uni nannadan ,"",d lo,'u'01e aebtur- In luo Senate laiod Bin w'7:l,own grca' devotion to the pco- ii Tro8Br"ons and was one of 016 three -op ueaq jCpBi"0'on 1116 9la lnst. appealed from -Pisnoo q ioJ r Llouteuant-Goveraor Laita that uiod8jBaroU"P1PeblUcoVld consldered.be 'lamqs -'PS the same 'ln object, purpose and ejnass ot '.Dd in ub8lne' 1 as a Senate bill which II -3laas eu,!ry been consldored nd defeated by subJ3iib SBTbe BlPetLl wa defeated by a rote no ino oi.no' IheoU-pipe business thus gets a So,- -ssossuraoi uie legislature. ' w. James P. Sterrett. -lion. James P. Stcrrett was born in the Tus rarora Valley, Juniata county, Pennsylvania, on theTUi of November, 1322. He received his preliminary education at the Tuscarora Acad emy, and entered Jefferson College In the fall of 1X42, graduating from that Institution In 18)5, after which be was connected with it for one year as principal of the Preparatory Depart ment. Having read law at Carlisle, and com pleted his course at the University of Virginia, he was admitted to the bar of that State In 1848. In the spring of 1849 he began the practice of law in Pittsburg. In 1861 he was appointed on a commission authorized by the Legislature to revise the revenue laws of this Commonwealth. On the fourth of January, 1862, be was appointed President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, and in the lall of the same year was elected by the Republican party to All the President J adge shlp for a term of ten years. In 1872 he was again unanimously nominated for this position by the Republican County Convention, and was re-elected without any opposition from Die Democrats. On the 2Cth of February, 1877, he was appointed by Governor Hartranft to fill the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. At the Republican State Convention held in September last be was nominated by . acclamation for the seat he then held tempora rily, but was defeated by Judge Trunkey, the Democratic candidate. In early life Judge Sterrett was an Old Line Whig, and he has been an earnest Republican ever since the or ganization or the latter party. Aaron K. Duukel. Aaron K. Dunkel was born in Maoheim town ship, Lancaster county, May 20, 1837. He at tended the common schools in Hanbelm and East Hempfleld district until the age of fifteen, when he entered the office of the Lancasterian. In April, 1856, he obtained a situation as com positor on the dally Pennsylvanlan, then edited by Colonel John W. Forney. At the outbreak or the war he enlisted asa private in Company K, Klghteenlh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (Slate Fenclbles), for the three months cam paign. At the expiration of his term or ser vice be enlisted as a private in the Indepen dent Company Zouaves d'Afrique, Captain Collls, which was raised by order of the War Department as General Banks' body guard. He was commissioned Second Lieuten ant in Company H, 111th Regiment P. V., in August, 1862, and promoted Captain in April, 1863. Captured by the Confederates at Gettys burg In July of the. same year, he was held a prisoner at Llbby, In -- ' n, 1 ii , wus transferred' to the staff of General M. L. Patrick, provost-marshal general of the armies operating against Richmond, as aide-de-camp, andremalnel there until September, when he was discharged on the surgeon's certificate of disability. In 8G5 be. returned- to the printing business la the- office of the Press, and there remained until OoJobcr, 18C7, when be,, with several of bts fellow-employes on that paper, embarked in-tbe publication of the Sunday Re public. In 1874 be was nominated by the Re publican Convention as the candidate for State Senator, in the Sixth district, and was elected by a majority of 2066. He was renominated in 1876, and again elected, his majority being in creased to 2790. OTTENDORFER ON TILDEN. A Democrat's Opinion of the Salt That lias For Years Preserved His Party. Oswald Oltendorfer, or the New York Staatt Zeitung, is the leading German editor In the country. He was oue of the "visiting states men" who went to Louisiana after the election of 1876 in behalf of Mr. Tilden. He now says in bis paper: 'The Tribune, as well as the Evening Post, represented that we did not give the necessary moral expression with reference to the cipher dispatches which undoubtedly compromise sev eral Demcratlc leaders. We can say in our Justification that we have already condemned these people, and these revelations were not ' necessary to open our eyes upon this subject. We saw through Tilden and his agents before the Tribune published the cipher dispatches. The transactions in Oregon showed us that Tilden was not the man we had taken him to be. We expressed our views freely at the time, ' and hence we are not greatly surprised at the new exposure. It was natural to infer from the transactions in Oregon that similar attempts would.be made elsewhere, and the telegrams published by the Tribune only confirm our ear lier conviction. The last Presidential election was a corrupt affair from beginning to end, and . a disgrace to all the American people; bnl when the fault is thrown entirely upon one party, evident that the people do not yet know the pro portions of this enormous crime. " isoutxi, ana iney never sola more than oue quarter below par until 1865, when they once went to 99),-. Since then not one or the different classes of United States securities bos ever been sold at public sale below par. HOW WE ARB PAYING THE DEBT. To this high point was the credit or the gov eminent kept. As soon as the war was over. and the enormous outlay on its account was stopped, the Republican party addressed itself vigorously to the reduction of the debt. Re funding was a secondary operation, and one not to be attempted until it was suown mat the government could not only carry the debt, but begin to pay It off. The debt, less cash on hand, was at its greatest amount August 31, 1865, when it reached the vast total of 2,756,431,571 43, en tall ins an an nual interest charge or 150,977,697 87. This was adebt or 78 25 for every man, woman and child in the country, and to pay the interest on this vast sum required an expenditure of SM29 for every one of the 35,228,000 people in the United States. Then began the reduction or the debt by the paying off or the six per cents, and the seven-thirties. The total was reduced the first year 120, 000. 