Piqua Morning Call, The (Newspaper) - July 19, 1884, Piqua, Ohio PIQUA OHIO SATURDAY JULY 19 1884 JAMES G In His Letter Accepting the Presidential The Tiro Political Parties are U in Direct Conflict Fifly Years Democracy lias Warred Against Labor A Specific Law on the Tariff is Not Demanded Adjustment to Trade Requires a Frequent Revision But Free Trade Means to Lower n the Standard of Attention is Called to Our ly Wealth Our Shipping Interests Foreign Policy and the South Civil Service Extend to Diplomatic and Consular Service Jit Error to Com meree ot the Country lim as There In BUTer ence Between the and th Sooth America Should be Settle by Land Should or to Ac Settlers Only After the business of the country was and Tariff At the end of twenty years of the United States rei ie Census of amounted to the enormous segregate of forty-four thousand This great result was attained the fact that hail in the interval been wasted iu bloody war It that while our bo- ween 1800 increased sixty per cent he aggregate property of the country in- creased two hundred and fourteen per a vastly wealth per capita among tiis Thirty dollare liad been added iese twenty years to tho of the Nation These results are the oWer tte world phenomenal That out surmount the peril and war and for un entire ot twenty years make an average gain to wealth of one hundred and million dollars per mouth surpasses the ex- of all other Nations ancient or Even the opponents of the present revenue system do not pretend in the whole history of civilization any parallel can found to the material progress of the United States since tho accession of the power The iod between and has not one of material prosperity only Afc no ime in tha history of the United States has there been such progress in the moral and and charitable schools seminaries and colleges been founded and endowed far more generously than at any previous time in our history Greater and more varied relief has been human Buffering and entire progress of tho country in wealth has dignified by a euing and of pill national character as a people Our fault that our system a surplus But they should not forget that the law has given a specific purpose U which all of the surplus is ably and honorably reduction of the debt and the consequent relief of the burden of No dollar has bean wasted and the only extravagance with the party stands charged is the generous pensioning of soldiers sailors and their NO 173 our chief cereal they sold in the average of the years tbo close of war three bushels nt homo to oue they havo sold and that in the case of com only other cereal which we export to any ex- tent one hundred bushels have used at home to and a half bushels exported lu mine yearn the has been so great that for every peck of corn one dred bushels have been consumed in the home market The farmers sec in the ing competition the of sia and from the distant plains ot India the growth of the home market becomes daily of greater that its would every acre of tillable land in the Union OUR Such facts as these touching the growth oud consumption of at home give us pome slight conception of of tho commerce of the United States They suggest also that in addition to the ad- which the American people enjoy from protection against foreign competition they enjoy the of free tance of five philanthropic and Christian principle of arbitration The effect even ot it for tho American most ami has tbe confidence of people in our ly It fell to my lot as Secretary of State in June ISSl to quiet in tho Republic of Mexico by giving tho disputed that there is not the faintest desire in the United States for territorial extension south of the Rio The boundaries of the two havo been established in conformity with tlie boH interests of both Tho line of is not merely It a more It separates a people from a people It one great nation from another with 1 in a what prolonged never found if ex- to request or recommend tlie removal of a civil except jn four and then for which were with appointing power The officers in the of my Uie test of ex- for to West It Had 1 by UW to a officers I found tlie tlie tenn stant ion to changes for e f lu ie law n of the offered con- trade over a larger area and with a i population any other nation reater ternal commerce of our thirty-eight States and nine Territories is carried on without lot 01 hindrance without tux detention or interference of any kind whatever It spreads freely over an area of three and a half million almost equal in ex- tent to the whole of Europe Its profits afs enjoyed by American f and from no monopoly is created According to Hamilton he subject In 1780 the internal which takes place does away with thing lite monopoly and by degrees reduces the prices of minimum of a i reasonable profit on the capital j It is impossible to point to a single monopoly i in the United States that has been created or fostered by tho industrial which U these exchanges are inconceivably great upheld by the party 1 Compared with oSr foreign coi in merely as one mentality as large a mileage of railway as ex- ists as large a in AUGUSTA ME July as The Hon John B and o the Committee etc accepting the nomination for the Presidency tendered me by tho is con- Convention I beg t sense of tho honor which i jmd of tho duty which is imposed I to the acceptance with the questions involved in the whose settlement may affect tho future of the nation favorably or unfavorably for a long series of