Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-09-16
sen. BAYARD'S SPEECH.
POWERFUL ADDRESS On THE ISSUES.
The delaware senator roiis = Brookiyn |
Audience why the Republican Party
should be Driven Gut OF Power,

Brooklyn Monday evening
Citizens of Brooklyn-Ny fellow
countrymeu The powers of the govern
ment, which are essentially aud necessarily
rs great aud strong in republic As under
any other form of government, must. for
the liberty OF the people and TO preserve
the minority from that worst of all tyranny,
the unbridled will Of majority, be always
exercised under the strict and overpresent
control Of the implied trust that they are
bestowed and can be used only for the
benefit Of tho whole. IL Is not In this
| country that we admit the greatest good
of the greatest number, but 1t Is the
| greatest good of the whole and We have
no minority who are to suffer at the hands
of the rest. We deny the morality Of o
government founded only upon the doc
trine OF the greatest good to the greatest
number, and we say that our government
was instituted for the safety, the proteo-
ton and the progress of all, and that no
mans rights were to be impaired by
| reason OF tho feebleness of the individual
or through the weakne.s Of minority.
Therefore, at the root Of sll governmental
power lies tho condition that it shall be
iexercised, not for individual, not for class
| not for majority benefit, bus for all it is
to be public ; it is 70 be uniform 1t Is 20
be universally just.
Is not Republican corruption palpab,e
| when the highest officers of the executive
branch convert the war vessels Of the
government into their pleasure yachts
and naval reviews into spectscles for the
amusement of crowd OF idle and luxuri-
GUS citixens 1; or, when o speaker Of the
House of Representatives offers in letters
written by his own hand, his rulings in
tho chair aud his influence out of it,
promising to be "no deadhead in the enter.
prise" and reminding Mr.. Caldwell OF
his aid rs speaker in an opportune and
! critical moment, as his contributory share
in valuable copsrtnership, depending for
its profits upon the legislative power OF
the government or, Is it not visible when
high officers in tho postofhce department
raise the compensation of star mail routes,
pay enormous sums for fictitious service,
and share the plunder with the Star Route
gang, every one of whom is naturally to-
day an anxious supporter of the Republi-
can candidates, and who when brought
to .rial in the courts, through
the inefIiciency of the department
charged with their prosecution, and
the corruption which has contaminated the
federal jury box, go uuwhipped of justice
| or, when the navy yards are filed with
supernuous workmen just on the eye OF
| an election or, when the coutdeusia
officers OF the United States Senate, includ
ing even the chaplain, who has unsyail
ingly prayed for the moral progress OF hi:
hearers, are openly bargGined away &c
secure the vote Of an unscrupulou,
adveuturer, to assist him in corrupting thu
public sentiment of an ancient common
wealth aud afix the stigma of Repatriation
or rcsdjustment upon tho people or
| when we see every department Of Ih,
I preantiva 81 h,-ap al
appointments in one of the states by th,
dietation OF the same unsorupuloui
political leader, at whose bidding
meritorious officers are removed aud unit
3 men appointed ; or, when contracts for TIA
, supplies of the government in ever,
direction are given solely to those part
! faith, who out OF their excessive profit
contribute tn keep in power the party rha
{ feeds thems
, Iniquitous Tariff Lesisiation.
; make bold in direct opposition to In
, statements ard claims OF Mr. Blaine I
!, aver, aud call the record of history as III
/ witness, that sense of injustice, create,
t by a. unjust system of laying tariff taxes
! has produced more 'Cc i Jealousy, more sec
, tioual feeling, more arrangements between
! our countrymeu, than any other siugl
cause that it has caused labor to organic
in discomfort for lack of steady employ
D ment and compensatory wages has filleo
, the land with violence aud threats o
violence e.; has strained the rule of law
and promises to bring in the military arm
OF force rs a customary resort TO Obtain
order.
1t is this system of taxation which
while producing revenue of more thai
600, 900, incidentally entails au en-
HANGED cost OF living upon the American
laboEer aud upon the American consumes
I to the extent at least of five times Eha
amount. Iu addition TO this, it has grad
ually sealed up the products Of our man
ufacturers within their home market, rem
dering it impossible for them TO profitably
increase their product, or even as it voulC
seem to maintain its present volume muci
less TO expand the sales into foreign mar
kets when over production has g!utted ths
home market.
With an enormous load of obstructive
and unnecessary taxes increasing the cost
of living and OF the necessaries and COM
mon comforts of life, there is left in the
treasury an annual surplus greatly el
ceeding $l00, 000,0 900. What 10 the plan OF
Mr.. Blame in relation to this burden o!
taxation, as set forth in a public letter.
Is it to reform the tariff, to reduce its ex.
cesses and leave the money of the people
| IN the pockets OF ltS owners? N0t at all
but to perpetuato the burden, indeed to
increase it, and this by a Capitalization OF
power infinitely dangerous and wholly un.
warranted by the constitution.
The Republican party of Pennsylvania
proposed to divide the annual surplus,
whatever IL might bo among the states.
MIR. Blaine proposes ''by bill of ten
lines" to direct the secretary of the
treasury to pay the whole Of the taxes,
less the cost of collection, over to the
states and territories in proportion to their
population, thus perpetuating all the iu-
qulsitorial powers and machinery of the
federal government for the collection OF
the money and reducing the state govern
:: ment and their people to the condition OF
mere stipendiaries, devoid of discretion in
30 important function in selfgoyeru
ment.
Ths wages OF Political sin.
l have said that political morality wa
akin to sound political economy, and le
me now kindly ask you what is the mora
effect of conducting the legislation of ;
country and its government under tht
, mercenary idea OF Mr.. Blaine and hi
party instead of the American
, idea of the constitutions I hav,
known astute criminal lawyers seel
for the aoquttal of their clients wher
charged with theft by showing that
breach OF trust and not theft had beer
committed that one Of the elements o