Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-09-26
REPUBLICANS ALIVE.
AND READY FOR THE OC7OBEH
CONFLICT.

Speeches by Bishop w. ID. Derrick, oi
Great Enthusiasm.
The republican meeting at the wigwam
last night WAS magnificent demonstration
the large building being well filled with ar
| enthusiastic audience. The meeting was pre-.
sided over by Rev. W. r. Boone. The speak
ers were NJ. B. Earnhart OF Troy, aud Bishop
W. D. Derrick, of New York. Mr.. Earnhar,
is one of the rising young men OF the repub-
lican party, and he made a capital speech
Want OF space forbids as full report of his
remarks as they deserve, but we cannot for
bear quoting bis words to
1.-THE BREADwISNERs.'
ain country as vast as ours man
who narrows his vision to temperance, sees
| little of the horizon. There are always
many, and important public questions. One
| of the great questions is how to give equality
OF opportunity, nov to give men bread
enough aud to spare, how can we do away with
wearying and burdensome toll. How can
| we do away with the bard conditions of lite,
| the ever-strivlng and never accomplishing?
The Chinese have a maxim that "ior every
man who has too much or every person that
| is idle somebody else in the empire must SUI
| fer cold or hunger and have observed that
the grander the glass windows the m ore hag-
| gard faces to peep in.
How can we be "neither for nor against"
capital or labor but as the just, judge, hear and
| decide impartaIy?
go into the great cities and see the men
at evening pour ont OF the great toundries
] like bees from the parent hive, and when
see these faces wearied with toll for wife,
children, home, take an oath that will be
their friend.
1t would not do to equalize fortunes. This
would take away the reward OF industry. We
must look to the luture, equalize opportun-
ties, equalize powers TO acquire and to hold
Give to every man to be "iree and equal" in
| the race tor bread.
| Read the republican platform. Its leaders
are thinking upon this subject. 1t declares
we must protect labor, that we must educate,
that we must give to capital due protection,
and to labor remunerate employment.
As Nicodemus came and asked
of higher things we ask how
can these things be-" How can we have a
"new birth" of freedom?
Many of the answers are before u.s. Why
are we as a people enjoying more prosperity
|
world when they turn their prows toward
America are crowded with emigrants. Why ?
Because America has demonstrated the reign
ofa common people. We formerly thought
education and wealth and comfort was at
tansblc only by the few. We have d, mon
strated now that education can, by cultivation
and opportunity, tall equally upon all So
can the comforts of lite. Gen. Noyes relates
that he was called upon to address two hur-
dred young ladies At a college, and he said 10
them: : AN unanle from your looks to tell
the daughter O the riches or the pO' rest man
in town Their hri ,ht f.ce'and dress were
| so equal. God bless land like this. But we
| cannot write upon the wall sit is finished" We
only "see in part" some OF the III. ans to this
end.
| Education has been the great equalizer
| The common schools are the great Appisn
| highways wherein all minds can travel to
equality OF powers and opportunities.
We can pass through the same grades
showing dissmilarity, but equality Of mind.
| This is changing the doctrine that We live
only to "cheat and be cheated" and sends
minds to the contest equally armed. The
common people Of this country are better
fitted to rule nations and armies than the
kings and emperors OF old. Educate fol- bet
ter wages, tor homes and happiness.
| Then another source Of equality OF cond-
ton is as tar MS practicable letting every man
start equal. The English had the rule OF
primOgeniture, giving all to thel oldest son.
This gave to one poverty and the oher
wealth, by accden, of birth. 1t gave to
England her lords aud arstocrscy. 1t has
caused England and Ireland to be owned by
few men. Rsre we let the children all in
hert. This tenGs to the rapid distribution OF
property and equality Of opportunity 1t
might be benefited by abrogatug wills chang
ing the rules OF inheritance so the wife could
have more, AID then when one died, tor her
children and kindred, (subject always to a
reasonable,s reservation TO old friends and
| charslties) to all feel they were equally loved
Another method OF giving not &c
much equality OF opportunity but
protecting all in obtaining substantial enjoy
ments been our tariff. The iron ties have
united the continent, steam has annihisted
space. The wages in India with its teeming
wilions, as reported by Hon, John W. Book
walter, are tour cents per day. This means
rags, and want and starvation, 1t means no
pictures upon the walls, no home, no hsppi
ness, curse worse than ever set upon Cain
The republicans under Lincoln naugurated
the present tariff. They will not allow men
who work low TO compete with our latorers
| The cost OF the raw material has it's
value us fixed by labor, The republi-
cans believe il there is any work, let it he
done by our needy laborers, not 10 foreign
lands. They believe in a tariff that excludes
competition with men who will not work
and live, and enjoy, as we.do in this republic
This party like flaming sword guards this
land, this paradise from competition, from
servie labor. We enjoy this like we
breathe the air or drink from the fJun.
tains not reslzing its Importance
1t looks to the interests OF farmers as well
II finds 92 per cent OF goods sold at home
II finds the railroads penetrating Russia and
India, so that wheat can be laid down in
Epglsud soon at forty cents per bushel, II
builds up the fences, the house, and sdorn,