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.
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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.