Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-28
The Recnrd-


The Republican party assumed the
relns OF power IN the nation in 1861.
Treason mad done all it could in breaking
down the power and credit Of the Gov
eminent Business was FRUSTRATED, the
National Treasury was empty, and the
Government s CrsdibdesbrOy cd. Amer
lean securities were at ruinOus dis
count, the result of hidden treason in
the administration of the last democrat
&c President, James Buchanan. While
the political disturbances had contrib
uted their share to the business paraiy-
sis, the tree trade policy Of the demo-
cratic party had contributed largely TO
this condition. Buchanan's last mes
sage to Congress called its attention TO
this deplOrable state of things, and he
urged that something be dune speedily
or the country WOuld tall into a state Of
bankruptcy. In vivid contrast with
this, look at the work of the years Of
Republican control since 1861, and scan
tine splendid record OF the party:
The Republican party crushed the
greatest rebellion of modern times and
reconstructed the Nation.
IL gave freedom TO four millions of
Slaves and conferred the righJ of citi-
ZenshIp upon them.
By its policy of protection to Ameri-
can industries, it revived the prOstrate
manufacturing interests.
By this policy, the manufactures of
the United States have enormously in
creased, and give good employment at
good wages to thousands OF industrious
WOrkingmen.
By It's enlightened management Of the
Nations affairs, il has crippled the
wealth of the country.
1t has extended our foreign commerce
and we have sold in the years OF Repub-
hcan rule, three hundred million dol
lars more OF our products than we had
disposed OF during the entire previous
history Of the country.
The railroad system of the country
was extended TO the pacific, under us
lar seeing policy of aid by grants OF
public lands, until thousands UI square
miles Of the great West have been turn
ed from an unprOductIVe wilderness in
10 the richest farming country the sun
ever shOne upon, Winnie thriving cities
have followed the extension OF The iron
ways Of commerce into those unJrUdden
Wilds.
Ii has given the country the most
perfect financial system ever devised,
IN place OF The unstable issue OF wild
1t has raised the credit OF the nation
to the highest point ever reached, and
we are now able 70 place United States
bonds at a lOHel rate Of interest than
was ever before dreamed Ut.
Ii has paid off the national debt, iu-
Cured in suppressing rebellion more
rapidly tnan was eyer done by any ma
JIOn, and the periOd OI its final extinc-
ton can clearly Oe predicted II Repub-
hcan control OF the finances be con-
tInued.
Aud, while reducing the de5t at an
unheard-of rate, it has paid IN pensions
to the boys in blue who fought to sup
press the democratic rebellion the enOr-
NOUS total to date OF over $92O,UUU,OUO.
In paying OF the debt so rapidly, aud
in raising me national credit " 50 nigh
Il point, 1t has reduced the interest bur
den since the war from $l72, 100000
per year to less than $6O, 100000.
IL has kept every pledge it has made
the people, and has their confidence in
any promise it makes them, on that ac-
count,
1t has done all this in the face of the
opposition OF the democratic party,
That party has opposed everything that
the Republicans have done. IL opposed
the war Tor the preservation u the
Union it opposed the freeing of the
slaves; it opposed the cOnferrlng on the
freedman of the rights of citizenship and
suffrage, it opposed and opposes, the
Protective policy for American indus
tries; it opposed the land grants to rail
roads which were the only means of
securing the construction OF the trans
continental lines, the foundation Of the
marvellous growth Of the far west; 1t
tried to throw discrediG upon the issue
of the United States bonds 1t declared
the national debt never could be paid (;
il fought and still fights, the system Of
revenue by which the payment is made
possible it fought, the national bank
system, and the stable currency that
system has given US; IL has stood in the
way Of the nations progress at every
step-Yet its opposition has counted
for nothing. Il mas cursed every step
by which the nation has grown great
and powerful and wealthy. And now
il comes once more, begging the peo-
pie, in the face Of all tins, to place IL in
power. and allow it to try It's hand at
Reform Look at the record and
judge how worthy Of the trust 1t has
proved itself to be.-TOledO Blaed.