The Globe-republican., 1891-05-06

cLA1Asox's sP8ncu.
The following extracts from the speech
of Gen. J. s. Garrison, before the Repub.
lican league clab ut Cinciasati. are pure
republican doctriRe.
There are questions lying nearer the hearts
Of the American people TO- day than the price
of q tin cup or whether the color of the mon
greater questions are those of human liberty
the protection Of the weak in theirrights, the
insurance of the constitution of a Republican
form Of government to the several states, and
as absolute security and peace to the poorest
citizen and family on the Yazoo as to the
richest citizen on the Hudson.
As long as Democracy lives and resists the
full Interpretation and concession of the
rights of all mankind, Republicanism must
live and call its work unfinished. Unsettled
questions have NO pity for the repose Of ma
tons, and neither the betraying cowardice of
q senate, more careful of commerce than Of
human rights, nor the stranger apathy of the
pew.hOlding religion Of this country, which
cOyets the negro for heaven, but is dumb to
their wrongs in politics in this life. can finally
avert nor long delay their full and righteous
settlement. On these higher lines and great
er questions the party can retain its favor
with the people and power in the govern
ment. 1t Is not party which can live on sim
ply sordid or commercial issues.
The question of labor and = larger reward
to labor through the announcements and pro.
motion of practical systems OF corporations
and proht-sharing Is one peculiarly 1t to in
cite the ambition of the republican party. the
greatest and most faithful friend American
labor has ever had. The revision of the bank
ing system Of the nation made in time of war
and sill the best in existence ~ far ~ It goes
making IL - good for the country - for the
town, and giving the farmer the same benefit
Of his credit that the solvent townsman now
has and making the currency in sympathetic
volume with the demands of business and
commerce. 10 something that some political
party Is bound to do very soon, and the Re-
publican party best Of all can settle It, and
best protect national honor and commercial
safety in 90 doing
atoms and syndicatcd wealth, and particu
larly some wisdom in Law to prevent the now
menancing evils of the common good, too
rapidly growing out of the abuses of the sys-
tenn Of public corporations for private bene.
fit, . system by which our aggregate wealth
and family fortune are made to descend with
more certainty and more evil than under the
dangers of primogcniture, which our fore
fathers sought first of all to avert from this
new land; the new and dangerous system by
which money is not only syndicated but made
immortal in its life and bulk and profit, is an
other great question that some party faithful
to the people and the republic Is bound to
take up and settle, and no other party has the
heart, the brain and conscience to settle 1t as
wisely and justly as the Republican party.
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Money should have all its rights. but it has
too many rights when aggregated and specu-
lative wealth in one city can depress all val
ues in the country, and when one rich man
can smite all the banks with palsy and leave
them helpless to care for the business inter-
ests of their own communities. 1t is the sol.
emn duty of the Republican party to enact
Just laws, to stop all trespass of wealth upon
the rights of the people. The American Re-
public is still in the morning of life, and these
problems to be settled for the future are such
as to engage attention Of all goodmen, espec-
tally all young men. to whom the Republican
party. just now entering upon its second gen.
Grafton of life, must now commit its fortunes.