The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-06-30

| cratic member of congress and counted
nothing for anything else.
What does all this mean. 1t means simply
this, that there is a determined effort down
| there to d~isfranchise the colored people OF
the south. First they tried to- do it by
bludgeons, shot guns, and ku-kIux
clans. Failing in that, and getting too
many of them into the penitentiary they
| adopted this trick Of tissue ballots and false
| returns, and now in order to get the thing
| sure they have struck another plan.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA GERRYMANDER-
Here is a map which l will show you and
| which they were so mad about when l ex-
hibited il to them at Washington on the
floor of the house.
MIR. Horr here showed a large map of the
congressional districts in South Carolina, a
copy of which is printed in connection with
this speech. Mr.. Horr pointed out the Pc
culiarities of the noted seventh district,
which is Known on the map referred to.
Continuing, Me said:
Did anybody ever see such a picture as
that for q congressional district. 1t would
tak a crooked mac, would IL not, to repre-
seventh district. naughter.] Here into
these little grooves and hooks and
corners they have put the towns
comprising as nearly as possible every negro
in the district. They orine a district OF
1870 900 people that had a majority of 1000
negro voters in it. In that way they could
| get rid of the negroes instead of giving them
a chance to try and carry the other districts.
They simply carry out this diabolical plan
of preventing the negroes of the south from
having any voice in the affairs of this ma
| ton. That is what we protested against and
L told them that l would exhibit hat map
as a stump speech throughout the north
wherever l went. (A~pplause.] am now
keeping my pledge.
THE MORMON QUESTION.
Let us now pass to another question.
They claimed that they were with
us on the question Of Mormonism.
The Republican party said that in
s~titution must be wiped out. We had
a bill drawn by Senator Edmunds of Yer
mont and AZ Democrats voted against it and
not "a single Republican opposed it. When
we came to consider the question of admit
ting Mr.. Cannon to q seat, that man, who
over his own signature stated that he
was the husband of four wives, that he
lived with them and raised children
by each of them, when he came stating
that he would violate the laws of the United
States by thus living, and stated to us In SO
many words that he intended to continue to
so violate them, when we came to unseat-
ing him the Republicans had to do it, for
almost every Democrat in the house voted to
sustain him.
THE CHINESE BILL.
But, fellow citizens, I did want to speak to
| you on the Chinese question. | have Oh Y a
word to say. Some of my. friends think
was in error in voting for that bill. Now l
| am going to admit right off that that bill
violates all my Fourth of July orations
that | have ever made from my boyhood up.
1t is right in the face of the American ca
gle. 1t is contrary, in some respects, to doc
| tripos that haUa ALWAYS clInppcad IN ha
sound, but l will tell you in a word why |
did it. 1t is because the Chinese do not come
under the head Of regular i'm
migrants. First l found that the good peo-
pie on the Pacific slope do not want
tho Chinese there. There is no exception.
All classes, all parties petitioned us to stop
the ingress of the Chinese into that ccun-
try. But the thing that weighed with
me more than all was this, out of
the whole 10000 in this country
there are hardly 10 who bring their
wives with them and raise a family. They
do not become citizens of this country. /
do not believe that we want them as citizens.
| do not believe that they benefit the civili-
cation of this country. like the civilization
of the United States that is growing up
with the race that we represent, and / do not
believe that the Cinnamon would help us
any, for they come here simply for the pur-
pose Of living on nothing, accommodating a
little money aud then sliding out
to- China with it, Not one of them
makes a home, not one of them helps build up
the country except by his labor. Now, l
believe the homes of this country are its sal
walton. [~Applause.l | believe that any set
of men who do not come to stay with us and
become a part of the community in which
they live will be of no benefit to the institu-
tions of this country, consequently l voted
for the Chinese bill.
THE NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM.
Our Democratic friends also in every posi-
sible Manner, with the exception of a few Of
We finally passed the bill through the
| gigantic efforts of our old Mich.
gan man, Mr.. Grape of MassaH
chusetts, whereby we extended the
charters of those institutions. We did it be-
cause we believed that they were the best
money institutions that this or any otlers
country ever had, and 1 believe the Republi-
can party of this country intend to stand by
them in the future. GApplause.l
No banks are more popular with the people
and no moneyd institutions in this country
ever had q firmer hold on the business men.
are needed and because they meet the wants
of our entire people.
DEED OF JUSTICE TO SOLDIERS.
There is one little bill that was passed that
l want to call your attention to. That was
q good measure to pass, it seems to me. We
| have scattered all over this country "a few
soldiers who, at least some of them, served
through the entire war. When the war closed
they undertook to send these boys out
on the prairies to fight the Indians.
Many of them felt that they had served
their country well and that they did not de-
serve treatment of this kind. They thought
their enlistment ended with the war, and
the war had ended. They protested against
being sent away into further service after
four years of service. They claimed that
they had fought until the close of the war,
and they thought they ought not TO
10 compelled TO stay longer. But they
undertook to send them away, and these
poor fellows who had been away from home
for four years, hundreds, and ] believe per-
haps over a thousand of them in the whole
| United States, lit out for home. They were
marked as deserters, and none of themI
up to this day have ever been able ~
get their back pay or bounty, or anything oy
that kind. Many of them had served faithS
fully and well at the front. Many of them
carry with them to-day rebel bullets. ~
passed a bill at the very last stages of con-
grcss which wiped out the word "deserter''
from the list, allowing these boys to again
stand up in the glory of their manhoos,
as American soldiers. PROLONGED applause. y
Some of us thought that while we were par
doning rebels and permitting our congress to
be filled up with men who tried to destroy
this nation, it was no more than right that
those boys who had fought those long years
for the old flag should be forgiven
the little matter of trying to get home to
their wives and children, even a little before
they got their discharge papers. Applause
THE REDUCTION OF TAXATION.
But, fellow citizens, there was one other
bill which we tried to pass. 1t passed the