The Republican journal., 1892-01-28
An Indictment of the Democracy.

We published last week Congressman
Boutelle witty speech on Holman's plea
yune resolution. Congressman Milliken
addressed the House on the same question
as follows:
Mr.. Speaker, l shall not attempt to dis
cuss this resolution in the short time al
lotted to me. l rise simply to express my
admiration for the sublime faith and mag
nifcent magnitude of the bump Of hope
of my friend from Georgia Mr.. Living
ston, who, after stating the deplorable
condition Of his constituency, said he
should come to the Democratic party for
relief. Laughter on the Republican side.
Why, my friend, do you not know that
the Democratic party never yet relieved
anybody? Are you not aware that only the
other day, when we proposed that $780,
600 should be appropriated to procure
ships to carry the provisions already con
tributed by our generous people to the
suffering poor of Russia. the Democratic
party could not be depended upon for
even that amount of relief to their poor
starving fellow-men across the sea?
i Why, if it could even relieve itself Of it's
record of iniquities made within the last
thirty years, it would accomplish a task
greater than that of Samson when he
pulled down the pillars of the temple, or
Hercules when he cleared out the filth of
the Augean stables.
| | say again, whom has the Democratic
party relieved? To the rescue of what
class OF our countrymen has it come?
What American industry has it favored?
When have the workingmen of the coun-
try found it a friend? Point me to the
statute which it has enacted in the inter
est of the farmer, the mechanic, or the
merchant: refer me to the measure which
it has formulated and advocated for the
benefit of the American people. You can
not designate one.
From the inception Of the rebellion in
1861 to this hour the Democratic party
/ has not framed bill, it has not moved
measure, it has not championed a princ-
pie of great national scope that is to- day
a law of this country.
! On the contrary, almost if not quite all
the laws which have been enacted during
this generation, which the people have
found to be wise and benefcent, have
been passed in spite of the determined
and stubborn opposition Of the Demo-
cratic party.
l invite my friend from Georgia Mr..
Livingston in his own time, to show me
one patriotic measure now a law of the
land OF which the Democratic party can
claim paternity.
Why, sir the Democratic party for
twenty-five years has stood in the obiec-
tive case both in Congress and the coun-
try, finding fault with everything, mis-
representing everything which a great.
WISE patriotic party has done, and finally
catching up with the train. after tagging
in the rear for a few years, and driven by
events to reluctantly get on and ride with
us i'll the cars that they had vainly en-
deavored to throw off the track. But it
is hard party to please. How long is it
since you were alraigning us, gentlemen,
for holding large surplus in the Treas
ury, which you declared should be sent
out to circulate among the people? Did
you not arrai4n us for having a plethoric
Treasury?
| Did not your orators in 1884 reproach
the Republican party for having, as they
falsely declared, S4Ur, 900, 600 of the peo-
pies money in the Treasury. and does
not TIE gentleman from Indiana Mn Hol-
man and other gentlemen, who were in
the Forty ninth Congress. remember the
Illuminating silence of gentlemen on the
other side of the House when the falsity
Of this charge was shownn
| And now YOU are grieved that the Treas
I uly is n It pletholic. and by garbled quo
tatiul> from reports and misrepresenta-
tiun of facts and figures. seek to impress
upon the country that we are on the verge
OF bankruptcy.
Will the time ever come when the
Democratic party will not ser its best
hope of success in the people, msfor-
tune ANA the ,untry's distress; when it
Will not predict calamity with an empha-
Sis which shows low much it is like the
! old grave digger, who hoped for the cho-
, era t" come and give him business
am thankful that belong to a party
| which can see its own success in the coun-
trys prosperity, and never expects to
climb to power ur the ladder Of the peo-
| pie misfoltnnes.
But the gentleman from Indiana Mr..
Holman, referring to our tariff legisla-
/ ton, | presume, says that England and
Germany have tattened upon our system
of subsidies. Did the gentleman never
think how England and Germany and
| other foreign counties would fatten at
our expense should his policy of revenue
tariff, that is, free trade in common par
/ lance, be adopted by our Government?
He would hoist the gates and let the
products Of the pauper labor Of the Old
, World flow freely in upon us compete
| with the products of our own working
men, our farmers and mechanics. reduce
their income to a mere pittance, or drive
them into idleness and poverty. 1t is in
order that England and Germany and
other countries shall not fatten at our ex-
pense that we have provided a way to 50
raise our revenues as to protect the labor
and Industries OF our own people.
But one word more as to the banlrr-,t-
cy OF the Treasury. We received t4u Gov
eminent from the Democratic party in
1861 with its Treasury depleted and it's
credit SO poor that it borrowed money
with difficulty at Il per cent interest We
turned it over to the Democracy in 1885,
after we had administered it for twenty
four years, with a full Treasury, and not
withstanding we had taken it through a
great civil war, having a credit not sur
passed by that of any nation on the globe.
Its debt, -, 1916, 900, 600 in 1865, has been
reduced to eight hundred millions, and
the sl23, 900, 600 which we are paying as
pensions is offset by an equal amount
which we have saved in annual interest
upon the public debt.
There is no page in the record OF the
Republican party which we fear to read