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SPEECH BY GOV. HENDRICKS.
He Advocates Revenue Reform.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS
ORGANIZING BUTLER MEN IN OHIO,
THE GREAT STORM IN WISCONSIN.
A SPEECH BY GOV. HENDRICKS.
He Thinks There Ought be a Change
IN National Affairs and Advocates
Revenue REFORM.

He Thinks There Ought To be "A Change
i'm National Affairs and Advocates
Revenue Reform.
TOLEDO, September 11.-Gov. Thomas A. Hen
orlcks, the democratic candidate Tor Vice Prcsl-
Gent, arrived In this city yes erday morning The
guest OF the Trf-State Fair association Ia the AZ
ternOon he spoke on the fair grount Is 10 q large
audience, estimated at 1900 or 1900 His speech
on that occasion was entirely nun-partiSdu, and
was eulogium OF the Importance of agriculture
and the mechanic arts, OF the Improvements OF The
century In them In this country and OF those ele-
mentS OF citizenship which go 10 make up good
government
In the evening Gov Hendricks spoke to demo-
cratic mass meeting in the NTH ward. an immense
audience, numbering fully 3.UOo being present. In
the course OF his remarks he said: ought there TO
be change In national affairs? Or in other words
ought We as nation 10 go on from year 10 year As
We have been going on In The past. | submit 10
you that there are certain changes ought 10 feel
important and proper. First, there should be a
form IN the revenue system of the country. shall
not undertake 10 discuss this at length. say
there ought 10 be a 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 oI the people
was beyond the demands OF government econom-
ically administered, and he urged upon Congress
that immediate reform on that important parIicu-
lar ought TO take place He tcld the Congress that
annually there was being collected hundred MILL
ions more from the pockets or the people than a
Talr and honest administration OF the government
old require. He told them that the ueNt year IL
would be sl4o,o0,U0 At the next session OF Con-
greSS. after the republicans had somewhat amended
the revenue laws, the Secretary oi The Treasury
called the attention OF Congress again TO the sub
Ject OF revenue REFORM He said thai under the law
as modifled the excess co!ected from the people
was SIS O00-SS5 .0OG coli ocIed from the people
OF this country every year eyoId the demands of
an economical administrator oi The goNernIncnt-
THE TREASURY EXCESS.
My fellow-citizens, the candidate for governor OF
the state OF Indiana, IN a speech not long since.
boasted of the fact that when tie republican party
came into power IL found an empty Treasury, but
that it now las an excess In the Treasury CT
s4toOCo,00O. This statement is true that When
Nc do rls..a m
coo lying idle and unemployed ia the
Treasury. At the end OF tn year There viii be
added 10 that In new vaults another SloGGJ0OOo,
and 1t Will stand at S500.0c0000 wrung from the
people beyond the demands OF the government
Have you stopped to think how much that Is? II
Is more than half the paper currency OF the United
States. and when II comes TO be S5G' o00o0 as il
viii at The close OF the year and before Congress
act il the population OF the country properly
estimated at 500O0.0O0 there viii Be locked I'D IN
the Treasury and the vaults dug down deep be-
meath, $lO ior every man, woman aad child IN the
country. What for: am arguing the question
OUGHT THERE TO BE A CHANGEe
The democrats say In their platform at Chicago
that the revenue must be reduced Ia meet the re-
GuiIemsnts Of & the government economically ad-
citizens? Are you democrat? Are you a republi-
can? Are you granger. or are you an independent?
Whatever may be your party relations, what do
you say to that proposition OF the Chicago conven-
ton, that the revenue shall be reduced to the needs
OF the government economically administered?
