The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-30

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Thaddeus Stephens-insisted that the
greenbaCk should be made as good as
gold, by the United States taking 1t for
all debts public and private, and he put
that into his bill; he foresaw with that
clear eye Of statesmanship Of his what
would be the effect, and q Republican
Senate under the lead Of men who had
invested ca ital, and insisted that they
should have o mortgage upon the tariff
revenues Of the country put on it, should
not be received for tariff duties and the
greenbaCk went down, and it has only
come up now because 1t is received for
for all debts public and private. So we
have nothing to thank the Republican
party for in that behalf.
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
What else do they sayP Why they
say, and il is a favorite argument OF
theirs, III you vote for Hancock and the
Democratic ticket, Why all the working
men will be thrown out Of employment,
because the Democrats will repeal the
tariff laws" What mills will be stopped,
and what furnaces will be put outP lam
not much frightened at that, for in the
frat place heard that cry in 1874, when
we tried to elect Polk, and did elect him,
but still the furnaces blazed and the mills
worked on. So it is no new thing,
myself have no fears. l have lived all
my life in a manufacturing city. More
than half l have in the world is en-
ployed in manufacturing, and for one
have not the slightest fear on that &C.
count, and I wan. to tell some of my Re-
publican friends that 1 am not afraid
No party can get into power in this Coun'
try, as it is a great and growing country,
and spend much less money than we
have spent heretofore. How is that
money to be raisedP There are bat two
ways of raising the money; one is by
revenue or tariff taxation, that is, put
ting duty on goods imported; another
is putting a tax on whisky and tobacco.
The Democrats have to raise as much
money as the Republicans have been
raising, and they have got only these
two sources to raise it from. Democrats
hrve b en- insisting on a reduced tax on
tobacco and whisky, States can put
some taxation on these two articles and
that will reduce the revenue there. Then
they must put more on the tariff, but
they can't put it anywhere where it won't
be incidental protection. There has been
no tariff for projection since the time of
Jackson; we had tariff for protection
only and we raised more money than we
wanted for the purpose of protecting
American industry. We raised some
thirty odd millions more than we want.
ed after paying our debts, and Old HiCk.
ory had it distributed among the States,
but from that time to this there has been
no other tariff to raise revenue.
If there is 30 much money to be raised
and American industry is to be protected,
where are you going to put it, on tea and
coffee? Oh, no. They tried that when
l was in Congress and we defeated that.
Tea and coffee are prime necessaries Of
the people, you must not put it on that /;
if you put it on iron you protect Penn
sylvanis; on wooden goods, it protects
the farmer; on cotton goods, it protects
my mill. You can't put it anywhere
that it won't work protection. Now the
aim of the Republican party has been
to get as much off the tariff revenue as
and as much onto whisky and tobacco
as possible; that is, having less money
to raise, have less protection, and | would
rather trust the Democratic party in this
regard than any other We have moth.
ing to thank the Republican party for.
They have been against any change in
the tariff to make it more equal and to
protect American labor. Why, we are
paying tariff on certain articles that go
into our manufactures that we sell abroad,
and the consequence is there is protec.
ton against American labor. Now l
will say what / want to see. lam speak.
ing as manufacturer, not as a polit.
Cisn. want to see tariff to raise the
revenue we want, except what is on
whisky and tobacco, and don't want to
see 80 much upon whisky and tobacco,
especially on tobacco, that is the poor
mans luxury. Then l want to see it so
reduced that it shall protect American
labor, and in order to have that done l
want to see the Democratic party put
Bureau of Labor, like the Department
of Agriculture, in Washington, who shall
look after the interests of labor in that
regard, and l have no doubt if you elect
Hancock, you workingmen will have the
department or bureau established olook
after your interests. Yours is the great
est interest in this country, the bottom
of all interest, and why should you not
have a bureau to look after it as we'll as
agriculture, as we'll as education, as we'll
as everything else. l have seen effort
after effort to establish every other bu.
reau in a Republican Congress-, but l
have seen no persistent effort to estab.
lish Bureau Of Labor, and that is what
| want to see.
TREATMENT OF THE NEGRO.
What does the Republican party de-
sire the Government for-to protect the
negro in the South. Well, now l cannot
at this late hour Of the night argue that
at all, but | will state few propositions.
They now say to you and they cry it
from every stump, put it in every news
paper, that protection Of the negro south
is 80 necessary that you ought to give
the Republican party power for four
yearp longer, making twenty-four years
Of power. Then he is MT protected now2
No; because they want four years more
to do it in. But you had the power six.
teen years since the war, by two'thirds
majority. Gentlemen of the Republican
party, why have you not done it in that
time if you can do it. We have trusted
you in power for sixteen y ars, and you
promised every year and you have not
done it. Why trust you with power four
years more for that purpose / claim to