The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-09

the oligarchiss and the rsumpti0nists almot
alone. Now, however, lipt ID breaking upon
the country, and we sec tie 6rst fruit Of it In
the remarkable vote Of no House OF Repre-
sentatives against contraction.
This action Of Congress II b 70 be hoped. 10
the beginning only-ths nitiatory step-in
new and reformed system dhnanoe The coun-
| try can use the present volume Of currency very
well. Indeed, Mr.. McCuloch's stupidity In
contracting during the last year = sorely felt
through the channels Of tnde an4in checking
industrial pursuits. Nom are benefited by
contraction except the bondholdsrs and the
rich. The next step Congress should take is to
make . uniform legal Under surrency-to
withdraw the national bank circulation and
issue legal tenders in It's place. With the three
hundred millions Of money thus issued in
terest bearing bonds should be bought up and
cancelled. This would relieve the country
from paying about twenty-five millions
year in interest. Take this sum and
the surplus in the Treasury together
and Eve hundred millions Of henterest bear
ing debt would be paid at ono. Nothing Is
easier, nothing more practicable; and there Is
no reason why it should not be lone. Pay of
| five hundred millions Of the interest bearing
debt next year and we shall gelnearer specie
payments than from boarding gold or from
any other policy whatever. Redlce the debt as
much and as fast rs possible, without burden
ing the people too much, andwe shall hear
nothing of reputation nor an doubt Of the
credi! of the government d. this, and let
the amount Of circulation remdn as 1t is. and
we shall grow up to specie payments health
fully and without serious revuli0ns.
Congress should also take offs large amount
Of taxes, particularly those tina press heavily
ON industry and those which cost almost as
much to collect as they yiel. The whole
revenue system needs revision and simplify
ing. The army of Office holders night be greatly
reduced. Wesee by the Treasuer's report that
the revenue the last fiscal yea amounted in
currency-and that is how it should be
reckoned-to over six hundred millions OF
course we reduce the gold receipts to cur
rency in this calculation. Ova six hundred
millions of revenue in times Of peace and two
years after the war ended! Whit y stupendous
sum! Seven years ago 1t WIS about one
ninth of that Who imagines We need such a
revenuef Who does not see hat it must cor
rupt both the government andpeople and i'm
poverish the country Hereis great work
will follow up the work 1t has commenced it
may yet regain the confidenceof the country.
Dangers Of City Lifs-WarsisG 60 Pnreuts.
In the HERALD of Saturdaywe published an
account of one Of the most ieartless and de-
liberate cases Of wickedness which It is pos
sible to conceive. An advertisement is seen In
one Of our city journals calling for girls to
learn the trade Of dressmasing. Two young
girls, sisters, belonging to arespectable family
in Brooklyn, make application and are formally
engaged. Three dollars week are prom
ised for wages. After having been at work for
. day or two, it is proposed to them by the
mistress Of the establishment that they
should become boarders with her during
the term Of their apprenticeship. Madam
visits the parents Of the young ladies, and
obtains their consent to this arrangement, the
parents STIMULATING that their daughters should
be allowed to return home every Saturday
evening. Saturday evening comes, but the
presence Of the young women does not gladden.
the Brooklyn home. On Monday Madam
visits the anxious parents and explains why
the daughters came not II had been
stormy, and her regard for the welfare
of her charge had induced her TO retain
them in their new home. but the parents
might rest assured that their daughters would
visit them on the evening of the following
Thursday. But Thursday came and went, and
still no daughters Not to prolong the tale,
suffice 1t to say that, on visiting the house in
New York where the girls were supposed TO
be employed, the parents could find neither
them nor their betrayer; thai, some five weeks
after their disappearance, the younger girl was
found by the police in a low brothcl in Baltic
street; that according to her account she
and her sister had been forcibly detain cd in
the woman's house, had been subjected to most
brutal treatment, had found themselves to-
gether in low brothcl, and had afterwards
been separated. Where her sister was she
knew not The sister and the woman have
not yet been found.
We have been perhaps little particular in
the statement OF this case. We have done 80
because it rs only one Of hundreds of cases
which are constantly occurring, and because
we consider it desirable, in an emphatic form,
to bring the case before the public. Ii might
not be difficult to find stupidity or ignorance
in the parents; but because stupidity and
ignorance do exist il is all the more necessary
to raise warning voice. Let parents be on
their guard. Let them have care Of the in
fiuences amid which their daughters are
thrown. Above all things, let public opinion
come down on the parties Of which the men,
bers OF this family have been the victims.
Nay, more; let law mete Gus to these