The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-28
SECRETARY SHERMAN.
His Able and Exhaustive
Speech at Milwaukee.
The Putrid Democratic Party
Stripped of It's False Pre-
lenses.
A Clear and Concise Statement of
the Difference Between the
Two Parties
The Pernicious Doctrine of State
Rights--.The Resumption OF
Specie Payments.

Specie Payments.
The following magnificent speech was
delivered by Secretary John Sherman to
an immense audience gathered at Schlitz
Park, Milwaukee, October 18th:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-First of all
allow me to return to you and through
you to your fellow citizens in Wisconsin
my heartfelt and grateful acknowledgment
for day of unusual happiness to me, for
the cordial and hearty greeting of friends
though strangers to me all. 1t seemed as
ed the beautiful town of Racine, that the
people around me were not like strangers,
that l was not in strange land, but in the
midst of cordial and hearty friends And
as came to this great and beautiful city
of Milwaukee, with its 10000 people,
when saw the greetings in the streets and
the great crowds that are filling the streets,
along with the vast procession, and when I
come here and meet this vast audience I
feel that l am not in strange land but at
home here among you. / know that this
cordial and hearty greeting does not come
from any personal cause. / am to you
stranger. My face is unknown to you, but
the bond of sympathy that rests between
US is that both alike are in favor Of honest
politics, honest money, good times and
plenty of both. lGreat applause As
Gov. Smith has said, you early took your
was to pay it. [Applause.] The only
specie payment was to prepare for it, and
when the time came, to make the dollar
of paper money in the laborer's
hand equal to the dollar OF gold coin, and
that every means should be adopted to
strengthen the public credit. to lower the
rate of interest, and to decrease the public
debt. In other words, honesty among ma
tions as we'll as among individuals was the
best policy. [Great applause.] Now I
know that the best return can make to
you for your cordial greetings, is by
plain and simple statement of the condi-
ton of political affairs in this country, and
of some of the public measures that have
brought our present state of prosperity.
You know that am republican, belong
ing to the great republican party of the
United States. I know that there has
been and that there isa division of opin-
ion not only here in Milwaukee, but
throughout the country, among the Amer
lean people who have divided themselves
into two great political parties. I admit in
the outset that the great mass of these par
ties, the great mass Of the men, women
and children who compose thenl-honest
women and children-are very apt to fol-
low their brothers, fathers and sweet
hearts. l admit that the great body are
honest, good people, DESTROYS of promot-
ing common good and general welfare.
No party can set itself up above the other
in morality or national feeling. Both are
honest, but these two parties are
SEPARATE WIDE FROM EACH OTHER
The American people are divided into
these two parties. We must ascertain, if
we can, the reason of this division and see
what measures or what condition of affairs
separate them, and come, if we can, at
the real groundwork of this difference of
opinion. intend to spend few mo-
ments in pointing out to you the broad d.
viding line between these two national
parties and to make it SO plain that you
can see my meaning, 10 show there is a
governing issue that divides them, not de-
pending upon passing questions of the day
issues that commenced at the beginning
of the government and will continue as
long as this government lasts. What is
that difference? 1t is an honest difference
of opinion as to the nature and frame
work OF the national government. The
republicans of the United States believe
this is national government with power
to make laws vested in congress-. with
power to construe laws vested in courts,
with power to execute laws vested in the
president of the United States. We
believe that this government is supreme
in all the great essential powers of a ma
tlonal government to commit to it by the
people of he United States. We believe
it reaches its broad hand to every citizen of
the United States without regard to state
lines and that is the duty of the national
government to protect every man, woman
and child, however poor, whether poor or
rich, however humble or lowlv. in all the
rights of American citizenship. [Great
applause. We believe there is no man
too rich or too lofty in this country to
annul the national authority. All must
obey it. Great applause.
There is no man 40 humble or lowly.
but what the national authority must re-
spect his rights and see that they are pre-
served. Great applause
The tendency Of the republican ideas is
to elevate our nation, to advance our coun-
try higher and higher among the score of
nations, to make this powerful great re-
public Of fifty millions of free people,
soon to become one hundred millions,
now already the most powerful nation in
the world; rich in boundless resources,
rich in liberty, rich in independence, rich
in free thought, every man equal to each
other, and each the master of himelf, hav-
ing the right to cast one vote and no more.
(Great applause. ..,
The tendency Of republican measures is
to strengthen this national government.
In the last twenty years our government
has advanced from the feeble confederacy
existing before the war toa
GREAT AND POWERFUL NATION,
with an army and navy, small it is true,
but with a country and a people strong
enough behind that little army and navy
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