000, and the next year sr.. 000,009. This was done by insisting upon the most rigid economy and the thorough col lection or the revenues, and by the sale or old materials and reducing the army and navy at once to a peace rooting. In the next two years the cancellation was not so great. But in 1870 the total was cut down a hundred mlllious, and in 1871 and 1K72 almost as much more. Now, said the Republican party in Con Cress, the credit or the United Slates is good enough to warrant us In borrowing at lower rates or interest. So the funding act was passed in July, 1870, aud on the 1st or December, 1S71, a hundred millions or six per cents, were paid oft" and disappeared from the debt statement, being replaced by the fives or 1881. On the 20tb or March in the year following a like amount w as retired. The saving In Interest on the first hundred millions has already been six and three quarter millions, and on the second instalment called in, almost six-and-a-half more. Every year since the last or the war the six per cents, had been coming in, and this operation was hastened by the operations or the funding act, so that the amount of this class of bonds redeemed amounted to S210, 000,000 in 1872 alone. These changes in the debt continued during the next three years, until the early part or 1869, when the last or the fives had been placed. Up to that time the reduction in the amount or six per cents outstanding had been at the rate or a hundred millions a year, until from 1,874,317,000 in 1869 there were only less than a thousand millions out in 1876. In the fall, after the abun dant crops had been harvested and the country had begun to feel the impetus given to trade, industry and agriculture by the Centennial Ex hibition, designed and carried through In the face of the most strenuous Democratic oppo sition. Secretary Sherman began measures for the further cancellation or the debt by the Issue or four-and-a-halfs, which many men or ability and long experience had thought 1 ru "rnencai ble. Never had a loan been placed SBBSBasasssBsw a rate of In- teres t, and it was regarded as a hazardous ex periment to try to pnt this out at par. The 250,000,000 now out in place of as many six per cents, show what has been done by Republican management and assurances of honesty and good raith. In a little more than a year and a half 200,000, 000 of these bad beeu issued, and the Interest account reduced three minions a year. No sooner was this issue exhaiisted, than the Secretary began another experiment even more hazardous than the first. This was the effort to get out a four per cent, loan something that cannot be done by half a dozen nations In the world, we said "nan a cozen nations. " Eng land, Holland and France alone can borrow monev at four ner cent. Interest, and yet such was the rame oi the united stales mat minions a day have been offered to It at that rate of in terest during the present year. This is a tri umph of which an v narty or administration in tne woria may lace ine people, anu cnaiienge them to find a Drecedent lor it anywhere not even in r ranee, oi wincn we near so mucn. THE CASE SUMMED UP. When the debt was at its maximum, it was all in five and six per cents. Now 738,619, 000 only bears interest at that rate, and be fore tne end oi me year uiai sum win ne reduced to less than seven hundred mill ions. The five per cents, outstandin amount lo 703,266.650, and there is 250,000.- 000 In four-and-a-halls and more than a hundred millions In fours. In that time the debt has been reduced to 2, 256, 205, 892. The total net debt Is now 1,999,382,280 45, which is a reduction in thirteen years of 757,051.291, or almost sixty millions a year, and considerably more than a million a week. The annual interest charge Is now 94,654,472, which Is 56,323,275 less than it was then. The total debt per capita Is now 41 bi, a decrease oi sje ss, or almost one-nair. The Interest charge has fallen from 4 29 per capita 10 i si, wnicn is a reduction oi con siderably more than half. We need not undertake to draw any conclit slons from this statement. It Is very plain, Debt is a hard master, nut we have been con stantly getting more and more the upper band of it, until now we have It where It can be car ried with perfect ease. This has been done by Republican rule, and It has beeu done while at the same time the burdens of the people have neen sieauuy reuueeu. xi mere naa not neen economy or the strictest kind In every depart ment this would bave been Impossible. Under Republican management the government, has taken less and less each year from the pockets oi uie wiir, kuu yet uas accomplished tills glorious result, which will still further reduce the amount that Is called for in the future. The amount that bag been saved by the fnndlng operat ions and the economy of the ttepunucan parly ine last thirteen years will pay all the expensed? maintaining the gov ernment of this great country for five months, and not leave any deticleiicy to be paid out of next year's appropriations, eitner. specie began to gain largely on the vo:ui-j oi paper, and the people, learning nothing from the painful lessons of the past, enlarged the volume of paper lo proportion to the Influx or gold from California, until, in 1857, the circula tion reached 214,000,000, which was far beyond legitimate need, and then came the third great commercial crisis of our history the panic of 1857. According to Treasury statistics, the actual bank circulation of that year was K'14, 778,822, and inside of a twelvemonth it shrank to 155,208,314, a contraction of nearly 60,ooo, 000. And during the same period the total bank loans shrank from 684,456,000 to 533,165,000, a contraction of more than 150,000,000, which