New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-01-04
Tho Govern..,s Message.

mos, serious faults Of Gov. Bouck's Message, boi
such is very far from being The fact. II seems t.
us 70 lack cando. no less than ability. How Cal
the Governor concede the necessity OF such vari
Gus and important reforms Of our State Consutu.
ton, and yet contend that no call of Convention
is necessary How can he admit that our ~
dicial system is so imperfect, yet propose 10 SET Il
right BY creating few more Supreme Judges ano
Chanceors In our judgement, very cltteren'
process is rcouiste-not the creation OF mor'
Judpes but the securing of more and cheaper Jus
t;ce. which is another affair. We do not believe
the obvious and growing desire for Revisory
Convention of the People can be so juggleo
down.
In regard to the State Finances, the Governor
is hardly more frank. The State owes less than
Twcntv-Four Millions, against which she has
Public Works, abundantly productive and rapidly
increasing in business which arc richly worth
to-day Forty Millions Of Dollars Her entire Tx
pendi,ures for the past year, including Interest
and every thing amount to little less than Two
Millions and Half; while her accruing Rev
cnue was barely less than Three Millions leaving
clear surplus of Half Million. She can Dor
row any sum she may need on FIVE per cent. stock
at par, and in this way alone may reduce her an.
nual interests, as soon es her Six and Seven per
cents. fall DUE by more than 00,oOo per annum
Her Salt manufacture has been extended the past
year. under the benign operation OF the ne"
Tariff and a corresponding measure OF State FOIL
cy, more than thirty Pc. cent. beyond the product
Of 1912 Her Canal Tolls exhibit a large increase,
and new avenues are daily opening to the heart
of the Great West. And yet the Governor op-
poses any movement toward the completion Of
the vast unfinished Works 90 which SO many
Millions have been expended, because zoe are too
yoor--and bungles, stanners and seems ssham-
ed, when he proposes that some money be e1Pend-
ed in completing new and durable Canal bridges,
&c, which are now going to destruction nearly
finished instead of spending about the same
amount in botching up old structures which at
best can be but held together for short time. II
we needed Arguments TO demonstrate the short
sighted, mischievous tendency OF the Stop and
Tax policy, we might cite them abundantiy from
this Message.
But the State ought never to be in debt to the
awful extent of Twenty. Seven Millions, says IN
substance the Governor. Why, sir, that depends
on her means Of payment. If the money has
been squandered or thrown away, any debt at all
is TOO much but if it has created Public Property
and Public Revenue to large amount, besides
improving the condition and increasing the
wealth o. the People, this amount IS not fatal
The City Of New-York owes debt o! much
larger amount comparatively; yet who would to-
day have her Cro,on Works half constructed and
Tiers stopped, and her Dent but hall what 1t now
isl ige a 20 ,eould should be in favor OF the Like
policy now pursued by the STATE
The closing recommendation that the Legisla
ture should cali the attention Of Congress to
subject i, has now under consideration,-nnd that
suhjec, the refund.ng of Gen. Juchson's Flne-is
beneath contempt. We presume this act of
pcrvility and wrong will now be consummated.
Tho TsriR
The Eren'ng P, st rails at the polite and be-
ns6cenr exemption OF Drugs and Dyes land why
not Shea.hng Copper from duty by our pre-
sent Tariff, and says it is all arranged for the be-
nest OF the Manufacturers. The Albany Atlcs
is equally voci'erous against the proposition 10
flx Tea and Cofee-iha., 100, Is manuiactu.
rer.' con,rivance, somehow or other. |, asserts
that the New Tariff has created a deficiency IN
the revenue, suppiesslng the facts that the deh-
cheney was greater and the revenue less than at
crepent for several years before this Tariff was
enacted.
We'll, gentlemen Locos do rub the ears OF
your Congressman. and cheer them on to an at
tack on the TurH! That is just the spot where
we want you and we hope you will screw up the
courage o. your party to the sticking point. Sc
Ear, you appear to have told your hard stories to
very little purpose
U The Democratic Wing General Commit
tee for the year 1874 met on Tuesday evening
last at Broadway House, and organized BY the
election of n. Bowp1Tcu BLUNT, Esq, as Chair
man, and JOSEPH P. PlassoN and ]. H. HonAsr
Haws, Esqrs., as Secretaries.
C The Loco Fotos of Williams County,
Ohio, held Convention some two weeks ago,
and resolved tina: ali Tariffs, whether for Protec
ton or Revenue, are dead wrong, and tina, the
clean thing is absolute Frea Trade, with exclu-
sive Hard Money and Direct TaratioR.' We
have Away hearty grasp of the hand for this
sort OF Loco. Focos men who SEQ where their
principles lead and arc NO: afraid to follow
Give US such whoe-souled fellows any day, in
preference to the Slippery Elm breed. With such
on the lead, we could settle hafa dozen vital CUES.
tions in Political Economy by practical trial (the
only conclusive test IN less time than it now