Year: 1875

great want OF the country is an entire


freedom for labor; removal OF every


obstacle; the presence of every aid for


prices. Steady markets and ready sales


are aid, and to secure these a sufficient


and sound .curTency and low interest


are indispensable. If these be super


added by low taxes, rigid economy and


simplicity of government and purity OF


administration, that nation will be con-


tinued and accelerated.


Speech OF Governor Alien, Delivered at


RewaFk, Saturday Evening.


Cincinnati Enquirer, 2Oth.l


Governor Allen paid visit to New


ark, Saturday, to consult about some


matters of local politics, and was in


duced by the Democrats to make them


a speech in the evening. The weather


was intensely hot and the hall crowded,


so that he did not speak more than half


an hour. The following is full report


of his speech:


MEN OF NEWARK, FRIENDS AND


FELLOW W-CITIZENS: Many q time be-


fore this have you and L stood face to


face to discuss the public questions of


The day; but at no time have we come


together under circumstances so pre-


foundly interesting to the American


people as on this occasion, when forty


millions of people, inhabiting one of the


largest and most fertile portions Of the


globe, feel that something Oppresses


them deeply and seriously. Every gov


eminent, whatever may be its form,


makes itself responsible for the condI-


ton Of the people to very large ex-


tent. In free government, based upon


popular suffrage, and acting through the


representative principle, the action Of


the government upon the people in


their dearest rights becomes matter of


the most serious import to the people.


For more than fifteen years one class of


men have had absolute and unre-


strained control of the Federal govern


ment, and, during all that period, the
control of almost all of our State gov


ernments. Whatever there is OF hap
piness, of prosperity, dependent upon
the action of the government; whatever
there Is of suffering or misery, depend
ent upon the action Of the government,
is ascribable to that party, for good or
for i'll. They had it all. The great De-
mocracy of the Union had no function
but that Of paying taxes. [Applause. ]
The other party had all the
power, all the taxes, and
all the profits that necessarily
grew out Of them. [Applause.l Now,
II the condition of the American people
is prosperous ard happy; if no man is
discontented; il no man is dissatisfied;
if there is no clique or ring usurping the
public authority and consuming the pub.
lie taxes; If every man who wants to
work is employed and well paid; if
every factory is running, with its blazing
fires throughout the entire day; if the
farmers, without being overburdened
with taxes, are reaping the full rewards
of their hard labor in the long summer
sunshine, and have enough to subsist
and educate their families; if every farm
er finds his farm without mortgage, him.
self without debt, ready to extend the
hand of fraternity to an unfortunate
neighbor; if this be the condition OF af-
fairs, then we ought to thank the Re-
publicans for bringing this state OF affairs
about. Laughter and applause With
these long years of absolute rule-the
war did not last all these fifteen years;
the war is not to be used as an excuse for
what happened after peace was restored
If, when the war closed, and when
this party took the entire mass of the
southern States into their own hands,
and said, ave will govern as we please;
we will reconstruct" if the operation Of
their reconstruction has restored the
southern people to their wonted pros
perity; il it has established peace with
out discord, they are entitled to
the appreciation of the country. That
the congress OF the United States was
for the government of the
south and its turbulence and discord is
manifest from the fact that the party
dominant in that body was the only
political power that had any efficiency
there. If they could not rule the south
ern States after the rebellion had been
how fit are they to rule forty
millions OF people throughout this whole
continent? [Applause.l They spread
a baneful blight over the entire south;
they promised peace and prosperity, and
they gave them the sword, and fulfilled
their promise by producing anarchy and
Applause They were
loading down the people Of the United
States with taxes every day, and at the
very time they were piiing up the taxes
on the people of the north, they had so
desolated the southern States that they
had no taxes to contribute, and all that
the southern States were unable to con-
tIlDulc WIS duuCU ~ LllC LdASS VI lIlC
northern States. That is part of their
to set an example of economy, of purity,
to the whole American people. They
had all the power, and the Democracy
had none. They could have econo-
mized the expenses of this gov
eminent twentyfold more than
they did, but they will not choose to do
it. They went on increasing the taxes,
increasing the expenditures, and large
per cent. of all the taxes paid by the
people never reached the puDiic treas
ury. 1t was confiscated on its way.
They mildly termed it tconfscstion; and
the number of these defaulters would
almost rival the innumerable multitude
that st. John saw in his vision. NOwT
l want to define what this word defaaca4
ton means. You have not the least
difficulty, if a man, although hungry or
prompted by the cries Of nature, when
his little child lifts up bis hands and
says: "Father, l want some Bread"
and he has none to give, forces his hand
into BAKERS shop and takes loaf. He
is indicted, put in Jail, and promptly
sent to your penitentiary. 1t is all Of
no avail to him that he pleads the i'm
and tears of his wife and
poor little children for food that he could
not give as a pallistion for his Offense.
He is hurried off, he is called a thief, q
burglar. A government officer appro-
PIRATES to his own use hundred thou
sand dollars. This Is not called stealing;
not at all. There is dignity about that
kind Of rascality, because it is nothing
but the peoples money that he has
stolen. He is called a defaulter, not a
thief, and the people are beWildered
when they hear that a government off,
Ger has defaulted. That is, instead Of
putting the money in the treasury, he
has put it into his own pocket. My
friends, crime don't change its char
acter by being nicknsmed. Now there
are some curious facts that arise in the
history of politics, and we have q sing
ular eXemplification of the statement at
this time. We hear it said by all of the
newspapers in that interest, and the
most OF them in this State are conducted
by pOstmasters; we hear it said that the
Democratic party at Columbus, at its
State convention, hoisted the flag of
"rag money" Did they? What is rag
money? Who made it? Where did it
come from? Every cent of it was made
by your press-gang at Washington City,
run by the treasury department. Every
dollar of this "rag money" from the be-
ginning to the end was made by you,
gentlemen, who are now clamorng
against 'rsg money" Laughter.


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