The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-10-21

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lutely necessary to commercial interests that
there should be bonds of friendship, as far as
possible, between the two contracting nations
or parties9 CAN we expect to maintain with
the people of the South those cordial business
relations out of which We, in the North, will
make money unless we have them friendly TO
us-friendly in feeling and ready to associate
with us? And what is the nature of the South
ern people in respect to the business which
they do2 They are agricultural people. They
produce the great staples that bring the world
to the market to buy. They fill New York
with great bouies of staple products
for. for export p +. They hey, SUPPLY the mansfae,
which they will manufacture. They deal with
us, and if we but cultivate them they must do
it. Agricultural communities must always spend
their money in manufacturing and mercantile
communities. They are not both as a rule. It
is difficult for them to be agricultural and mer-
camille and commercial at the same time. Now
the South is a purely agricultural region. Cot
ton, tobacco, hemp, rice, sugar, and all the
quantities. Do we not deny ourselves when we
fail to stimulate them to the geatest prodric-
tion when we fail to press them to do all that
they can 10 in the way of increasing the wealth
OF the country? Let the Republicans CRY out
that the Democratic party is an enemy to the
best interests of the country. They say, and
they turn their faces backward to say, that they
are the authors of the business prosperity of
the country. What effrontery! The business
that party is sinking to decay. They have laid
a great incubus upon the business of the
country SO long as they have maintained this
sectional irritation and animosity. Just in pro-
portion as the Republican party is fading away
from this land, in that proportion are business
interests reviving. Is the Democratic party not
safe to be trusted with the business interests of
the country Who compose, who lead it? Who
are the great exemplar5 of Democratic faith
and business sagacity? How shall we know
haff Thor, txy1 1rflri ri
munity in which we live, and make no invid-
ious distinction when point, in your own COM
munity, as men whom you would probably feel
safe to trust your business with, to Potter
Palmer or Marshall Field, or Mr.. Letter or Mr..
Smith, and many others whom l might name
Can you not trust yourself with the hope that
those men are willing to trust themselves and
their all with? How is it with such men as
Alexander Mitchell in my own State2 Does he
not know where his business interests lead him
Where are the men of conspicuous business in
telligence conspicuous business sagacity and
wisdom, in the Republican party, that will out
number the great business men of the Demo-
cratic party? Where are the men that will out
weigh them either in money or intelligence?
In the desultory remarks which am making
to you shall take the liberty to call your at
tention to something that was said by Mr..
Conkling last night. picked up his speech IL
the papers after left Harvard, on the train to-
day, and noticed st ingenious and skillful
appeal, and l wish particularly to call your at
| tention to it. noted that he put forth argu-
ments, which have alluded to tonight, that
the South would control if the Democratic per-
| ty elected Hancock. and then he proceeded to
intimate that the Southern States represented
| in the payment of duties, or internal revenues
| or receipts of the Postoffice Department, no
such portion of the country as they would rep.
resent if in control. How inseniously he put
that Observe first that he counted as the
| South the entire sixteen States Including
Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky
and Missouri which were not seeded States
He counted those in in order to make up 106
| possible members of Congress that they might
! elect. They are not all Democrats,
but he assumed they would be. He
| might have carried his assumption a lit
tie further. He tben said they make up
! 1873 electoral votes. Now he said, what is their
business relation to the country? And then he
| very deity drops the sixteen States which he
| put together when he computed their power,
and proceeds to deal, in respect to the business
situation, with the eleven States that had Sc
ceded. And how unfair that comparison! 1t
| is unfair all the way through. Those eleven
| seeded States were, as 1 have already said,
| trodden under foot by the armies of the North
| stripped, impoverished, desolated. They
have had these years, and they have all been
| necessary to regain their homes, to re-establlsh
| industries, to re-establish business. How could
| it be expected that in that time they should
compete with the great, prosperous North,
| which had made money even out of their very
| calamities? Now just look at the manner i'll
| which he makes his computation. He says
that the South imported last year only one
forty-third of all the imports of the
| country. In that computation he counts
twelve States. He could just well count
| West Virginia, which does not import at all
| Why is there anything very dreadful about that?
| Let me count twelve States North. He says
the Southern States paid S2,445, sos of duties
on imports to the United States. Why, let us
take Colorado, Iowa, Kansas Michigan, Mime
sofa, Nebraska, Nevada, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Vermont, New Hampshire and Ohio-twelve
States. They number 9S electoral votes, while
the twelve States he named have but just 100.
And probably they didn't pay altogether
though Ohio may have paid some, Cincinnati
and Cleveland and possibly Toledo very small
amount-they probably didn't pay altogether,
in import duties to the United States, half as
much as those twelve States South. 1 could
not get the figures in the short time had this
evening. So with internal revenue. He Gays
the Southland there again he is speaking
only of the twelve States-the South has
paid-now see how ingeniously he puts
that-he does not give us any one year as
he did before-the South has paid since the
war one-sixth of all the internal revenue col
lected. Is that theory that they are to be
reproached with? Why didn't he include Ken
lucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware if he
was going to draw fair parallel between the
internal revenue they pay and the political
power which he says they exercised. The Chi
cago Times, with accustomed acuteness, struck
at that in its editorial of to-day. Kentucky
faid in one year $7,603,862; Wisconsin paid
S5, 1000 900; Vermont paid $50, 900, and even the
glorious State which has but lately slipped from
the grasp of Blaine paid $4,000 II you were
to put together the States with which he was
drawing the comparison think it would appear
that in the last year of the collection of internal
revenue they paid their full proportion accord
ing to their political power. But it is a most
unjust mode of inquiry. Why, are we to dis
tribute political power-and there am only re-
fho
to distribute political power according to in
ternnl revenue2 If SO, Illinois demands her
share, for she paid 81, 900 more internal
revenue last year than even the State of New
York.
Then he talks about the exports Of the South
and says that our exports in 1879 were 1886,
100000 and some hundreds of thousands oi
dollars of which the South exported in round
| numbers, $1S8, 000, ,000 This is 221% per cent
And now, observe, he is leaving out of the cal
culation those States which 1 named, but which
he included when he made computation Of
political power. He leaves out the port of Bal
timore, one of the four great ports which SEN
exports from and received imports into tn,
United States. He leaves it entirely out; anC
yet the South sent out, last year, nearly one
quarter that this whole broad country raised
Then mark another thing: In making that es
innate, suppose he judges of the exports al
indicated by the returns at the different ports
But don't we all know that New York sends on
not the products of the North alone, but TIN
products of the South as well that the cottol
of the South is gathered in New York that bee
from Texas even is shipped from New York
that the immensity of the agricultural product
of the South find their exit from this countr
throughthat port?
Now may note one or two other things. H
says that the Southern banks loan but S40 900 0OC
which is but one-thirteenth of all the bank loan
of year. was surprised that it was SO much
That the Southern people could have accumu
| lated such loanable capital under all the mis-
fortunes they have suffered, was surprised t
learn. 1t would take quite number of tn
, States of the North that could name to max
up as large loanable capital that. Here i
Chicago and in New York, the great none
centers of this continent, there is no difficult