The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-01

ly legitimate to appropriate ten, fifteen, twenty
or even fifty millions, if need be, for the pur-
chase of railroad routes for plundering specu-
lators outside of the limits of the United
States Such are the constructions of the
constitution under the auspices of this hybrid
free soil and secession administration. Their
stock jobbing and spoils seeking affiliations, and
their excusez and false pretences, based upon the
innocent constitution, are alike Ubiquitous and
detestabl.. Common sense repels the idea of
their sir .cerity or their consistency.
Thee is, however, marvellous rapacity for
the plunder with the present spoils admins
tra zion at Washington, very much resembling
tie Unsuitable regime Of Martin Van Buren,.
While great objects of real utility are repu-
dated upon constitutional pretences, the rost
unprincipled cliques of plundering stock job
bers and spoilsmen are invited to batter upon
the treasury, under the most fraudulent repre-
sensations of public policy One might sup
pose that the state Of affairs in Europe would
justify the engineering Of our navy, and OF
our coast and harbor detences, at the outlay of
a good many millions of dollars, in order to be
prepared for the possible contingencies of
world-pervading war, in which we may be ulti-
mately involved. But, while our President,
our Cabinet and kitchen cabinet, intent only
upon the spoils, discard all projects which will
not yield good dividends, they will move hea-
ven and earth for Gadsden treaty, though re
duced to halfit original profits The purchase
Of foreign railroad routes for the benefit Of
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legitimate, though we may get nothing in ex
change except mongrel empire in Mexico,
after the fashion of Faustin Soulouque.
AT this rate, by the year 1856 our treasury
will be as empty as that of Santa Anna, our
credit as bad, our spoilsmen as INSCRIPTIONS,
and the checks and balances of our constitution
as much fable and a mockery as those of Mex
leo. Let the House Of Representatives vote
the supplies of the Gadsden treaty, and public
plumber assumes the Mexican type. The next
thing in order will be the election of our Presi-
dent at the point of the bayonet, in the SQUAD
bles Of rival factions for the spoils Such are
the bitter fruits of our imbecile by brid ad-
ministration, whose only bond Of cohesion is
the public plumber. Such are the conspirators
OF the Gadsden treaty
But we are admonished from Washington
that the appropriations contemplated by this
Gadsden treaty, when they shall come before
the House will be very apt to encounter q
formidable resistance, and full exposure of
all the facts and mysteries connected with the
corrupt bargain, notwithstanding such exposure
has been refused by the Senate Col. Benton.
il appears intends to oppose the treaty appro-
priations-because the contracting parties have
invaded the privileges of the House-because
of the manner in which the bargain was con-
cocted-because Of its provisions and it's OBJ
jects In furtherance Of searching inyestiga-
ton, Col. Benton also designs to move for
select committee, with power to send for per-
sons and papers. And why not Z? Unless the
thing is confessedly rotten and corrupt. can
there be any reasonable objection to sitting
investigation into the secret history Of this
Gadsden treaty. and a thorough examination
Of all the parties concerned? When the treaty
shall have been ratified, therefore, and Santa
Anna and the ckjobbers come before the
House for their first instalment, let them have
the committee and the investigation. In the
Gardner case the money was paid over, and
the investigation made afterwards. When the
administration is too weak to resist the stock
jobbers, and when the Senate is deceived upon
false pretences, the country looks to the House
for the protection of the treasury.
Progress OF Newspaper Enterprise In the
United stntes-Clrculation and Advertise
ments OF the Herald.
The growth of the newspaper press in the
United States within the last eighty years, is
without parallel in the history of its progress
in any other country. Were the rapidity Of
its increase to be taken as an evidence of con-
current mental advancement, we would stand
first amongst the nations of the world in the
scale of intellectual superiority. In l776 we
could only boast of 81 newspapers throughout
the whole of the Union; in 1910 the number
had increased to $50. in 1926 to 64O in 1880 to
1000, and in 1858 to little short of 1900.
With our comparatively limited population,
we possess greater number of journals than
the whole Of the European nations put to-
gether.
With us too, the advertisement system was
first developed to its legitimate extent. In
Great Britain, announcements through the me-
dunn Of the newspapers, in the form in which
they are now published, did not become gene
raj until the beginning Of the eighteenth GEN.
fury; but the heavy government duty charged
upon them long retarded the full expansion of
the system In the reign of William the Fourth
the remonstrances of the press procured re-
duction of the duty from IS. cd. sterling to
Is. cd. in Great Britain. and Is. in Ireland the
single advertisement. Its immediate effect wa.
to raise the number of advertisements for the
three kingdoms, in the year ls4l, from l,O2l ,943
to l,77S,957. In ls49 the number had increased
to Z. l09, l79: and now that the duty has been
removed altogether, another year or two will
probably double the amount.
1t is only Of late years that the French press
has devoted much attention to this the most