Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-21

were at the head of the finances of the nation.
lApplauss. -2E- d
am not going to read the later platforms. for
they are fresh IN your minds. In 1876 they said
that the resumption OF specie payments was i'm
possible and would ruin r. Well, a Sthe client
said to the lawyer. " zen he asked him if the
magistrate could put him in prison for such and
such cause, No" said the lawyer. she can not .
But, said the client, he has; l am in prison. .
laughter We did resume specie payments.
Dld 1t ruin us! Well, gentlemen, Napoleon used
to say that in the affairs OF war he had
noticed that providence favored the heaviest
battalion, and think that in the affairs of
peace providence fayOrS courage, fidelity, and
falth IN the moral government of the world.
lApplause.l
THE DEvOUT DEMOCRATS.
But these gentlemen are very devout. Senator
Hlli notice, without ha wing the fear of the ex-
ample OF the Pharisees before his eyes. before an
immense crowd of his fellow-citizens. publicly gave
thanks TO the God of his fathers that slavery
had been destroyed. Well, the solid south did not
destroy slavery, did they! The dessicated demo-
cratic party OF the north did not destroy slavery
did they! 1t was the republican party that des-
troyed slavery. And thus far all that Senator
Hill has found occasion publicly TO thank God for
Is something that the republican party did
Laughter and applause.1 Senator Bayard saws
in 1880, in speech in Brooklyn, that the war to
save the union has been Il success and for one he
thanked God for it. Well, it was not the solid
south that made the war a success. nor the dessi-
Gated democratic party of the north 1t is the re
publican party that made the war Il success. Ap-
piaUse.I And Senator Bayard thanks God this
was done. Well, these great statesmen are right
IN beng devout, are right in assuming the humil-
lty of David in one of MS most celebrated psalms
Mo-. nobis domino. Not unto us. Q Lord. but
unto Thee be all the praise" Laughter and ap-
plause.
Wen, gentlemen, we do abhor sectionalism. The
union men of this country, the great body of the
people OF this country, have always abhorred Sec
tiOnalism. They abhorred it before the war. thev
abhorred it in the war; they abhorred it during
reconstruction, they abhor it now. [Applause.
And, thank God, they have got all the sectional
ism now in 'ront and in the solid south. [Applause
The sectlonahsm of the sonth has always been ca
ger, joyous, aggressive, the pride and staple of
their politics; with the north slow, sad reluctant
defensive, never with a sword to attack: nothing
but a shield to defend. We have defended the
union against sectionalism in arms. We have pro
tected the constitution against sectionasm i'll
peace; and We Will save the government GGreat
applause. We will save the government from
passing into the hands of sectiOnalism next No
vember, and four years hence, and eight years
hence, add twelve years hence and so on during
the long roll of the history of the American peo,
pie. [Applause.l
KEEPING FAITH WITH THE BLACKS.
Let U.S. then, understand that the freedom of
suffrage to the white | have not yet found any
where, IN any system of ethics or of morality. in
any doctrine of religion, of any distinction be-
tween cOlors or race as to human rights. | have
known them violated have known them tram
pied on and have known them reasserted. | do
not believe that a great party and a noble party,
that has kept its faith that it would preserve the
unlon that it would preserve the constitution that
it would pay its debts, that it would redeem its
greenbacks. do not believe that it will break
! tlan4 70 - H.. III Il.
less. Applause. The democra tic party NAV
pass on the other side these poor sufferers of the
south; but the republican party means to cheer |
with the WINE OF its protection and to soOth with
the OIL Of Its consolation these poor neighbors of
ours that lie wounded and pillaged at our feet. |
Applause.
THE DIGNITY OF LABOR.
There is another great interest of free govern
nent in American society," mean the dignity of
labor We have undertaken on this continent Of |
pIIrs to build fabric of politics in WHICH every
aborlng man had the same share every ignorant |
man had the same share, every feeble man had |
the same share, in political power with the rich |
md strong and the learned. And that system we |
mean to maintain, and III order to maintain a |
system and dignity of labor which is known no
where else in the world, and has never been |
known anywhere in the world till here and now
we mean to protect the wages of our workmen |
rom competition with the pauper systems of |
Europe. [Applause.l Upon what narrow aud
stupid basis do they discuss this American system
If industry! They speak of it as if it were pro-
ectiOn of the mill-Owners, of the mine-owners, of
he prOprietOrs and managers of furnaces and of |
'liroadS and of ships. Why, Of course they /
nave their share i'll the workings of industry but |
he object of it ALL and the political reasons of it
I'll IS that we mean to protect our wages from be-
ng beaten down by the peasantry or the Iaborers
If foreign countries, whose dignity, whose man
rood, whose equality Is not preserved. or even
hat of Oth Of
That is what system of wages and our barrier
nean-the hands that We will protect that dignity
rom being broken down. 1t is not for the rich
lor the great.
And every laborer in this land ought to know
as many of themdO know-that their interests
re under the protection of the tariff system of
he United States. They read in the democratic
platform that the democratic party is opposed to
hat barrier and opposed to anything that will
ave the laborers of America from the same Door
rttance that the labOrers of Europe and of
'hina enjoy. [Applause.] You can see it as in
picture. When the Chinese come to California
-ful-grown men, without wives or children
Without religion, without schools without char
ties, without a share in the participation or a
esire for it, in this magnificent system of the dig
ity and glory of labor, then Dennis Kearney and
rs friends can see that that impinges on their
ates OF wages. But the great mass of the Irish
population of this country, that have come over
0 get rid OF the crushing weight Of taxes and of
Military expenses, and the Germans that have
one the same, do not seem to see that they are
Oting for the lords of the loom and of the mine
4 Europe to crush the competition Of America
nd bring down the wages here, and then the
ages there.
WHAT THE DEsICCATED DEMOCRAT
Well, we have some experience about the rela-
ions of this desiccated democracy, and why do
allit the "desccated delnocracy?" Why, be-
ause all the juices were taken out of it by the
eOple that were opposed to the Lecomption bill
. Kansas and Nebraska and the war against the
Mon and the war against the public faith and the
'ar against the suffrage But now they say it is
eng revived by the TRANSMISSION Of the warm
lood of the republican party in the person of s
harles Francis Adams [applause] and Lyman {
rumbull, of Illinois. This warm blood has
cen tanstused into it, and since it got some |
hat strengthened by the hot dose, with the !
Ill hotter one of Gen. Butler and Gen. Sickles
nd Gov. Shepherd of the district of Columbia
ntil now this desiccated democracy has become {
lgorated and enlivened and is going throug n the
lotions OF patriotism and reform. What sacri-
ce these statesmen have been willing TO {
lake that they should by the process of
'ansfusion, revive a declining and decaying
arty, and be satisfied with the somewhat obscure 6
lough very useful function Of corpucles in their
ems
THE GRUMBLING SOLID SOUTH. u
Now, the solid south and this allied north pre- s