Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-12
GOV. HENDRICKS SLOGAN.
LOWER TAXES THE KEY NOTE
OF THE CAMPAIGN.

in the Country Filched Out of SO
The RidicuIousness of Blaine's Irish
PretensiOns Again Proven.
TOLEDO, o., Sept. 11.-Gov. Hendricks
arrived in this city yesterday morning
as guest Of the State Fair Association.
In the afternoon he spoke on the fair
grounds to a large audience, estimated at
1000 or 5000. His speech on that occasion
was entirely non-politicaI and a eulogIum
of the Importance of agricultural and the
mechanical arts, and the improvements
of the century in them in this country.
Of the Zeal0usness of citizenship, which
goes to make up good government. In
the evening he spoke to a Democratic
mass meeting in the Fifth ward to an au
dience OF fully 5000. In the course of
his remarks he said:
Ought there to be a change in national
affairs, or, in other words, ought we as q
nation to 20 from year to year as we have
that there are certain changes we ought to
feel important and proper. First, There
should be reform in the revenue system. /
shall not undertake to discuss this at length.
| say that there ought to be a change and
modification of the revenue system of the
country. What did the President of the
He sad that the taxation of the people was
beyond the demands of the government
economically administered, and he urged upon
Congress that immediate reform in that i'm
portant particular should take place. He
told Congress that annually there was being
collected $1,000 900 more from the pockets Of
the people than fair and honest administra-
tlon Of the government did require. He told
them that the mex year it would be Sl45, ,009,-
600. At the next session of Congress after the
Republicans had somewhat amended the
revenue laws the Secretary of the Treasury
calle the attention of Congress again to the
subject of revenue reform.
EXCESSIVE TAXATION.
He said that under the law as modified the
excess collected from the people was SS5, ,O00,
O00-SS5, 10000 collected from the people of
this country every year beyond the demands
of an economical administration of the
government. My fellow citizens, candidate
for Governor of the State of Indiana, in
speech not long since, boasted of the fact that
the Republican party, when it came in power,
found an empty Treasury, but that it now
has 10 excess there of $400,000,G00. This state
ment Is true, that when the speech was made
there was Sl00,OO0,0O0 lying idle and unem-
pOyed in the Treasury. At the end of the
year there viii be added to that IN the new
volume another Sl00,O00,00 and it will stand
at $500, ,0O0,0 ,00J, wrUng from the people beyond
the demands of the government. Have you
stopped to think how much that is? 1t is
more than half the paper currency of the
United States, and when it comes to be $780,,
1uVsUVus as IL Will at lllG CLOSE Oh TIE year anu
before Congress can act-if the population Of
the country Is properly estimated at $4,000, 900
there viii be locked up IN the Treasury and
the vaults dug down deep beueath it.
SO for every man woman and child
in the United States. What for? The
Democrats say in their platform at Chicago
that the revenue must be reduced to the re-
qutrements Of the government economically
administered. What do you say to that, my
fellow cltiZensg Are you Democrats: Are
you Republicans Are you Il granger, OF an
ffaar ~ a ms no D9T 4 fV
relations. what do you say TO that proposition
Of the Chicago Convention, that the revenue
shall be reduced to the needs of the govern
ment economically adminlsteredy Applause.
III you 10 not like that, don't vote with the
Democracy; for whe the democracy comes
into power, undertake to say that the ma
chnery Will be turned backward for While.
Backward did sayg No, forward in favor of
reform-in favor of reducing taxes to the
wants of the government economically ad-
ministered.
WHY COLLECT MORE?
What are you going to collect any more for?
4 voice: stealing" Have you stopped to
think that the money which is now lOcked-up
is part Of our currency. that it has an Office to
perform, and that il the government does not
need it, the people do? Applause What
ever the government does not need belongs
tO the people. IL you owe il TO the govern
ment, pay it. If you do not owe it to he gov
ernment for the purpose OF carrying on It's
affairs economically administered, a. don't pay
it. just stop to think how much S4eO,000,000
or S. 0,000,0 900 would do for you and yours
l don't know how much it would do.
