Year: 1879




1878. than it would have cost in 1874. |
That is. SO per cent. was added by the
OF silver to all the debts |
and all the taxes payable by the people
Of the United States. 1 do not make this
al random, but from tables OF
prices elaborately prepared each year by
the New York Public, the highest au-
thority in the United States on prices of
l have made the same
statement twice on the floor OF congress,
and no man has questioned its accuracy.
He then went on to point out the effects
of this adding 50 per cent. to the burden
OF debt and taxes of the country. Upon
the subject of


MoNOMETALISM AND BIsIETALIsM


He said: The great parties are square,
ly at issue on this question. The Warner
bill which gave the whole profits of coin
age to the government, but provided for
placing silver exactly on par with gold
in respect of unlimited coinage and of is
sue OF certificates Tor silver bullion, pass
ed the house after an intense and protrac-
ted struggle, every democrat but seven
voting for the bill and every republican
but four voting against it. That bill will
pass the senate next December, despite
the opposition of half-dozen national
bank and gold-standard democrats. Al
most complete unity Of tho republican
party in the senate and in the house
against the bill. with Mr.. Sherman's
known hostility, assures a veto OF that
measure of relief The contemplate
cowardice of the republican party Of
Ohio in failing to say a word on this
great question is at once an evidence
that the people demand the relief.
and that the republican party are deter
mined not to grant it. IT that measure
were passed, almost all the products of
our silver mines will at once be poured
into the channels of circulation. Certif-
icates OF the denomination OF $40 and
upward, redeemable in coin and repre-
sented by silver deposited, will enlarge
our circulating medium and cause a
wholesome rise of prices, stimulating
industry, increasing production, light
enlng the burden OF debts and taxes, and
giving US prompt and generous i'm
pulse toward renewed prosperity.


PAPER MONEY.


The general took up what he called
lLt OGuCI SLouI uuuuCo lSSuC uASCt-
tied, and SAID:


Who shall make and issue paper
money-government or national banks
The democratic party in congress has
always favored the substitution OF the
treasury notes for bank notes. The
Ohio democracy this year, true to its
past ayowals, declares for gradual with
drawal of national bank notes. and the
substitution therefor of treasury notes.
which, in the language of the platform,
shall be receivable for all debts. and
legal tender equally with coin, =
such government issues to be regulated
upon principles established by legisla.
ton and organic law. so as to secure the
greatest possible stability of Values
The republican party intend by the re-
sumption law, and still intends. to take
up and destroy every dollar OF green
back money.


FREE ELECTIONS.


| The speaker then referred to the sub
| ject of free elections He first recited
the great fraud of 1876, and then passed
to the work OF the extra session, where
he said: Was 1t right to leave this party
with lawful authority to spend millions
Of the peoples money in hiring bullie:
to threaten. arrest and imprison state
electors and state judges and clerks o
election? We determined to make the
issue on these laws now, in the yeal
preceding the great contest in which We
feared they would be employed tc
thwart the will of the people. The re
suit of the struggle So far is the total re
peal of the odious system of packing
juries, prohibition of the payment o
money to send or maintain troops at the
polls. and the withholding OF appropria
tions for fees of marshals until congress
can see what the fees are to be paid for
We have appealed from the president
to the people. You have to decide ths
controversy. If you want to pay hun
dreds OF thousands OF dollars each con
gressional election to have bayonet.
around the polls and marshals and spie.
to inspect and control state election of1i
GERS, vote the republican ticket. for the
democracy will never spend q dolla
for the services.


! GENERALIZATION.


In discussing the centralizing tenden
cies of the federal government, Mr.. Ew
ing said: This assumption of sole su
preme power for the federal government
illustrates the fact that the pendulum i!
swinging from the extreme of secession
on the one side to an equally dangerous
extreme of consolidation on the other
Secession held that the union might bt
divided whenever any state believed thai
the constitution had been violated. Or
that theory the republic was but a rope
of sand. Consolidation demands thai
the federal government shall exercise
all powers which the dominant party
may think expedent. On that theory
all boundaries OF federal power. so care
fully marked by our iorefathers, will be
obliterated. and we shall have one great
imperial government, to which states
will have the same relations that coun-
ties and townships now have to states
Secession would have broken up the
union into petty but free republics; con.
| liberty in an empire.


In conclusion he said: "Nly friends, all
the policies of.the republican party have
discussed this evening, though apparent
ly differing widely in character. are in
fact closely related to purpose and et-
iect. l believe them all to be part OF a
general tendency OF the classes which
control that party to practically subvert
popular government. The steps are first
to destroy the independence OF the mass
es by immensely increasing the burdens
of debt and taxes, and by cutting off the
opportunities and rewards OF labor, and
by the same act swell the wealth and
power to the illinltable forces of govern
ment patronage and plunder, to control
elections by bribery and force. and prac.
tica!ly subvert the freedom OF the ballot.
Look at the powers which maybe broush,
to bear to effect this result; see the fas,
growth OF corpor ations, some of which
already


RIDE WITH AN IRON HAND


The greatest states of the republic. Look
at two thousand national banks holdino
almost every business man and buslnes:
interest in their grasp; see the veteran
corps OF one hundred thousand active