The daily gazette., 1882-10-19

uIty-tnree American cfLlzfns were shot 10
death. What did Grant do' Did the old
| inspiration OF Smyrna shcw up2 No.
Grant sent old Caleb Cushing to Madrid to
dicker about the matter 1t was finally
agreed 10 rece We about 1000, or just
81 ,526.4l per he ID for the iiity-three mur-
dered Am,r'can citizens.
| II any young man here has an idea that
the Republican party sustai.ls the rights OF
citizenship let him go home aud think Of it,
Let him who thinks 1t was right go and vote
for the dirty party who did that.
As am an Irishman by birth. [Applause.l ]
| And all my antecedents and family tradi-
tions are colored with the troubles of the
| Celt against the Saxon, will not refer to
Lowell, bnt pass him by. In consequence
Of Grants dicker with Spain hundreds of
American citizens had been imprisoned for
merely giving word Of advice TO those who
had been struggling for seven centuries for
their freedom. II any man who was born In
Ireland can votef6feslIch party ne is false
to his name and his race and its traditions.
| The speaker then said If there was any
one present who desiIed to ask any questions
| he was prepared to answer them, as he was
Thoroughly read on what he was talking of.
Another subject matter frequently dis
cussed," he continued, 6 is the relative
economy of Republican and Democratic
| administrations" He had seen In the
papers how his friends jackson, Childs,
Hastings, Stone and others had spoken of
that matter, and wanted to know If they
| would allow a dishonest or unworthy person
to keep their books whether they would
employ foreman who was Of not of thrifty
and economical habits. Not a bit of 1t.
Any one caught with such moral peccadillos
or shortcomings would be told to get out.
Is it fair or honest for men of that stand
ing to live up to different actions in the
wider domain OF public life9 1t is not the
men of means who have to pay for any loss.
rich man, who owns dozen farms and
80 or 40 houses, may felicitate himself that
he pays his taxes. He lies. He does no
such thing. The man wholives in his house
or cultiyates his farm, and pays rent, is the
one who pays the interest on his capital and
pays his taxes. The proprietor merely takes
the money to the tax Office You have an
interest in this question.
| We Will turn TO two States the political
antiJhesis OF each other-Vermont and Della
ware. Within the memory of man Vermont
was never under Democratic rule, and with
population of 100000 against Delaware's
LAG, 900, 81 100000 were expended in its
administration. The lowest poll tax In
Vermont was $3.50, and in 1881 153 men
were imprisoned for failure to pay their
taxes. The result was that while the
increase of population in that State from
1870 10 1880 had been but u per cent, in
Delaware 1t was 26 per cent. Vermont had
one militia regiment $40 strong, Tor which
it paid an adjutant general 81 900, an
assistant adjutant general $3.50, and two
clerks 81 900; while Delaware had the same
work done for 5000.
Talk about education. Vermont Is a
State governed by Republican ideas and the
condition of men there is lower than
In any other State in the Union, and God
has put his seal Of decay upon it.
MIR. O'Byrne referred TO his friend
Anthony Higgins, who differed from him on
political questions, and was cranky upon
many of them, particularly the assessment
laws.
am not here, he said, to defend anything
that has the smell of corruption or the taint
of wrong about it. While l was citizen
of Delaware never feared to stand up for
what / thought was right. Any man who
will not contribute his fair quote of taxa
tiOn has no right to a voice In public affairs
and fails to perform citizens duty In
1880 Delaware's population was $4,000,
of whom In round numbers 80 900 were
voters, or more than one in five. Where is
the curtaiment of the right of franchise
there?
In Republican Rhode Island one man in
16 had u vote, in New York one In 20.
There was no State in the Union in which
the proportion of votes to the population
was so high as in little Delaware. They
| make talk about unjust taxation, but tie
facts are THAT larger proportion Of the pop
ulation enjoy the right of franchise in Della
ware than In any other State. Let some of
these quixotic gentlemen go to Rhode
Island where no man born across the sea
could vote unless he owned a dirty bit Of
land. When Woodford began to talk of
Delaware and Rhode Island, why didn't he
go to Rhode Island and begin missionary
1 IL i,,4 4l,a Gtofo rl.a-o
| who was born abroad could not vote
The difference between the tax rate In
New York and Philadelphia was broached
and figures given to prove that the rate in
Republican Philadelphia was greater than
that in Democratic New York. The def
ciencies of the national government appro-
priations under Democratic and Republican
administrations were taken up. Higgins,
Bird, Woodford and others may talk until
they are black in the face but the fact re-
mains that from 1873 to 1876, while the Re-
publicans had control of both houses of
Congress, the per capita tax was 81 80 for
every man, woman and child In the United
States from 1877 to 1881, when Sam Ran
dali and Mr.. Bayard and other gentlemen
were looking after public affairs-when
| there were no steals ;the per capita was So 49,
We hear much of education fro m the Re-
publican orators. On the Sth day of Janu-
ary, 1885, Thomas Benton arose In Congress
and stated that the debt contracted by the
war of independence and the war of 1872
had been paid under the administrations of
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and jackson.
There were no steals then; no "My dear
Dorsey, we want you to help the boys out. !"
There remained in the Treasury of the
United States untouched 1000, 900
What did the Democratic party do 4
1t was divided among the different States
according to population, and was appro-
priated for an education fund and to this
day that fund is held in trust in Delaware
and paid pro rata for the purpose. Had the
Republicans been IN power would they have
divided it that ways Egad, MOI They
would have gotten up an expedition to the
moon, or missionary excursion to convert
the Esquimaux. They would never have
given it back to the people.
Never in the history of any civilized peo-
pie had government said to the people ;
'Here, take back your SIT ,0O0, 900 and edu-
cate your children" Now, If anyone can
present a similar act done by any other
party let them do so. II they can't let
them shut their mouths and be quiet.
Another pet subject of the Republicans is
the purity Of the judiciary and the elective
/ franchise. You know a tree by its fruit and
HI RIB by its flavor, and it is easy TO know
party by its act. The Republican party
have been guilty of such wrongs against
the government that in private
life they would have been convicted and i'm
I prsoned.
He then told how the Supreme Court had
decided that debts contracted nrevinus to