The New York Herald Newspaper, September 28, 1875, Page 3

_—_—_ sane NEW ) + PALL RIVER STRIKE, | An Attempt to Resume Work at Several Mills. ° THE SIGNING OF THE AGREENENT DECLINED. A Visitation of the Mills by the Operatives, MASS MEETINGS IN THE PARK An Application to the Mayor for Relief. FIGHTING IN THE STREETS. eens Bricks and Stones Thrown at the Police. TROOPS SENT FROM TAUNTON. A General Feeling of Insecurity Prevailing. Faw River, Mass., Sept. 27, 1875. At early dawn to-day the operatives were astir in the streets, meeting im groups, according to previous ap- | pointment, Each mill was to be opened at the regular hour—half-past six o’clock—and the hands were to pre- sent themselves and demand admission on terms simi- | ‘ar to those that governed when they lefton “vacation,” | It was well understood, however, that they were not to | go to work, because, late last evening, several manu- | facturers had declared they would’ not recede from their | position, If it was to be fight, then let it come; and , they have already had fight, and will probably have more before they get through. As the bells rang at the anilis the operatives pressed to the gates in Lodies of | ‘fifty or sixty, It was but a short parley in most in- | stances, In two cases the overseers presented the agreement, and the majority simply refused even to look at it, the meeting ending by a shower of stones at the windows, giving, as I stated on Saturday, work for the glaziers and the police, The general feeling was opposed to listening to the conditions in any form, OPENING THE BALL, The firet trouble was at the Borden Mill. As aman by the name of James Hannaburg was about to go from the yard into the mill he was met by Superin- tendent Wood, who immediately ordered him out of the place with his followers, who did not intend to go | to work under the new conditions, While the Superin- tendent was ordering the men away the overseer camo | rushing out of the office, as Hannaburg says, and Placing a pistol at his head shouted :— “Leave the yard or I'll shoot you,” The man replied that he was a coward to draw a pis- tol, and soon afterward Hannaburg’s followers com- | menced to hur! stones at him, and, notwithstanding the pistol in his hand, he was compelled to retreat into the mill office for safety. ‘This was like the first taste of blood to the tiger. The operatives have all along consid- ered themselves outraged and insulted, Whether right or wrong they believe the manufacturers designed this flank movement to deceive them and deceive the public. Suf- fering thus from wrongs long pending the were de- | termined beforehand to bring matters toa crisis to- | day. trouble. As this party left the mills their number was | increased by hundreds within a few minutes. After j hurling a few stones as a parting salute to the Borden Mills, they proceeded in the direction of the Union Mills. | Here, of course, was another crowd, and they all joined | and formed a procession. A good deal of interest was manifested as soon as the following notice was observed | written on the Union Mills property :— AN INCENDIARY NOTICE. Moxpay, Sept. 27, 1875. Now, boys, burn Rock street out; it will find some- body work. Now is your time; do’ it at once. D—n the insurance! " Burn every agents’ house you come to. ‘The point of this notice will be much better under. | stood when it is stated that nearly the whole of the mill | owners and agents live alonga very fino street on the hill, in pretty cottages, similar to those of Newport-and elsewhere, and had any one been rash enough to apply the match it is questionable if he could have been de- terred, so excited had they become. There was great tumult as a few of the representative weavers en- | deavored to hold back the mob, but, in any event, the | help did not go into the mill, but went to ‘join the pro- | cession. Shortly after this, trouble occarred at Mon- | taup Mill, where a few operatives had signed the { document and were about going in, tliough there wero not enough to keep the mill going. A short | This little skirmish was sufficient to start the | parley ensucd between the union elp, | some of whom . had “signed,” although in almost all cases the non-union help ut- terly refuged, Tt did pot take long to bring mat- | “ters to a point here. “Sign or leave,” sald tht over- | seer; but the crowd answered by pouring a volley of stones at the windows, resulting in their entire demoli- | tion, and cries of “Bread!” and “Tyranny!” From here | the crowd pushed on from mill to mill, meeting with insult and rebuif as they progressed, which rendered | the state of affairs extremely critical, Some hands had | gone into the Osborn Mill against the wishes of their friends, and as the steam was up it was supposed they | were about to start. The parties said they had a right | to work for nothing if they chose—they wanted to work under the conditions. The mob did not attempt to goad them, but sent a few stones through the mil! | windows, destroying the glass on one side of the mill. Probably about 300 persons were in the vicinity of the Flint, Wampanoag and Bernard mills. Good humor, though of a noisy description, prevailed. MILLS AT WORK. | Large numbers appeared at tho linen mill, but the | majority refused to sign the bond. At this—one of the | largest mills in the city—thero were only twenty-five weaveys working this morning, and one mule spinner, The ring spinners were all present and most of the garg Ona spOeling help. A few weavers signed the | hg defayed going to work Wile oo x an was over. At the Motcome! ‘ant fWenly-jine Weavers signed the bond, eight épiinere ang @ Portion of the | other branches of help alg sified and were at work. | In the Anawan Mill tht, epinners were at work, a few weavers signed. ‘na the other departments had each a few. In t's White Mill fifty weavers went to- work; £8 ‘spinners and about the half of the other divisions are running, In the Robeson Mill a few only pre- sented themselves and signed the agreement; but there were too few to start the works, though quite the full complement were willing to commence without the signing. Tho Pocasset Mill did not start, as. there was not help enough willing to work under the new conditions. The Quequechan did not start its machinery through similar causes, Ateach of these mills large wambers ot the operatives, both male and female, presented themselves, but refused to sign, and then left the mills. The Mechanics, Weetamoe, Narragansett and two border cities, started up their wheeis. Tho help put inan appearance sufficient to Fun each mill, but were mot at the doors by the officials and requested to sign, refused, and loitered in the vicinity of the mills about half an hour. They have only three weavers in one mill in the border city works, ‘The Narragansett has about ton hands in all, The Saga more did not get steam up. A policeman was at each mill, The Richard Borden mili etarted up with a good com- plemont of hands, though a large number of those who had already signed the document refused to go in, The Staltord mii did not open the main entrance; but the help were asked to pass through the cloth room and there append their signatures to the document pro- vided. This they refused to do, ‘Me Granite and Merchants’ were running, but with only a few hands, The Crescent made po attempt to glact uy, The Chasq. | going to