The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1868-01-11
SAVE THE NATIONS CREDTr.

SAVE THE NATIONS CREDIT.
Ii nations might be likened to clouds,
the American would be distinguishable
as that most powerfully charged with
electricity; if to'stean boilers, that al
ways ready toexplode; if to individuals,
he with Po nts in boots, sleeves rolled to
armpits, muscled like a gladiator and in
the first position, for in us as people
there is more lightning, a greater ten
dency to explode, and go in on our mus
Gle on all suitable or unsuitable. occa-
sions than any other, not excepting the
impulsive Irishman, the mercurial
Frenchman, the passion-veined Italian,
or the fiery Spaniard. Not satisfied in
wrestling continent from its countless
millions of savages In two centuries, ex>
terminating barbarism by the breath of
civilization, and building up the great
est Republic the world ever saw in less
than one not content in having the
world sitting at the fsstof our Gamaliels
in Art and Sciences inner honored,
if not feared, on "a "a sea by all
earthly potentates, wVhfhst needs whip
ourselves, at an expense of three thou
sand million dollars, and lay thread of
wire beneath old ocean to fash the til
dings round the world. This done sue
cessfully, the country resolves itself for
a time into lying in hospital, and thir-
" millions of people set about the hu-
name business of binding up each others
wounds with Union ointment and the
star spsngIed banner for bandages. This
was all very well, but some infamous
quack disciples of Esculapius having dis
covered recently that the healing pro
cess was going on too fast, have gotten
up an irritation aud the whole country
is now suffering from a relapse, threat
ening to end in first class bankruptcy.
The new idea is repudiatiOn, guised un-
der specious sophistTies and selfish ap-
peals like greenback redemption and
snti-taxation, as are nauseous pills by
pretty box and a sugar coating. Ii is
claimed that if we do not return to spe-
Gle payments at once ruin is inevitable,
and the Inherent inclination of our peo-
pie to engage III something new aud ex-
citing is seized upon with svidity by
these quacks 20 lead them off on this
new path of danger Did not England
make FIVE Intellectual attempts after the
great wars, and thirty years elapse ere
she resumedT England was not ruined.
1t is said We are carrying a weight Of
debt unparalleled This is untrue as in
dividually or collectively. The debt of
France is larger than ours in the aggre-
gate, and as her population is only some
two millions more. the allotment to each
person is about the same, while she can
not compare with as in resources. If
our entire national debt was assessed
upon the people direct it would not
amount 20 $40 per head. Ifthe national
debt Of England was assessed in the
same way il would amount TO S135 per
head for every mar, womar and child
been proportionately so small as ours is
now since the American colonies severed
their relations with tae mother country,
nearly hundred years ago. England
has 80 600, 900 people to support on 122.-
900 square miles of land. We have 30,
100000 people and 3,313,0oO square miles
of country four ffths of which is as pro
ductIye as any in England, and the re-
mainder abounding in mineral wealth
that ages will not exhaust. The Ger
ma.s are considered safe inanciers and
prosperous people, and yet Holland has
borne for two hundred years a larger debt
proportionately than now rests upon US
and the ratio per head is now $115 each
All these countries nave reached ma
turity, and emigration tends from them
TO US. England and Holland have three
acres to each iuhabitant, France less
than four and We more than sixty, ens-
bling us to support seven hondred mil
lions Of people as well as they do their
present population. From 1850 to 1860