applause.l ] / do not
intend to deal with half truths on this
subject. The war of 1861 found American
commerce at the head of the list. We did
carry 80 per cent of the worlds COM
merce, and, please God, under Demo-
cratic rule we will carry it again. APP
plause. But this sad, deploraole, un.
happv war between our countrymen fell
out, Great Britain was in the rear. Sup
niles of forest ship. timber she had none
Necessity, which is the mother Of inven
ton, turned her to the use of another
material, and iron instead Of wood be-
came the ship building material of COM
merca. To-day it is admitted that for
nine-tenths of the oceans commerce
iron is preferable to wood, being, by
strange paradox, more buOyant than
wood, and of course infinitely more
enduring. So England, spuned by the
necessities of her people, invented in ad-
vance of this country Or of other coun'
tries the substitution of iron for wood.
This was great change, and, like
all great changes, slow in it's progress
and mighty in its results. We Jagged be-
hind; we could not he lp it. We had not
the same spur as Great Britain, because
the providence of God had given to our
people unlimited supplies Of timber for
the building of ships; but although slow
to catch we were quick to follow, and the
enterprise, the energy, the skill, the
brain power and the ability of the Amer
ican mechanic soon put him in the race,
and soon, when disencumbered from
false laws of tariff, is bound to triumph
and to conquer. Applause We are on
ly little behind in this subject, and day
by day we are overhauling our competi-
tors, and the self.instruction Of the
American mechanic is teaching how la
Dor shall be aided, the muscle by the
brain, and thought and intelligence be-
come the great motors and controllers OF
human affairs in that department as
they will be in all others. Applause.
l do not propose tonight to fatigue you
with my considerations and reflections
upon the great subj ect of restoring the
commercial flag of America to that su
preHacy that we all intend it shall have.
GApplause. | only will say that in my
opinion the reason why we have been
impedsd in our race is the atroCiOus and
foolish system of war taxes in time of
peace aud the tariff system that binds up
the arms, the legs, tn feet the fingers,
the very tongues of the American peo-
pie in their affairs. App ause, Adjust
our tariff system to that fair basis that
shall bring reveDu to support the affairs
of our Government and thereby relive
us from the necessity of direct taxation
give us that revenue which in being
raised makes the barrier which is called
protection not for the sake Of protecting
a class but as result protecting all class
es adjust this system upon basis of
reason and justice, that our treasury may
be fl led, that our mechanics m y be EN-
ployed and that no branch of our trade
and indGs ry shall be t rottled aud ham
perei by silly tax which, like the dog
Ia the manger, can neither eat the straw
nor let the OK have it. Applause.] !
cannot review the silly utteranCes (lot
to speak disrespeCtfully) which came 80
trppngly from the tongue of your
senior Senator week ago. have heard
the apothegm that nothing was quite 80
false as fact except figure. Laugh.
ter The meaning, | take it, of that was
that false figures and false facts are the
most delusve of imaginable things
Next to a false fact is false influence
Can it be that men shall consider it pos
sible to treat the duties upon imported |
merchandise entered at this port of New
York for the use of the whole country, |
az the subscriptions of this locality to
the treasury of the nation? And yet this
ahsurdity was gravely urged before mer
ch nts and bankers and intelligent men.
Who pays the tax on imported goods2-
Do you suppose that when the silk that
makes my wife's dress comes into New
York and pays the duty, that you pay it?
d. you suppose that the tax levied by
tariff laws upon any species of mer
Chandise introduced here, because it
comes here for convenience is paid here? |
1 should be insulting your intelligence
and wasting your time to pursue such
poor topic further. | can only express |
my amezement that any gentleman dis
tinguished for intelligence and advanced |
to high position should 80 trife with the
patience of his hearers and the respect |
which it seems to me ought to wish the
American people to show him. Ap.
plause Then the great argument of the
Republican party is still further advanc-
ed-and what sad argument it is -
that for some reason, inscrutable to my
intelligence as think it will be to yours,
some secret and strange cause, the pros.
perity OF the people of the States in the
Northern section of this Union is to be
advanced by picturing and proving to
them the degradation, the poverty, the
the unworthiness of our
fellow Countrymen in other seCtions.-
Can this be so2 Oh, my Gountrymen, is
this Union, or is it not? Did Hancock
fight in vain2 Great applause. There
are men who hear me, there are women
who hear me whose very souls went out
when the young manhood of the country
stepped forth to battle in the cause of
the U nion They saw them 90 aud many
have waited with weary and moist eyes
to see them return and they never re.
turned. Others went and did return,
some crippled, me preserved to stand
to-day, the monuments of patriotic &C
ton to preserve the unity of free peO-
pie. [ Applause. Did those who died
vain? Did the wounded suffer in vain ?
Is it an empty triumph for the gallant
men who returned to stand here in
peace, in honor and in strength again ?
Because that is the question. l hold the
war for the Uuion to have been a sue
cess, and from my heart thank God for
1t. [Applause,] Gentlemen, those gal.
liant lives were not wasted, those wounds
we're not inflicted in vain; the hearts of
,he mothers, the wives, the sisters, the
brothers, did not bleed in vain, and all
We have to do is to insist that all our
shall have the fruits of
heir victory. [Applause.I The Repubi-
IAN party says that they shall not, and
none say so more loudly than those
whose bodies were farthest away when
war rode through the land. Applause.
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