the park, had gone along Bedford street, thence | iar | meeting, for the general ‘understanding was that a | speaker was old Mr. Bilteliffe, who seemed almost be- | vised them to appeal to public sentiment and the senti- | her claims for the oppressed, forbid any other than the | most cordial support, | composed of Messrs, Coffin, Harritnan, Tecumseh, Daval and Robeson mills were also tuwse vs help. AN IMPOSING PROCESSION. It may readily be imagined what a crowd had col- lected by this time. They had been round to almost every mill, and, after ascertaining what was being done or What was to be done, the straggling help from each establishment joined in, and so the procession was quite an imposing spectacle. There were some eight thousand pergons on the streets talking and gesticulat- ing when the head of the procession was met by a Mr. D, G, Harriman, A MASS MEETING, After hearing the report as above he asked them to go quietly to the park and hold a mass meeting, he going im the meantime to get the necessary speakers. This seems to have been the first sensible hint given during the round, They at once marshalled in battalion file, the women walking with the men, and went to the | park, collecting around the music stand, As they went up Mam street they received constant accessions, and | by the time the speakers had arrived—at about half- past nine o'clock—there could not have been less than 12,000 persons present, By this time all the humor had vanished. There was no longer the trifling and jocu- larity that had been observable during the early morn- ing. One fact was apparent—they had no leaders, There was a certain undercurrent that showed a spirit of impatience to have the matter settled, either one way or the other. A few police- men in uniform had followed thd procession to the park; but it afterward transpired when the arrests were made that many more mixed | with the people, being dressed in citizens’ clothes. Buch a sight has probably never been seen in the coun- try before. Here were these thousands of people, all dressed in working costume, standing on the damp grass, under the chilling imfuence of the cold breezo that came off the harbor, anxious to hear even a word that should encourage them to.do just what was neces- sary at the time, Low murmurs arose, like the break- ers dashing on the seashore at a distance. It was a | sea of upturned faces, whose sombreness was relieved | only by the dainty sprigs of flowers in the bonnets of | the females as they towered up above the caps of the men and waved to and {ro in the breeze. Among the speakers wero H. B. Coffin, Henry Sevey, D. G. Harriman, Jonathan Biltcliffe and several members of the committees of the different labor organizations. The procession, in | down Six-and-a-Half street, and thus by way of Pleasant to Main street, In this way it had taken up a large delegation of female operatives, who otherwise | would have known nothing about this impronfptu meeting was not to be held until the afternoon. “Go | for Rock street,” “Go for the mansions on Rock street,” shouted several, as if with the intention of | moving the speakers to a little harshness. The first | side himsetf with rage at the continued attitude of the manufacturers. His advice was rather short and rather severe, ‘We have done all in our power with the owners of mills to obtain oar rights, So far we have failed, and they still continue to hold you to their terms. I am avery old man now and have not long to live, at the | most, and I scarcely care whether Iam arrested to- | day, for what I am about to say to you I would die to- | morrow before I will become a slave, and there are thousands of others like me. __I will curse idleness, but while there was bread in the town J would go and take it.” : ‘This was followed by great cheering and much ex- citement. MORAL SUASION SUGGESTED, When Mr. Sevey came forward he briefly showed | that, considering all the circumstances, it was a most | serious affair, He thought that the conditions asked were altogether unwarranted, and that these terms the manufacturers must have known | could not have been accepted, excepting un- | der a starving condition, but to refuse the help from that which they did themselves in the | form of combinations was illogical and unwise, He ad- ment of the country, and make a special appeal to the people of New England by having a mass meeting in Boston, and securing in their cause men like Phillips and Garrison, who would readily help them and be able | intelligently to discuss their cause, so that it might be thoroughly understood. It was a matter that Massa- chusetts must take up. All her traditions, her history, { If she doesn’t support you now, when your rights are assailed, when can assistance be of any moment. On motion of the chairman, Mr. | on hands, shoulders, wherever @ blow could bo given. | revolvers in their hands, and soon afterwards came Precisely at eleven o’elock the crowd, numbering from 8,000 to 10,000 men and: women, arrived at the City Hall, some thirty marching %n advance, As they came down Main, street they carried loaves and half loaves of bread on rough poles, which they held aloft amid great cheering by their followers, Next an American flag was seen upside down as a signal of distress; followmg this again was a large card, on which was written, “Fifteen thousand white slaves to be sold by auo- tion.” ; ‘This inscription was surmounted by a loaf of bread, and, of course, was intended as a rallying standard. As the head of the procession reached the front of the City Hall the Chief of Police, heading a large platoon of officers, was seen crossing Bedford street, as if the necessary signal had been given to arrest them as they arrived in front of the municipal beadquarters. The police marched in single file, and immediately in front o! the Mayor's oilice turned and faced the crowd. Every man stood ready for a rush, Very soon the dele- gation went to the Mayor and made their request that he should provide them each with $2 a week, this amount to be given to every man and woman, ‘The Mayor came forward and said their roquest was simply an impossiple one, He could not think of any such assistance while there was work for all of them, and advised them quietly to disperse. si A CHARGE BY THE POLICE. At this the crowd closed up and began to force the police back on the sidewalk, hooting began, and when some one shouted “Let's take what we want,” the Chief of Police, City Marshal Wright, gave an order to charge, Instantly every officer produced his locust and struck right and left, hitting some on the heads, some across the face, ‘The crowd gradually gave way and broke in the direc- tion of South Main street, The police followed and soon the bluecoats were surrounded and hustled hither and hithér in the street, At the corner of Pleasant street, which separates the City Hall, and facing on Main street, is a large, new, red brick building, known as the New Borden block. As the police pressed the crowd against this building a number of operatives leaped in through thg doors, and seizing the bricks and pieces of stone then being used by the bricklayers hurled a shower of these unwelcome missiles on the heads of the officers and striking some of their friends This was evidently done under the excite- ment of the moment, In a moment half a dozen policemen had rushed into the