The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-19
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1869.
, rOIrE FROM SLL YER SPRINGS

A VOICE FROM SIL YER SPRINGS
THE Labor Congress has not only been agi-
tated from centre to circumference by the
momentous woman's rights question, as re-
presented by Miss Anthony, it has also had
one of the Blair family on its hands. Be-
tween old Frank, young Frank, Montgomery,
and various subordinate little twigs and
branches of the parent stem, it is next to inn
possible to have a demonstration of any
kind at which some one member of this am
bilious household does not attempt to force
his views upon the public. Of late, young
Frank seemed to have taken the lead. In
1869 he won the Democratic Vice-Presiden-
tial nomination by his advocacy of new re-
bellion. and q few months ago he eulogized
the leaders of the Rebel army at a meeting of
Union officers in the most inappropriate and
offensive manner. But now old Frank, the
original Jacobs, is determined not to be kept
perpetually in the background by his ambi-
tious offspring He wrote a letter which was
evidently intended to create great sensation
in the Labor Congress, but that body wisely
refused to have it read. All the entreaties of
a little knot of old Franks friends could Sc
cure nothing better than a resolution that it
should be referred to special committee.
However, as the reporters obligingly embo-
died it in their accounts of the proceedings,
it was forced before the public, and the author
gains the notoriety which is so pleasing to his
vanity.
A leading object of this document is to re-
bearse for the thousandth time the history of
Blair's connection with the war against the
United States Bank. This would be pardon
able enough, if it were not intermingled with
the suggestion that similar war should now
be instituted against the National Banking
system. The shameful manner in which the
old demagogue attempts to array the preju-
dices of those whom he ostensibly addresses
against the banks is sufficiently indicated by
his allegations that they clear ''at least forty
per cent on the amount of their capital,
that he knows of instances in which the
capital was doubled the first year, and that
''tbis is the crushing taxation that is running
the country"
If the workingmen and voters of the United
States believed these allegations, terrible
new financial war would soon be waged, and
in the uprooting of the present system, and
destruction of the present basis of business
operations, all classes-and especially those
who earn their living by daily toil-would
soon learn what hard times really mean.
The grievances now complained of are as
nothing when compared with the enforced
idleness and the absolute want which
would quickly follow an attempt to give
practical validity to Blair financial schemes.
His proposed project is too visionary to re-
ceive serious consideration. When the United
States Government starts a bank that will
loan money on real estate security, it may be
q capital thing for the Blairs, and all other
Washington operators who, like them, under
stand the art of advancing their personal for
tunes by political intrigue but no citizen who
comprehends the practical workings of our
governmental system can doubt for moment
that partisan adventurers, rather than solid
business men, would be the chief recipients
of the Government money; nor that, in the
end, hundreds of millions of protested notes
would bankrupt the Treasury beyond redemp
ton.
OF all the crazy schemes submitted to the
Labor Congress, Old Frank has offered the
worst, and his effort to lead the men con
nected with the labor organizations to de
struction deserves as severe apprehension a.
the new rebellion projects of young Frank
1t really looks as if the family had resolved
to ruin the Republic in consequence of th
notifying failure of their schemes to rule it