River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-10-14

The foreign tonnage of New Orleans IN 1853
was 659,083. In 1860 it was $50, S9S. In 1880
II Is 1910. Foreign tonnage of Charleston
IN 1853 was l29, 764. In 1860, 126, Ali; 1880,
| 1928, Foreign tonnage Of Savannah i'm
| 1859 was Sc, 524. In 1869, 81, CAS- In 1880,
! 1873, S95. Foreign tonnage Of Mobile in 1859
| 500. In 1860, 100, 900 In 1880, 81 Al.
reign tonnage Of Boston in 1860 was
Foreign tonnage Of New York in 1860 was
l,973,S12: In $780, 1851, 1882. Fe,reign tom
mage Of Philadelphia in 1850 was 1S5, 1852. In
1880, 1881, 312. For Ign tonnage Of Balti-
more In 1860 was 1856 AT. la 1850, 1902, us.
In 1860 (year ending June 30,) tonnage of ves-
sels entered at seaports south OF the Potomac
was one-third as large as the tonnage OF all
northern ports, both Atlantic and Pacific
This year (ending June 80 1SS0,) it is only
about one-seventh.
Democratic orators bid us look at the sx-
ports OF cotton. I have looked at them, and
find these facts touching cotton and bread
stuffs
Value.
ls60-Bales cotton exported, SIP S45 sl91 $685. 55
lS70-Bales cotton exported 2 095 ;f23 227- 027624
lSs0-Bales cotton exported, B Sl0,l5S I1,535,906
Fewer ba.es this year than ten or twenty
years ago.
In 1870 breadstuffs exported sold for " 250.933
In 1850 oreadstuls exported sold for 2oS 036, SS5
Cotton has stood still, while surplus bread
stuffs have multiplied twelve-fold.
Look sgain-look at the value of all exports
as they have risen and fallen in one part of
the country and in others. The value of all
exports from ports south of the Potomac was.
in 1869, $3.50 909, U.s. in 1870, 1892, $50, 800;
IN 1880, SlS7, 140,573. Here is seen a steady
decline.
The value Of all exports from Northern ports
was, il 1860, S173 279, 499; 10 1870, $685.
lO2. 1913; Ia 1880, S646, 1868 Here is
steady increase of nearly four-fold. Toe value
Of import, of all kinds to all ports south of
the Potomac was, in 1860, $50 790, 1888; In 1870,
S22, 774 573; in 1880, $1I375, 796. Hers again
is steady decline.
the value Of imports at Northern ports was,
in 1860, 1891, 1916, OIL; in 1870, $439, 6S3, OLA;
in 1880, $743, SIS, 260. Here is an enormous
constant increase The value Of imports at
the ports Of South Carolina was, IN 1860,
| 81, 569. $40; in 1870 $500, 1874; in 1880 $751;
535. Here is sad decay. The value Of ex-
ports at the ports OF South Carolina was, in
1860, S2l 1913, 723; in 1870, $40, SIS, 500; in
1880, $2l, 669, 763. Here is stagnation for
twenty years
WHAT is AT STAKE IN THE ELECTION.
These unerr'ng proofs map and locate the
bulk and substance of the Nations wealth and
business. But some man may say what has
all this to do with electing Garfield and Ar
thur and a Republican Congress? | answer
it has everything to do with 1t. Again, some
man may say, all these vast enterprises and
transactions are managed by individuals and
corporations as private business, and what
are they to politics or politics to them? l
answer that the good OF every one OF them
depends on just and friendly laws and whole
some administration Of the Government,
l say this, speaking in the great CONNER
cial metropolis of the Western hemisphere,
and speaking to men whose wisdom, integrity
and enterprise have made this one of the
greatest, and in my belief the most generous,
benevolent city an the globe. [ affir n that
the broad issue at this election is whether our
min fol Of al ind natr ri al aud
financial interests shall be under the manage
ment and protection of those who chiefly crea-
ted and own it, or shall be handed over to the
sway of those whose share in 1t is small, and
whose experience, antecedents, theories and
practices do not tit them or enttle them TO as
sumo it's control.
Tariffs, tax laws finances currency, banks,
courts, appropriations, the ulaintelauce and
endorsements of national as well as state laws
these are the things upon which prosperity
depends, and these are the things at stake in
this election. The party which represents the
tax-payng portions of the country is the party
whose representatives. can best be trusted to
vote upon drafts on the treasury. congress-
man whose constituents "foot the bills, may
not stand up alone, or with few others,
against his party and its caucus; bul If ne be-
longs to the party all of whose congressman
represent tax-paying constituencies, they may
be trusted to stand together against raids on
the treasury which they know ali their districts
would condemn. It is still more certain that
il you place the tax-paying power in the hands
of those who do but little of the tax-paying,
your situation is like that of the man who sat
on limb and sawed off the limb between him
self and the tree.
The consideration OF relative interest, il it
stood alone, ought to turn the scale IN deciding
whether to put the government into the hands
ef the Democratic party "as now constituted
and controlled" in the language OF General
Grant. [Applause.l But inferlority OF inter-
est or antagonism OF interest, Is, unfortunate
ly, not the only consideration. Banded sec
tional resentments and sterile hates dlshgure
aud prevent the political policy Of those who
dominate the South foreooding Unreasonable
peril aud evil should they come TO WELD the
whole forces OF the national government.
Intolerance OF free action, and OF equal
rights in political or even business affairs. is
too patent and fragrant TO be denied or doubted.
One glance at Southern elections proves .ostra-
clsm, tyranny and wrong in monstious proper
tions In 1868, eight Southern States gave
ma ierities for Grant In 1872 seven States did
the same thing. Their r publican voe was
very large Only four years afterward 260, 600
votes disappeared from the count In the
nine other Southern States IN the same four
years, 100000 Republican votes disappeared
from the returns also, making an absence OF
$50, 900 votes. Most of these stiHed votes
were the votes Of men who had been slaves
freedmen, only Just crowned with the crown
of Am, rican citizenship, and proud and eager
more proud and eager than the most OF us
10 exercise the right to vote Applause Does
any sane man doubt that they would have voted
4 they could, or that those who dared and
could, did vote, ami that their votes We're not
honestly counted? II any man does doubt it,
let him 10 k at the spectacle presented IN indi-
vidual States
WIPING OUT THE REPUBLICAN VOTE IN THE
SOUTH.
The votes of Georgia were registered before
the election in 1866. The white voters num-
bered 81. 1903, the colored 90, 1853
In 1876 the whole Republican vote counted
was 5O,446. Only two years later the whole
Republican vote c0uuted was 5, 257 Pretenses
have been made that the freedmen Of Geor-
gia do not care TO vote, and often vo,e the
Democratic ticket Only read the say &c laws
of Georgia under the fiction Of yagrancy and
prison management, and then Learn Of their
sickening beastly administration and human
nature will tell you that the freedmen Of Geor-
eia do not support the Democratic party, but
would cast it out If they could.
In 1876 the Republican vote Of Louisiana
was TIA. Two years afterwird the Repub-
hcan vote dsappe red from the election re-
turns. Yet in 1867 in this State the reg
stry Of voters bowed As, 1919 white votes and
81. 431 colored votes and In 1876 the reglstra-
ton showed a Republican majority OF 22,3
In North Carolina IN 1876 the ReDubl can vote