Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-26
INDICTMENT.
The Radical Party Indicted by
the Evening Post.
The steps by which it is Going
so the Dogs.
What il Has Done for the Capt.
taIistS.
What II Has Not Done for the
WOrkingmen.

e come the dominant party in Congress
50 utterly regardless Of the most vital il
terests OF the nation-thst many Of the
: own organs can no longer resist the Ia
2 pulse to denounce them. The followin,
: under the head of " Who will save th
: Republican party ?' appears in the Ne,
York Evening Post Of the 10Th:
, When political party has a great pre-
dominance it is pretty sure to draw
! itself the rogues, the Inscriptions, an
the self-seekers In the community. Ths
, is the danger of such an sscendsncy. /
party may become the tool of cOrrup
men, because its leaders are careless, an
over-c0ntident of their strength, and be
cause the rcgues and self-seekers are al
trscted to il from q desire to u-e it q
their instrument.
When q party becomes corrupt, th
people, who endure for q while with tina
patience which short sighted politician
are so sure to misunderstood, PERSISTENT,
leave it and take up the other party
even II they run the risk of faring tn
little better by the change.
1t seems 70 many thoughtful friends o
the Republican party that Il Is running
just now q good deal of risk OF such s
popular desertiOn. It has amongst it:
leaders wise, prudent and goOd men
but these are, IN msuy cases, over-ridde1
| by glib-tongued demagogues, By unseru
pulOus spectators, nd Oy men too iguo.
( rant for these times, which demand 8;
/ least q decent knowledge Of political sci
epce in the legislator.
/ Now that Gen. Grant is elected, and Is
I presently TO be installed &c President, II
ls time, in the opinion of many good
men, for the Republican party to look
! the future squareiy in the face, and to
determine upon some policy which shall
not bs merely hand-tO-mOuih. The war
is over. Appeals to loyalty will hardly
answer ia future elections. The eOuRtry
is safe, for four years to come at least.
from those terrible Southerners the uni
versal suffrage cry will scarcely suffice
to win the next Presidential election /;
and Grant has himself announced that
policy which in this case, as in some
others, is undoubtedly the best, namely,
Honesty.
Ii the Republican party Is to live, 1t
must be the party of economy, the party
Of equal tax alton, the party o. fair play.
Now, as to economy, look i0r q moment
at some OF the schemes which have been
brought before the present Congress, and
sll by Republicans
Four and half millions are asked TO
complete public buildings in Washing
ton,
A new "White Housen Is slEo pro.
posed, which would cost at least four or
five millions more.
A quarter of million is asked to sub
sidizs steamships.
Eight millions to lay telegraph cable
in the Pacific ocean.
Five millions for the Sutro tunnel,
Three and half millions to the Com.
mercial Navigation Company.
Five Iaillions year for the hsrbor of
Then there are bonds to railroads
there is Mr.. Spencer's proposition that
the United S .Gtes shall buy al the oot-
ton; there are grants OF laads to rail-
Eaads by the hundred thousand acres
there is an appropriation of hundreds of
thousands OF dollars TO print worthless
agricultural reports, and OF other thOus-
snds to prlRt an equally worthless report
on education.
AS for faiE play and equal tszstion, the
report OF Commissioner Wells is 8 terri
bic indictment against the party Of which |
he is Jealous but wise aud far-seeing
Briefly, Mr.. Wells shows by
figures and facts that, under the present !
tax and tarif system-fOr which, be ii |
the Republican party Is |
alone esponsible-the lsboFing men Of /
the nation receive less wages than before |
the war, compared with the prices of |
OF life, and Of course live less /
Tlth thviE fsail,es. Ee \
shows that the laws have been 50 ar 4
ranged that while the great mass of the (
people, who work for wages, are thus ab- /
solutely worse of than formerly, those
capitalists who have beSn sEie to secure
the special favor OF Congress are at the
same time making large fortunes by that
kind Of monopoly which is called "prO-
tection.n Thus the capitalists who make
pig iroa double their capital annually In
some in5tsnces, though a. tho sSLAe time
their Rorkmen live more poorly than
before. Thus one Of the two companies
which have obtained monopoly Of salt
mas, on capital of $3.50, 600, divided 81
700, 900 In cash among its stockholders.
cash surplus Of $500. 600.
md rRfAed LLe actuSi vslge Of its property
IN hand not less than q 900 coo more, all
within seven years; and all this has been
.xtorted from the mass of the people by
his odiOus salt duty. Not content with
he5e enOFmOus profits, these mcnopo-
lists, having persuaded Congress to take
IL the internal revenue tax on their pro.
lucts, are Row asking 1t to still further
Increase the import duties-or, in other
Words, their own profits. {,
Vhps, sgaln, the lumber eompsnles, /
Omposed OF a low gfest eapitElists, By
ersuading Congress to lay heavy duty
q Canadian lumber, have made them
elves rich at the expense of the work
lg people, the farmers and mechanics.
,r it Is these who chiefly live Ia wooden
ousee.
Nor is this all the injury this partial
,gislation hss done &c the people. It
as, as Mr.. Wells shows, destroyed our !
Ommerce, so that il we bad ships. We
nould have nothing to carry in them. 1t ,
as destroyed some OF the most import. :
MT markets for the produces of our :
killed labor. By protectingn the cap
alists who I1ske pig iron, American :
have been disabled, and eaD :
o longer sell machinery abroad, in COM
stition with L lglish and French shops. :
~ protecting the capitalists who I
Wn the great lumber tracts, the furni- !
are makers and other artisans have been I
isabled from competition in foreign q
larkets with other countries. :
TO.such condition are many Of our '
AA0AoNAAOo AGuuCCut through kDlS o
artial legislation and favoTitism that.
3 Mr.. Wells shows We can now send a
nly gold where formerly we sent goods,
} buy such thing5 a. hides, which we
lust have to feed some OF our foost i'm. h
Ortant industries. Thus we are drained l.
goldI not because we are oyertrsdipg, q
Ut because We are orippled-just ss
ok man, unable to work, must pay out g
ls savings for his support. =
Now this Is an intolerable condition of =
lings. The American people are not 80
olish as to suffer IL to continue long.
hey are not without resentment, and Q
ley are learning from speh documents !,
Mr.. Mells' report, ana from the dis Il
lssions In the press, what is the cause @
their sutferings. Suppose theRepub.
san party goes on as it has gone SO long.
oppose IL puts off reform suffers that
N, n,s,...i@n =. 'i@n af knRvOru and ioYoranAA =
hich has made cur tax system, TO tin. =
n 81 1t and make 1t, IL possible, yet =
orse. What then? Does any Repub-
,an politician imagine the people 10 be
foolish as not to demand g change,
I'd to seek it in the only way in which n
le people can get it-by change OF
rites
Who, then, will save the Republican
srty from destruction2 Who will re-
lin for 1t the confidence Of the peopIe .
no will unite to impose upon it wise c
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