Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-10-09
HENDRICKS To THE FARMERS.
Wheat Fifty Cents Bushel Less
Than Four Years Ago.

Than Four Years Ago.
Extract from speeoh of Gogerntr Hendricks at
'Muncis, Indiana, on the 6th.
To what condition have we come?
refer now to that statement made by
Mr.. Calkins, Republican candidate for
Governor in speech at Richmond a
, o few weeks ago. He said we now
nave, say S4OO,OOO,O 900 in the Treas
ury. Do you know how he came to
say that? He said that by way of
braggadocia, by way of taunt to the
Democrats. He said the Republican
party when it came into power found
an empty Treasury and now it has
$500, 100000 in the Treasury. Do
you want TO hear me express nv
OPINION of what is fortunate condi.
ton of the country. Well, it is not
in having Treasury overfowing; it
is not In collecting from the people un-
told millions OF money. that it may
be put away in the vaults of the Treas.
ury. At Washington to-day they are
digging new vaults and adding to the
old vaults so as to find room for put
ting away the peoples currency. The
Republicans have now in the treasury
$500, 900, 900 and that gentleman is
half OF the paper currency of the
country and more. The paper curren-
cy of the country is about $70O,00O,-
600, and of The currency Oh the coun-
try there is locked up in the Treas
ury $4O0,OOO,0OO. Do you desire that?
If so vote for the Republican candi-
dates for President. for they boast to
you that they have locked up $780,.
100000 of your money.
What right has the government to
save S4O0.OOO.OO0 of the peoples
money that it has no occasion to use
in the administration of its affairs?
What would be the effect If taxes
were reduced so that the money would
come back into your pockets and into
the channels OF trade? Don't you
know that it would stimulate enter,
'sprise7 Don't you know that it would
give employment to aborers?
Shall | stop now and speak of the
present condition of the country?
Four years ago, when you know there
were flush times, and everything was
we'll with the people, wheat was worth
$l.5O and labor was we'll paid, and the
Republican orator came to YOU and
said: "My countrymen, won't you
let, well enough alone? Are you will,
ing to turn the party out that has
brought you such prosperity and put a
party in the consequence of which you
do not know? And to that appeal the
people listened. How is it now? Are
men employed? Are furnaces throw
ing out fire and smoke that indicate
successful enterprise and industry? |
have here from an Indianapolis paper
of yesterday evening, perhaps the best
edited paper of the Republican party in
that city, the Ne,OS, the statement of
the amount of failures recently taken
place in .he country. 1t is dispatch
from New York concerning the busi-
ness failures throughout the country
the last seven days, as reported to
Dun & Co., and they are the greatest
authorities on that subject. The
number for the United States is 1879;
for Canada IA; total 2l3, as against
total of 1876 last week showing an in
crease of seventeen failures this week
over last week. In other words, it
was eight per cent. more for the week
that ended yesterday than the week
before that, an increase in failures Of
eight per cent. And how can it be
otherwise when there is this enormous
portion of the peoples currency locked
up in the vaults of the Treasury?
Send that money out more into the
channels. of trade and wheat won't sell
at a begging market for 62 cents, 72
,,cents and 7S cents bushel. 1t is so
cents bushel less to-day than it was
when you elected the Republican can
didate four years ago, who made
James G. Blaine Secretary of State,
and if you have your mortgages to
pay on the interest upon it counting
one bushel for one dollar, it will take
good many more bushels now to pay
the interest on your mortgage debt
than it did four years ago, and when
you come to pay your mortgage off
it will take good may more hundred
bushels than it did a good while ago.
They do not say to you now as they
did four years ago. "Let we'll enough
alone" 1t is not we'll enough. 1t is
bad enough.
When you see men out of employ
ment you may know there is trouble
somewhere. God wrote it in the early
days of our race that by the sweat of
his brow man shall earn his bread.
But it did seem that there was coupled
with that divine sentiment that per-
haps man should have chance to
earn his bread by the sweat of the
brow, but it is not so now with all.
There are some that cannot get en-
ployment to earn their bread I have
understood that one of the establish
ments of this city that gave employ
ment not long since to 100 hands is
now closed down. There is no EN-.
ployment there any more and so it
is with the rolling mill at Indianap.
oils that formerly employed hund-