River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-10-21

career-y0ur career and my career. Let vote
for Hancock, [Laughter'l Again it announces
shat should the republican party succeed in No
yember next, and inaugurate its president, we
will meet as subjugated and conquered people,
among the ruins OF liberty and the fragments of
the constitution" Laughter. Well l would be
very glad to meet Gen. Hancock, as | often have
done, almost anywhere. But amid the ruins of
liberty and the fragments of the constitution l
would say that | would not recognize him at ALL
Laughter. Then they regard the reconstruc-
ton acts of congress IS usurpaton;h and as un-
constitutional, revolutionary and void /" and yet
we are told that everything is going on smooth
ly'--'in a grooven-in republican groove with
only change of bars, ana Of brakemen and of
engineers and of conductors, and of superinten-
dent. Laughter. The whole fabric-that
splendid fabrie-of energy, of courage, of faith
by which the wisdom of the republicans has
drawn the nation out Of the h0rrid out of the
ruinOus contacts and destruction OF war and set
them on the plane of comparative peace and on
the plane of laval that "usurpation, uncon-
stitutional, revolutionary, and void [Applause.l
What did We say when We were struggling to
pay this debtl for / think it must be admitted
that the north was topay, and is to pay, more Of
that debt than th south. We did not try to
scale III" We did not try to tax it. What did
we dog We speak our mind pretty we'll Our
platform denounced all forms of Reputation as a
national crime. [Great applause. There is no
uncertain sound in that, is therel We did not
stop to see whether we could commit a crime and
escape punishment in this world or at the hands
of providence. 1t enough for us to know
that it was crime. (Readng): And the ma
tional honor requires the paying off the public
debt in the utternost good faith to all creditors ut
home and abroad, not only, according to the
letter but the spirit of the law under which il
was contracted. Applause. Lord Coke says
the letter kllleth, but the spirit maketh n lie.
And if there any doubt in the minds of our
creditors whether they were the poor widows
and orphans in our land, or the Rothschids
and rich bankers of London that we would
pay Il debt that was SO sacredly contracted to
save all that is worth having in this world IA
cordlng to the spirit well as the letter, sucE
a declaration would set them at rest. [Ap-
plause.
Now let us see the wisdom Of the other side.
They said pay your debt in gretnbacks tax
your government securities" We said that the
best policy to diminish our burden of debt is to SO
improve our credit that capitalists will seek to
loan us money ut lower rates Of interest than We
now pay, and must continue to pay so long rs
reputation, partial total, open or covert is
threatened or suspected [Applause.l Now, there
are two ways of getting rid of debt. Which is
the true mother of this child of the natiOn-the
public eredit-that bold-faced jade, the democrat
&c party, that would have cut it IN half and left
il to perish or that nursing mother the republi-
can party, that sought to cherish and shelter its
weakness until it should outgrow it. and become.
it is to-day the glory and strength of the
American people. [Applause.l am happy to
say, Mr.. Chairman, that those sentiments Of
the republican party were uttered when you
at the head of the finances of the nation.
Applause.
/ 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 u.s. Well as the client
said to the lawyer, when he asked him if the
magistrate could put him in prison for such and
such cause, NO" said the lawyer he can not
But" said the client, he has; am in prison.
Laughter. We did resume specie payments.
Did it ruin usl 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 favors courage, fidelity, and
faith in the moral government of the world.
[Applause.l
THE DEvoUT DEMOCRATS.
But these gentlemen are very deyout. Senator
Hill, 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 they2 The dessicate demo-
cratic party Of the north did not destroy slavery,
did they! 1t was the republican party that dcs-
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. Senator Bayard says,
IN 1880, in a speech in Brooklyn, that the to
save the union mas been success, and Tor one, he
thanked God for it. Well, it 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 a success. APP
plause.] And Senator Bayard thanks God this
was done. Well these great statesmen are right
in being deyout, are right in assuming the humil-
ity of David in one of his most celebrated psalms
Non nobis domino. Not unto us. 0 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, they
abhorred it in the war; they abhorred it during
reconstruction, they abhor il now Applause.
And, thank God, they have got all the sectional
ism now in ront, and in the solid south. Applause.
The sectionasm of the south 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 shield to defend. We have defended the
union against sectionalism in arms We have pro
tected the constitution against sectonahsm in
peace; and we will save the government. lGreat
applause.] We will save the government from
passing into the hands of sectionaliSm next No.
vember and four years hence and eight years
the long roll of the history of the American peo-
pie. Applause.
KEEPING FAITH WITH THE BLACKS.
suffrage to the black means the freedom of the
suffrage to the white. | have not yet found any
where, any system of ethics or of morality, in
any doctrine of religion, of any distinction be
tween colorS race as to human rights. have
known them violated, | have known them tram
pied on, and have known them reasSerted. do
not believe that great party, and noble party,
that has kept its faith that it would preserve the
union, that it would preserve the constitution, that
it would pay its debts that il would redeem its
1,aa | a NOT hnls thnf will hFpu
the faith it has pledged to the poor and defense
less. [Applause.] The democratic party may
pass 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 neghb0rs of
ours that lie wounded and pillaged at our feet.
Applause.
THE DIGNITY OF LABOR.
There is another great interest of free govern
ment in American society," mean the dignity of
labor. We have undertaken on this continent of
ours to build up fabrc of politics in which every
laborng 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
and strong and the learned. And that system we
mean to maintain, and in 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
from competition with the pauper systems Of
Europe. [Appause.l Upon what narrow and
stupid basis do they discuss this American system
Of industry! They speak of it as if it were pro
lection of the mill-owners, of the mine-owners, of
the proprietorS and managers of furnaces and of
railroads and of ships. Why, Of course, they
have their share III the workings of industry, but
the object of it all, and the political reasons of it
all is that we mean to protect our wages from be
ing beaten down by the peasantry or the lab0rers
of foreign countries, whose dignity, whose man
hood whose equality is not preserved, or even
that of any other system of politics. Applause
That is what our system Of wages and our barrier
mean-the hands that we will protect that dignity
from being broken down. 1t is not for the rich
nor the great.
And every laborer in this land ought to know
--as many of themdo know-that their interests
are under the protection of the tariff system Of
the United States. They read in the democratic
platform that the democratic party is opposed to
that barrier and opposed to anything that will
save the laborers Of America from the same poor
pittance that the laborers of Europe and OF
China enjoy. Applause.l You can see it as IN
a picture. When the Chinese come to California
-full-grown men, without wives or children
without religion without schools, without char
tiles, without a share in the participation, or
desire for it, in this magnificent system of the dig
nity and glory of labor then Dennis keamey and
his friends can see that that impinges on their
rates of wages. But the great mass Of the Irish
population of this country, that have come over
to get rid Of the crushing weight Of taxes and Of
military expenses and the Germans that have
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