years In enumerating the issues upon which tho Republican party appeals for popular port the Convention lias been singularly ex- and felicitous Tt has properly given the lending position to the industrial interests of the country us affected by tariff on im- ports On that question the two are radically in Almost tho fust act of tho Republicans when they camo into power in tho establishment of the principle of protection to American labar and to American capital This principle Republican party bus ever since steadily while oilier hand the Democratic party hns for fifty years persistency reel upon Twice within that period our opponents have de- tariffs for protection nnd since tho close of the civil whenever they tho of hostile legislation has Iwon MOD of is the Republican party can bo trusted to it in such form as will most effectively aid the industries of V1 V 0 UR FOREIGN COMMERCE A f accusation by our opponents ia of tho country has steadily decayed under the influence of the Protective Tariff In way seek to array the importing interest agonist the It is a common yet to confound the commerce of the country with its carrying error committed innocently and sometimes designedly but an error so gross thut it does not between the ship nnd the cargo Commerce represents tha exports and a country regardless of of the vessel that may carry the trade hns from obvious causes but our foreign has in the same period steadily prodigiously indeed at a rate and to an amount which absolutely dwarf all previous developments of our beyond the sea From to the present time the foreign of Slates divided equality between exports and reached the astounding aggregate of twenty-four thousand millions of dollars The biOance of this in our favor but it would have much larger it our trade with the countries of America elsewhere referred to had been more wisely adjusted It is difficult even to appreciate the tude of our export trade since IStt and we can gain a correct conception of it only by comparison with preceding results in the simo field The total exports from the States from tha Declaration of in down to tlie day of Lincoln's election in to all that had been from the American Colonies from their original settlement to less than nine thousand millions of On the other hand our exports from to tlie close of lost fiscal years exceeded twelve millions of lars whole of it lie ing the American labor Evidently a protective not injured our export trade under its influence we exported m twenty-four forty per cent moro than the total amount that had been ex- ported hi the entire previous history of American commerce All the details whoa analyzed with this gigantic other nations of the world combined These internal exchanges are by the Statistical Bureau of Treasury Department to be annually twenty times as great in amount as on foreign commerce It is into this vast field of Borne once the creation and tin eigu nations are striving by every device enter It is into this field that tho opponents of present revenue system would freely admit the countries of whose internal we could not cally enter countries to which we be surrendering every advantage of trade from which we should gaining re- turn EFFECT UPON TIIE MECHANIC AND THE A of this kind would be disastrous to the mechanics anil of the States Wages are unjustly an industrious man is not able by his earnings to live in comfort educate his ren and lay by a sufficient amount for the natural We seek the of peace We desire to our commerce and in an especial with our friends arid neighbors on this We have not improved our tions with as wisely and as persistently as we might have done For More than a generation tho sympathy of those hiis been allowed to drift a way from should now luuko every effort to gain friendship Our trade is already large the last year of our in hemisphere amounted to three hundred and fifty millions one fourth of our entire foreign commerce To those who be disposed to value of our trade with tho countries of North America it may bo well to state that their population is fifty that in proportion to aggregate numbers we import nearly double as much front them as from Europe But the the whole a high degree The imports during the past year two: hundred and twenty-five while tho exports were less than one hundred millions a balance against thari ouo hundred millions of dollars Bui the go to Spanish America sunis to Europe in coin or its to pay manufacturers for the goods which they fo Spanish America but paymasters for this enormous amount annually to European Amount which is a serious draft in every depression upon our resources o Cannot this condition of trado in Cannot the mar let for We tlie ot tlie law would be hi many roquets observation In tlie of State con- firmed tlie of my ence and with conviction lie rule of impartial might with ad- carried beyond ot the Civil iService It be applied to be commercial the globe with for country's in- Their and be- come therefore matters of No man should be to au American con- who u not well instructed In and resources of his i awn country in tlie re- and of commerce in tlie country same rule should CHOLERA AT ______ if WilW at Parts IMS to luy thy precaution mtf by the Department will be carried bat it all prominent French No w says hav appeared in Paris and the city In a very good sanitary condition WASHINGTON July Cabinet meeting ust held was attended by Kolger Teller and subject of ho introduction of cholera into