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and what measures he would recommend to
supply the anticipated deficiency, have rot yet
been answered.
That there will be deficiency in the public
exchequer, is admitted on all sides. 1t is I'M
possible that there should not. Mr.. w ebster
yesterday, IN the Senate. stated that the ex-
penses of the War Department alone were hard
1y less than HALF MILLION DAY, equal TO ONE
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO MILLIONS
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
A YEAR! AT this rate, the ten millions an
propriatcd by Congress must be already gone,
and the foundation of enormous national
debt laid.
The Union, few days ago, had an article on
the subject, 10 which find the folio wing re-
ference in the Washington correspondence OF
the New York Evening Post l. F.
"You viii notice some speculation in the
Union upon the state of the tariff question, in
which there is u virtual admission that de-
fciency in the revenue Is not Improbable, but
accompanied by the suggestion that il may be
provided against by the issue OF Treasury notes.
or loan, the latter of which. to almost any
amount. can be effected through the banks OF
New York. Now, regarding much OF this
rs concerns the banks, it may be reulark ed that
If the banks, tempting the government to
borrow these vast sums of them at a low rate
of interest. the merchants and lar business
men who deal with these institutions have
right TO complain that their own accommoda-
lions have been so much restricted within few
months.
''But in the main fact the Union is right.
loan or an issue of Treasury notes will soon
become necessary. The surplus of or
twelve millions in the Treasury the begin
ming of this month will be absorbed about the
first OF July in the Mexican war. aud some
traordtnary means of raisng funds becomes in
eYtable, whether the rIH be reduced or not -
The suggestion of this writer that the banks
''fempIing the Government TO borrow vast
sums OF them at low rates of inerest'' is very
Tich The ''rascally banks" ''the partyn
were wont to call them in the times of the re-
moval of the deposits, would be very glad to be
let off by the government from lending them
any thing except il be in the way of sustaining
the country, in its present war, and the n of
course, they will do what they can. But to
suppose that they, buTthened as they are now
with the best commercial paper, at full interest
are disposed TO ''tempt the gove:nme to bor-
row OF them at low rates." is like another of
the suggestions of the official organ, that no
when al and want all the money
can get, the tariff must be reduced the fol
eign lmportations be enlarged, the general in
debtedness be increased, and the whole coun-
try, as III the war of 1912, made 10 depend for
even the commonest comforts, which are pro-
duced by labor and industry, on England, O.
some other nation on the other side OF the AT
IanIic!
Was there ever such maduess as this exhibit
ted by any party i'll power? Not satisfied with
getting us into a war, needIessly if not wick
edly-not satisfied with exhausiing the mon ey
IN the treasury which the Ia riff of 1912 had
placed there-not satisfied with running the
government into debt, until it is obliged to re-
sort 10 expedIents funds TO pay her
troops and feed her official dependents scattered
Ike Iocusts, who come out OF the ground after
seventeen years. sleep. all over the land-not
satisfied with having done these things, which
havo paTaIysed business, in the great Southern
mart, and brought ruin upon many of is b. est
cltlZeuS-DOL led tn hsv III
things, TO VIII ich the people submit because of
their love Tor their country, which is now in
wer--noI satisfied, say, " it'll having done
these things. reduced the government TO want.
and exposed every merchant ship that sails TO
danger of capture, Mr.. Polk and his admins
tag still presst in their insane efforts TO re-
peal the tariff. because, for sooih that was a
demodratic measure, promulgated by the Balti-
more Convention.
Does Mr.. Polk think the people mad, as ell
as patriotic! He may never appeal to theil
patriotism IN vain. What ever duty may be re-
quITed OF them, whatever sacrifice they may BIZ
called on to make for the country, they will
do and make. He cannot involve US IN wal
which they will not fight out to a succe ssfu
and an honorable peace. He cannot brins
down upon us an enemy which they will no
face. stif the enemy oppose them in whatever
force, they will fight him." This they have
done, and this they will do again. because the,
know that their duty 10 their country transcend;
VIII
their superior obligations christian men.
But because they will DO this-endure ever,
prlvaton, make every sacrifice, risk lie AM
fortune-is Mr.. Polk simple enough to suppose
that they will consent, at such time as thi:
above all others, to allow the country 10 be
flooded. gorged, stuffed with foreign fabrics
and our treasure drained to pay for them; gu
manufactures 10 be closed or crippled by for
eign competition, aud our mechanics and la Dor
ers and all who live by the work of their hands
reduced to idleness, aud all the evils ol idenes
and all this that he may ''carry out the prIn
ciPles OF the party.'
We cannot suppose Mr. Polk really In earn
est IN urging the repeal of the tariff at thi:
time We rather think that what is now said
IN the Union on the subject, if simply the
wild dTeamings oil the abstractionist who write,
Tor that paper, are put forth that the South may
be satisfied of the good IntentiOns'' oil Mr.. Polk
but with no serious wish that the doctrine o
''free trade" may now be carried out. We pre-
fer to think so well of Mr.. Polk's sense, as Il
beieye shat he does now desire the repea
of the tariff, even If TO think be to doubt HI
frankness and hrmness.
1t is stated in political circles IN Washingto
and repeated confidently in letters from that cit
that the bill to repeal the tariff will pass tn
House, for appearance sake, but that it will b.
rejected in the Senate.
Now, if we could desire to see Mr. Polk an
his administration, and the party who may al
hIm,in this matter, become more odious to tn
people than any party or administration eve
was in this country, or it is possible for an ad
ministraIion arty to be. and this at the ex
pense Of all the great interests of the people
we would desire 10 see them succeed in repea
ing the tariff, and we should say to the Senate
pass the bill, il the Fl ouse pass it, But. am
ious we to redeem the country from I'll
= evils OF bad administration that now Cypress
toredeem it at such sacrifice would be TO
great. If Mr. Polk and his administration car
not be got clear OF in any other way than by r.
pealing the tariff. why then say, let them r
main, n incubus on the body polite. but on
that eVdpnflv ifsalf nG Ialv II