Year: 1872

hundred and sixty acres of the publ


domain. The policy approved by ever


President,to secure to the laboring pol


ulation of the country against the pau


perized labor of Europe, has been mair
| tanned. '-'-- --.--,-


The labor part is therefore but anotl


er name for the Republican party


Sure l am, it has no sympathy with this


Democratic party which, in the interest


Of foreign capital, declares for FIRE


trade, and demands that we shall SCI


where we can sell dearest, and bu


where We can buy the cheapest. Re


form your tariff laws as you will, til


people will never consent that the


shall be. reformed against America


and in favor of European produc tior


A fair days wages for fair day


work has been secured by America t
Americans. This is understood til
world over. The workers of Europ
are here by the million, because unde
our laws labor is secured fair and jus
reward. By means of this policy thi
country has been enabled to draw from
foreign lands, by voluntary immigra
ton, that productive power which wa
the want Of the country. These hard,
sons of toll have come by the hundred
of thousands annually to these shores
and, following the sun westward as ht
walks i'm his makers steps of fire, bear
ing with them the symbols of civiliza
ton, have largely aided in girdling thi:
continent from the shores of your beau
tiful river to the Pacific seas with free
commonwealth, whose governments are
SO equal, so just, and so strong that
none who obey the laws are so humble
as to be beneath their protecting care
and none who violate them so high as
to be above their avenging power.


Everywhere in our country to-day as
the direct result of our own American
system, are industry, and thrift, and in
telligence, and that competence, which,
humanity speaking. is the rock of life,
on which the citizen may stand erect
unawed by power and unbribed by
gain.


The Democratic party clamor for a
change in this policy. The demand OF


that party is for free trade down with
the tariff is their partizan cry; it ere
ates monopOlies, and makes the rich
richer, and the poor poorer. Free trade
means the admission of all foreign i'm
ports free of duty, and the raising Ofthe
national revenues by internal taxation
alone. No administration ever recon-
that, nor has the Democratic
party yet dared to embody any such
proposition in national platform. The
argument is that duties Oh imports, are
tax on the consumer, and bounty to
production. Every duty, if
this be so, whether for revenue, or pro-
lection, IS subject to the same objec-
ton. --.-.. .a


Logically, the party that so denounc-
es tariffs, ought to inscribe on its banner
free trade; that labor may be pauperized
IN America, and that the capitalist may
buy where they can buy cheapest. The
party prefers to stand by
the tried policy of the country, thereto
fore sustained by all parties; a tariff for
revenue discriminating in the interests
of the industries of the United States,
and i'm the interests of the consumer of
such articleds, as are Of general use to
the consumer of such articles, as are OF
general use, and not produced in this
country. No longer ago, than in the
last contest for the Presidency, the
Democratic party declared for thi:
policy in its national plat
form. dismiss the subject. America
l repeat, is a nation of laborers- The
only nobility recognized, is the nobility
that comes from honest toll, the toll OF
brain Or hand. The people know that
there is no success, either for individ-
ual or collective man, the citizen or the
State, without intelligent labor-that
there is divineness in it; that there is
genius in it; that there is the enduring
glory of duty performed in it, from
which comes the strength of nations
and the safety of men. Under Repub-
lican administration every servile fettel
which bound the hands of the the toll
ing millions in one-half the Republic
under the sanction of State sovereignty
has been broken,without the aid against
the protest of the Democratic party
The party of labor is the Republican
party-the party of the country, now
as in the past, and is strong enough and
intelligent enough to take care, in the
future as in the past, of the interest OF
labor.


The Liberal Republican party, which
is another device of the Democratic
party, employed to hide their record
and mislead the people, seems to have
two chief purposes. First to destroy
the confidence of the people in th'
President by defamation. In this ag'
age an enlightened people do not accep
the pagan rule, that the citizen who ha'
saved the State, and crowned its arm'
with victory, should be banished, no
for his crimes, but for his virtues, vir
tues SO illustrious as to make his pres
ence dangerous. in the judgement o
demagogues, to Republican equality.


The man who organized the nations
victories, and carried your banners il
triumph from the trenches of Vicks
burg to the Heights of Richmond, can
not be put down by the howl of mel
who are indebted to him and the armie
he led for country saved from ami
hilation.


The Liberal Republican party seem
to have the further purpose, as mani
tested by some persons supposed to rep
resent it: to defame the Government
and people of the United States, by tn


false declaration that the United State
in the late European war, sold arms t
France in violation of its obligations Q


neutrality, and thereby so offende


against the rights of Prussia, as to sub


ject us to the payment of damages, oil
in default of such payment, to war.


These defamers of the country kno'