the United Statin was already taUen wero approved and others looking to an extension of ry wore also Although the action can not be It hi understood i that it waa to adopt additional safeguards in in- to ments fumigation of mails AKt July tho past wurs there have been thirty-four deaths cholera at Marseilles and twenty at of public business ahil this appointing as the prior ulterior TUC MORMON liberty lithe citizen of Uie Is forbidden by the takke any law tha of religion or prohibiting the exercise thereof For a century Protestant and Catholic Jew and Gentile liave God to tho dictates of BuC religious liberty must every State of Hie and of must be for our products bo enlarged have made a in our tc our trade relations not be content and mutually advantageous arrangements bwn successively nixie with every nation of North and South America While tho great of steadily enlarging their colonial domination in Africa it is the especial province of country to im- and Nations of America No field so much No field hns so Our for- eign policy be policy in its broadest and most comprehensive a policy of peace of friendship of commercial enlargement name of American which to us in our National capacity must al ways exalt the just pride patriotism ot no llian of certain they us to continue the rite of lumian sacrifice Tlie taw loes not interfere a it takes of what lie does As tlie are to civil und they be con- fined Polygamy receive or toleration the community upholds it as a Stale In tlie Union Like ers the Mormons must learn that the liberty of the individual ceases where the of society begin i The people of the United States though urged and tempted never plated Uie Recognition of any other gold into them They not they not do so under any necessity less than that of Desperate war Tlie oue special requisite for OK completion of our monetary system is the fixing ol tlie relative values of silver and gold The larys UP Nzw July were ures hi the United States reported to during tho week against foi in the preceding week ItB Wl Ai corresponding weeks of and 1881 respectively AND NEW YORK July The Hot Nut and Bolt Company has rhe company was incorporated iu i a paid up capital of at OYSTER DOWN NEW YORK July Brothers oyster packing sey City and Kishing Island has made im assignment Tho company hud a- capital stock r ON WHEAT -j July 10 Harmon Co one of tho largest commission houses necessities of age The reduction of wages inevitably consequent upon throwing ouri Republic the panoply anil home open to tho world would de- prive of the power to do this It would prove a great calamity to our country It would a conflict between tho poor and the rich and in the sorrowful tion of labor would plant the seeds of public danger more conspicuously thaii in their of the Union never had f such growth as they have enjoyed since Our the City of New Yoik with its dependencies hus within that period at thi late session of Congress THE TARIFF Revenue laws nru in their very nature sub- ject to frequent revision in order that they may lie adapted to changes and modifications of trade Tho Republican party is not con- tending for f ho of any particular The issue between tho two parties docs not have reference to a specific law It is far broader and far deeper It involves a principle of wide application and beneficent influence against n theory which wo believe to be unsound in conception arid inevitably hurtful in practice In the many re- visions which havo been necessary for the past twenty-three years or which may after become necessary the Republican party has maintained and will maintain tho policy of protection to American industry while our opponents insist upon a revision which practically destroys that policy The issue is thus well defined and able The pending election may mine tho fate of Protection for a generation doubled bar population wealth five fold nnd her the d During tho same period th have entered an The Republican party lias steadily aimed to just relations capital with faro the rights of A between has always led In the past and will always lead in the to the injury both is indispensable to the creation use of capital and capital increases tlie and of labor arrays the ono against the other is of both That policy harmonizes tho ou tho basis of absolute justice The lican party hns protected the free labor of America so that its compensation is larger than is realized in any other country It has guarded our against unfair competition of contract labor China and may bo called upon to prohibit tba growth of a similar evil from Europe It is obviously unfair to permit capitalists to inako contracts for cheap Jabor iti foreign countries to the hurt and disparagement of the labo American a policy like which would leave the time anil other of labor exclusively in- the control of the is injurious to all not the least so to the unhappy persons arc the subjects of tho contract institutions of tlie United States rest intelligence and virtue of all Suffrage is made us a of to It is not the interest of the Republic any economic system should bo adopted involves he cure in his nnd civil rights The Republic a lesser duty it can assume n nobler orie than the of man who owes it home and protection which follow him abroad into whatever land he go upon a lawful errand SOUTHERN STATES I recognize not without regret the sity for speaking of two sections of our com- mon country lint the regret diminishes that tho elements which