News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-03-19
TwentY-Four Years of Republican
QuEe.
from the Boston Journal. ]

After "A years of power, the Republi-
can party returns the government to the
Democracy. And it is 4 government. Its
authority is upon firmer basis to-day
than that of any nation in the world.
In the broad land there is not a sane
man who would not express a desire to
see its power Wane. The nation S treas
ury is now full, and it S credit so high
that its per cent. bonds would sell at
par. The sovereignty of the nation IS
respected the world over.
i The achievements of the Republican
party during its a years of power con-
| Stitute the grandest chapter in the hiStO-
| ~ of human progress. Organized to re-
| sist the encrOachmentS of a party which
| had declared that human slavery was
national. the Republican party has been
| the party of freedom. Holding that
| freedom should be national and the
| Union perpetual, the first four years of
| the supremacy of the Republican party
were devoted to the crushing of rebel
| lion TO destroy both human freedom and
national union. Hundreds of thousands
of lives were sacrificed and billions of
money were expended in the contest;
! but the patriotism of the people brought
| the nation off victorious, and Republi-
can fidelity 10 right and justice blotted
out the shame and wrong of slavery and
gave the bondm3n equal rights before
the law.
In other directions the achievements
CT the party have been as illustriOus.
| BY its homestead legislation it has open
ed the public domain to the poor of all
nations, and that wise policy has added
to the nation several millions of popula-
| ton, entire, states, and hundrels of mill
! ions of taxable property. When the
Republican party came into power every
state had its banks and currency, which
! impeded commerce and inflicted great
loss upon the people. The Republican
| party has established national bank
which has insured the whole country d
fiscal system and currency which fac.l-
itateS trade and insures absolute SAFETY
to the note holder. When the Republi-
can party came into power California
and Oregon were scarcely better than
foreign states. Largely by the policy
adopted by the Republican party, three
lines of railway bind the two sections
together, making California and Boston
as near together in time and tranSpOrta-
ton as were Maine and Florida in 1850
The postal system was crude one in
1860: now it is the most complete in the
world. Under Republican auspices do
nestle letter postage has been reduced
SO per cent. ami system of money orders
instituted which has proved by its use to
be OF incalculable benefit to tile country
A, the same time the charges for carry
ing merchandise have been so reduced
that the use of the mail for that purpose
has become universal. In thousands of
places the weekly mail carrier has given
place to the daily mail transported by
steam. treaties have been negotiated
with the leading nations of Europe, in
which the rights of natives thereof to
become citizens of the United States
have been recognized.
When the war ended the interest-bear-
ing debt OF the nation was S2,756, 43I,-
ST., and the interest thereon was at the
rate of $50, 977 1897 year. January 81,
1885, the interest bearing debt was ST.
1856. l4S.85O. and the annual interest at
the rate of 81, OLA ,049. August 81. 1865.
the public debt was S7S25 and the an
nual interest S4.29 per capita. July l.
1884, the public debt was So SO per CAPT
ia, nd the annual interest was Sc cents
to each inhabitant. And this revolution
in the institutions of the nation-its pre-
ServatiOn, the Overthr W of slavery, the
casting of slavery out of every state con-
stitutiOn, the maintenance of the public
credit, and every other reform. have
been opposed at every point by the Dem
Ocratic party.
The Republican party fairly
claims that the wonderful material pro-
greSS of the country since 1860 is largely
due to its policy and to the confidence
which it has inspired in the capital and
enterprise of the country. 1t challenges
the civilized world to produce it's paral-
lei. 1t believes that it has yet a future
of usefulness and power.