WHAT IT WOULD DO IN INDIANA.
know that in Indiana. with soil OF Won
derful richness, with many OF the institutions
that make wealth for the people, manufac-
turing establishments, l know that there is
many a man that can't find employment;
there are many families hard pressed because
enterprise has stopped, and because there is no
employment for labor. Ought that to be, with
$40 100000 lOeked up in the Treasury? The
Democracy say reduce taxation until the
amount shall be just what the government
needs The war closed 10 years ago and in 10
years this country should have been admins
tered upon principles that go on in
time OF peace. Why should we
have extraordinary taxation 20 years after
we have passed away from connection with
the war? Why should it be: When we reduce
taxation upon these principl S, until there
shall be no more collected than the govern
ment needs. VIII Il will be the et1ectg That
money which is now locked up in the Treasury
VIII commence to flow outward; it VIII come
back once more into the pockets OF the people
aud INTO the channels of trade. Where COM
mcrce and trade now stagnate and labgulsh,
there Will be prosperity and activity again;
where there Is now no employment for labor
ID viii be found everywhere. The Republican
party, under the Leadership OF the chiefGains
who are at its head, have now abandoned sub
stantia,ly their old friends, the Germans, and
they are laying hold of my Irish friends with
a zeal that ic absolutely beautiful. Cheers.
Nas the German done that he should
What nv the Republican party thus?
be abandoned -'dfess to him and his
How is it that no g. ~1a II is only
patriotic devotion is made, '-e The
made to my Irish friends? Why is TINS.
only fault l know of the German IS that he
says that when he lived in Germany beside
the Rhine he thought he had right to decide
for himself what he would eat ana drink and
wherewitha he should be clothed. The Re-
publicans say that that will not do, and it was
e s1or-I ItrFEa faaG Ia tn 4
Maine. that they would not trust this ques
tion any longer to legislation, put placed
it in the irrevocable provisions Of their
constitution that hencef0rth and forever
no man should drink his beer in the State of
Maine, and the candidate for President of the
United States did think that it was a proper
thing for hm to say that he did not vote on
tina. question at all. What say you, my Ger
man trends, is prohibition right or Wrongf
4 voice: ''WrOng!" wrong. Wrong, OF
course it is-as Democracy in every platform
has declared. In the State from which have
come to-day our Democracy have fought
this battle well out upon the idea that wheth-
er man shall take drink of beer or. II you
please, drink of whisky belonging TO nm
self and if you choose to take a drink, | could
not advise you to drink anything TO
disturb the complsure of your judgment
at any time. but If you choose to take drink
shall you come to me to ask my permission!
Or in other words. shall | seek to interp0se to
prevent you from indulging in habit that
you think is not hurtful to you?
THE NJ WEENE1 CASE
GOV. Hendricks then recited at length
the Kosta case in the administration of Presi-
dent Pierce in 1854, and the McSweeney case
in 1881. when James G. Blaine was Secretary
OF State, as tending to show which party was
the true friend of foreign born citizens. Con-
cerning the latter, he said: In the month of
june 1881, shortly before Garfield received
his deadly wound, Mcbweeney. an Irishman
by birth, having six or seven American
born children, however, and having lived
in san Francisco in the pursuit
OF legitimate trade for twenty-one years,
having been completely naturalZed and bear
ing All the honors upon his person of Ameri-
can citizenship thought he would return for
his health to Ireland. He did so, and in the
month OF June he was arrested in Ireland by
British cOnstables and landed in British
iail. No charge was preferred against him,
no violation of the law assigned. A free man
until then. without fault, without crime,
without the violation of any English law
whatever, seized and thrown into hldeous
dungeon. His wife r0te a letter to the state
Department at Washington. informing the
Secretary of State that her husband was then
uuder arrest and imprisoned without fault,
without crime, without charge. The letter
was received atSthe State Department in
Washington, Aug. l6.
THE IGNORING OF THE APPEAL.
James @. Blaine, who was then Secretary
Of state. was then acting as President of the
limited states. Garfield was then languish-
ing upOn his bed Of pain. That letter was
unopened 50 far as we know; at least 1t was
unanswered. 1t never was answered so long
as Blaine continued in the State Department,
and ne remained in that department until the
month OF December. That letter being re-
ceived in August before, for four months he
neglected the appeal made by a woman in a
iiiS9ant land. applying to him for the honor
~ MS countrv. for Justice to her, for the Dig
nitv Of her citizenship, that her husband