separated them are fast disappearing Prejudices have yielded and are yielding whilea growing cor- warms the Southern and the Northern heart alike Can any one doubt that between the sections confidence and esteem are to-day more marked than at any period in the sixty years preceding tlie election of President This is the result in part of timo anJ Republican applied un- iler the favorable conditions of uniformity It would bn n great calamity to change thest influences which Southern wealths are to violate civil rights nnd adapting themselves to the conditions of political and industrial progress If there and violent outbreaks in the South tin's peaceful the public opinion of tlie country regards them as exceptional and trusts that oard of Trail o have suspended failure was announced on Change with the simple statement that tho firm was unable to meet Harmon Co has been as the strongest and most conservative houses in the commission business doing Their liabilities are about private fortune is estimated at twice that amount The firm short on wheat onil corn largely hurbor are more than double and value the whole amount exported bv between the settlement of the ny on tlie of the out- break of the civil war in AND TARIFF The agricultural interest is by far tho est in and is entitled iu every ad- justment of revenue laws to the ation Any hostile to the fullest de- of agriculture in tho United States must bo Realizing fact the opponents of tlie present of revenue havo labored very to suade the farmers of the United States that they are robbed by a protective tariff and the is thus made to consolidate their vast in favor of free trade Bub of to the hard standard pre- vailing elsewhere The psirty aims to elevate anil dignify it- to CIVIL SERVICE each will prove the lust Tho South i capital mid occupation in manufacturing enterprises The value of years wealth has not been acquired in ouo cial record which seem to constitute a States The farmers see that in ISOO of 1850 an effort was made Illinois had about tho same timo in our history to obtain a between eight mid nine hundred million of tho property in tha United m had States The attempt 111 largo decree un- advanced to twenty-six hundred millions successful Portly from lack ot while to thirty-two from among many thought tho millions They see that inquiries foreshadowed a new scheme of Iowa wero just in population in ation the returns were incomplete ami un- ISOO and that iu twenty years Hie wealth of satisfactory Little more was Jono llian to Now Jersey was increased by the sum ot eight UK local valuation used in tho hundred fifty millions of dollars while purposes of assessment and that tho wealth ot Iowa was by the sum RS everyone knows widely from a complete exhibit ot all tho property fifteen hundred millions They see that tho leading agricultural of tho West Jn the census of tho work so rapidly in the dis- Aggregate to their Wealth since was lono with tinction between value and value being carefully observed Tho result was is almost as groat as tho wealth of the e carefully observed Tho grand in that year They sco that the that tho true of all thn South is almost exclusively States nnd Territories to fourteen has in tho general prosperity aggregate was net result of tiia A n from tho loss if war gained so that tho double of that As a substitute for His industrial system which under administrations has developed such our opponents offer a policy is but a series of our system of a be harm to our greater harm to our labor Experiment in the industrial and financial system is the country's greatest dread as stability is its greatest boon Even the tainty resulting from tho recent tion in Congress has hurt fully affected tlie business of tbo entire country Who can measure tlie harm to our shops anil our homes to our farms and our commerce if tho uncertainty of tariff agitation is to be upon the country 2 We are in the of an abundant wo are on the eve of a revival of general prosperity Nothing stands in our way but the dread change in tho industrial system has wrought such wonders in tire last twenty and which with tho power of increased capital will greater marvels of in tho twenty yearn to como OUB POLICY Our foreign relations favor domestic development Wo are at peace wilh the peace upon a sound basis no unsettled of magnitude to us our geographical position tion or interest in those of dynasty or boundary which so disturb of Europe we arc left to cultivate friendly relations with nil and are free from possible entanglement in quarrels of Tho United Stales bus no cause and iio to engage in conflict witli any power ou earth and wo may rest in assured that no to attack the United AVith Uie Nations of tlie Western wo should closer and for our common prosperity and we all to join with that the nil not as any of North the South needs tho full of revenue laws which Republican party offers of the Southern States havo already entered a career of and These at k lend votes to own future Any effort to the Southern upon issues grow out of tho of the will summon tho Northern to in the of that was in the civil great energies which should united ui common industrial d inent will ba in strife of all tho people tho it possessed in exclusivo of slaves ot tho United States from the first extraordinary tho British in 1007 to year 1800 It tho toil of two and fifty impulse ot see that financial and The Democratic itself a foe to prosperity by always and urging Southern