The herald., 1894-10-28

At Turnverein hall, on Wednesday
evening, United States Senator Stephen
M. White addressed his fellow citizens
upon the issues Of the campaign now in
progress, with reference both to local
and national issues. Upon being intro
duced to his audience, and when the ap.
plsuse had subsided, Senator White
spoke as follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FELLOW CIT-
rzENs Two years ago, in the midst
of an exceedingly sctive national
canvass, 1 ventured to say to
the people of this state that
they could make no more patriotic
use OF their right to the elective fran
chise than to summon Grover Cleveland
to the presidential office. am here to
affirm the accuracy of my suggestion
and to declare in the light OF experience
that his administration has been con.
Quoted in the interest of good govern
ment, and that his political acts have
been such as to not only advance his
fame, but its tendency has been and is
to perpetuate and make clearly manifest
to those who are to succeed US the wis
dom of those who framed our organic
law and who planned the system which,
during the last two years, has been
90 we'll pursued under his leader
ship. I am not unaware of the
circumstances that his administration
has been vigorously assailed, but when
I consider these attacks come from the
drilled opponents of Democracy, from
disappointed Office hunters, from self
sufficient theorists. and from we'll mind.
ed individuals who have been misled se
to the facts, see no reason to qualify
my anterior assertions, or to doubt the
verdict Of history upon the cause of the
chieftain whom am proud to defend
tonight. And may say to my Demo
cratic friends, that never before have
the constitution and the laws Of this
republic been committed to safer keep
ing, and never before has the American
citizen been more fully justified in rest.
ing confident that his liberties and his
rights will be thoroughly maintained
and no Democratic campaign can be
considered safely inaugurated or con-
eistently forwarded which does not rec
ognize as the exponent of Democracy,
the president of the United States.
All this say in spite of the fact that
Ihave been unable to agree in every de-
tail with Mr.. Cleveland. Upon finan-
cisl issues his opinion does not entirely y
coincide with mine; yet | do not doubt
his patriotism, nor question the SINGER.
ity of his motives. When l point to
him as one whose administration and
whose acts can be defended, not only
speak of him comparatively and thus
claim that he is the nearest approach
to ideality that the circumstances afford,
but maintain beyond that. that the
record OF his career furnishes net bal.
ance vastly in favor of the American
people and inconceivably more patri-
otie. beneficial and trustworthy than
any that can be or has been contributed
by our opponents.
AS TO THE PRETENsE THAT TIMES WERE
PROSPEROUS BEFORE MR.. cLEvELAND's
ELECTION, AND THAT PRESENT CON.
DfTIoNs ARE DUE TO THAT ELECTION.
Republican orators are fond of pro
claiming that the country was in the
most prosperous state when Mr.. Cleve.
land was elected. and that the strn
gency which followed his election was
produced by a change of administration
Nothing could be more fallacious. In
the first place, the American people
drove the Republican party from power
because they knew that the administIa- a.
ton OF that organization had brought
about as nearly as possible national
bankruptcy. The first figures contrib.
uted by q partisan census depart
ment indicated approaching calamity
l took occasion in the campaign
o. 1892 to call attention to the depres-
sion then existing and which was daily
becoming more and more marked. Not
only was every word which | then ut.
tored upon that subject true, but time
has demonstrated that l did not go far
enough. then asserted that the pri.
vate Indebtedness of the United States
wss $13, 1000, ,000,0 900. The latest CENSUS
statistics show that at that date ths pri-
vate indebtedness to which l referred
wac about SIG, 900, 600. .000-more than
twice the total amount OF the entire
stock OF gold and silver in circulation in
the world. In 1880 our private indebt-
edness was only $6.750.000. 900. This
country had not progressed under Re-
publoln administrations to such an ex-
tent as to enable the taxpayer to keep
pace with accommodating indebtedness.
For inEtance, from 1850 to 1860 the farm
values of the United States increased
1928, ,469, ,575, or 100 per cent; 1860 to
1870 the increase was 50 III, 1853 S54, or 4 |
per cent. From 1870 to 1880 the increase
was 1884. 292. .9l5. O. per cent. Dusing
the last ten years referred to in these
Itatistics, farmers, while nominally pro-
tected, derived no actual benefit from
such alleged protection. The statistics
OF 1888 showed that the product per
hand in the case of farmers was but
S2o0, whereas the product per hand in
the case OF manufacturers was $721. In
addition to these statistics wish to call
attention to the following, showing the
condition of farming under high protec-
tion with reference to the ownership OF
the property which they cultivate:
Utilizing statistics furnished by the
eensus department, and taking sixtean
states pretty we'll scattered. We find that