or itseir reveals the suffering of business then. The crisis was quick aud sharp and bitterly felt; but our ri ch soil, a fine foreign market for our crude productions, and the rapid develop ment of industry under mild taxation, restored property, and by I860 the paper circulation had risen to 207,000,000, almost as great as before the panic Another panic was imminent Uien, and was only averted by the outbreak of the war and the suspension of specie payment by the banks, December 30, 1861, when Hie government loans, first of 50,000,000 aud then or 150,000, 000, had been drawn by Secretary Chase. "Several prominent fact are observed as one glances over our commercial history. The first of these Is its popular passion for paper money. No disaster has been severe enough to teach its people the dangers or speculative wealta. The second Is the fact that the longest and cruellst period of suff ering that this country ever en dured, previous to the civil war, wai brought on by political tampering with the currency. The financial question was a leading Issue In the re-election or President Jackson, and he had hardly stepped from his high offloe when the panic of 1837 spread dismay in every house hold. The third fact is the marvellous recupe rative powers of the country, as exhibited in the signal instance to take only one, ol the aggregate wealth of the country, in spile of the desolating panic of 1837, Increasing twice as much during the ten years from 1840 to 150 as it did during the ten years from 1850 to 18 " REPUBLICANISM. An Unfinished Mission While the Present Condition or A flairs Exists. The assertion that the Republican party has fulfilled Its mission presupposes that it was limited to destroying slavery and maintaining the Union. These were merely the obstacles it bad to encounter and the duties it was called to discbarge, In order to enable the Unioi: to live and grow and expand according to its vast ca pacities. Its real work began where th's intro ductory effort terminated. The south pas still to be restrained from interfering with the freed people. The power which brought pease out of war and freedom from slavery must jnow de fend both peace and freedom until Ihey are finally established. The Industries of ttie coun try must be maintained at such a pitch and so forwarded that they can bear the remaining burden of debt and grow in variety land vol ume. . This was the material pvrrr""" l- rac and of all later effort. A beginning (has been made under unpropitious conditions. J The be ginning would quickly wilt If consigned to the frosts of tree trade, the terrors of rnllmiled paper money issues, the want of manufactur ing and commercial energy, aud a haimonious development of resources. In order, then, to achieve what was the ultimate tbject - oi Republican labor, the party must be al lowed to reduce the debt and its interest; so that Ihey will not oppress Industry; to man age the finances according to fluancb.1 jaws. and perform such other service in this lireclioo as is appropriate. Tbe restoration andcnlarge- ment of our commerce is another fulfilled service. It Is true that Republican action has placed a steamship line on the Pacific and brought Asia direct to us; that it ha accom plished the sameservlce with Europeaod South America on the Atlantic. But as many keels as the war destroyed are to be restored, and our Infinite products, welcomed wherever they appear, must be scattered everywhere by a maritime revival in behalf of domestic industry as well as of capital. The manu factures of the country must be raised from their stagnation. Population must be lured from Europe lo extend western railways, and reclaim wild prairies, and open new mines, and graze new fields. And the character of tbe rising generation must be moulded to bear so great a legacy well. Ileraooraoy. seeKR office. It considers none of these things In tne right way to the best result- It is a foe where it should be a friend. Therefore quite as much for what remains to be done as for what has been done the country should retain the Repub lican party in power. It is the dutyand privi lege of every man to help this consummation, and be Is a fool or a knave who neglects because the mission ot tne Republican parly Is ended. " Tbe voters of Pennsylvania. are not fools; neither are they dishonest. They can see what has been done, and what tbe result is. We do not think that they want to reverse all this; to stop the reduction of the debt; Increase expenses again, and rush Into another era of extrava gance and misrule, only to pile up a burden that our children triil feel for years afterward? If they want lo undo ail that has been done, to tnrn back the hands and block the wheels or progress, there Is a very easy way to do it: Vote the Democratic ticket. The way is easy and the result certain. just one little sip of the hell-broth you have been brewing this sixteen years for your dishon est selves. ' ' From ' 'Hot Drops, " No. 2, page 3: 'Now we warn you, you cowardly, sneak ing, dishonest, treacherous, false-hearted, avari cious, mercenary hirelings or an eastern money power, that we, the ieoplc or the western aud southern States, including Pennsylvania and all or New York west rrom the mouth of the Hudson river, do intend to take possession of the government of the United States, hurl yon and your hondholding element from power, and create fur you enough legal-tender greenback money to relieve the general government from its embarrassments. REPUDIATION OK EVERY 1IOHD. "We mean that the debt of the United States Bhall be paid in greenbacks; and right here we inform you from the western prairies, that, so sure as God lives, if this question is not settled by lsso; K the law then does not declare that the bonds shall lie paid in greenbacks exactly as the soldiers or the United Stales were paid in green back money, we shall never again ask for such an issue or money, but will, rrom that hour, strike for the repudiation or every bonded obli gation of the government, and thus wipe out from existence every