Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-14
work that has been wrought here by the gen.
ius and enterprise Of your people.

AN ILLUSTRATION OF ENTERPRISE.
Situated at the confluence of two important
streams, with a climate of unusual celubriJy,
equally removed from the rigidity of the North
and the enervating heat of the South, with a
soil beneath which, easily accessible to two
great agencies of modern civilization. coal and
iron. the conveniences of nature have been
supplemented by the genius of man. until upon
these rugged hills has been reared fabric that
is one of the marvels and wonders of
American civilization. l have, on
many occasions. gazed with wonder at
the temples of justice and religion with their
superb architecture, the homes Of your
artisans, in the surrounding suburbs, rich with
all that wealth can purchase or taste suggest,
and have felt that 1t was an object lesson and
illustration and exhibition of Republican
enterprise. 1t is an illustration of what the
Anglo Saxon race at Its best can do when it
tries: I am told that there is not pauper
within your limits who is not made so. either
advised that there IS no able
bodied man willing to work who can
wages. am told that <contentment prevails;
that the relations between labor and capital
are adjusted satisfactorily. So that here has
been erected this great fabric which is rich in
every contingency, and possession of present
riches and wealth, and far greater in its pros
pect Of future renown. P Pennsylvania State,
OF which this is the western metropolis, has
perial Commonwealth. and it is but one OF the
great consultations or States whose develop
ment and growth is marvel that has no prece-
dent or parallel in the civilized world.
THRIFTY GEORGE WASHINGTON.
When George Washington died in 1853 he
possessed the largest private fortune in the
United States. Much Of this came to him by
inheritance. But the Father of his Country, in
addition to his other virtues, was thrifty.
sagacious, forehanded man, and was sur
veyor and Indian fighter within the limits of the
county, believe. in which I speak. He OBJ
tanned information that enabled him to make
valuable locations upon the public domain.
The establishment of the National Capital
qs1us 9id not nd decrease or diminish their
that at the close of his life he was, to use the
parlance of the day, the richest man in the
country. 1t is safe so say that the richest man
IN the country could not be elected President
to-day, and in connection with this fact; it is
interesting to know that the entire sum total
and aggregate of the possessions-real per-
sonal and mixed, slaves, securities, real estate,
chooses in action-of the richest man in this
country IN lI99, 10 years ago, was between sSOO-
600 and 5000, 900.
1t is safe to say that to-day there are hun
dreds and thousands of men in this country
whose yearly income is more than the entire
estate OF the richest man in tho country in 1879,
and there is at least one man in this country
whose monthly revenue exceeded the entire
Ndlut Ol Luo eSLaL6 OIL CteOrg6 w aSnlnRIOu at
the close of the last century. The
statistics OF the census of 1900 are
not accessible. They are partial and
incomplete. There were about 5,SOo.0O0
tions and accumulations of the people were
somewhere about S4,e00000,0O0. There
was not millionaire. nor tramp, nor pauper
in the United States of America. The great
mass of the people contentedly titled the soil;
they lived upon small farms and we're fed and
clothed from its products. Those who dwelt
by the sea fitted out ships which they owned,
and sailed them to distant portions of the
earth in search of their prey.
IT WAS GOLDEN AGE.
1t realized the dream of Agar. "Give me
neither power nor riches" 1t seemed as if the
golden age and Eutopia of the Republic had
been reached. Westward, even unto the Pa
cific, lay the unexplored extent of the conti-
nent, and out of which I have myself since
voted to admit six States into this Union. The
tide of immigration was Just about flowing
over the crest of the Allegheny Mountains into
this great valley. which is now the center and
seat Of political power on this CONT
political forces of this country, that
will occur under the eleventh census that
great mountain region between the Allegnenies
and Rocky mountains, extending from the
British possessions to the Gulf of Mexico, will
hold the purse and the soul. 1t will have a
majority of the votes in the lower house of
Congress; it will have majority of the votes
in the Electoral College for choosing the Pres
ident and Vice President of the United States.
went West myself about 80 years ago as
a carpet-bagger from the State of Massachu-
setts. st. Louis was then an outpost Of civil
ization, and Jefferson City. Mo-, was the far
thest Western point reached by a railroad. In
all that vast region, from the scattered SETTLE
ment along the shore of the Missouri to the
crest of the Sierra Nevada, and from the pine
clad slopes of the Yellowstone to the gorge of
The Rio Grande, there was neither harvest nor
1usbandry, nor habItatioD. nor homes, save the
Tigwam of the savage, more brutal than the
beasts of ''Iliad's' dream, there Is nothing in
he romance of the building of nations that
compares with it, and it has all been brought
20 pass and come about under Republican ad-
and Republican government. In
1850 the conditions of which speak had not
changed The population of the |
,ountry had increased to about 16 SOC, 900 and |
he wealth in proportion, but from that hour
Yhen Abraham Lincoln was elected President |
# the United States, when the free trader and |
laveholder of permanent Democracy was per- |
dethroned, that great procession Of |
historical events which has brought us to our |
'resent
UNAPPROACHABLE HEIGHTS
# material grandeur. The statistics of this
ensus are not yet accessible, but We shall have |
bove 81, ,OO0,00O of people. and our assets upon
he national ledger will not be less than $780,
CO. 000 Since that time to which have re-
erred, when, under the sublime incentive of |
he doctrine of protection to American labor,
he Republican party took control of the af-
airs OF this country, and there has not been an
our in which the clock has struck, day or
light. Sunday or week day, in which there has
ot been added to the material accumulations
f this country S250,0O0.
think, Mr.. President, that is a record to |
7hich we may, in the language of State plat |
orms, point with pride. But the Democratic
arty, true to its instincts of negation and |
riticism and censure during all that period
as performed the function of a brake upon
he greatcar of National progress, The only
JUNCTION of its leaders being to hold on and
olloah whoa. is to-day engaged in an attempt
Infamous, dangerous. insiduous,
ppeal to the worst and most degraded ele-
rents of society, and claim that this majestic
ecord of progress has been against the inter-
SITS of the people, and in the interest of corpo-
atoms, monopolies and capitalists
You will recollect that the aged female saint
er master as to the evidence of her faith. he
iquired OF her what she thought of the doc
'ine of total depravity. and she said she
lought it was an excellent doctrine if well
we'd up to. In view of the accusation feel
lstified in saying that Democracy is total de-
ravity in politics and well lived up to at that.
SECTIONAL POLITICS.
Since the day when the Frenchman who
illed his father and mother and. being con-
cted of the crime, requested executive clem-
hey on the grounds that he was an orphan,
don't think anything in the nature of
frontry has ever exceeded the claim of the
emocracy that the Republican party is
ctional. 1t is sectional, Mr.. President and
dies and gentlemen. There are Congressional
stricts and there are States where Repub-
can meeting like this cannot be held under |
snalty of death.
A voice: "You are right"
There is to-day in one of the States of this |
Mon Constitutional Convention sitting with |
le avowed purpose of disfranchsing Republic.
Is and rendering it impossible for them to |
,te now or hereafter. There are States and |
congressional districts, where. by the enact |