Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1884 — What The Republican Party Has Done. [ARTICLE]

What The Republican Party Has Done.

When the Republican party assumed control of the N ational Government it found the business of the country paralyzed, the Treasury empty, the credit of the Ration almost destroyed, its baper being hawked about the streets at a ruinous discount and treason, dishonesty. and incapacity permeating .every department t of the administration. This deplorable condition of the country had been brought about by Democratic [ policy and Democratic maladministration. Eyeh President Buchanan recognized this, ahd in his annual message to t Congress called attention to thd fact that the iinlustries of the country were paralysed and almost wholly destroyed by the free trade policy of the party. He urged that unless something was. done speedily the whole country would be bankrupted. Such was the condition ot the country twenty-three years ago when the Republican party wjis placed in poyyet. s Contrast,the,,condition with that of t<?-daj-. Within that twentythree years the, Republican party has accomplished inucp . It crushed out treason and rebellion and gave new vitality and j- rce to the sentiment, “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and insuperable.” Lt gave freedom to four millions of bondsmen. It raised a servile race into cidz.cnship. f It restored prosperity to the industries of the country and dotted the country over with busy factories, | furnishing employment to multiplied i thousands of working people. It has increased the wealth of the' Nation more than three-fold. It has extended our foreign compierce until the Nation sold S:‘>.• MH1,000; ~ ix)o more of its products in twentythree years than had previously been fold from the first settlement of the country in IKGO, " It has spanned the continent with railroads and made the desert ph-uas of the Wast to bloom with busy life. .It has given to the coun'ry a stable purrency in place of the wild-cat issue fostered by the Democracy. It has raised the standard of the Nation’s credit to a point never before attained by any Govt rament. --It has paid off t’»e national debt faster than was ever done by any nation. It has reduced the intenst burden from 7"»,(00,000 to less than fifty million dolln'-s annually. It has je (luted the losm s by < mix /.Elements from 4K3.81 ou every *I.OOO, under Jainea fcucliatuh. to leas il.aii one eent

on e£ch sl,(js). It has reduced the ebst of collecting the Federal Revenue Jar below wliat it ever wad before. I has constantly, and steadily reduced Federal taxation, the last Republican Congress reducing it fourfold more than the Democratic party did in eight years. It has kept every pledge made to the people. It has made the Nation great, prosperous. rich, beyond the wildest dreams of the people. While reducing the national debt at a rapid rate it has paid in pensions to the gallant soldiers, who fought the battles of the Uriion, the enormous siim of $650,000;00l), Such is the record of Republican policy anti administration for twentythrete tears. during all that tinie the Democracy has met once in every four years, passed columns of resolutions, and then gone up and down the country; grumbling and finding fault. J