Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-20
The Great PERU and the Alarm Of
the Confidence Wen.

the Great Peril and the Alarm Of
the Confidence NIen.
3 The confidence men who have been so
fluent In assuring the country that all was
safe and sound under the management Of
such a long-headed financier as Secretary
CHASE. are now gloomily prophesying
terrible financial crash, or to express their
dread forebodings in the terse language
OF one Of their own organs, the New York
Timss-athe currency Is gradually turning
10 worthless rags and ''the Government
moves straight on to the bottomless pit OF
bankruptcy"
In this dread emergency, like drowning
men clutching at straws, they call on Con-
gress to save. But, alas, what can Congress
do? This is the knotty problem that per-
plexes their partisan friends in Congress
and drives them mad. They know not what
to do, norwich way to turn. Perplexed and
bewildered, they satisfy neither themselves
nor any body else.
Tax! Taxi Tax! The people long to be
taxed, aud are ready to rebel because they
are not taxed enough" barks the "Presi-
dents dog at Washington, and his whelps
all over the country, "of high and low de-
gree,r echo the howl. But the people are
already burdened with the heaviest taxa
ton of any country upon earth; their in
dustry is checked and their resources well
nigh. exhausted, and still the cry is, Tax!
Taxi Taxf' Lay on more taxes, and as long
az the present war policy is upheld the same
cry, like the never ceasing demand for more
men, will be renewed from month to month.
The people begin to see this; Congress, or
ct least some OF its leaders know that the
people see It. and know too, that If they
keep piling on drafts for men and levies for
money, their political doom will be speedily
sealed, and that forever.
The remedy for the fearful evils that over
hang the country, and will, unless speedily
arrested, overwhelm us all in common ru-
in, does not lie in giving the ogre Of this
Administration all the men and means 1t
can devour, or in any scheme the Execu-
tive or the majority in Congress can or Will
devise. These are alike impotent to save,
because they are the very instrumentalities
whose infatuation has compassed and is
about to consummate our ruin. Many of
those who, like the New York Times editor,
have sustained and prompted the crazy IA
natics In their work Of destruction, see the
gulf, the bottomless pit that yawns before
them, and raise an appalling shrek of
warning, and despairingly entreat Congress
TO do something TO save. But alas, it Is all
In vain. This Administration, including
the Executive and the controlling majority
In Congress, Is bound hand and foot by the
radical, revolutionary Jacobinism that for
bids It to recede, but will force 1t onward,
until the climax of ruin and degradation Is
reached.
Its mad and destructive career can be ar
rested, and the country saved in one way,
and only in one way. What that way is,
every Administration supporter who is not
wholly blinded or demented, knows as well
as we do. 1t can be done by change-an
entire and thorough change Of men and
measures. 1t is the men now in power,
and the measures they have inaugurated,
that are running the country, and dragging
the mass Of the people down to bankruptcy
and hopeless poverty. Let an assurance 90
forth that thesemen viii be discharged from
the public service, and that new measures
win be instituted by new men, looking Ia