Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-07

1859 was Sc. 524. In 1860. 90, 64S. In 1880,
1S3,695. Foreign tonnage Of Mobile in 1859
Isl, $50 In 1860, 160.9y9 In 1880, 81, ALL
+ reign tonnage Of Boston in 1860 was
Foreign tonnage of New York in 1850 was
1873 So. Ia 1880, 1861 2S2 Foreign ton
mage of Philadelphia in 1850 was 1S5. 1872 In
1880, 1,391,312 Foreign tonnage of Balti-
more in 1850 was 1S6, At. In 1889, 1902, rs.
In 1860 year ending June SO,) tonnage of yes
sells entered at seaports south Of the Potomao
was one-ihird as large as the tonnsge OF ali
northern ports, both Atlantic and Pacific.
This year (ending jane 80, 1882 It is only
about one-Seventh.
Democratic orators bid rs look at the ex-
ports OF cotton. l have looked at them, and
ind these facts touching cotton and bread
stufs:
1S60-Bales cotton exported, S12 S45 $leI sos SIS
lSl0-Bales cotton exported, ., 095S2S 23L027, 624
1oo0-Bales cotton exported, g. So l5S 2l1,5S5 SOS
Fewer ba-es this year than ten or twenty
yeSrs ago.
In 1860 breadstufs exported sold for S24 ~. $50
IN 1910 brea,istufs exported sold for y 80 1853
In 1880 Oreadstufs exported sold for u.s. 036, SS5
Gotten has s,oot still, while surplus bread
stnffa have multiplied twelve-fold.
Lock SgEln-look ct the value Of all exports
as Z ey 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,
IL 1COOs s1Jd. - y, 10: III IcfU, ClSZ. oSJ SZU,
n 1880, sIS7. 140,573 Here is seen . steady
decline.
The value Of alIexports from Northern ports
was, IL 1860. S173 279 499; III 1870, $685.
102 1913; IN 1880, S646, 153, 673 Here is a
steady increase ofnearly fOur-foId. TIE value
OF import, OF al kinds to all ports south Of
the Potomac WAS. in 1860. $50 79O, 233; in 1870
$22,774 573; in $50, ST, SIS, 796. Hsre again
Is steady decline.
The value of imports st Northern ports was
II 1850, 1881, 376, OIL; in 1870 $439, $50, OLA;
in 1880, 4743, 6l3. 260. Here is an enormous
constant increase. The value OF imports at
the ports Ct South Carolina was. IN 1860,
1853, $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, n
1850, $21 1893 1913; in 1870, $10,S1S, 500; in
1880, $2l, 669,763. HIRE is stagnation for
twenty years
WHAT IS AT STAKE IN THE ELECTION.
These unerrlng proofs map and locate the
bulk and substance Of the Nations weslth aud
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 it. 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? I
answer that the good of every one Of them
depends on just and friendly laws, and whole
some administration of the Government.
| 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. [ afirm that
the broad issue at this election Is whether our
colossal fabric of commercial industrial and
financial interests shall be under the manage
ment and protection of those who chiefly crea-
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sway of those whose share III it is small, and
whose experience, antecedents, theories and
practices do not fit them or entitle them to as
sumo its control.
Tariffs, tax laws finances, currency, banks,
courts, appropriations, the maintenance 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-pGylng 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; but 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
if you place the tax-paying power in the hands
Ci LuOSo VINO 90 uLGl6 OF Ln0
your situation is likethat of the man who sat
on 8 limb and sawed off the limb between him
self and the tree.
The consideration of relative interest, if 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 Genera
Grant. [Applause.l But inferlority Of inter
est or antagonism OF interest, is, unfortunate
y, not the only consideration. Banded Sec
uOnal resentments and sterile hates dishgure
and prevent the political policy Of those who
dominate the South, forebOding immeasuracle
p ri and evil should they come to wield 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-
clsrny tyranny and wrong in monstrous proper
ti3ns. IN 1868, eight Southern States gave
m jorities for Grant. In 1872 seven States did
the same thing. Their r publican vote was
very large. Only four years afterward 260, 600
votes di. appeared from the count. In the
nine other Southern States, 10 the same IL T
years, 900 Republican votes disappeared
from the returns also, making an absence OF
$50, 600 votes. Most of these stifed votes
were the votes Of men who had bsen slaves
freedmen, only just crowned with the crown
OF American citizenship, and proud and eager
more proud and eager than the most of us
10 exercise the right to vote Applause Does
ary sane man doubt that they would have voted
if they could, or that those VINO dared and
could. did vote, and that their votes were not
honestly counted? II any man does doubt it,
Ter 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 1865. The white voters num-
bered 90. 3O3, the coIored SO. 453.
In 1876 the whole Republican vote counted
was 50, 446. Only two ears later the whole
Republican vote counted was 5, 257. Pretenses
have been made that the freedmen Of Geor-
gia do not care TO vote, and often vote the
Democratic ticket Only read the savage laws
OF Georgia under the fiction of vagrancy and
prison management, and then learn Of their
sickening, beastly administration, and human
nature viii tell you that the freedmen Of GeOr-
ga do not support the Democratic party, but
would cast it out if they could.
In 1876 the Republican vote Of Louisiana
wag II. ia. Two years afterward the Repub-
lean vote disappes red from the election re-
turn. Yet in 1867 in this same State the reg
Istrv Of voters showed IS 199 white votes and
81, 431 colored votes and IN 1876 the registra-
ton showed a Republican majority of 22,3l4.
IL North Carolina In 1876 the Republican vote
cast was 1]8,4I7 At the next congressional
election Republican votes scarcely appeared in
the count. In Alabama IN 1872 the Republic
ans cast 90,ET2 votes. They elected five Of the
seven representa- Is TO congress, and the leg
islature by large majority. In 1876, 60, 231
Republican votes were counted Two years
later. when governor and members Of congress
were elected, not one Republican vote was
counted IL South Carolina the registration
showed that the cpIOred voters outnumbered