building with forth dragging out Joseph Burke, Martin Burke, James Clifton, Michael McCabe, aud Joseph D, Abson, whom they began at onge to draw towards the Central office. Now a terrific yell was raised, The main body of the police then rushed forward to prevent the rescue of the prisoners which was immediately threatened. ‘Rescue em; take ’em aw Draw your knives and revolv- ers,’’ were the cries; and the storekeepers then began to close up, for the stores were threatened. Soon the | whole crowd had pressed again in front of the Mayor's office, and swayed heavily towards the five prisoners | who were being taken away around the corner, The | police had given some of the operatives considerable punishment, and there was some difficulty in getting another rally, In the meantime the officers took ad_ Vantage of the temporary suspension and cleared the centre of the streets, and thus, for the time being, they were masters of the situation, A few broken heads and noses and other petty wounds were all the injuries sustained; but the murmurs of revenge fright- ened the authorities, and the Governor was appealed | to for troops. He immediatoly replied, promising aid | by the next train. ARRIVAL OF THE TROOPS. Accordingly, at half-past two o’clock, Companies F and G of the State militia, from Taunton, under the command of Captain Thompson, arrived, and were taken to the Military Hall, They were received by the excited operatives with groans, hooting and hissing; but | the men showed excellent temper, and only smiled upon the operatives. A large crowd started for the Borden Mill a fow minutes before noon to meet the help in that cor- poration as they left work. The military, in the city have been ordered to be in readiness, and another force will arrive from outside places in anticipation of trouble. The workers in the linen mill who went to work this morning were assaulted and hooted as they were entering the mill forthe afternoon labor. Quite anumber might haye gone in but for the threatening language and attitude assumed by those on the streets and around the works. In the neighborhood the ex- citement was tremendous and threats, both loud and Coffin, a committee of six was appointed to | wait on the Mayor to ask his assistance , in view of the circumstance. The committee was | Sevey and a, member from the weavers, spinners and carders | unions respectively, They then left the crowd 1m the | park and proceeded at once to the City Hall and had | an interview with Mayor Davenport. _A number of | manufacturers and agents, including Messrs. Durfee, | Healy, Daval and others, followed the deputation into | the municipal offices, in order to be present at the con- | ference. The Chairman asked the Mayor what he | thought of the terms offered by the manufacturers to the help. He replied he coukl see nothing wrong in | thom, and won!d be willing to sign it at any time, The trouble was, he said, the help did not understand them. | He was then asked if he thought it was reasonable for | the masters to demand that the help should renounce | all their asociatious, wherever they might be ruled by | the will of the majority, while they themselves were bound by an association whose rules demanded just that which they would have the operatives now re- | bounce, Without replying to this the Mayor said, “Can you | tell us of any method by which to inspire the running | | ' ' of our mills without these,constant interruptions?” “We don’t seo,” said Mr. Sevey, “that you can ex- pect torqn your mills without interruption, because You must acknowledgé that you cannot run them | without interruption at all. It is not with the help; it | is withthe markets. You are throwing upon the help that which originates in poor markets. It is with | these you must deal. You cannot accomplish it by | cutting down the help, There is a point beyond which you cannot go down, and if your products go down to four and one-quarter cents where then will be your labor limit?” He said there certainly was a limit, but that they had never gone so low since the war. He was then asked what assistance he would render | the help. | He sald he did notsee that the law gave him any special privileges in this respect, He was reminded that but for the threats and untair attitude of the owners there would now be no strike. A Manvractcrer—Do you charge us with tyranny and inhumanity? Mr. Corrix—No; we simply charge you with mis- understanding human nature. Mr. Sevmy—Can you ask any man with a heart in his bosom, with any love of country or self-pride, to sign 2 such conditions , » The aie Je fhot see 80 much objection to them; but as to the assistance, I could only send such as are citizens to the city almshouse. Those who are not citizens would have to go to Titicut, the State Farm- house, an institution near Bridgewater. Mr, Sevey—Then you will have to build a dozen more almshouses. ‘The Mayor—No; what the city and State cannot pro- vide for must be quartered on the buarding house and hotel keepers. se begs d Sdia ee Pos eee? areas ASKING FOR RELIEP. At this time some twenty-five men were shown in and asked His Houor to assist them, a8 they were in @ destitute condition, The Mayor—I cannot give you any reficf go long ag there is work for you. You must go to work. ‘The Speaker of the Twenty-flve—I fought to free the slaves in the South, but! will not become asiave my- self, I will tramp or die first, ‘The delegation then returned to the park and reported the interview. Great indignation was now expressed, Mr. Coffin suggested that perhaps they could do bet- ter themselves, and thought that if they went quietly to the City Hall they could hear for themselves, At thie stage of the proceedings the platform on which the speakers wore standing gave away, precipitating quite a number to the ground, but fortunately without accident, Order was soon restored, and Mr, Sollars suggested that the meeting adjourn until two o'clock P. M., to allow the committee full opportunity to report. ‘This suggestion was strongly resisted, and finally it was decided that the crowd should remain until a report was received, deep, were continued, It is reported that some of the city authorities were injured, among others the Mayor, who was, it is said, struck open the shoulder by one of the female help. After the first feeling of surprise at the sight of the troops was over, the people began to reflect on probabilities, It was evident that the Governor had been told that the situation was desperate, for the troops were here within three hours of the dating of the application. He ordered the city | militia to be kept in the background while he sent the | third regiment from Taunton to do whatever fighting might be necessary, As soon as the troops came in they were stationed within the hall over the head- quarters of the Fire Department, two standing on guard, with crossed bayonets, at the entrance, while the others created great indignation by showing them- selves at the windows to the operatives, who were col- lected in front, | ‘This is an outrage against the city,” said one of the | Weavers’ Committee; ‘we shall at once have a delega- | tion sent to Boston to see the Governor, and ask to have these troops withdrawn. If they are not we | cannot be responsible for what will occur next,’? THE APTERNOON MEETING. : At three o'clock the whole force of operatives again met at the