The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-28

counterfeiter can put his bill..in circulate on
before it is found out, and then it is stamp
ed, and the plate which is counterfeited is
Cancelled, so there is scarcely any chance to
counterfeit money of the national banks.
Not only that, you do not care W here the
bank is, or whether the bill is found in
Salem Mass, or Oregon. 1t is equally
good. You know it is secured by bonds
deposited with Uncle Sam Applause, and
therefore you take it without fear. Why
is it that the republican party advised this
system of paper money; why didn't the
democrats dc it? Because it was 'agin the
resolution of 49, Applause We say
it is not agin the constitution, and the SUI
preme court has so decided over and over
again. One of the dangers that people in
the north do not fear, because they do not
know about it-but tell you as sure as
fate-is that if there should be demo-
cratic congress, and democratic presi-
deEt, that bill levying a tax on state banks
will be repealed, and then they will be re-
organized again to create this hopper bank
paper, which will eventually crowd out
OF circulation the national bank paper
money. "Why isit," you might say, MIR.
Sherman" This is the reason: 1t IS a law
OF finance as inevitable as the law of gray
ltatlon which gravitates the apple from
the tree to the ground, that inferior mon
ey always fills the channels of circulation.
1t you received three or four bills and one
is little ragged, you will always give off
the ragged bills first. unless YOU are more
honest people than we in Ohio. Laugh
ter. If you get coin that is little bit
abraided, you will get rid of that first.
The inferior currency fills the volume of
circulation. Here the speaker was in.
terrupted by the entrance Of brass band,
and said l can stand anything but a brass
band. Laughter and applause. There
is another thing in which the doctrine of
state rights enters into. Why is it that
for seventy or eighty years we never had
a HOMESTEAD LAW
in this country? 1t has been advocated
time out of mind that we never could have
a homestead law. Why? Because the
southern men said that we should sell the
land for money and put it in the treasury
and spend it as soon as we could. We had
no right to do anything more. 1t was "agin
the resolution of 1872 to attempt to do
anything more. And so it was that when
the republican, party came in power in
congress we framed this homestead bill.
We sent it to James Buchanan and he We
toed it, and there was the end of the home
stead bill as long as we had democratic
president. Within two years after that
we had the homestead bill, signed by Abra-
ham Lincoln. [Applause.] Under the
bill five thousand families are settled on
western lands. Under it any head of
family can 80 there and settle. Why is
this? Because we, the republicans, said it
was better to settle family on 100 acres
for nothing than to delve and work and
add to the riches of our country. No
strange thing, l know, that the people of
Of foreign birth. WY was t. fellow citi-
zens, that during the democratic times be-
fore the war, foreigners were not protect
ed in their native land? They always
clung in Germany and they were lost to
the idea that where man was born there
must he live. He could not shake off his
nationality. You know that was the doc
trine. Thousands Of men came from Ger
many, and If they went back again to their
native homes they were liable to be con-
fined and imprisoned and put into the
army, and compelled to serve for num-
Der of years. And although they took an
oath to support the government of the
United States and have become citizens,
the relgning power said, that makes no
once born there you must always
be attached there.
Why was it that the democratic party
never sought to relieve our foreign citizens
of this burden. know ofmy own knowl-
edge of men being in this country thirty
or forty years that would not go back to
their native land for fear that this claim
CT military service would be made against
them! Why did not the democratic party
remove this? will tell you why. Be
cause they denied the nationality of the
United States Of America. The idea Of
these state right democrats was that the
states were sovereign, and there was no
place for 2 nation to be sovereign. They
regarded the nation as a mere tributary to
never would call themselves a nation
this a nation and
SPELLING 1T WITH THE BIG n.
Laughter and applause. When the re-
publicans came into power with their
ideas of nationality, they compelled the
recognition of the right of foreigners and
they said when man came to our coun-
try and took the oath Of allegiance to the
United States that he was a citizen of all
the states. Who was it that opposed the
oppression of feudal vassalage. 1t was the
republican party of the United States Of
America. We made foreign lands recog-
nize the right of every man to choose his
own country in order that he could better
his condition. So that any man that be-
comes full citizen has right to 20 any,
where around the world under the protec-
ton OF the American flag. Applause.
see sign that l rather think will be
good text for me, for am tired of talking
cording to the narrow ideas of the demo-
cratic party they cannot do anything that
is good for this country They cannot do
anything good to advance the common
interests and benefit the nation. They
are bound hand and foot by the narrow
doctrine of state rights. The republican
party does not only believe that the gov