Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-25
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SPIRIT or THE MORNING PRESS
The Iutslligsncer, to-day, discusses the sur
plus likely to accumulate in the National Urea
sury by the termination of the current fiscal
year, which, the editors imagine, will reach the
enormous figures Of $50, 0O0, 900 There is now
a surplus of twenty millions, and the expenses
of the current fiscal year are estimated at fifty
millions only; while its revenue is expected to
be eighty millions. Such are the data on which
the Intefligencers estimate is based. The
question mooted by our contemporary is-How
shall it be disposed Of in view of the fact that
to keep it locked up in the Treasury will almost
certainly produce wide spread commercial en-
barrassment, if not disaster, Of course, our
respected friends Of that journal for scatter
ing it among the people by distributing it to
the several States, which has long been their
fayorite theory, if our memory serves US faith
fully in this instance.
They are evidently no believers in our doc
trine that the Government, so far as its future
is commemorative purity integrity and sound
patriotism of its future, we mean,-had better
.
than to have possession of a surplus to be SQUAD
bled and intrigued over by the harpies and
vultures who of late years have learned to make
vast combinations to control the action of Con-
gress and State Legislatures upon the subject
Of the distribution Of the money unnecessarily
raised by taxation. These combinations elect
and defeat candidates for Congress to compass
their ends, corrupt political opinion, and pri-
vate and public morals and, in fact, SOW the
seeds OF corruption, public and private, broad
cast.
Never was there a more forcible illustration
OF the eternity and Importance of the truth of
that well-known ancient maxim, Money is the
root of all evil" than is involved in the gal
Looping increase of the disposition which such ope
tors as we describe have, to get their arms into
treasures up to their elbows. In not few
cases they are persons who have previously
been favored by special legislation in their be-
half, or have made money by party legislation
in their favor. After being thus gorged in their
day at the public expense, it is not uncommon
to find them inveighing against the injustice of
perpetuating laws and customs out of which
they have . made their jack" under the pre-
tence-nOt that the public money should be
economical, but that it should be distributed
widely among hungry jackals.
There is not an American State capital where
in there is not to be found number of pre-
viously gorged but now again hungry ones, cry
ing out corruption. corruption, monopoly,
monopoly in the hope Of thus again getting
pull at treasury teats.
Whenever they thus succeed in their object.
not word does the public hear from them on
the subject until they may be again shaken off
the "duds by the mutations Of political events
not q word. Until then, they are sucking suck
ing, sucking away as mute as mice, and as in
dustrious as nine days old puppies-as mutely
and indu.triously as ever of yore
But, so the world vags, we suppose, every.
where So, this country may not be expected
to escape the detriments to flow from the persist
ent intrigues of such patriots who continue in
every other land to plumber treasures, while
crying loudest combination corruption. mo-
nopoly., Our remedy for this state of things,
as well "a for the serious evil of which our
friends Of the Inteiligencer complain, is a very
simple one, indeed. Viz: to reduce taxation
promptly, so that the revenues collected will
barely cover the legitimate expenses of all
American Governments
The Union is to-day rejoicing over the condi-
tion and prospects Of the Democratic party as
demonstrated in the result of the late elections
1t tells of the reelection of the Hon L. o. B.
Branch to Congress, by 6,273 majority, and
Mr.. WinslOw by Ash, and that out of 5O7 votes
cast in Gillespie county, Texas, the American
party received but three.