park, this time to discuss the result of the tussle with the police and what may arise from armed occupation. | “{tts true,” said one man, “a few companies of troops are not much, but it is the authority behind them that should be respected.” ‘The meeting this afternoon was nearly as large as that of the morning, but much more conservative, The warlike tone of Father Biltcliffe was considerably lessened, though he was still in favor of teaching the mill owners alesson. He was not in favor of submit- ting. At the same time ho saw perfectly well that any further incendiarism of speech would lead to fatal consequences, ‘ Mr. Morgan, of the Weavers’ Committee, made an earnest appeal to them not to disturb the peace for a fow days, until he had had time to communicate with the authorities and to co-operate with the other bodies. “I want these troops to be homoguards,” said he; “that is, that they shall return home to-morrow.” I beg you don’t give the manufacturers an opportunity of saying that they have forced you into a riot. When CARL SCHURZ. The Distinguished Ex-Senator on the Financial Question. HIS RELATIONS 10 POLITICAL PARTIES. Evil Effects of Inflation Upon Our Politi- cal and Business Life. AN APPEAL TO OLD TIME DEMOCRATS. Inflation a Synonym for Centralization and Corruption, THE EFFECT ON RICH AND POOR. A Day of Jubilee for Thieves and Speculators and of Sorrow for the Laborer. 3 Cincinnati, Sept. 27, 1875, Hon. Carl Schurz addressed an immense audience at Turner Hall, in this city, to-night. Hundreds of | people were turned away unable to gain admission, Mr. Schurz spoke as follows;— THE sPERCH, Mr. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW Crrizens—The merchants and business men of Cincinnati have greatly honored me by inviting me to address the people of Ohio as an advocate of honest money. For that horfor I offer them my sincere thanks In obedience to my own sense of duty I have accepted that invitation, deeply sensible of the magnitude of the question and the far reaching im- portance of the declaration of sentiment which the people of Ohio will soon be called upon to make at the ballot box. But, before proceeding to discuss the issues at this contest, I owe youa preliminary statement of a personal nature. Iam told that my appearance in this campaign has been represented as part of a concerted plan to lead independent voters of the country into the ranks of the republican party and commit them to sup- Port its candidates in the Presidential election of 1876, ‘That story is an idle invention, I know of no such plan. If it existed 1 would not bo a party to it Independent voters have minds of their own, and I respect them too much to believe that they can be transferred to this or that side by any indi- vidual or combination of individuals. Besides, 1 not only do not seek to commit anybody olse as to tho Presidential election in 1876, but I do not mean to com- mit myself. lreserve to myself entire freedom of judgment on that matter, to be exercised when the exigency will arise; and I advise everybody else to do the same, My relations with the republican party are no secret. I have deemed it my duty as a Senator and citizen to combat the errors and transgressions of the set of politicians that controlled it, and to attack the abuses grown up under its rule. I was in earnest. I thought I was right when! did so, and it is no mere stubbornness of opinion when I say I think so now. Not only have I nothing to retract, but I am sure re- cent developments convinced many good, conscientious republicans that bad our appeals been heeded in timo that organization would have saved itself many humili- ations. It is, therefore, no sentimental partiality for the republican party that brings me here. Whether | the republican party will put itself in a position to do- Serve support in the Presidential election in 1876 re- AY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1875.—-TRIPLE SHEET, not wish to see President Grant’s secret desires grati- fled on this pomt. I am honestly and earnestly op- posed to the furtherance of that renomination by the Success of the inflation democracy in Ohio, If there are any Grant men in this campaign they are those who advocate Governor Allen’s election. “The truth is, there were a set of republican politicians who thought they could permit themselves any iniquity if they only raised the cry of “rebel.” Others think they could permit themselves any iniquity if they only Taised the cry of “Grant” I opposed the former as faise pretenders and upon the same principle I oppose the latter, for it is my sincere conviction that there is. Just a8 little danger in the tricks of wily politicians who try to hide their mischievous schemes behind what they believe a popular cry. No, my democratic fellow citizens, I have not changed since. I stand upon the same ground which I occupied when you cheered my utterances; I advocate the same principles and serve the same ends to the same sentiments which you then so loudly appiauded. I ask you now to give a patient and candid hearing. As democrats you protess to be above allin favor of two thin, iirst, the strictest mamtenance of the limitations of governmental power as an indispensable safeguard of free institutions; and, cond, an honest and economical conduct of our public affairs, Its fidelity to these two things ts the particular boast of the democratic party, and upon this fidelity it bases ite claims on popular confidence and support. As to the necessity of these two Neg we fully agree; in fact it was while contend- ing for the maintenance of the constitutional limitations of governmental power and for the restoration of honest and economical government that the independents broke with the controlling influences of the republican party for which you applauded us 80 loudly, Now that J protest we are in earnest and in faith in that struggle, actuated not by any motives of small personal spite, but by a sincere solicitude for the integrity of erepublican thstitutions and the public good, and, being in earnest and in good faith, we must recognize our duty to defend that cause against whatever power, whatever party may imperil it, against democrats no less than against republicans. Were you, democrats of Ohio, in eurnest and good faith also when you represented ‘the strictest Hmitation of governmental powers and hostility to corruption and extaavagance ag your pet principles? Examine your present attitude, You adopted in your State Convention a platform insisting upon an augmentation by the gen- eral government of its irredeemable paper currency, and now I assert that those who advocate an inflation of our irredeemable paper currency, although calling themselves democrats, are advocaiing an assumption and exercise of power by the government fur inoro overreaching and dangerous, and a corruption and profligacy far more demoralizing and oppressive, than any we have so far experienced. Alter showing from the document itself and from the speeches 6f Governor Allen that the demand em- bodied in the platform, that tho currency should be in- creased in order to meet the demands of trade, is inflation in its worst form, as the principle, carried to its legitimate result, would make it continuous and in- definite, the Senator proceeded:— DANGEROUS POWER OP THE GOVERNMENT, Now let me return to the point from which this was adigression. 