Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-07-11

tracts on the part OF the Journal Com |
psny. This We have denied before, and
we now repeat the denial most emPhati-
cally. No member of the Journal Com
pany is interested, directly or indirectly,
in any Government contract, nor has
either Of them ever been. No man holds
"shoddy contractor one who palms
off upon the Government an article in
ferior to that agreed on, or otherwise
swindles the public through the Govern
ment--in greater detsstation than we do.
We rejoice when one Of these scoundrels
is convicted and sent to the penitentiary.
And, BY the way, this is done whenever
the charge can be substantiated, under
this Administration, which is more than
can be said for Buehanan's and Pierce
and other Democratic" administra-
tons Then the custom was to fatter
and honor the swindlers, as a rule. In
der Lincoln, they are cent to the peniten-
tisry whea caught. And furthermore,
we venture the assertion that nins out Of
ten Of these rascals are Coppsrkeads
This we know to be the case with one
notorious swindling horse-contractor st
indianapolis, whs was convicted of his
crime. A genuine COpperhsad is al
ways villifying the Government and
thwarting it in putting dowA the rebel
lion, and running down" the green
backs for party effect; yet whenever
there are any contracts TO be given out, or
grsensacks disbursed, tho Copperhead is
obsequiOusly on hand, protesting loyalty
with lie in his throat, in order r. worm
himself in and carry of the spolls Of
"shoddy" contracts And then he cries
"stop thief" and charges innocent msn
with his own rascalities.
A second insinustion, broadly made,
is that we speculated upon and made
money by an imaginary panic created in
this community BY financial article
published in the Journals few days ago,
written by, and published under the firm
name of, Messrs W. j. Lowry & Co,
bankers Of this city. Tkis charge or ia
situation is OF piece With the other
that is, in plain English, it is a lie, ut
tered without a shadow of evidences or
justification, for party effect, and froG
partisan malice
In the first place, we have not the
money to speculate on, as we have le-
climate business use for every cent that
Ne can command. In the second place
an operation such as the Times charges
against us would be more rascally aad
infamous than dealing in "shoddy," aud
we profess to hold the good Of communi-
~, the welfare of the Government, aud
the principles of honor in too high es-
TEEN to be guilty of such an act as the
Times charges, even if we we're able to
speculate as charged.
The truth in regard to the "bubbls" al
fair, as we have before stated in sub
stance, is this:
Messrs. w. J. Lowry & Co, firm ei
high minded gentlemen and skillful
fnanciers, kindly csnseAtsd to make up
q monetary table for our paper, to cor
rect it regularly, and occasionally to as-
company the table with such remarks on
financial matters as thsy deemed nscss-
sary for the pablie Information. Whsn
the remarks were made to which the
Times alludes, the community were
warned against exercising extravaganee
and wild speculatioa, and the ground
taken that we were riding on bubble
which might at any time explode; and
that crisis was impending in eur bust
ness or financial affairs, which it would
be wise for oar people to guard against
and prepare for Tho article was ably
written, by one Of the best faancisrs in
the West, and kindly intended for the
peoples good and written, too, by q
patriotic maa, having the best interests
of the Government at heart.
The TYsss of course psunced upon
these remarks, tortured them to its
notion, and make them do the work
which il has SO much at heart, that is,
undermining confidence in the finances
Of the country, and lssssning the public
faith in the ability Of the authorities
to put down the rebellion and save
the Union.
Depressing and rsgretting, as much
as anybody, the extravsgance and spec
ulation Of the day, but not believing that
. money crisis, or financial storm, was
as imminent and inevitable az the able
writer of the Remarks" predicted, and
having desire to relieve ourselves of the
responsibility of the public uneasiness
which was produced by the views ad-
vanced in the Remarks" as distorted
by the Times, We editorially disclaimer
these views, SO far as they related to an
impending financial crisis, and took the
cheering and reassuring view that the
danger is more apparent thaa real; that
our Government currency is safe bsyOnd
all contingencies except reputation by
some future Copperhead Administrator;
that the mass of our people are not
in debt to any great extent; that the clear
profit from business is larger than ever
before; and that, Their efore, il people are
saving and satisfied with legitimate prof
its, and if eur government currency is
good beyond peradventure, as we siren
uously held it to be, there is no great
danger of financial crash, with its cor
sequent suferings.
These views we gave for what thew
were worth, with some arguments to sup
port them, and in doing so tried to allay
what We deemed to be unnecessary an