United Slates. bond, and their holders shall have nothing. Put this in your pipe and make the most or it! urs is an absolute government. It Is a government of the people, and by the eternal It shall be a gov ernment for the people, or It shall be smashed into so many fragments that each separate State will, in comparison, be a complete world. From "Hot Drops," No. 4, page": "If the government will not do this thing, then we, the people. In defence ol our lives, our liberties, our homes, our families, and all that the future holds out to us as a promise through the work of the rounders or the Republic, must overthrow this government, repudiate all its unconstitutional contracts, wipe out the in debtedness ot the United Stales, and commence anew. Therefore we say to those who adminis ter the laws pay the the bondholders to the uttermost farthing; in greenbacks, full legal tender money, aud ever after hold it at par with gold, or any other material of which money is made. Dojthls, or :we, the people, will be compelled, in self-defence, to repudiate you who are in Congress and the Presidential chair only as our servants to repudiate you and your unconstitutional promise to teach you who arc our servants, ami you who are our plunderers, a lesson that will last every one of you for all time to come. " From "Hot Drops" No. 5, page 15: "Now, the government has the absolute power to create money of metal or paper and to declare it lawful money, as it did create and did declare the greenback paper money to be. Therefore the government has no need to hire or borrow even one dollar; therefore It has no need to pay Interest for the use of that lawful money it has the absolute; right to create. Tills is the great principle we contend for, that ours may le a liorfect government. ' ' From Dot Drops" No. . 'But out of this National-Greenback party will come a Congress, so to speak, of patriotic men, and these men will declare a platform and prin ciples that shall have no uncertain sound, but point directly to the front, to the making of laws for the creation of an absolute greenback money that shall bo perpetual money of the United States and always a full legal tender for the payment of debts, one dollar of money al ways to pay oue dollar of debt. Then the de mand will be the payment of .every United States bond and claim against the general gov ernment in tills absolute money, thus forever wiping out the national debt. NO MORE BORROWING. "Next in order will be the declaration that the United States government, having the power to create money, as it Is needed to develop the In dustries of the United Slates, shall never more borrow a dollar, more or less, of any person, and that It shall never more issue United States bonds of any kind or. class, into which money can be converted to draw interest In idleness, and ail this Interest at the expense or labor. In dustry, morality and correct financial Integ rity. Then 11 Is that this assembling or wise and patriotic men, who are intelligent enough to be Independent, will declare a Committee ot Safety, whose business it will be to watch tbe work or legislators and others, and whenever a President, a Cabinet offjcer.a Judge, a Senator, a Congressman, a member of tbe Legislature, a Governor, or any servant of the people, shall be tray the interests or those who elected him, to kill him on the spot. " In the issue r.i Pomeroy's Democrat or June 1st, we bave the following advice given to the Greenback Ciubs: "In the organization of Greenback Clubs, we counsel every able-bodied member ol these organizations 10 become as proficient as possible In the manual of arms. In time of peace It Is well to prepaie for war. In every Greenback Club there should be a drill-master that is, in every club who e members are brave enough to stand at all tunas, under all circumstances, to defend their rlgr is as citizens. . . . We, the people, are in rebellion against the untaxed nobility of tins country. We, the people, pro pose to have our rights, peaceably, and by means of the Fallot, If possible, by the bayo net, if we meat. " It Is well to remember that the Democratic party never fails to surrender to the mob when ever It exercises local or national control. The foregoing extracts will dlsclrise some of the dangers of Democratic rulo to tbejBinds of re flecting persons who wish their coewtry well. up and realize uiv danger luai tiuouiun. The Brooklyn Eagle cannot discover why John Kelly should hate Mr. Tilden, whose only crime consists in bis having been elected Presi dent of the United States. We rejoice at the remark. It shows that Mr. Tilden Is charged with one crime ot which he really isn't guilty. The Republican party believes in the en forcement of law and the punishment of crime that what a man honestly earns or becomes possessed of he shall be protected in enjoying. Democracy is the party of lawlessness, riotous demonstrations, repudiation; Urccnbackism Is Its side show of financial Jugglery. Senator Hendricks Las done well, but lie Is wishing Just now that he had drawn it a tri fie stiffer on the currency question. Mr. Hondricks can read the mystic writing on the wall just as well as any man In politics, aud it says that In 1880 one of the signs out before both camps will be, "NoGrccnbackcrsor Inflationists need ap ply." A desperate effort is making by the Demo cratic journals of the oil regions to get some credit out of the passage of the Pipe-line bill. The record or the Senate shows that ten Repub licans and an equal number or Democrats voted for the bill, but the record Is by no means a iavorile source ol authority lor Democratic editors. Theyprercrto draw on their imagi nation tor facts. The Republican parsy proposes that the dollar for which the mechanic and laboring man works shall be the best dollar in the world. Democracy and Greenbacklsm declare that 11 shall be a piece of paper the value of which shall change as orten as the moon does, if not as often as the tides of the ocean rise and nil, subject to the caprice of gamblers and specula tors. Secretary