1 affirmed that jthose who advocated an inflation of our irredeemable paper currency, pretend- ing to be democrats, are advocating an assumption and exercise of power by the government far more over- reaching and dangerous, and a corruption and profligacy far more demoralizing and oppressive than any we have yet experienced, thus betraying the very principles Which the democratic party puts in the foreground in soliciting the confidence and support of the people. First, then, as to the limit of governmental power. You, my democratic friends, insist that a strict limitation of the powers of tne government, according to constitu- tional principles, 18 the most essential and indispen- sable safeguard of popular liberty and free institutions. I contend for the same doctrine. But you insist also that our irredeemable paper currency shal! be augmented according to the supposed wants of trade; and who is to determine what the wants of trade are | and to what extent the yolume of currency shall bo augmented? Of course, the government. Have you considered what that means? In specie paying times the amount of coin circulating in a country is regulated | by the circumstances of business. If there is more than finds profitable employment, it will flow out and go where it tinds a better market. If there is legs than the wants of trade require, it will become dear and flow in from countries where it is cheaper. The issues of a well regulated banking system, basod upon specie, will conform to the same rule, Temporary disturbances, brought on by panics or artificial operations, may arise; but on the whole the rule holds ) Tne government has no arbitrary con- trol whatever over the vulue of the cirrency. It sees to it that the coin struck in the mint be of the pes standard of value, it punishes counterfeiting, it regulates the banking system so as to make it safe, and then it lets currency and trade in their relations take care of themseives, That is sound democratic and also sound financial —- and practice in the true sense of the word. There the government is re- duced to its proper functions. But how is it when an irredeemable paper money prevails? Then the volume of currency is not regulated by the circumstances of trade, the paper money not having outside of the mains to be seen, Whether the democrats will do so remains to be secn also, My opinion has long been— | and I have not concealed 1t—that the patriotic men of | the Republic might do better than depend upon either, | That well meaning citizens should so frequently have’ | found themselves compelled to support one party, not | because it had their approval and confidence, but be- | cause the other party appeared still worse, 1s acondition | of politics unworthy of a free, intelligemt and high- | minded people, ana one of the most prolific sources of | the corruption and demoralization of our political life. | In that situation we have been for years, and there is now something going on in Ohio which threatens to continue that state of things in the year 1876, only in an | aggravated form. Proclamation has been mado by | the democratic leaders of Ohio that this State cam- | paign is to be of decisive effect as to the issues of the Presidential election of 1876, and in the very front of these issues they have placed one which in- volves not onty the national interests but the charac- | tor, good name and the whole moral being of the | American people, An attempt is being made to secure | the indorsement by the people of the greatest State of the West and one of the greatest in the Union of a financial policy which if followed by the national gov- | ernment would discredit republican institutions the | world over, expose the American people to the ridicule | as well as business life more than ever the hotbed of | gambling and corruption, and plunge the country into | all those depths of moral ana national bankruptey and | ruin which, as all history demonstrates, never, never fail to follow a course so utterly demented in its wickod- | ness. The advocates of inflation im this State, as they themselves give us to understand, expect the people of Ohio, by the election of the democratic can- | didates,’. to declare their approbation of that | financial policy, that inflation fever, which will, under ie stimulus of such success, sweep like wildfire over the Western and Southern States, overwhelm and subju; the Democratic Na- tional Convention next year, dictate its policy and ite candidates, and in 1876 put an inflation party in the field strong enough to defy opposition. 1 candidly con- fess 1 see reason to apprehend such conse- quences. I do, ind not undervalue the importance | of the manly, honorable and patriotic condemnation | ronounced by the Democratic Convention of New | ‘ork on the doctrines preached by their democratic | brethren here. It was an act deserving the grateful | applause of hg good citizen, but I doubt Aeg & se- niously whether that act will stem the flood if the Infi tionists in Ohio are successful. Pennsylvania has al- | ready followed them, and it is but too probable that the sectional feeling which the inflation movement strives to excite in the West and South will be in- flamed to more intense bitterness, and that the financial question will be used as a new agency to revive the cause of sectional warfare in our politics, | Let us indulge in no delusions. The success of the in- flation party in Ohio will be the signal for the general | charge along the whole line to submerge the best prin- | ciples and leave helpless in the rear the best leaders of the democratic party, and, spurred on by reckless dema- | gogism, to capture the national power by a tumultuous | rust. This {s no matter of more local concern, as some weak persons pretend to believe, It is a national danger which all good citizens should unite to avert, and which | can surely be averted only by the defeat of jpflation here. I repeat, therefore, I have not come whitewash the faults of the republican party, to all peaceable means have failed, when all our efforts prove fruitless, then. Other speakers took the same conciliatory tone. 4 PEELING OF INSECURITY, 1 ee onid Gigald Tate GOs Tatar to-night, 80 Tne meeting broke up muttering discontent and shouting, “Down with tyranny and oppression,’’ but the feeling to-night is that of insecurity. Every police officer is on duty, and the immense crowds are kept moving on the streets. As the militia companies passed from their quarters to a hotel on Main street for the purpose of equipping for the night and taking supper they were loudly kissed at by malo and female operatives, who ive for its shortcomings, or to serve its party wo ap spittin DB ere 18 an incaloalable rpischlet thrigys Pat ek and T sTiih!y tPF to do my duty as ott 1, 4” XppRAL TO OM10 DEMOCRATS. I beg loave to address my remarks directly to the democrats of Ohio. In view of our former relations, I trust they will not, for this direct appeal, accuse me of impropriety. When I, as an independent man, in the Senate and before the people, advocated a icy of conciliation and justice with regard to the ‘outh; when { attacked official corruption and the tr ions of those in power; when I denounced Violations of the principles of the constitution perpe- trated by republican officers of the State, you, my fel low citizens, lavished upon me expressions