Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-05-29
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prcjudicss and meanest impulses Of the
lowest orders OF community, will seek
to make the finance question its chief
weapon of orenss in its attacks upon
the Republican platform. With a brazen
audacity, of which tho annals Of human
kind furnish no parallel, the authors
and instigators Of the rebellion which
ueccssitated tho creation Of tho debt
will point to its immense proportions,
and attempt to saddle upon their oppo-
nents the sole responsibility Of its crea.
ton. To an intellect that reaches even
halfway to tho standard Of mediocrity,
this attempt seems SO prepos,erous a, to
be utterly incapable Of doing harm. But
modern Democracy is simply II tissue Of
just such unfounded errors, aud liability
to DO or become II member of that party
is ouly compatible with the acceptance
aud endorsement of ANY conceivable
error And it is really from this most
untenablo Of all positions that Democ-
racy will probably give us the most
trouble. By false deductions from
premises that are true they will seek to
confuse the irrational, and will doubt
less measurably succeed. They will
start out with the assertion that the
public debt is immense. At which their
bullet-headed Bunsby auditors will wag
their massive Caucasian noodles, and
| with wide-eyed wondering admiration
most ~truthfally respond, "That's So"
and as nobody will attempt to deny the
magnitude Of the debt, they will con-
slider the tacit admission one point
gained. Next will come tho assertion
that tho Republican party has held the
reins Of Government during the time
that this debt has been accommodating.
This will DO claimed and admitted to
be fact number two. Then will come a
statement Of the taxation to which tho
people arc subjected to meet the inter-
est on this debt, which is undeniably
great and onerous. The Republican
party does not attempt to deny that the
debt Is onerous /; that it was incurred
during their administration, or that it
is q great burthen to our generation,
and will be to generations OF posterity.
But the Republican party glories in the
fact that, even ut such enormous pecu-
mary expense, and even at the greater
sacrifice Of the precious blood Of tho
true SON. of the Republic, tho nation,
through their fe0lty, was protected from
tho assaults Of those with whom these
Same c~avilers sympathizcd, If they did
not give them material aid and assist
auce. With no cowardly apologies,
but with pride and confidence, tho Re-
publican party M safely transmit. to
posterity, along with the national debt,
tho free principles and preserved Gov
ernment which it was incurred to save.
If ICE should point to this debt and
tho consequent burdens Of taxation as
an argument against the Democratic
party, there might be some reason in it,
but for them to attempt to Introduce it
as an argument in their favor is the
sublimity Of impotence. Suppose that
4 band OF desperadoes should organize
here in Storey county, and should defy
the law and the authorities, robbing,
burning, numbering, ravishing, and de-
stroying in every conceivable manner,
and suppose that, in order to suppress
| their lawless doings, the authorities
were impelIed To- incur enormous ex-
pense and load the county with an OPP
pressive debt, what would DO thought
of it, il the leaders Of those desperadocs
| should cite this burdeusome debt as a
reproach against the faithful executors
Of the law And yet this is precisely
the attitude of the Democratic party !
But uudacious Us is this position,
their assumption Of friendship for the
laboring classes in the policy which
they propose in regard to the payment
of the public debt is even more absurdly
preposterous.
Appealing to the lowest, m~eanest,
most groveliug instincts Of our race,
they characterize the holders Of the
bonded debt Of the Government rs
" bloatcd aristocrats," and propose to
pay them in ~grecnbacks, which, as oil
men know, can only be done by an al
most unlimited creation aud issue OF
that kind Of money. A careful investi-
CATION Of the facts has shown that more
than one-third of the bonded debt is
held by mechanics, laborers, domestics
and the humber classes, and some Re-
publican papers have laid much stress
on this fact, but we scorn and scout the
implied appeal rs only worthy of the
Democratic party. Whether the debt is
held by ono eent-mlkionaire or by n
million boot-blacks, the honorable OBJ
legation to pay it according to expressed
or implied contract is just the m
To tho payment of the debt, accord
ing to the spirit US well as the letter Of
the law, the Republican party stands
~irrevocsbly pledged. Too cowardly to
ayow their heartfelt disposition to ut
terly repudiatc it, the Democratic party
propose to cancel it BY an Unlimited is
sue Of the very kind Of currency OF
which they opposed a limited issue,
when it was necessary to save the life
Of the Government. And this they do
in the name Of the laboring classes, ac-
companisd by Al appeal TO the preju-
dice of that class against the " bloated
ar~istocrats" who hold the bonded debt.
That the labor and productive indus.
try OF. the country, far more than tho