Schurz states, and states cor rectly, that one-fourth of the national debt has been liquidated in tblrteen years, or since the summer of 1865. At the same rate of payment , the entire debt would be paid In 1917; but as the resources or the country are sure to In crease, we have no doubt or tbe debt being ex tinguished about the year 1907., when the thirty years' four-per-cents. will fall duo. Colonel Victor E. Fiollett, State Master of the Pennsylvania Grangers, can take bis place by the side or Rise-up William Allen, or Ohio. The latter declared that resumption or specie payments was "d barren Ideality." Mr. Piollett goes him oue better, and says that tbe assertion that paper has no intrinsic value is "the fallacy of the age." Ho regards it more valuable than silver or gold, because palls and car-wheels are made of it, and houses built or it. Whatever progress in industrial strength the Republic has made In the last seventeen years is attributable largely to the influence ot a firm adherence to the protective teiritr policy. Dur ing the most of the time, the Democratic party has repeatedly attempted to reduce all the pro tective duties, and has assailed all the states men advocating those duties as corrupt, incom petent, stupid and ignorant. In that period we have bad but two Democratic Congresses, and both ot them have made desperate attempts to abolish protection and adjust the whole scale or duties so as to give encouragement and prefer ence to foreign goods over domestic. That party is now preparing for a renewed struggle at the ensuing session or Congress on Ihesame subject. The Democratic stump orators tell you that the Republican party is responsible for the fall in coal, for the low price of iron, and the small demand for both. The Republicans might as well claim the credit for the most abundant bar vests that the world ever knew, which bave re duced tbe cost of a loaf or bread far below what any person ever dreamed or ten years ago. The finest wheat Is now selling at prices a third less than what it would have cost to grow It five years ago, and corn is only thirty-four cents a busbel. This is not the result of Republican Ism, and yet these prices have been made possi ble by tbe Republican theory of building up the west, inviting emigration, extending rail roads over the prairies, until the great farms of the northwest are the wonder of the world. The mechanic or laboring man, before he votes the Democratic ticket, should settle in his own mind whether It is better policy to ship our cotton to England and bave it made into cloth and bring it back for home consumption, or let the needy and hungry operatives of our own country manufacture it into goods. The miners of Pennsylvania should consider whether It is better policy to dig from tbe earth our coal and iron and manufacture it into Implements, and put it to lis various uses, for home con sumption and foreign markets, or to bring from Europe what raw material we use, or what manufactured wares we need. Tbe Democratic party has been and is still the persistent friend of pauper labor and speculators In Europe, while the Republican party has persistently labored to protect and build up American en terprise and commerce. Ihl ItpmnpnilM norlir von H,.n.. t.. ' r " tureor things such a party could notbe expected, to favor the growth of domestic industry, and It ' never did. From catering .to an agricultural , honestly belonged in the poor man's pocket, population at the south, it passed naturally lo5! Sixth Is it not apparent, from the cmisidcr eflbrts to make the farmers of the north and M"1"" t,"'s "y Kuiiiirii-.i,ti,iit i i.,r.,i.r west believe their interests hostile to protection ",rrpncy c,,,",1 "cdcviscd wincn would i.es. .i Bntnosoonerdi.fiho Ber.,hi., ..K,.:8W"tajB0PPreJivea8 '" interconvertible the power to enact a protective tariff thar Titd d8'b0mV ',n he la ' lon M ""P"80 so. and has firmly maintained that policy eve.' peop,e7, U f 'verm"ent rt ,e since. No sooner, however, had the war ended cons,ant "P1 lor for ,ue mTPlm money of ",e ami with it ii,a f hoX. h T 9 warenaea nch, who would use It as the resting-place for auu wnn it the vast demand for money, than I . the Democratic leaders renewed their attack0 upon the protective tariff, maintv nmiw th i. fluence oi the foreign oapltal centralized in New1' York. Every successive Congress since tht . I war has been HElisiim kvruninifi. ir..-. ,.'1 o J ..V...U...UI.U ID LI modify or repeal the protective duties. CONTROLLING TUB SOLID SOUTH. ' These did not gather much force until th''0 confederates recovered mi,m r .i, ,..'0ll south, and since that time tbe efforts at fret trade have been open, undisguised, and des-. xa Derate. In the last eighteen vr. ,wi,"" policy has erected a stupendous fabric or dc mestlc industry ail over the north and west, an in many paru or the south. The western lEnod dustries have risen to colossal proportions a luur w"!s impe mum uiau you ir by magic. Yet, in the only two Democratii.,3 realIy meant lt COQvey' fr your "cvery Congresses we have had since ism. the moj where" Is necessarily limited to our own oouu- liihnrirma pfTl rf a liana liann mi.ln n ,i ttS' protective system, and to enact tariff schedule'?.! for the discouragement of native manufacturer aud favoring the competing foreign goods i iim m- .. , i ....v.. j. 1 1 i .V11H.M i ii lj w;i eiecuu i.'1' .... or the House of Representatives, he appe"'"' . ,7 Committee of Ways and Means with aJetweu free-trade majority, which spent Its entire "j time in vain endeavors to mature andpm' free-trade tariff. Mr. Randall (Democrat!, me present Speaker, appointed a similar commit-J j tee, headed by Fernando Wood, an ultra free- f trade Democrat. That committee made the m most outrageous tariff for the oDDression of fJ American industries ever yet attempted. H ; was so intensely foreign that even the free trade organs opposed it as stupid aud foolish. The argument presented by tbe broad com mon sense of Andrew Jackson, that by diversi fying the employments of the people, the mar