of applause and confidence for which I was duly teful, but the had watched their movements and had followed them from one place to the other, THE WILKES-LATHAM LIBEL, ‘The examination in the case of George Wilkes, proprietor of Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times, who is ac- cused of publishing certain alleged libellous articles concerning a former employ, James F. Latham, came up yesterday at the Washington Place Police Court. Mr. Wilkes appeared with his counsel, Mr. John R, Follows. Mr. Hussey, tho cashier of Wilkes’ Sptrit of the Times, was examined by Mr. Brooke, coun- sel for tbe prosecution, as to the pubdli- cation of the articles in question and as to who was the author, when Mr. Fellows said that there was no necessity of proceeding furthor with that line of inauiry, as Mr. Wilkes was willing to admit tho authorship and take the responsibility of their publica- tion, A certain article, published August 28, relating to Mr. Latham’s career in New Orleans, was then brought up, and Mr. Horace M. Jordan, of the Brook- lyn Eagle, dnd Judge K, T. Fellowes, of the Fourth Dis- trict Court of New Orleans, were called, on by Mr. La- democratic inilationists seek to discredit my good faith by the accusatton that I have changed sides. Let us sce. In 1872 I stood before you as an advocate of the liberal ticket, which had also been adopted and sup- | ported by the democrats, That ticket was nominated | pon a atform containing a8 an essential part of its political faith the following resolution:— THR PLATFORM oF 1872, ‘The public eredit must Le sacredly maintained and woe de- hounce repudiation im every form and guise. A speedy re- turn to specie payment is demanded alike by the highest con- siderations of commercial morality aud honest government, ‘That platform was solemnly indorsed and adopted as the political faith of the democratic party by their na- tional convention at Baltimore. Upon that platform they stood then and upon it I faithfully stand to-day, Democrats where are you? In making that declaration of principles I was in earnest. It your leaders betrayed their declared faith what right have they to accuse me of deserting my cause when I resist its betrayal by them. Again they pretend that from opposition to General Grant I have turned around to speak for bim and promote his re-eloctton. Let us see. In the ver- batim Mi ofaspeech made by Governor Allen at Mansfield, I find the following language EXTRACT PROM GOVERNOR ALLEN’S SPERCH. Thave some reason to believe, aud not a small reason either, that Grant, in his secret heart, wants the democracy to carry Ohio, mn order that it may be said by his partisans, “Now, no other man can rescue the country but Grant; there” fore, we must have Grant.” tham’s counsel to testify to the character of the com- plamant, Both witnesses stated that they had known the complainant from 1863 to 1869, and that his charac- “Will you sign?” Onally asked the Chairman, “Never, never, never!’? was repeated from all parts. The provessign Map formed and lel the york, tor was beyond question and his associates men of in- tegrity and honor, Some further testimony of the same nature was taken, and the case wag adiourned to Aisa age : ‘ Bae Youdemocrats will certainly not accuse your candi- date for the Govervorship of. telling a deliberate un- truth fhe says he has good reason to believe that President Grant desires the democracy to carry Ohio. Then, of course, big reasons must be good; We have | us the country that value which specie possesses. It does not flow out and in as the needs of business may require, ‘The quantity the country shall have is determined by the arbitrary will of ‘the government. This is a | power of awful extent and significance. It is not disputed that the value of the pur. | chasing power of an irredeemable paper currency is fected by the quantity in circulation. | and that other siroumatanots such as the confidence of the people or solvency of the government romaining the same, and appreciable expansion of the currency will result in its depreciation and vice versa. Butas the currency changes in purchasing power s0 the money value of all you possess, and all you have to buy or to sell chan, also. So that the power of the govern- ment to determine the quantity of currency that shall be in circulation is virtually equivalent to the power by its own arbitrary act to increase or decrease the money value of all the private property in tbe land. In other words, the private fortune of every citizen is placed at growing poorer; the country ts full of distress; some- thing must be done to afford relief, Atl this and there are many well meaning men who, troubled b; their difficulties, grope about fora remedy. Yes, it i indeed, necessary that something be done to affo: relief. The question is what something should be. As wise men we mast first in the nature of the disease before determining upon the method of cure. The Senator here gave the figures, showing that in! 1873, when the business crash occurred, there were more legal tenders and bank notes out than ever betore. over $2,000,000 more than in 1868—and yet just tha year last mentioned has generally been called the yeas of unexampled prosperity; and when daring all these years tho currency hud reached its greatest volume that collapse came which the inflationists will have ug believe was caused by contraction. THR CAUSKS OF THE TROUBLE. No contraction of currency whatever, rather an ex- pansion of it; but industrial enterprise overleapmg it- self; an extengive production of things for wl there was no immediate demand; the ginking of ital im great undertakings which could perme no immediate re~ turn; windy schemes, stock gambling, wild speculatio: in all possible directions and the creation of imagi Value; wasteful extravagance in private expendie tures and high living; a morbid desire to get rich without labor; an excessive straining of the credit system, until finally the babble burst and the peopia found that they were 4 no means as rich as they had Ratiwred themselves. So it was there and so it was ere. WILL INPLATION PRODUCK RELIEF? Now, it being conclustvely shown that the depression of business was not brought on by the contraction of the currency, but by causes which always produce sucht results, the question recurs whether an inflation of cur rency will furnish the relief we need. You say that, though the banks in business centres are full of money lying {dle tor want of employment, we want more currency. I tell you business can have as mucky as it likes without any farther act of the government. According to law every one of you or any association: you may form havingthe necessary capital can start @ bank of issue. A general license to that effect through, the free banking act was given by Congress last winter. We heard so much of the West and South wanting more local circulation and starving for greater banking facilities. Now you can make yourselves comfortable. Ail legal impediments are removed. You can issue any: amount of currency, but behold, the currency will no® inflate one cent’s Worth, And you, worthy patriots, who clamor for more currency do not lift a finger to create more. Why? Here is areason given by the Cincinnati Enguirer:— fl ‘Thora is not currency enough tn cirealation to, buy the bonds to deposit with the national government and obtaim