The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-03-23
,JACKsON's JUBILEE.
Continued from Page ?.


Massachusetts wOOlen mills the adult
operatives receive $3.50 for sixty hours
labor. and in Manchester, IS for nifty
six hours. The expenses or living In
England are 40 per cent. less than here.
Protection keeps out foreign eapltal.
Under protection commerce Is staggered,
agriculture suffers, manufacturing lam
guishes and labor starves. Why hesitate
to call upon free trade for reliefp This
is free America. For century we have
had free speech and free press. Through
the blood, the death, the graves of the
war we have free soil and free men.
Why alone in this land of freedom should
trade be in shackles and slavery, and
Democrats hesitate to advocate free
trade?
COLONEL Villas SPEECH.
Colonel Villas delivered an eloquent
eulOgy on Andrew Jackson, and eXhOTted
the Democracy of the present day to fol-
low closely in his footsteps, and to honor
him in action as well as in memory.
Senator Lamar was detained in the
southern paTt of the State, and was un-
able to answer to his toast.
SPEECH OF HENRY wATTERsoN.
''Since the days of Richie and Blair, a
change--a very great change-has come
in this country. From Jackson TO Buch-
anan, each Democratic administration
has had an organ at the National Capt.
tai which got its cue from the White
House, and gave laws to the Democratic
party and Democratic press. Not YES
tige f this system remains. The enOTm-
GUS development of newspaper business
has made the collection of news first
condition in newspaper success. This
collection is a matter of organization,
and has large and costly machinery, and
consequently only those papers are fur
nished which respond to the prevailing
demand for information. Again, the
press being almost as much creature
of tendencies as of conditions, the lire
sistlble impetus of currency has for a
score of years been upon the side of the
Republican press, which, in its immense
energy in its collection of news, has
Joined a patent and elastic representa-
tiOn of movement and temper of the
time. The Democratic press il no longer
power in the land. 1t no longer issues
DEGREES of administrations nor unfOlds
policies of Government, nor echoes the
spirit of the age. 1t is indeed but poor
relation, sincere, loyal, full of courage
and hope, but like the party-diYided,
iTTesOlute, puTpOseless. IL there were
no remedy for this unhappy state
should not venture particularly upon
an occasion so brilliant and 50 joyous
as this to touch upon it. l should hold
my tongue and nurse my regrets in ST.
lence, but there is a Temedy-theTe is
remedy for both party and its press, and
feeling that we have ended the years of
famine and seeing or thinking, 1 see in
the future years of plenty and power
awaiting us, you will not, l am sure,
charge me with a disposition to chill
our enthusiasm if, in presenting "The
Democratic Press" l dwell somewhat
more upon what it ought to be than
what it is. You will bear in mind that
| myself am nothing if not Democratic
journalist, and that claim no immuni-
ty from the criticism upon my own be-
half. On the contrary no man has en-
cOunteTed more of the difficulties of our
peculiar condition than 1 have, or is
more conscious of any shOTtcOming.
First of all then, the Democratic press
must realize that there has been a de-
luge; old things have been swept away;
he who looks backward shall share the
fate of Lots wife; he alone who looks
forward shall live, move and have being
That the Democratic party has survived
the deluge is OF good augury. 1t tells
us its existence has been prolonged for
some great purpose. 1t is for the Demo-
cratic press to understand that within
that purpose are bound up no reactions
and no Teyenges. The Democratic party
cannot come into power, and it ought
not to come into power, as the aYenging
Deity, still less a destroying angel; it
must come in, if it come in at all, as the
party of action, not reaction; the party
of reform, not redress; the party of to-
day, not yesterday; applying its energies
to the adjustment of the country and it
self to new and extraordinary cOndi-
tiOns which modern science, invention
and research have wrought wherever
the tinkle of the telephone is heard and
the sparkle of the electric light is seen.
You will say these are but glittering
generalities and lacking in specifica- !
tiOn. Sir, 1 will be specific. 1 mean "a
tariff for revenue only" / mean the OBJ !
liberation of the navigation laws which |
have driven our flag from the high seas. |
L mean the diyOrcement Of the civil ser
vice from party service. l mean the |
careful and just revision of our national |
banking system, which | conceive the |
best banking system we ever had, and |
which with certain needful mOdifica- |
tiOns essential both to its preservation |
and the equities of taxation, l would |
to place in business where it |
belongs and whittier it should be sent |
long ago. Imean the reduction of the
81,
where it should be funded and made
People are being taxed too
much. The debt is being paid too fast.
All taxes should be levied with an eye
Olely to revenue and no more revenue
hOuld be collected than is required to
JuppOrt the Government and carry the
ebt
The key to all these propositions, the
pivot around which they are grouped,
ind about which they turn, is to be
iOund in that simple sentence: "a tariff
iOr revenue only" 1t is not my SEN
,ence. L neither invented il nor dis
covered it, though 1 would no more
iream of compiling a Democratic plat
iorm without it than l would think of
issuing an edition of the New Testa-
ment without Christ's sermon on the
Mount. He closed with denunciatiOn
IF slavery and a word of hope for the
Democracy.
THE DANGERS OF CAPITALIZATION.
Ex-senator Lyman Trumbull depicted
he dangers of centralized form of
government in this country, and cited
many instances in recent years when
,reat strides had been taken in the
Erection Of Imperialism. Congress is
unlawfully appropriating mil
ions for educational purposes, for ship
annals. for cleaning out creeks, and i'm
m harhnro for ranuinpo |