Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-09-12
EASTERN.
Logan Assaults the English
Language in Ohio.
A VERY EvAsuvE SPEECH.
He Feels Sorry that Hendricks
makes such Reckless state
ments-Mcsween Name Is
Not Mentioned--Prohi
tion Is Carefully
Avoided.
Especial 70 The Herald By Associated Pressl

Especial to the Herald By Associated Press
TOLEDO. o., Sept. ll.--General Logan
spoke at League Park tonight. He be.
gan by briefly reviewing the history Of
the Republican and Democratic parties
from 1850 down to the present time,
claiming that the only monument erect
ed by the Democratic party in this
country had been its course in relation
to free trade. will not say. said he,
that they are acting as the paid agents
Of the British government, but l do say,
misguided though they are. they per-
formed the same service for the British
government when they had power in
this country that the Lords Of England
would have performed il they had seats
in the Congress Of America [applausel
As another Democratic monument, the
speaker cited slavery and lis attendant
evils, including the war. In reply to q
portion Of Governor Hendricks speech
Of last night General Lo gan said: "Mr.
Hendricks last night, II he is correctly
reported In the newspapers, stated TO
his audience that the Republican party
had been derelict in its duty toward
foreigners in this land who had been
permitted to suffer because of failure on
the part Of the Republican party to per
form their duty. Now / am sorry that
Mr.. Hendricks made that statement.
For forty years, as is well known BY
every reader Of political history in this
country, and speak of that time be.
cause Of the fact that the Democratic
party controlled this government nearly
all that time, foreign governments led
by England announced the dostrine that
once a citizen always citizen, that
doctrine of self-expatriation, was not q
correct doctrine, that citizen did
not thereby sever allegiance from his
mother country and if he returned
to bis native land there they had control
Of him as a citizen of their own govern
ment. While the Democratic party
stood in control Of this country, for the
length Of time have mentioned, let my
friend Hendricks point out one single
statute that was enacted by the Demo.
cratic party declaring that q citizen of
the United States should be protected,
whether be was native or foreign born,
when he passed back to his native coun-
try. No, tell you it was left for the
Republican party, in 1865, after the war
had concluded, to pass law that citi-
zen Of this country foreign boin should be
protected on his own mother soil, in pei
son and property, the same as ii be We: .
q native born citizen, and never was that
doctrine enunc ated in statute Of this
country by tho Democratic party, nor
was it ever done until, as said, the Re.
publican party announced that doctrine
and 1t was because Of the fact that per.
sons of foreign birth who had taken the
oath OF allegiance to this country
returned to their former homes
and were impressed into the
army. Now, then, why should
Governor Hendricks say here last
night that the Republican party had
failed to perform its duty TO foreign
born citizens. am sorry to hear man
running for the office that he is. make
such o statement when he must
know that be can be contradicted by
che very ststutes in the books, and dates
given, and that the Republican party
performed the act that be claimed
never was performed by them. and let
me return again to the facts. passing
back to 1850 and 1851, and speaking
of the Democratic party failing to sup
port the Republican party in the
proper wcy In sustaining the armies
Of the United States, 1 would like
to call your attention to the fact that
when the proclamation was issued sup.
pressing slavery in this country the
Democratic party everywhere opposed it,
in Congress and out Of Congress, and
no act has ever been passed yet in favor
Of human freedom and in favor Of the
liberty that God intended man shoul !
enjoy. by the Democratic party in or out
OF Congress. tApplause. Logan dis
eussed at some length the tariff plank in
the Democratic platform, inssting that
ii meant free trade and said when the
Southern States seeded and established
their Confederacy, in the Confederate
Constitution, Section s, II was provided
that no tariff should be levied to foster
industries and no bounty should be paid,
in other words they declared in
favor Of free trade and the moment
they did that they received the sympa-
thy Of England, not only the sympathy
but the English furnished them with am
muutLious OI war; ufus, anu
ships to destroy this country.
Whyi because the eleven seeding
States would have been open TO
her commerce and her manufactures and
IL was for that reason in my judgmt n,
that England lent her support 10 the
great rebellion against this country.
The Democratic platform of 1850 de-
rnanded tariff for revenue only, the
Confederate constitution tariff for
expenses Of government only" and the
platform oil 1854 demands tariff suffi.
cient only for the economical admins
arstion of the government. They mean
the same thing, the only difference being
one was constitution and the other q
platform. In contradistinction Of this,
Gen. Logan then proceeded to discuss
the position Of the Republican party on
tho tariff in question and to the discus.
sion of this question the greater part OF
his speech was devoted. He closed his
speech with q brief discussion of the
political situation at present in the
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