national currency in exchange. This is genius; it ranks with the most Drillian® financial utterances of Governor Allen himself. But & appeal to you—business men, laborers, farmers—-who honestly desire to do right and look up’ to your party leaders for instruction, if you want an instance of im= pudent, insulting assurance with which these men de- pend on your being too ignorant and stupid to tell am obvious fact from an obvious falsehood, look at this. Here is the great representative organ of inflation de= mocracy, the tabernacle of its brains, the feeding pipa of its wisdom. And now, while everybody knows. thi millions and millions of money are lying aaa in the business cengers of the country, East and West, looking for investrhent sufficiently safe; while every= body Knows that in every large city in the land thera are dozens of éxpitalists with abundant means which they might devote to the creation of bank paper issues if it were profitable; while everybody knows that there 1 Scarcely & town of respectkble size without men ot means fully able to form a combination for that pur pose, that organ, fighting the truth as its personal en= emy, coolly asks yout to believe that there is not cur- rency enough in the country to p ermit the purchase oft bonds as a basis for further national bank issues, But the absurdity of that statement appears in its tull glory when we look at all the circumstances of the case. No! only did the business of the country not show that it needed more when it refused to issue more in spite off its opportunities, but it proved that it had more tham itnceded by surrendering a large portion ot the banks currency in circulation, After graphically and at considerable length showing, the comparative effect of inflation upon the rich mam with his means and knowledge of the’ probably cause of things enabling him to grow richer and richer and upon the poor man with the resultant increase m the price of necessities without any corresponding ine crease in the price of wages, the Senator coutunued:—w THK CREDITOR CLASS. We are told that an expansion of currency and its, consequent depreciation witl benefit the poor inas-) * much as it will benefit the debtor as against the creditor by enabling the former to pay off his debts in less valu than that in which they were contracted. The morale, ity of that argument I will not discuss, I prefer leave it to the conscience of the people, But let ui look at the pretended facts upon which it is based. it true that the poor men are the debtors of the coun-~4 try? To contract debt requires credit, and credit ig based upon the means with which to pay. He then showed that the sum of §$1,200,000,000 im, owing to the laboring people and men of’ small means,’ constituting their savings to thatamount, That cl: are creditors, and you pretend that for their benefit yor will expand the currency. Gold being at fifteen cent premium, those savings have a value o! $1,020,000,000 in gold, Expand the currency until gol is thirty per ceut premium and you have robbed thosa, people of $180,000,000. Expand it until the gold p inium is fifty per cent and you have stripped then od $420,000,000 of hard-earned money. RESUMPTION THE ONLY REMEDY. Whatever other schemes may be devised, they do no& even pretend to have a permanent and final settlement of the question in view. The resumption of specia payment is the only rational one, for no other system will remove current values from the reach of the arbi-< trary power of the government No other can give ta, current vaiues that stability without whi no safe business calculation cap be made. No other can restore confidence, which is the. first pre« Tequisite of a new period of prosperity. But the re~ the mercy of the government’s arbitrary pleasure. | You cannot venture upon any business enterprise; you | cannot sell or buy a lot of merchandise | on time or even for cash; you cannot make | & contract involving the ‘outlay or payment | of money, but the government will have the power to | determine whether it will be to your profit or Kons, and perhaps, in extreme ci whether it will make you | rich or bankrupt. This, then, is the awful power of a | government intrusted with the office of making and | ing the volume of currency equal to the wants of trade. You may ask me ‘Cannot the Congress of the United States be depended upon to exercise such a power with wisdom and discretion?’ The Lord pre- make and keep the volume of currency equal to the | wants of trade than by a return to a specie basis, where | trade and currency may adjust themselves. But give most honest and intelligent Con, we can ever | expect to be blessed with, and the adaptation of the | volume of an irredeemable paper currency to the ever | changing wants of trade by annual legisiation will be found an utter impossibility, Alter referring to the Legal Tender act and the emer- | gency out of which it arose Mr. Schurz continued:— PRUGALITY, ECONOMY AND HONESTY. Now @ word about inflation. As the price of corrup- | tion and profligacy you, my democratic friends, profess | to conte nd for frugal, économical, honest, pure govern, | ment. Sodol. Is there a single candid man among | ou who sincerely believes that frugality, economy, | nesty and purity of government can be promoted by | an expansion of our irredeemable currency, or is even | in any way compatible with it? Let us look at a plain, | practical side of the question. It has frequently been | asked, How are you going to get your additional green- | backs afloat? The query seems to have caused some embarrassment, and the abswer has usually been :— “Oh! we shall get it out somehow.” But there is no need of indefiniteness, The matter is capable of precise statement. Obviously there are two | ‘ways to set additional currency afloat. One is by buy- | ing up United States gold-bearing bonds in the market | or by buying gold to pay off the bonds as they full due. | | But it ts certain that this method will answer only in a very lmited measure, for this simple reason—as you put out new greenbacks with the prospect of a large | emission the greenbacks will rapidly depreciate as to | gold, and, as the bonds are payable, principal and in- ‘terest, in gold, they will maintain their gold value, and their price in paper money will thereby become so | high that the method of putttng out green! by | purchasing bonds will soon become very and | be drop] Or if you m ‘i nds, i which, 99 anier ag Bah esent no declared paepots, “ifsc, you would simply repudiate tin, and not buy them upat all,. But there is an- | other way to put ailoat new issues of greenbacks. It is | by carrying the expenses of the government beyond its revenue, and this, I have no doubt, will be resorted to as the favorite method. Do you know what that means? Imagine a Congress making appropriations of money for the avowed purpose of getting’ out, putting afloat, spending as much money as possible and adopt- ing systematic Ni gu fs retad in expenditures as a ne- cessary measure of financial icy to the end of j making and keeping the volume of currency equal to | the wants of trade. What a day of jubilee there will be aniong. the fbn tom eopettaniti sig aaa can in, not only wealth, but res; ity, by stealing as wich as possible of the public money. Let it be known | that ditches must be aug, that embankments must be thrown up, and that