kets for agricultural produce would be im proved, has gradually become tbe accepted doc trine for northern and western farmers, all of whom favor manufactures for that reason. But It Is everywhere met by the Democrats with all tbe old free-trade sophistries used with so much effect in the ante-war times, and on which the class prejudices of the farmers were then based. Tbe northern and western farmers, however, know their own interests now mnch better than tbey did In those times. And they have seen nnder Republican auspices tbe exportation of northern raw products attain proportions never dreamed of by the statesmen of the free-trade school. Ah VANTAGES TO OUR INDUSTRIAL POPU LATION. Under the old Democratic policy, all the raw products of the Republic shipped abroad were paid for In foreign merchandise. Now the country ships tar more produce than ever, and at the same time consumes vastly more at home by reason of the increased magnitude of the in dustrial population. Thus our farmers and planters have under the protective system better markets both at home and abroad. In all the populous States of the north and west our manufactures are treble what they were In tbe old Democratic times.- The same policy that protected the American cotton crop into existence has made the country self-supplying in wool, bides, leather, Iron, steel, copper, lead, and fabrics of metal and textile goods. Tbe immense export trade, tbat has so largely reduced our foreign debt, and stopped tbe drain of gold and silver, Is wholly the work of Repub lican policy, and all tbe measures contributing to It were vehemently opposed by the Demo crats as a party. We present these facts and considerations to show tbat while the Democratic party has flour ished by the aid or foreign capital and foreign monopoly, the Republicans are truly favorable to a foreign commerce carried on by American enterprise, with domestic capital, in native pro ducts, and calculated to strengthen and enrich rather than to weaken and impoverish the nation. As tbe export trade is always tbe best commercial reliance, It is tbe firm belief or the Republicans that in proportion toour progress iu that will be the corresponding Importation or foreign products. Accordingly, tbe same tariff tbat protects domestic products in advanced fabrics Imposes no duties at all on Indispensable articles like tea and coffee, that we do not pro duce, and on all raw products used in domestic manufactures and imported from foreign ports. Under that arrangement, asound and wholesome foreign Import trade is carried on, which the pro tectionists foster and encourage, while the steady demand of the Democratic party is tbat this policy shall be reversed tbat duties shall be imposed on free goods, and that tbe duties on foreign manufactures shall be reduced. These principles will be found to be fully car ried out by the Democratic tariff, made in Con gress last, winter by Mr. Wood'scommltlee.but re )ee ted by the Bouse. That tariff was sus tained by the Democratic Speaker, and by the Democrats of the House, with few exceptions, until tbe very last moment, when It was rejected bv a close vole.. On that measure the two par ties now belore the people must be jndged. The same general features marked the Morrison Democratic tariff in the previous Congress. The Democrats sustained both bills, and the Re publicans opposed and defeated both. By taat record we ask the people to Judge, ''-rn'o. I Caiul.. It,, til lf Klu.l.lt.... I., I.......ut the workmgman. the government meanwhile Davine the rich man interest u the money that f0It""' wa f V, pcrn,i'neul ,a,,a mo"! scheme would end in making the government answerable for Interest on money that for tho time co J Id not be used In any other Investment. raj It would incur tbe general odium of taxing the ' r.T ......... r. . (ha Knnari f r.f Mm low ..f ..... :.li... f"-. . ... ' tne a coutribution to Py lntcr8N uu lue rich man's money, at a time when the govern- P3 ment did not need it and could not nse it. NO WAY PROV1DKO TO SECURE COIN. " "nre inai our panysiiouia nave taken - 8" Bround ,n favorof "u,e government's issuing aCfal1 he paper-note currency, tbe same to be erj-..e mm ur every pur " try, and you proceed yourseir to limit the legal tender rr ever' PurPse" declaring that the principal and interest of your interconvertible bonds shall be payable In coin. " The moment vou take the ground that the nrinclrjal aud - - - ,rltcrest ot tne bond'' thaH 06 Pall " yon u tci uu irrccuncuuuiy from the advance guard of the Greenback ;'"" uuui;ii.-r, who inu.- iu incur any obligations to pay coin. And you will observe that while your theory proposes to pay both principal aim interest ot your doiius in coin, you pruvjuc nu w jf iu Becnro toe uoin, DUE make your paper-money legal-tender for cus toms and all other dues. You seem to ap prove the wisdom of Republican legislation in so far as to make government bonds pay able in coin, but you fail to go with the same legislation in providing an efficient and certain mode of securing the coin. I note this as among the most glaring defects or your inter convertible theory one among many tbat ren der Its adoption by tbe Republican party Im possible. Moreover, the scheme would have proved lamentably insufficient to appease the demands of tbe "flat" money advocates. It wonld not even have proved a "sop to Cer berus, ' ' and to bave resorted to It would Justly have exposed the Republican party first to ridi cule and then to disaster. WHAT "THE BEST EUROPEAN THOUGHT" REALLY IS. Nor can I agree with you differing with full deference and respect that tbe "best European thought is hastening" to the doctrine you ad vocate. In the three mostenllgbtened aud pow erful nations of Europe England, Germany and France I question if a single authority can be found tbat woaid advocate, or even tolerate. the idea of the government issuing paper money aud declaring It to be legii-tender. ranee, no der the terrible pressure of her war with Ger many, never issued a single dollar of paper money, and she