Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-09-12
WAKING UP OHIO.
A SPEECH BY GOV. HENDRICKS
ie Thinks there Ought TO be chanze In
National Affairs. and Advocates Revenue

Tie Thinks there Ought to be Change In
National Affairs, and Advocates Revenue
Reform.
IBy telegraph to the Dispatch.I
TOLEDO, ONO, september ll.-Sovernor
Hendricks arrived IN this city yesterday
morning rs the guest OF the Tri-State Fair
Association. In the afternoon he spoke on
the fair. grounds to large audience, esti-
mated at 4. 900 or 5000. His speech on that
occasion was entirely non-political, and
was a eulogium OF the importance Of agri-
cultural and mechanical arts: Of the i'm
provoments Of the century IN them In this
country, and OF those elements OF citizen
ship which 90 10 make upa good govern
ment. In the evening Governor Hendricks
smoke to Democratic mass-meetiDg in the
Fifth Ward, an audience numbering fully
5000 being present.
In the course OF his remarks he said !:
Ought there 10 be a change in national
affairs! or, in other words, Ought we rs a
nation TO 20 on from year to year as we
have been gong on in the past? | submit
TO you that there are certain changes we
ought to feel important and proper. First,
there should be q reform in the revenue
system Of the country. ! shall not under
take TO discuss this at length. / say there
ought 10 be q change--a modification OF the
revenue system OF the country. What did
the President Of the United States say TO
Congress two years ago! He said that the
taxation of the people was beyond the de-
mands OF government economically ad-
ministered, and he urged upon Congress
that immediate reform on that important
particular ought 10 take place. He told the
Congress that annually there was being
collected hundred millions more from the
pockets Of the people than a fair and
honest administration Of the Government
did require. lie told them that the next
year it would be Sl4j.000,000. At the
next session of Congress, after the Rcpuh-
licanS had somewhat amended the revenue
laws. the Secretary OF the Treasury called
the attention of Congress again to the sub
iect OF revenue reform. lie said that
under the law as modified the excess
collected from the people was $4,000. 900
SSj. eco collected from the people OF
this country every year beyond the de-
mands of an economical administration OF
the Government.
THE TREASURY EXCESS.
My fellow-citiZens. the candidate for
Governor Of the State of Indiana, in
that when the Republican party came into
power ii found an empty Treasury. but
that 1t now has an excess in the Treasury
of SiO0.CC0.000. This statement is true
that when this speech was made there was
100000, 900 lying idle and unemployed in
The Treasury. AT the end Of the
year there will be added TO that, in
new vaults. another S1O0,0O0,OO0. and II
will stand at SjO0.000.000 wrung from the
people beyond the demands OF the Govern
nent. Have you stopped TO think how
much that is ! II i more than half the paper
currency of the United states, and when it
comes 10 be $500. 600. 900. a. il will at the
close OF the year and before Congress can
act. if the population Of the country j.
properly estimated ut 10000, 600. there will
ne locked up in the Treasury and the vaults
dug down deep beneath, $40 for every
man. woman. and child in the country.
What for? ! am arguing the question.
OUGHT THERE TO 81 4 CHANGE?
The Democrats say in their platform at
Chicago that the reyende must be reduced
TO meet the requirements Of the Govern
ment economically administered. What do
you say to that, my feIiow-citizens Are
you a Democrat: Are you Republican {!
pendent? Whatever may he your party
relations. what do YOU say to tina: prOpo-
sition of the Chicago Convention. thlt
the revenue shall be reduced to the needs
oi the Government economically admins
teredt [Applause.l II you do not like
that don't vote with the Democracy. for
when the Democracy comes into power.
undertake TO say that the machinery will
be turned for awhile backward. did |
say? No: forward. In favor Of reform. in
favor of reducing taxation TO the wants OF
tho Government economically administer
ed. What are you gong TO collect any more
for! " Oice: Steaiing.l Have you stopped
10 think that that money which i now
locked UP j. part Of our currency, that it
has an Office 10 perform. and that il the
Government doesn't need il the people
do, (ApplauScl Whatever Government
doesn't need belongs TO the people. II
YOU owe II 10 Government pay il; IL you
Cont owe it to the Government for the
purpose Of carving on its affairs econOmi-
cally administered. don't pay il. Just
stop to think how much that 800, 900, 600 or
500. COO. GOO would do for you and yours.
don't know how much It would do. |
know that in Indiana, with soil OF won =
derful richness. with many OF the insttu-
tions that make wealth for the people
manufacturing establishments-Ikn know that
there is many man that cannot tind Cm-
poyment. There i, many a family that
are hard pressed becau.e enterprise has
slopped. because there is no employment
for labor. Ought that 10 be with S400.
900. .000 locked up IN the Treasury? The
Democracy say. Reduce taxation until
the amount shall be Just what the Govern
mcnt needs.
TIE WAR CLOSED NINETEEN YEARS Ago,
and m nineteen yCar> this cOuAtry should
have been administered upon principle.
tlat govern i'm time. Of peace. Why should
We have extraordinary taxation twenty
wears after We have passed away from
the condition OF war? Why shall
it be: When we reduce taxation upon
these principles until there shalt be
no more collected than the Government
needs. what will be the effect, That
money which j. now locked up in the
Treasury will commence to flow outward.
If in come back once more into the pOck-
cts Of the people aud into the channels oI
trade, Where commerce and trade now
,,aenate and languish there will be pros
uerilv and activity again. Where there i,
now no employment for labor it will Dc
found everywhere. The Republican party,
under the leadership OF the chieftains who
arc at its head. have now abandoned sub.
.tantially their old friends. the Germans
and they are
LAYING HOLD OF NY IRISH FRIENDS
with a zeal that j. absolutely beautiful
rCbeers.l What has the German done thai
ne should be abandoned by the Repubicsr
party thus' How l. it that no address tC
him and his patriotic devotion is made. anC
| il /. only made 10 my Irish friends! why
i this: The only fault know OF the Ger
man is that he SAYS when he lived In Ger
many beside the Rhine he thought he hat
the right TO decide fol himself what h
would cat and drink and wherewlthai NJ
should be clothed.
Mr.. BLAINE AND THE PROHIBITION QUESTION
Republicans say that will not do. and
i. only day before Yesterday, III The STATE o
Maine. that they would not trust thr
question anv longer to legislation, Out placed
| il I'm the irrevocable provision oil their con
stitution that henceforth and forever NJ
man should drink his beer in the state
Maine; and the candidate for Presiden
| OF the United states did think Una
il wa, "a proper thins for HIM t'
saw that he did not vote on ina
| question at all What say YOU, my Ger
| man friendsy l. prohibition right o.
wrong? Voice: Wrong wrong.I ~
course il is, as the Democracy IN every piat
form has declared. In the State from whlci