railroads and steamboat lines must be subsidized for the very purpose of spending moncy, that “the volume of the currency be made and kept ual to the wants of trade.” What a harvest of jobs, whata hd of rings this blessed country will bear; what a;glorious time for enterprising contractors; what & seductive season for Congressmen to help a friend for a little share in the profits; what a carnival of frand; whata flying about of stray millions— for, mind you, money will be no object; on the contrary, it must be spent, and the more spent hegange haps the reenbacks inust be got out in obedience to the man- jate, ‘to make and oop the volume of the currency equal to the wants of traae.”” No, fellow citizons, this is no jest, This is no ¢: ion. You adopt a tinan- cial policy making it the duty of the Dational govern- tment t0 put out new issues of currency in any way that will serve the object quickest, and unlimited extrava- nee will be the necessary, the inevitable consequence, ‘here never was a State ever so well administered; there never was a people ever so he ag there never was a government ever so careful, which did not, by the emission of large quantities of irredeemable paper money, run in the vortex of profligacy and corruption, It has hever been, it will never be otherwise. * * * Democrats, do you ask for the confidence of the people on the ground that you are enemies of corruption and friends of economical, honest and pure government? sumption of specie payments is also the only possible solution. It must at last come. Even the infationister while wildly seeking to throw difficulties in its wa} still admit that fi it must come. It is as inevitab! as fate, Is it not the part of prudent men, then, to mova resolutely and with unflagging firmness in the direciio ot ap end so desirable and also so inevita © bg) your see, will oe and remain, a real doZar; no ralying piece of paper whose value depen ‘upon the tricks of and about which you have to inquire every morning what it is worth. TO HARD MONEY DEMOCRATS. A word now to those democrats who in their heart® still adhere to their old, good creed, and would spurn, tel of ci ki | serve us. The wisest assembly of financiers in the | the false doctrines of their present leaders, did the’ Repl pag L lb Sn Mages ne Pag te = | world would be unable to discover any other means to | we) My not consider themselves, by party interests, bound to submit. I deal fairly with fo gentlemen; I do not speak to you as a pees 1 am none. I am in earnest when say that all desire for this country and myself is constitutional, honest just and wise government, and little does it matter to me at the hands of what party the country receives i provided it be in truth constitutional, honest, just an wise. Neither do I conceal from you’ my opinion that the old parties, as now constituted, are ill-fitted to solve that problem, and that an active union of the best slemente ofthe two woudl Deter. serve the purpose, But if the two old parties are to continue to divide the field, then, for the berty et the public interes I want it each of them as gi not as as ie; bul since you seem to believe the interests of the Bepabint are to be served by your party alone, I speak to you as partisans who desire to promote the ofliciency of their organization for good en song considered wha6 consequences the success of the inflation democracy of Obio will bring on? Imagine tnat its candi- dates be elected and its policy indorsed by the people of this State; imagine the movement spreadin; upon the Democratic then? Allof you hard money democrats will be re« morselessiy sent to the rear. Your influence will be utterly crushed out, for the men who willthen rulq your party want none of you. Why do I say this? noq to ap toaseltish impulse, but because it 1s tru sincerely regret it, forI should be happy to ps cach party guided by its best men. But more than that., ‘Suppose the inflation democracy, having taken posses~ sion of the national organization of your party, do suc- ceed in their rush for the national power, and having one of their own in the Presidential chair and a major« ity in Congress, © carry out their prox rs bt ? Then, unlimited inflation trad ivi consegifoncé, iniversal bank~ Yay and ruin, more destructive than ever. And then, remember the attitude of your party on pavery issue and questions connected with tho civil ‘war hag cost you sixteen on/p iy m4 e our become responsible now isast Which tusstion will bring along with it and it will Jooked upon as the common enemy, and any organiza. tion that in four may rise up against it will be able to wipe it out of existence, however rotten im morals that organization may be itself. What is, py the true dictate of your party allegiance in its nob! sense? To preserve in your party the power of doing service by defeating those wh ook to make it only an engine of mischi aud of suicide, And how are you to defeat them I remember the time when I received a high compli~ ment at your hands for having arn toes pore irit onough to oppose my own party by voting again Pik Teens itin the wrong. "this is a great, emergency in which a signal service is to be done for: the best interests of the country, and you hard money, democrata of Ohio can find no bee ha Mo enable me to return your compliments for the patriotia spirit of independent action. Indeed, it is a great emer~ ency. 1 solemnly appeal to every good citizen of thim Biase to be mindful of Ohio’s responsibility. Upom your action on the 12th of October ein cision. If the people of Ohio strike down the inflation, movement in their midst that will be its final overthrowa, It may linger on, but the power of its onget will be broken. If this fall and the advocates of barbarism and ruim rush victortously into the fela of next year’s greater contest, then who-knows bat future generations may have to look back upon the one hundredth anniv ' of American Independenco, the time which, before al Abate, Rages tae ee heart with the no! irations, as one bay THR BLACKEST YRARS in the history of the Republic. To meet the dangem here is there! the first thing needful. Upon they honest men of all Leall to unite in ® common, effort, Let no that the defeat of an oppositiow, party which uses’ the advantages of its position ta promote such nefarious schemes will bo Interp ‘as an approval of wrongs on the other side; for, T assuy you, when this great danger which threatens a bers us all in a whirlpool of Sanda ag ruin and ono! If so then make haste to mark, with the stigma of condemnation, those of your leaders who attempt to inveigle you into the approbation of a financial policy which, by the force of necessity, will muke the goveru- ment more corrupt and profligate than ever. + ‘THE HARD TIMES. But there is another excuse which, at first sight, ap- pears more respectable, It is said the times are hard; Gavernas Allon’s Word JOK Ik, Apw Aik Aa BATK sQ business is languishing; our industries aro depressed; of are without Work: the near are ou will find the men who com ene vieaes of ‘ther side as true as aver to thea. principles. witha t offi Ohio, you are si th sevaratioe that th Citizens of eh Mogi poole oF the oat ‘American Republic are = a and an enlightened people; that their brian os intelligence may be trusted alike, and that reer may count upon them tn the forward march iv ation, J aniryat YOU Mik bi Salhi