forced her great bank back to specie paymentas promptly as possible after the contest closed. The "best European thought, " so far as I can read its expression, contemplates no paper money except that which is redeem able In coin, at the will of the holder. If you can give me any recognized authority in any of these countries tbat advocates a different doc trine, I shall conress myseir obliged to yon for valuable information. There are thousands of millions of property in tbe northern States dependent for Its value upon tbe maintenance of public credit and tbe assur ance of a sound currency. This is not the prop erty of the rich merely, but of all classes; of every man KiiO has a deposit iu a savings bank; of every man wbo owns a State, muulcipal or railway security; of every man wbo has a policy of insurance on his bouse, or his ship, or his life; of every widow or orphan whose bread is derived from trust funds; of every pensioner whose fuel and whose food depend on the month ly stipend paid him for service and suffering in the war. For all these classes, and others tbat I might enumerate, scattered in northern States from Maine to California, the southern Bour bons are not the appointed guardians nor tbe natural protectors. But it becomes alarming wben we see their efforts aided and abetted by your weighty and eloquent words, by your great and venerated name. In all great struggles in the political world, issues become generalized and details are left out of sight. So It will be with this financial question. There can be but two sides to it; one for 'honesty money," the other for "wild in flation;" the one for maintaining the faith aud honor of the nation, tbe other leading to tbe verge and possibly leaping over the precipice of repu diation; tbe one composed mainly or those who stood by the government In the hour or Its trial ; the other deriving Us chief strength from those wbo sought to destroy the Union or tiie states. In the party for honest moaey there will In the end be many Democrats; and I am sorry to ad mit that Irredeemable paper has found some of its ablest advocates In the ranks of the Repub lican party. I am with great respect, Yours very sincerely, J. G. Blaike. IVlmt InvestiKihtiun Provm That Republi canism is the Only Safety for the Work, inginen of the Country. Tills continent was colonized by laborers. This country was hewn out from a wilderness improved, organized, and has been directed, as it still is, by laborers. There are no hereditary titles there are few great fortunes to transfer any one from the ranks or useful industry to those or unproductive leisure; and where an exception occurs it is cured in a generation. Tbe Republican party was organized or, by, and in the delence and assistance of labor. It liber ated millions or laborers as its very first act. and secured their freedom. At the same lime it grappled the great question or providing all labor with employment, and making that re munerative and steadily greater and more lucrative, and providing it with knowledge. Composed or, worklug with and for, and sus taiued by labor, and directed by a system whose operations and end consider labor In such complete and high sort as was never the case anywhcie before, the Republican party, by the thoroughness of its principles as much as by Its eminent deeds, has tbe right to be viewed as tbe most perfect and only labof organization in the country. It Is great and deserving for patriot ism, philanthropy, financial ability, military valor; but all these bave been designed and used to give the- State such completeness in every part, that every laborer would rise to the highest welfare and happiness. We present facts really known to every one because a few Individuals, Inordinately anxious to occupy places for which they are not quail fled, have assumed to be tbe laborers of the State and to direct and prescribe far all labor. They are arrayed elsewhere, but they are here. "Some of their complaints and some of their in tentions are correct. Some of each are perni cious, and their views could not be carried oat In the manner they propose without a conflict with other interests, and the interests or others deserving equal recognition with their own, nor without loss to the harmony or the whole community. On the other hand the doctrines or the Republican Labor party have not only been confirmed by Investigation, bnt also by trial. They are operating in and Improving tbe south. Tbey are building up the Pacific coast as well as the interior, the north and the east. They are sending our products over the world, regaining our bonds, bringing back gold, stim ulating our industries, and leave comparatively tew unemployed where lately hundreds of thou sands wanted work. They hurt no one, but help all. Those who would promote labor, directly and efficiently, should cast their votes for the Repub lican party. Others will disappoint them; this, never. Others will fail from ignorance of prin ciples, or ot their subject or their application, or from having overlooked related facts. This carries a perfected theory in ascertained meth ods, aud overlooks nothing either in contem plation or effect. It wars with no race or call- lug. It cannot Injure if it pbonM no rter,(. But the benefit is a known product of the ageut, and Its comprehensiveness and duration add to the first and sufficient reason. Plainly, the Re publican-Labor party should bave the earnest help of every wise man anxious for tbe highest good. Why the Democracy Was Beaten and Disgraced. From tbe New York Sun. It is not beaten alone that the Democrats are, on tbe whole, in the recent elections. They are disgraced also. Tbey had two positions, natural for them to take, which were Impregnable. One was the observance of tbe constitutional provisions for the election of President and Vice President. The other was tbe sound doctrine or a gold basis for the currency. Tbey abandoned both. They surrendered all principle, and withal were lgnomlnlously beaten, as they ought to have been. We do not say tbe Republicans merited