Year: 1878

the matter?" saw proposal circulating
recently in which some firm, dealing in
these Mexican dollars, proposes to sell
them at discount of 20 per cent. if taken
by the thousand, so that railroad compan-
les and other large corporations may pay
them out TO their employees as dollars.
| mention these things simply as illustra-
tons of the point l am urglng-that re-
dcemable currency is one of the most
necessary things to insure the prosperity
of the poor man. In every pursuit of life
the labering man, the farmer, the man
who lives remote from banks, they of non-
commercial experience, wants a green
back of the same value from New Years
to Christmas. [Applause.l 1t is not
true, es these demagogues tell US, that
these people can be divided into classes,
and that the Affections and sorrows and
distresses incident to time Of CONNER
cial depression fall upon the poor man
while the rich prospers. 1t is a wicked
falsehood. We are knit together in the
professions and pursuits of life in such a
way that We prosper together and suffer
together. [Applause.] When the manu-


featuring interests are profitable, when
railroad undertakings are successful, when
capital is actively employed in turning the
water-wheels and pulleys of our manu-
featuring establishments, then the labor
ers obtain honest and fair wages. So
much for the financial question.


We are fortunate in assembling here to
day for another reason. This Democrat
ic party can be calculated upon almost
with as much certainty as one Of our ac-
complished astronomers can fortell an
eclipse to make some infamous blunder
just at the time when the Republican par
ty most needs it. [Shouts of laughter and
applause have not time to trace the
history of this thing. but from the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, through
Kansas Nebraska times. down all through
the war, careful search OF history will
verify the truth Of what l say. Pesple
were becoming tolerably settled when the
entire non-political, commercial and
business population of our country Is
startled by these recent movements at
Washington, which are intended, beyond
all question, to shake the title and dis
turb the tenure of Office of President
Hayes. Truce breaking and tricky men,
after having deliberately consented to the
arbitrament of law, come before the coun-
try with a commission of inquiry which
can have no other effect than 70 raise the
question as to the Presidents title. When
the President was inaugurated through
the action of the last Congress, say that
this Congress has no constitutional right
to reopen the question, and this scheme
can have no other aim than revolution.
We say to these gentlemen to-day as We
said to the malcontents in 1860. Mr..
Hayes title To Office is undisputed lap
plause.] and woe be to the hand that is
raised to disturb 1t. prolonged applause.
! There is an attempt to pacify the country
by the pretense that this movement is not
intended to strike at the Presidents Office
or title. If this be true, why does a
Democratic Congress refuse to declare
so on this question: Democrats of the
mere conservative kind have urged this
npon the national central committee, but
they have refused to make declar alton
that such is the Interpretation Of the pur-
pose of the inquiry. They say it would
be undignified. That is very feeble and
shallow excuse, gentlemen. The men in
that Democratic caucus who hesitatingly
support the proposal, say that they were
compelled to allow 1t to be introduced, or
it would have been certainly introduced
over their heads by those who had the
purpose in view of which have spoken.
They gaye way before the overwhelming
sentiment. And what in the tendency Of
all thiss say it is 10 aggravate the dis
tress ofour country. 1t is to delay our
return to prosperity, to keep laborers'
wages down, for il Is absolutely certain
that prosperity can never return or con-
tinue in the midst of turmoil. Capital is
timid bird, and seeks close shelter in
times when the elements are disturbed. If
we would have our factories started again,
if we would bring prosperity to our COM
mercial, manufacturing and agricultural
interests, it must be settled once for all
that the United States is not Mexico.
[Applause1 Do l need more than to
suggest TO you that the interest of every
honest man Is for the observance, In all
affairs of our nation, of the law! Law
lessness--any attempt by violence to Sc
cure any right, in any direction, is abso.
lutely fatal. to the interests of each indi-
vidual and Of the nation as whole. Any
attempt by violence to secure any right.
in any direction, is absolutely fatal
1t Is quiet repose In the law
boring man tolerable and pleasant, and
enables him to lift himself to wealth and
station. [Applause.


/ think we may congratulate ourselves
to-day, however we may differ upon
some ofhis measures and appointments,
that the Republican party of this nation
has given to it a President who has high
motives, unselfish purposes and a desire
to advance the good Of the whole coun.
try. That this is the case has never been
doubted by anybody. tApplause.l There
has been a conspicuous absence of self.
seeking on the part of President Hayes
a conspicuous devotion to what Le thinks
is the best interest of the country. l am
glad that the Republican party has given
the country President that sets such an
example. / confess, however, that !
would feel more interest in this matter II
l believed the contagion Of such an exam


pie could ever spread to the Democratic
| ,orfr That so ho -, IL. n,