Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-25

bitter. The problem is not whethe
civil service shall stay or 60; not wheth
er free trade or protection shall be ou
National policy; not whether this part,
or that shall be in the ascendancy, bu
whether the civilization of the South o.
! that of the North shall rule this country
whether the slavery of the past shall b.
| the Serfdom of the future, whether tn,
additional representation given to tn,
colored race in the national congress
shall be the vantage ground of southern
supremacy to crush and curse the down
trodden and the lOwly, North and South
These are issues that confront us; anC
it is the grand mission of the Republic
can party to stand again, as it has stood
before, for the rescue of the nation anC
the preservation of her liberties. Tht
free people of the United States cannot
and will not live under Confederate rule
The blood and brain that stirred this
nation in 1861, will again hurl the shot
and she'll of their anatbemas against
any party or power that shall threaten
the fair fame of the country or the hon
or of the flag they love. Call this an
idea if you will. 1t is such ideas as this
that shake the world, and for which men
have fought and died on a thousand bat.
tletields. The result of this struggle will
decide the question, now trembling in
the balance, whether our patriot dead
poured out their life blood in vain
whether the experiment of free govern.
ment is to be an established success OF
an ignominious failure; whether We are
RI hn n froo apd uaitad pnoDla kpoaino
no sectionalism. having no divided il
terests, or whether one portion of our
people are to be under the despotic heel
of the other.
TURN THE RAsCALs OUT.
The battle cry of the Democratic party
for the past decade at least has been
''TuIn the Rascals out-Turn the Rascals
outr Let us see how this is. When
Secretary Chase took hold of the books
rule, he found a deficit of several mil
lion dollars, as well as an empty treas>
ury. When Secretary Manning took
charge after "a years of Republican ad-
ministration, he instituted searching
investigation, employing more than a
score of the best experts in the nation,
and after the most diligent search, and
after the most careful count, there was
found deficit of two cents and No more
And while the newspaper reporters were
preparing the dispatches which were to
startle the country, and while the math-
ematicians were apportiOning the mons
trous deficiency to the "a years Of Re
publican rule, to determine the average
amount per year stolen from the Ma
tionol Treasury, 10, in the waste basket
the two cents were found, and the hoWls
of fraud and peculation were hushed
into the silence of death. And instead
of an empty Treasury. there was in it
the vast sum of 1854, 100000. 1t was all
there, the gold and silver, the bonds and
notes, every dollar and every dime. Even
the sealed package of diamonds of which
there was no record was there. covered
over with the dust of years, not stone
disturbed. The only charge now made
is offensive partisanship," and men are
turned out of office under the loud pro-
claim of Democratic civil service reform,
not because they are incompetent or un-
worthy, but because they are Republi
cans. because they vote the Republican
ticket, because they believe in that party
that lifted the American flag above all
the flags of earth, and made this nation
of ours the greatest and grandest empire
in this age, or in any other age in the
worlds history. This is the glorious
panacea that Democratic Administra+
tion offers to depressed country. Of
course, when General Villas turns the
widows and crippled soldiers out of the
fourth-class postOffices the country will
be relieved" business will survive and
prosperity will abound.
THE CONFLICT OF LABOR.
In no State in this Union do the wages
of labor enter mure largely into the pros
perity of the State than in Ohio; and
never before in the history of the Stats
was the peril of labor so great as now
The reduction of wages, the want of
the depression of business,
are almost without a parallel. Both la
Dor and capital are being driven into
bankruptcy and ruin. Under Democrat
ic rule in the South, the laboripg classes
have been kept in a condition of ignor-
ance and vasSalage; equal if not worse
than the pauper labor of Europe. The
of railroads and the cheap
ening of transportation have so stimula-
ted manufacturing industries ia the
South that our Northern mechanics, ar
tisans and laborers are brought into
with the cheap labor of the
black man who is kept in ignorance and
degradation, that he may be the willing
tool in the hands of his master, for the
iebasemcnt of labor all over the land.
The producers of pig irou in Alabama
and Tennessee can understand those in
and Ohio, in all the mark
Its of the country, because labor, which
represents more than nine-tenths of the
selling price, is so much cheaper in the
South than it is in the North. We pro>
,ect ourselves against foreign competitor
)y protective tariff, but the only way
10 protect our people against sectional
is to elevate the condition |
If the workingman in every part of the |
country alike, and see to it that the iron |
loof of oppression shall be lifted from |
he neck of every laborer, black or
white, who treads the American soil |
Unless this is accomplished, the fruits
If the war are vain, for not only will |
ignorance and tyranny keep the black
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he hands of the dominant race, but 1t |
will drag down with him the white la
,Orer of the North. The intelligence of
he laboring classes of the North has
,iven them organized protection against
possible wrong and oppression at the
lands of capital, but the laborers of the
,outh are powerless in this direction.
Northern labor is also quick to assert its
'rganized power by impressing itself
lpon legislation in measures of self
protection. Not so in the South. The
lack laborer of the South is degraded,
powerless; his constitu-
ional rights are wrested from him, and
he old condition of master and slave
onlinues in all but the name.
The South refuses to educate the col
red people, or even to permit the govs
rnment to educate them, lest they
hould come to "know their rights, and
dare maintain" A Republi>