LOGAN'S LAST GREAT OUT-DOOR PUBLIC ADDRESS, AT MARION, OCTOBER 4, 1886—“THE ISSUES OF THE DAY -THE DEMO

CRATIC PARTY A FAILURE-THE REPUBLICAN PARTY VINDICATED.

At Marion, Ill., Logan addressed an immense assemblage of his fellow-citizens, October 4, 1886, upon "The Issues of the Day." It was his last great out-door public speech, and he handled the subjects in his usual masterly manner. It was largely devoted to an historical review of tariff legislation in this country, from the first organization of our National Government, and contrasting the immeasurable ruin that befell American industries whenever, under Democratic rule, freetrade was permitted, and the boundless prosperity that followed when, under Republican rule, a protective tariff was adopted and adhered to. This position he fortified with abundant statistics. Then, turning his attention to Democratic promises, made in 1884, to run the Government economically if the people would only "turn the rascals out," Logan continued:

You heard it said that we had accumulated $400,000,000 in the Treasury. "Turn the rascals out, and let us divide this money. It will buy two barrels of flour for every man, woman, and child in the United States." You turned the "rascals" out, and when you examined, you could not find a five-cent piece missing. I do not say it will not be so when the Democrats go out, in 1889. I hope they will have as clean a record. But what about the division of the $400,000,000? How has it been divided, will anyone say? The Democrats promised to run the Government economically if they got in. They have got in, and what have they done? Let us see. They have been in power nearly two years. Now let me quote from the Congressional Record. In 1884, 1885, 1886, the appropriations for running the Government were, $338,000,343.31; $351,335,595.17; $329,864,620.04, respectively. They were the last years of Republican rule. The Democracy have had just "whack" at it. The estimate sent to Congress by this administration was $406,583,447.24. This was what the President asked for, just to

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pay the running expenses of the Government. The Senate concluded this was too much, but the Secretary of the Treasury wrote a letter and said he could not get along with any less. We appropriated for this administration $383,715,676.11, being $54.000,000 more than was expended by the Republican Party in 1885 and 1886. So it requires $54,000,000 more for a Democratic administration to run the Government than it does for a Republican administration. What do you think it will require in four years? Now, what is this money to be expended for, where is it going? For nothing only to run the Government! Fiftyfour million dollars is a great deal of money-more than all of you have. If they had a war on their hands, there would not be enough money in the world to supply them. It is a good thing we did not get into a war with poor Mexico, on account of that drunken fellow they had in prison.

Senator Logan then proceeded to contrast the Republican and Democratic parties to the disadvantage of the latter, with respect to their action upon soldiers' pension bills, and especially as exhibited by the votes in Congress on the bill pensioning disabled soldiers of the Mexican War, as amended by the Senate so as to include disabled soldiers of the War of the Rebellion. He also riddled Morrison's proposition to tack on to every pension bill a proviso to collect the money therein appropriated by a direct tax. And, touching the peculiar favoritism shown by the Democratic administration to ex-Confederates, he said:

While I speak of this administration, and I speak kindly of it,—Mr. Cleveland has always treated me kindly,-I say this, he has done for us what no other President has done or any other will do, in my judgment. Out of all the countries, China, Japan, England, Germany, Russia, France, and Spain, and all others, he has found, I believe, about five men to send abroad who were not in the Confederate army. We are represented at every foreign court, except about five, by men who at tempted to destroy the Union. We are represented at Japan by the keeper of Libby Prison, Mr. Hubbard. Now, I say I object.

Logan also gave the Democratic Party a broadside touch. ing the allegation made by Democratic orators that "the Re

publican Party has squandered the public land and given it to the railroads." Said he:

The first grant of land was given to the Illinois Central Railroad by a Democratic Congress, and advocated by Stephen A. Douglas,—the richest grant of land that was ever given to a railroad in the world. The Democrats started it, and it was kept up; and in 1860 the Democratic and Republican parties both had platform-declarations in favor of the grant to the Union Pacific Railroad; and when that grant was given, both parties voted for it. I was not in Congress at the time, but if I had been, I should probably have voted with the rest. But let me say this to you, instead of the Republican Party robbing the people, I ask any Democrat, when did his party ever give a foot of land to a poor man in this country? When the buffalo had possession of the country west of the Mississippi River, Buchanan, the last Democratic President, vetoed the bill giving this land to poor people as homesteads, and it was left for the Republican Party to pass a bill, signed by Abraham Lincoln, giving homesteads to the poor people. So, when these people accuse the Republican party, they had better look at their own history. If they had been in power instead of the Republican Party, homesteads would never have been voted.

