The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-07

he drives, by the number of cigars he smokes, |
by the places he frequents during the |
heats of summer, by the number of days |
or weeks he remains in or out of Washing |
ton, or by the class of people who get
access to his presence rs a means of getting
their names into the newspapers. These are
matters about which the great body of the
nation are Indifferent They wish to know.
and are willing to wait proper time to learn,
how the President is attending to their bust
ness, having no particular curiosity to know
how he attends to his own. Now, when the
time comes for the state of public business
To be officially and fully submitted to them,
they will find some results which will probably
put the tiippant critics who give forth the
oracles for the Democratic party in an en-
barrassing position Let us enumerate some
of the results of the brief five months of
President Grants administration, which may
be cited to the public in response to the
charge that the public service is neglected
We were told in October last by the same
oracles that now find it so difficult, in speak
ing of the President, to respect the ordinary
prOpreties of social life that there would be
a deficiency III our revenues for the fiscal year
Just closed of one hundred and fifty-four mil
lions Of dollars. That is what they regarded
as the best prospect the future had to offer
us tinan cially nine months ago.
Now what has this idle, cigar-smoking horse
jockey of a President accomplished during
the brief five months that he has had such
control of the Government as Congress
accorded to him?
by greater care in the selection of trust
worthy agents, and by a vigorous enforce
ment of the law, the revenues have so rapidly
| increased that the direct debt of the Govern
ment has already since his Inauguration,
been reduced between forty-three and forty
four millions of dollars The revenues from
whisky and tobacco alone have more than
! doubled. reduction of the army from forty
regiments to twenty-five is to result in fur
ther saving of many millions.
The effects of the new policy of the Govern
ment toward the Indians cannot now be APP
preciated, but enough is already known to
| make a further economy in that direction that
must be estimated by millions. Our Federal
securitiesre worth to-day yatleast $3.50, OOO 900
more than they were worth the day our Presi-
| dent was inaugurated. and are advancing at
| the rate of ten or fifteen millions week.
| There is no doubt of our ability to fund the
entire national debt within year at Il rate of
interest not exceeding iourand ahalfp per cent.
We are sure Of a surplus at the end of the
| current fiscal year OF from S12J, 200. 600 to
| $50, GOO, 600, and it is no longer question
| that our revenues will Justify a large reduc-
| ton of our taxes
These are all facts which our Democratic
friends may safely take upon our authority.
| and we ask them now in all candor whether
the people are going to believe that the Pre-
| sident who can cipher up such a years work
as this outline gives the promise of. is ne
! glecting their interests or his duty. Will they
not feel inclined rather to withdraw their CON
tidence from their party oracles, who prove
to them such blind guides, and transfer it to
a President whose recreations prove SO adj
vantageous to the country!
| M nm ON rTIT1N ID CTI,TI, 1 TT Wy
From, the Chicago T5iJuae.
The completion of the railway to the
Pacific, while it opens the route for the great
trade from Asia to all parts of the world, is, in
| the present, the extension of the facilities of
| commerce and production to a new, vast, and
| hitherto secluded portion of our own country.
! The commerce between Chicago, and even
| that part of the country lying between the
| Missouri river and Laramie plains, will ex-
ceed tenfold, during the next ten years, our
entire trade with China; and when to this is
added the future trade with Colorado, Utah,
and Nevada on the south of the railway.
and Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, on
| the north, the trade with Asia, however
valuable, will be comparatively but a small
| contribution to the national wealth. 1t is
but few years since the railway system of
Chicago was extended to Wisconsin, Iowa,
and Kansas a still shorter period has passed
since Minnesota was embraced in the
iron band; and these States until thus con-
nected were more remote from trade-more
remote in the means and opportunities of an
exchange of commodities-than Nebraska,
Colorado, and Nevada are to-day. The open.
ing of the railway is but an extension of the
commercial circuit of which Chicago is the
centre 1t is the extension, to a hitherto
closed region of the means of sending theil
products to market and of receiving
other needed commodities in exchange
These States and Territories, rich in theil
ineXhaustible mineral treasures, are destined
to be as productive in )ther particulars as
their more Eastern neighbors. The hant
: of industry, which has made the sage-brusl
land of Utah as productive as the prairie Of
Iowa or Minnesota, WILL with little delay, anC
at no very great cost, turn the mountain
streams and spring rivulets through and owe,
the now arid plains, and the sage will give
place to timothy; the desert will bring fQrtl
corn and wheat and herds of beeves will be
5 fattened on the fields now sterile Into thi
vast region of gold and iron, silver and lead
and Of coal, will pour hardy and thrifty popu
latiOn. From Europe and Asia will come the
labor that is TO work the mines, irrigate tht
land, cultivate the SOIL build the roads, an(
- swell the volume of national wealth
There is no need of any rivalry or jealous,
g between Chicago and San Francisco as t.
Q which shall supply this country, and whicl
S receive in exchange its products. That vii
be settled by laws which cannot be controlled
S by either city. San Francisco, to supply thi
Q country, must in turn be supplied by th
a lsthmus or Cape Horn route. II San Fran
10 cisco can furnish Nevada with what Nevad
| 1fg al, gNl naT1