Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-09-01
eeLvA LOCKWOOD
Opsns Her Presidential Campaign II
Very Funny speech.

o,ens Her Presidential Campaign Il
Very Funny speech.
HARr1sBuRs, Pa. September 1.-Forty
thousand people were at the Changers In
ter-State picnic at Williams Grove. The
main feature OF the exercises was the
reception and speech of Bclva lockwood,
who formally opened her Presidential cam
paign in the presence of q large number OF
men and women. Belva was received by
band, which escorted her triumphantiy TO
the auditorium. where she was received in
the most enthusiastic manner. While she
was making her way through the crowd to
the platform. Norman J. Cosman. United
States Commissioner of Agriculture, was
speaking on the subject of farming.
Belva remained an interested listener un-
til the conclusion of his speech, several
times applauding him when he made
pointed remarks
Worthy Master Rhone presented Mrs.
Lockwood as lady known throughout the
United States for ergood works, ana as
she gracefully stepped forward to expound
the principles of her platform, she was lib
erally applauded. She created considerable
amusement by stating that she preferred to
visit the Grangers' gathering ito going
fishing with Dan lamont referring to the
excuse of one of her Presidential compent-
ors for not attending the picnic.
Like many other public speakers, she
said, she had written out her imptomptu
speech so as not to be Obliged 10 deny the
allegations of the campaign liar rs some
times embodied in the newspaper reporter.
Her sabject was 1.-The Tendencies OF Par
ties aud Governments" After stating
that the negro had been emancipated as
military necessity and 10 perpetuate the
domnaney of a party rather than as an act
of justice. she gave a history OF the progress
OF civilization the past two hundred years,
and lded:
You want protection. my brothers, but
the American woman has been protected
too much. She wants to come TO the front,
enter into competition for the offices-for
money making and money getting-a voice
Us TO whether the tariff shall be high or
low. whether the people are TO have free
whisky and tobacco and protected woolen
aud silk goods. But she still stands for
high protection on infant industries even
in the case of twins and triplets, but to Sc
cGrely protect them and raise them to the
full standard of American manhood and
womanhood she wants to abolish the saloon
and cigarette and the vile literature of the
day.
'.Gur aim is to rescue the women of this
country from the degradation of the one
extreme and the stupidity and inaDition of
houses and brothels with women because
the skirts of honest labor have been
dragged Tin the dust, and the fair white
hand preferred TO the Drowned hand of in
dustry."
After reference to the supplanting of
hand work by machinery, Mrs Lockwood
asked whether il WAS any wonder that wo-
man asked that she should have equal
rights with mana share of the offices,
equal pay for equal work, and the ballot.
Is she not taxed to support the Govern
ment: taxed for necessaries and Injuries;
beaten. robbed and murdered TO maintain
the license system existing in most of the
States in the Union? The scales have
fallen from our eyes. Education is liberty.
Ignorance is slavery. We are coming up
out of the old heathen civilization which
has held us in bondage for two hundred
years and denied tn women soul, into the
broad light of Christian civilization in
which brain force and moral force, not
tyranny and brute force, shall be upper
most.
"Arbitration in the future. with her rea-
son and sagacity, is TO take the place OF
war, and must in the future be the rational
and feasible means OF settling not only in
ternal disputes, but of regulating the inter
commerce of States, harmon;zing and ad-
iusting the differences and inequalities now
existing between capital and labor. We
are nation too powerful and wealthy to
',e attacked, and too moral and peaceable
% take the initiative and attack an enemy.
We have no enemies except those still
.ankling in our own unregenerated natures
the foes of our own household.
.'0ur danger is internal, and not external
"a danger that wealth and prosperity shall
breed corruption; a danger that the strong
shall oppress the weak; danger that the
rich shall entirely absorb the substance OF
the poor; danger that the producers shall
do all the work and the idler get all of the
credit and the pay. All. more than that;
the wage-worker shall become the bond
mar of organized capitalists, and degenerate
into slavery as absolute and grinding as
though bought and sold on the block.
"It would be well if some of the surplus
millions in the Treasury which are bother
ing our good President could be utilized
in the establishment of industrial schools
in cities where so many of the children OF
foreign-born citizens are gathered"
After having mentioned an information
al Court of Arbitration TO setsle all disputes
and yexed questions with foreign powers,
and tariff as moderate as the necessities
Of the Government demanded as among
the questions requiring consideration in
the campaign" Mrs. Lockwood strayed
from her manuscript, and declaimed against
the Canadian retaliation scheme. She did
not care whether the q. s. Senate or the
President favored this plan, it was unwise.
This country had enough of war. As to
the tariff question, she said il was q bug
bear 1t was sectional, not national and
no bill would be passed by the present Con-
gress. In the old free-trade South protec-
tion was now wanted because of the recent
ly developed industries. In the Western
States the people had had enough of the
high protection system.
Mrs. Lockwood took strong grounds for
civil service reform. Her remarks were
frequently applauded. aud at the close OF
her entertaining speech she was over
wbelmed with congratulations by the lady
Changers who had listened to her remarks.