success; but the Democrats certainly deserved the defeat they have sustained. For tbe Instruction of the Young. The Rev. J. G. Fnrnis, an English clergy man, describes bell "for the Instruction of the yonug. ' ' He says tbe place is about 4000 miles trom where he lives; that billions or people bave reached there, 'and that they are a screaming, groaning, yelling, shrieking, roaring, hissing howling, wailing, and tearfully blasphemous crowd, whose oceans of tears run down with a great splash upon the red-hot iron floors. " This will do very well for the yonng. Old per sons must, of course, bave something more substantial. Tbe young who read this cheerful little volume will be put in a very charming state of mind; and we may say, perhaps, that nobody m this world has the accurate and de finite Information regarding hell possessed by Mr. Furnis. P. S. We nnderstnud tbe Demo cratic ticket was unanimously chosen at the last election. Do cot forget, when you are asked to traile ou the Legislative ticket, that a United States Senator will be chosen by the. Legislature that meets next January. - " Lll'Lll IU VjIOVll.-T unthtTHlHlMl UM box nv matches? " He doth. " "Is tho brother willln, in this holy croosade uv labor agin capital, to buy his own matches, or is he so craven-speritid es to aak the Unlet to furnish them?" "He will buy his own." "Uath the wronged brother two dollars and a half In his trowsers to help thecoz,by supportln the agitator?" The wronged brother at this stage prodoosed the money, which I took to strengthen the cos, and then pe receded with the lecter. I remarkt tbat he wax a groviin slave, and that by layln still he wuz addin to his bonds. Wat he wantid to do wnz to rise. He wantid to demand an ekal divisbun nv property, and ef this reasona ble demand wuzn't acceded to, he wantid to de stroy wat property ther wuz. He wantid to de mand an onllmltld Issoouv money, to be divided In some way so tbat be wood git all tbat be wantid, and that tbe hours uv labor snood be fixed by law, and the wages also. He shood de mand slcb Icglslasben ez wood let him live 1 absloot luxury, no matter wat he wuz. The more incompetent or averse to labor be wuz the greater the dootynv the government to see that he didn't want for anything. Ef after be bed rlz and these demands wuzn't grantid then the matches shood come in. I iulsblated the entire force nv the factry, and the next mornln tbey marched in a body to the mill and demandla their heaven-given rites. The bloated employers tried to reason with em, and tried to show em that tbey was payln all they eood afford to In the present deprest con- dtshnuv things, and tbat they wuz glttln now ez much ez they wuz before, when the cost uv Itvln wuz taken into account. Tbey bed the impudence to tell em that ef they bed to accede to ther demauds that they wood hev to sbet up the mills, and one u v em told the men that ef tbey wood assoom the mortgages, ez well es the biznis, he wood be perfectly willln to re linquish It then and there. The workmen wood hev yeelded, bnt I have made em a speech wlch whooped it up agin. Tbey became lnfooriated and moved on the works. In less than a mlolt they bad gnttid it; in five mlnlts it wuz in flames, and in st half-hour it wuz in ashes, and the men firmly but determinedly moved off. The first battle for the rites uv man hed brn fought in Factry vllle, and tbe first victry n v labor over capita ui 1LDUBUI.&J um uiu nimiw. The men wuz Jubilant, and I congratulated em. We adjourned to tbe grosery and poured, out libashens nv sod-corn whisky over our tri umph. Things wuz boomin' for a day or two. I t- " nally the men begun to git sober, and went home to their families. I notise by the Qiose nv tbe third day an ominus change in the de.neanor toward me. "Is the bosses goin' to bild agin?" they asked one uv another. "I ruiher think not," wuz the anscr. "Tbe fact is, all that they bed wuz invesud In them iniUs, and that is gone. They hain't got nothln to build with. " 'The merry hell yon say. Then where are wa goin' to git work?" That staggered em. They loafed about In listlls sort ov way for a day or two, but they didn'tenlhuseverymuch. Invl tashens to take suthin began to be uncomfortably lnfrekent, and. there seemed to be a disposlsban- toward me that I didn't like. - V.Yoo see," sed one nv em, "that we her succeeded In getting our rites. We hev crashed capital. It is very crushed. Wepever saw a more complete crushln ont nv capital than this is.' Bnt we can't see where we hev made any thing by it, to any alarm in extent. We have bustid capital effeclooally, and hev bnstld ourselves Jlst ez effectooally. The meat barl is low, the flour is gone, and we hain't got no work. Yoo sbowd ns bow to bust capital now s pose yoo kindly show us to git more, and hev it better organized. " Hev yoo no asplrasbens for a higher and better life?" I replied: "Do yoo want to con- tinyoo to grovel at the feet bv yoor oppressors? Hev yoo no pride? ' We bed pride, " wuz the anser nv this slaven "bat that vanishes. We hev stamicks which is alluz with us. Wat yoo want to do is to git out uv this seckshnn in Jlst three mlnlts, or we'll ornament a tree with yoo. " I left afoot. I bed the lnlsbiasbun money In my pockit and a soot nv c'oze tbat I rescood from the burn in mill and absent-mindedly for- nnt A aulr wHn nwncl -m T itM.tl .1.. 11 .. nuu - " a uiuu . M nun ez Kerney, bnt it served my purpus. I shel go back tho, and see if I can't reorgan ize em on tbe onlimitid currency nosuun, and make good Nasbnels nv em. There are a lot of mowin m aab.ee ns In tbat vicinity tbat need burnin, and ther are a dozen or more places that strikes and stch kin be organized in. Tbe rites u v man must be established in Kentucky. Petroleum V. Nasbt; Organizer. We cannot afford to lose a single seat in the Senate. The control of that body, which has tbe confirming power over all of the Presi dent's appointments, has already passed from our hands, but the majority Is small. See to it tbat Pennsylvania does not send another Demo crat to sit with Wallace.