Year: 1859

use linen lacking nothing but Capital-seek
this capital that they may build up some me-
ehanical trade, or manufacturing interest
Loan them capital, and they will give remuner-
atlve employment to scores and hundreds of
other laborsrs. Villages and towns at once
spring into being-Real Estate feels the health
ful influence market, and that best of all
markets, home market, is created for the farm
ing community around, and all material and
social interests of the State are strengthened
and pushed upward. But under the influence
OF the ten per cent. law, your mechanics and
manufacturers cannot build up themselves, and
every good interest of the State, for they cannot
pay such rates, and then successfully compete
with the manufacturers of other regions, where
money may be had at 6 per cent. So manu-
taetures and the mechanic trades languish in
Ohio, and SO hundreds of our beautiful villages
are stunted in mid growth. And what is far
worse, there is not only this loss of social and
material growth-this diseouragement of pro-
ductIve industry-but there is a loss of the
YOUNG MEN themselves. Our enterprising
young men 90 abroad to seek friendlier legis-
lation and more encouraging fields of enter
prise. Here is loss of social element-of
the very vigor of the State-whieh cannot be
measured by dollars and cents Who can gain
say this most lametable FACTi These are the
men you lose, in legislating exclusively for the
interests of the brokers and money lenders, and
the "superannuated." Is such an exchange
wise one for young and not yet halfdevelop-
ed State like ours!


And what a manufacturing State Ohio might
be. What field for the triumph of human la
Dor. What resources-rich and exhaustless has
the Almighty given us for such career of
prosperity. Consider for a moment the great
fact, full of suggestion that nearly one-half the
State is underlaid with inexhGustable beds of
Coal and IRoN-(and this coal and iron in
neighborhood)-th two elements Of manufac.
turing development which have so greatly in
creased the power and wealth Of Great Britain.
Coal. in strata near the surface, and thus easily
worked, In forty of our counties, and extending
over an area of more than $4,000 square
miles-and Iron already mined in twenty of
these same counties. And then our oppOrtu-
mites for quick and cheap access to the mar
kets of the world; two hundred miles of Lake
coast, connected by direct navigation with the
St Lawrence and the Atlantic; four hundred
and thirty miles stretching by the Ohio river,
and connecting thereby with the Mississippi
and the Gulf, and all their tributaries, with the
four grand lines of East and West Railways
running across our territory.


And then again such Agricultural resources
whereby to feed these ten thousand miners and
mechanics and manufacturers, when all are once
at work. Scarcely an acre of our whole broad
State but that may be brought under the domin-
ion of the plow and yield bountiful crops
Why, such counties as Ross, Pickaway, Frank
lin, Fairfield, Warren, Highland, Fayette, But
Ter, each of them produce more bushels of corn
than some entire States.


But the tendency and result Of the ten per
cent law has been to initiate reckless specula-
tions, and to induce the transfer of capital from
industrial and agricultural purposes, to invest
ment in loans for these speculative schemes. So
the productive energies of the State have been
palsied-and manufactures languish-and our
vast coal and iron fields still slumber in the un
broken sleep of ages; and our State struggles
slowly toward that high eminence of material
and social greatness which God designed for
her.


The honorable gentleman from Belmont, in
his speech the other day, eontended that with
this law, the course of our State was onward" F"
Indeed, Ohio, during the years Of the existence
as this statute has made some advancement
but her steps are but the halting steps of
giant in letters Lift from her energies this
great burden-let capital and labor strike hands
in mutual right and fraternal 1riendship-let
money flow in its natural channels, asking but





and a half millions of free hearts will take
courage, and twice as many free arms strike to-
gether in one common cause, and Ohio will
mount mp to such heighth of material prosper
ity will at once make her the glory Of the
world


A few months since, the whole civilized earth
rejoiced at the success of the telegraphic cable,
which welded two continents; but, alas, only to
be the sadder at the early defeat of the grand
enterprise. But let CAPITAL and LABOR, now far
apart, like distant continents, wed on this gen
erous soil of ours, with all these immense native
resources about US and beneath our very feet,
and no future accident can possibly arise to turn
the gladness into sorrow.


Mr.. Speaker, let US be true to the require.
ments of this hour-true, to the noble State
which has honored US with this trust of making
her laws-true to the great interests Of LABOR,
her only hope-and indeed will the star OF En-
oire burn above Ohio.


am surprised that in House of SO much
good sense-so much generous sentiment-so
much true Democratic regard for the people
on such question as this, there should be this
faltering and hesitancy. But gentlemen will
elect their own course. Of one thing they may
rest assured; the people are fully aware of the
burden which is pressing them to the ground.
And they, too, know their remedy. If we have
not the courage to carry out the PUBLIC WILL,
other men will know these places Of trust
There is power in the noiseless BALLOT 1t is


A weapon frmer set,


And better than the bayonet;


weapon that comes down as still


As snOw-flakes fall upon the sod


But executes a freeman's will.


As lightning doth the will Of God


This, sir, is but the old battle which has been
going on ever since the earliest history of the
race-the war between the honest, toiling
masses and their cunning robbers and oppres-
sors The millions toil-and the few who toll
not reap the lions share of the result of all such
labor; formerly by force, but now more by cum
ming, and often through Legislative aid. The
men who build your palaces do not often live
in them. The swarthy smith, who with stout
arm. and cunning hand, by forge and bench
builds up your wonderful locomotive, with the


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