The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-07-23

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ScarecrOws-Mr stevens.
The distinguished and venerable rep
resentative from Pennsylvania, in pro-
posing, last Friday, gift of money in
excess of their salaries TO most most of
the public employees in Washington City,
saw fit TO deliver himself as follows:
"Mr. Stevens of Pennsylyania--Mr.
Chairman, / shall not occupy my fve
minutes. A word will be sufficient
Some time ago, we passed a bill giving
20 per rcent. additional compensation to
all whose salaries are under S2,500;
but a scarecrow-I think that is the
name-a scarecrow came on here from
New York and coursed over the ground
one night; and next day the friends of
the bill scattered like the antelopes of
the mountains, scared to death; the bill
was defeated, aud the scarecrow went
back to New Y York triumphant Laugh
ter
Now, this amendment contains less
than oDe-third the amount that was ap-
propriated by that bill, and we can
surely afford to give this small pittauee
to these men. / have heard it said that
a good many Of them are married. /
saw list of the unhappy men who are
married [aughterE and more than
three-fourths of those who will be ben
Gifted by this amendment have that
misfortune. / hope the amendment
will be adopted"
Comments By the Tribune.
Mr. Steveus's Illustration seems to us
exceedingly felicitous Crows are use
full in their place, and do world of
good; but then they have weakness
for getting out place, and depredatipg
on the farmers corn. To curb this Vi
cious propensity and drive back the
black ravens from the fields where they
would do mischief to those haunts
wherein they are useful, is the "being's
end and aim" of scarecrows. Honor to
scarecrowsl Crows are good and bad
by turns; scarecrows do much good and
no harm at all
And now to business: LaaA "''t
We differ radically with Mr. Stevens
on the vital philosophy of Government
Expenditure. Mr. Stevens proposes a
free gift ofpublic money to certain en-
ployes of The Government. The origi-
nal proposition twenty per cent extra
on their last year searnings) would have
required Two Millions of dollars; Mr..
| Stevens's modification thereof would
take at least One Million. Now all the
money in the Treasury, in our view, has
to be earned in order to be spent. If
certain parties are given 81 ,00O,o ex-
ira out Of the Treasury, certain other
parties must pay 81, 100000 extra into
the Treasury. Mr.. Stevens's PROPOSE
ton then, raises this question will
Justice be subserved by taking 81 900.
600 extra from the tax payers and divid-
ing it among these Washington tax
consumers2" On that question, we are
constrained to to vote in the negative
We would like to crafty the Washing
ton clerks; we cannot do it at the ex-
pense ofthe American taxpayers. We
believe the great mass of the taxes are
paid by men who work harder and for
smaller pay than the Washington clerks
that the appropriation urged by Mr..
Stevens could only be made at the ex-
-. pense of equality, justice and the rights
of the poor. Hence, we oppose it,
Il Mr.. Steyens's theory is radically diff
! erent from ours, He holds that Gov
ernments can make money at will-not
= merely "coin money" but call it into
/ being The power of Congress to Greg
ulate the value therof' we hold
to be power to declare the true value,
from time to time conforming the legal
tender to the actual standard-he holds
to be power to declare every leaf in
our woods dollar, and thereby make
] it the full equivalent of an American
silver dollar. Ofcourse, our notions Of
D economy in official management must
seem exceedingly petty in his his eyes.
. When a government has Aladdin's
Y lamp, why should it not toss full pur-
ses about as though they were pebbles2
s Who doubts that lucky pirate is more
1 liberal in his disbursements than poor
v farmer who has toiled forty years fol
= less than dollar per day of twelve tc
4 fourteen hours hard work9 Natur'
: ally, the pirate thinks the farmer mi
h serly, mean-souled skin flint; but the
' farmers standpoint is different; and he
: could not, if he would, fling guineai
. and doubloons to walters and ostlerl
: as the pirate can we'll afford to do.
v We owe National Debt of Twenty
| FIVE Hundred Millions of Dollars. No
O dime of this Debt comes to US or K
any one in whose personal fortunes w