Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-04-14
WADE-REATUREs OF HIS
POLICY IF MADE PR ESIDENT.

paper, that hadn't forgotten the pic-
ture in the old elementary spelling
book, Of the milknaid arranging what
she was to do with her chickens before
thcy were Matched. But then,' he con-
tinued, " should be n very ~curiously
constituted man .if | did not do some
thinking rs to what my course ought 10
DO, in case I have to assume tho duty to
which these proceedings point. And
there's one thing I've fully made up my
mind TO whatever else may be done, |
,baU try, IL the power Is put into my
hands. TO bring the Executive Depart
ment Of the Government into harmony
with the Legislative. don't believe
tho President ought to be a sort Of
Grand Llama, reigning in seclusion up
Mt tho other end of the avenue, and
never letting us know what he wants or
intends all tho time taking Congress
by surprise, and holding aloof from
members, so that there is no inducement
for comparison Of views before both
sides are committed"
az don't believe" he continued,
q that a President ought to be setting
b;m,elf nm ne nolicy maker, When /
or n.kea what INV nolicy will be in
go T baya N d;.cbsroc The Presiden-
t;aI dnties. I GENERALLY answer thnt I
WON'T Inv, any nolicy. rs tho duty of
Cameras, N ojopt A nolicr. and the duty
If The President to execute il. We've
had tronbl. enough from the efforts of
p~reo;Jonts ~ az, Sn a no,icv for than.
,.,vos and force Cancres, into its adop.
t;on nv tba nse of tho Goyernmont mn.
t~ronog. ard otbervise.n
I'm several noints, however. Mr..
Wa shbnrne seams 70 have decided TINT
II will be his dutv. If he should succeed
N IN. Presidency. 10 have A policy. He
.nsoLs os tLemH,o, obtrns;volv.le,st
Of aII amer the faah;on of Tho milkmaid
corn,;ng Tho cb;ckens in her ogc.ba,.
tstNbnt with simnlo and manly frnnk.
ness.
nThs very first thing I should try, if
such a thing as we are talking about
should happen, would be 10 s.e that
the real Union men of tho South nre
protected. Those people down there
have made US enough trouble, first by
their treason, and since tho surrender,
by their continual turbulence. l don't
| believe they have ever boen rulod with
a firm enough hand. | I'm Of course in
favor of giving Thorn justice always ;
but tbey must not interfere with The
| rights Of others, or disobsy the laws"
nTben there, another point.n con-
tinusd the Senator, "on- which | feel
very strongly. am convinced that our
G~oyernment. expenditures ought to
| come down very nearly to n point ut
which they stood before the war. The
expenses of the army and navy, In par
| t%icular, are exorbitant, and ought to be
| brought down promptly, without fear or
favor. We cannot stand this frightful
system Of public expenditures. Its et-
feet is demoralizing on every branch OF
the Government ; and, besides, the peo.
pie are heavily pressed by taxes, and
| won't stand it much longer. We must
economize, everywhere, if possible, but
especially at tho points Of our greatest
expenditures, the army and navy.
"Then l believe there's another thing
we've got to do. The party can t live
without it, and what's more important,
the country can't prosper. We must
stop this outrageous system Of fraud and
peculation. The Government can't
staggsr under it much longer. There
was, as compared with the present state
of things, but little fraud under Lin
coins administration. But now the
money of the people is used with a lav-
ish hand to corrupt the people. This
must be reversed as Quick as an engineer
would reverse a locomotive whom he Jaw
a broken bridge ahead of him. Why, sir
two-thirds Of tho present tax officers,
are men without credit Mt homo. Men
who couldn't get trusted for q pipe of
tobacco in their own towns are selected
to collect the revenue of the Govern
ment. I know men, and so do you,
to whom some Of my constituents have
to pay their taxes, to whom no ueighbor
would even lend twenty dollars, with the
remotest idea of getting it paid this side
Of the judgment day"
"Yet your body confirmed them p
"Yes," we did. Sometimes We were
outyoted, and sometimes we were de-