political consolidation Such a policy quenches the rising of in the heart of the Southern it revives nnd stimulates it the spirit of barbaric tho love of peace and THE CIVIL The general character of the civil service of tlie United States under all administrations hiis been In the i lie collection ami disbursement of record of has never been in any nation With the almost sums which were received and paid ing Hie late war scrupulous integrity wa prevailing rule Indeed throughout trying period it can be said to tho honor c name unfaithfulness among civil officers wero as raJ i is and dishonesty oil tho field The growth of tbe country has continually anil necessarily enlarged tlie civil service it includes a vast body of Rules and methods of prevailed tho was nave been and im- anil earnest been made to separate tlie mass of terial partisan and control in tho modo to bo on ami of tenure to Ije on faithful duty nro Iho two curls to Tlie public business will bo by separating Hie legislative branch of thu from nil control of reasons for an international agreement Our Govern L nut cease until a common o be reached and ard that the United States to tha silver frora its mines us balances of Commercial ge Tm The strength of the Republic is increased by land Our should look to the judicious encouragement of act ual lers on the public domain which should forth be a sacred trust for the benefit of those seeking homes The tendency large land in the ownership of individuals or corporations should wilh proper regard m ed rights be One hundred thousand acres of land hi the hands of one man Ls fur to the Nation in every way its is among one evil of larra tracts of the National by the few against the many Is enhanced tlie fions it are aliens It is but that the public Linil should of only to ual settlers mid to those who are of tho Republic willing to become so OUR SHIPPING the foreign II very seriously crippled in our civil anil another blow was given to it in t s i- of steam for sail in ocean a frontage on the two with larger than that of any other nation we havo every inducement to restore our navigation Yet tlie Government has its help A small share of the by the Government to ways and a small of the capital nnd the aeal given by our citizens to those enterprises would have carried our ships to every sea to every port A taw just enacted removes home of the upon our and this great interest may at last its of attention Alt in this ioa should receive OF THE This survey of our condition as a Nation re- us that material is but n eiy not tend to preserve the A free LS the safeguard of without no national is assured A popular election tile very of Imu Ten millions of voter desire to lake thn contest Tho safety of rests upon the of lite lot the security of suffrage to the citizen To no worse a against constitutional liberty than to obstruct the of an honest vote no who corrupts root of free ment He is the arch enemy of the lie in trampling upon the of he fatally his rights is n good land which the our Ood doth rive us but we can only by ent mnd i July several de- busy making and appointments in with ions of tho one were in as many office n will in tho patent which will give that Commissioner says force to Voep up the work of the office which is now several months this force occupied hy tlie Indian will be placed at the disposal of tha and tho re- to the building recently occupied by the Census Office Oil Jidy a will beheld for in Patent All provided for by Congress are made after examination by Civil Service Boards Trial Va July trial of J Davis for killing John Dillinan some months ago just occurred in the ings Court has aroused interest owing to tho fact that both men were well The case has gone to the jury THE MARKETS July Pork 50 Cut Short rib clear rib to arrive long clear sides to arrive Hams Lord Fully fair fair to good fair I am vim of popular ymir Hint servant BALTIMORE July delegates to represent Mainland at the Convention which meets at Pittsburg on next Wednesday to nominate candidates for President and Vice President of tho United States Win R Silverwood RoM Mclaughlin C S Higgins Samuel S Rov D II Clark Rev Henry E Johnson Rev E D Newman Daniels S M Anderson David H Borne Hasting John Ij Thomas arid Oliver H Bruce A few others are yet to be Tho delegates leave for Monday prime strictly prime Good common refinery centrifugal fair to prime in- ferior to common Steady at 11 CINCINNATI July Family 20 50 spring patent 00 No 2 red spot track OOc No 3 mixed Ko 2 No 3 Mess family 15 23 50 Kettle jobbing shoulders short rib sides sugar cured hams breakfast bacon pickled bellies A NEW YORK No 2 red August Mixed Western spot futures Killed for Seduction E July tragedy has just enacted at the John Mess Mess 50 Steam Butter creamery MILWAUKEE July September Corn Oats Rye MXc Stock Good ta choice butchers if air to medium common 25 good to choice heifers tl Fair to good packing So C5 common M M 00 to fair good to choice 63 to fair frl 75 good to choice t Jo 50 and some at GO America shall bo m at same limp firing The ball en- medium f5 00 to side and ho will die from 50 per cwt medium to good t3 75 25 choice extra Rait NEW YOKK July is July meeting I t ua on at of the c a a f Irving General Committee resolutions market opened fairly active firm taboiS wero adopted endorsing Cleveland and tho same as on inch for President and President A favorable indications for the i m to make an early clearance T a ion meeting