GApplauSel III you do hot like that, don't vote
with the democracy; for when the democracy comes
into power. undertake 10 say that the ma
ward, did saye-No; forward in favor
OF reform: in favor OF reducing taxation
to the wants OF the government economically
administered. What are you going 10 collect any
more for? INoice-Stealingl Have you stopped
| TO think that that money which is now locked up
IS part OF cur currency, that il has Office To
perform. and that ii the government doesn't need
IL the people do? [Applau3e.l Whatever govern
ment doesn't need belongs 10 tie peohe. III you
owe it to government pay 1t; If you don't owe IL TO
the government fer the purpose or carrying on itS
affairs, economically administer d, don't pay It,
just stop to thiLk how much that $4,000 600 or
S500.000.G00 would DO Ior you and yours. / don't
know how much it would do / know that In Indi-
ana, with soil OF wonderful richness, with many
or the institutions that make wealth Tor the pet,-
ple-manufacturing establishments know that
there is many man that cannot lind employment
cause enterprise has stopped, because there is no
employment for labor. Ought that to be with
800 600 locked up in the Treasury? The democ-
racy say, Reduce taxation until the amount shall
be just what the government needs
THE WAR CLOSED NINETEEN YEARS AGO,
and In nineteen years this country should have
times of peace. Why should We have extraordn-
airy taxation twenty years after we have passed
away from the condition OF war; Why shall it bee
When We reduce taxation upon these principles
until there shall be no more collected than the gov
ernment needs. what will be the effect? That
money which is now locked up In the Treasury Will
commence TO hOw outward Ii viii come back
once more into the pockets OF the people and into
the channels OF trade. Where commerce and trade
now Stagnate and languiSh there Will be PROSPERITY
and activity again. Where there is now no en-
ployment for labor it Will be found everywhere
The republican party. under tie leadership OF the
chieItains who are at its head have now abandoned
substantially their old friends. the Germans, and
they are
LAYING HOLD OF MY IRISH FRIENDS
with zeal that is absolutely beautiful. [CheerSl
What has the German done that he should be
abandoned by the republican party thus? How is
1t that no address 10 him and his patriotic devo-
ton Is made, and IT Is only made 10 my Irish
friends? Why is this? The only Iault know OF
a N & fhaf hp gttll bt.l
many beside the Rhine he thought he had the right
TO decide for himself what he would eat and drink
and wherewithal he should be clothed.
Mr. BLAINE AND THE PROHIBITION QUESTION
Republicans say that viii not dc, and it is only
day before yesterday, In the state of Maine. that
they would not trust this question any longer TO
legislation, but placed IL In the irrevocable pro-
visions OF their constitution that henceIorth and
forever no man should drink his beer In the state
OF Maine; and the candidate Tor President OF the
United States did think that IT, was proper thing
for him to say that he did not vote on that
Is prohibition right or wrong? [Voice-Wrong, |
wrong.l OF course II is, the democracy In every
have come to-day our democracy have fought this
battle well out upon the idea that whether man
shall take drink OF beer, ii you please, drink OF
whisky, belonging TO himself ana III you choose to
take drink could not advise you to drink any |
thing TO disturb the composure or your Judgment |
at any time; but II you choose to take drink shall
you come to me to ask my permission? or In other
words, shall l seek TO interpose 10 prevent YOU |
from indulging In habit that you think is not |
THE KosTA CASE AND THE M'swEENY CASE. |
Gov. Hendricks then rected at length the KOsta
case in the administration OF President Pierce in /
1854, and the McSweeny case, In 1884, when James
G. Blaine was Secretary OF State, as tending TO |
show which party was the truefrend OF the foreign
born citizen Concerning the latter he said: @In /
the month OF june 1881, shortly before Mr. Garfield
received his deadly wound. Mr.. NcSweeay. an /
Ir1Shman by birth. having six or seven American
born children, however, and having lived in San |
Francisco IN the pursuit or legitimate trade for q
years. having been completely naturalized, and |
bearing all the hOnors upon his person OF American
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 ana
landed in a British Jail No charge was preferred
against him; no violation OF the law assigned:
seized free man until then; without fault without
crime, without the violation OF English law what
ever, seized and thrown into a hideous dungeon
HIS wife wrote letter to the State department at
washington. informing the Secretary or state that
her husband was then under arrest and Imprison-
ment without fault, without crime, without charge
The letter was received at the State department.,
In Washington, on the 10th day OF August. James
G. Blaine, who was then the Secretary OF SIaJe,
was then acting as President OF the United
States MI. Garfield was then languishing
upon his bed OF pain. That letter was unopened
so far as we know; at least IL was unanswered.
It never was answered SO long as Mr.. Blaine con-
tinued In the State department. and he remained
In that department unJ1l the month OF December,
For four months he neglected an appeal made by
woman In q distant land, applying TO him for the
honor OF his country for the Justice OF her. for the
dignity OF her citizenship that her husband should
be released II was not question OF sentiment, II
was question OF express written law. The stat