After proving in various ways that the Democratic Party is a failure, and vindicating the Republican Party from these Democratic attacks, Senator Logan concluded with an eloquent peroration, amid long-continued plaudits.

GENERAL LOGAN'S LAST CAMP-FIRE SPEECH, AT THE OPERAHOUSE, YOUNGSTOWN, O., NOVEMBER 18, 1886.

In the opera-house, at Youngstown, O., General Logan made his last G. A. R. camp-fire speech, November 18, 1886. It was humorous in spots, but breathed throughout its rugged eloquence that intense patriotism which characterizes all his speeches. Logan concluded it in these words:

I want to say but one thing in conclusion. It is this: I care not how much people may talk about these meetings. I care not what kind of criticisms they may pass upon them. They are the best schools this Government has ever had. The meeting of these soldiers, and their

marching on the streets, and the demonstration they make before the youth of this country, furnish a lesson they can learn nowhere else; and, in the last few years, by holding such meetings all over this land, you have relit, in the slumbering hearts of the people of this country, the old fires of patriotism that burned beautifully and brightly long ago. You find, to-day, the lesson you are teaching the children, the young men,. and the young ladies, everywhere recognized; even the little boy takeshis little flag of stars and stripes, and, proud of it, sticks it in the fence, in the gate, or in the window, anywhere, knowing that it is the flag of his country,-learning it from the fact that when these meetings come abont in the land, the flag is seen put out everywhere. The child says to its mother, "Mother, why is the flag put out of that window?" And then the child is taught that it is out of respect to those patriots who fought for their country; and thus you teach the lesson to the youth of the land and they follow you as the boys did to-day-follow you wherever you go. Then, comrades, let these meetings go on. Meet whenever you Teach the youth of the land that patriotism is worth more than gold. I say to the ladies here to-night, and the gentlemen--all who were not soldiers-that this lesson is one that shall not be lost, and if in the future, our country should happen to be in trouble again, you will find it then bearing fruit; for the youth of the land, following their fathers, uncles, and friends, before them, will march to the music of the Union, and our flag shall float forever o'er land and o'er sea, and be respected in every land, by every man, woman, and child, in the civilized world. [Loud and continued applause.]

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LOGAN'S MAGAZINE WORK-BOOK-MAKING "THE GREAT CONSPIRACY."

During the last two years of General Logan's life, despite the immense amount and variety of his other labors-whether upon the stump, in the Senate Chamber, in committees, at the departments of the Government, or in his frequent long journeyings, and prodigious correspondence by mail—his wonderfully active mind was more or less occupied with the projection and execution of purely literary work. Thus, there successively appeared over his signature during that time, various exhaustive magazine articles in the Chatauquan, on Education-a subject in which he was greatly interested-on

General Grant, soon after the lamented death of the latter; and also a book, entitled "The Great Conspiracy," which involved not alone the entire history of this Nation, from the beginning down to the Reconstruction period,—including a full epitome of the famous Political Debates between Lincoln and Douglas, but also attempted to prove, and succeeded in proving, that the Great Conspiracy, which culminated in the attempted secession, and open, armed-rebellion, of banded Southern States, had its rise in the early days of the Repullic, and was originally fomented, and subsequently grew to the enormous proportions which almost wrecked the Nation, by the combined efforts of Southern free-traders, whose real objective point was not so much the preservation of human slavery as the accomplishment of their free-trade designs. This last work brought to him great reputation as an historian, and, doubtless, had he lived, would have been followed by other volumes. But death put an end to whatever ambitions he have had in the distinctive paths of literature which he seems to have chosen, no less than in those others of political and legislative activity to which he had devoted so many of the best years of his life, and in which he was always so prominent a figure. It is quite probable, indeed, that Logan's valuable life was shortened by the drudgery and annoyances incident to the proof-reading of "The Great Conspiracy," and to disappointments connected with its publication and sale, which, added to all his other greater cares, anxieties, industries, and responsibilities, were "the straws which broke the camel's back."

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HIS RETURN TO THE NATIONAL CAPITOL-LOGAN'S PRESIDENTIAL STAR WAXING RAPIDLY.

All this time, Logan's Presidential star continued waxing brighter. Journal after journal in the Western States especially, but also in many of the Eastern and Middle States,