The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-15


otherwise advised by our own correspondent
It seemed TO us essentially incredible that Mr.
Boutwell, should betray the timidity or vacila-
tiOn which was implied in the report that ne
expected or apprehended that he might be
obliged or induced to resell these redeemed
bonds. The current revenue of the Govern
ment is kcertainly much over $500, ,OOOO 600 per
annum; the current expenditures. including
interest on the debt, cannot exceed $3.50, 1000.
With such prospect, why should n surplus of
$780, 0O0 be retained i'm the Treasury? Nay,
why should any CONSIDERABLY part of IL be
longer boarded? Does any one imagine that
our revenue is about to break or be broken
down or that our expenses will soon be largely
augmented! If not, why lose the S6,OOO,OOD
per annum that we should save by paying off
S1OO,uOO,OOO of our fye-twenties whereon the
option to pay has matured? So long as we
can buy mt still better rates, of course let us
buy; but, when no more bonds can he had at less
than specie par let lis pay off so long as the
Treasury holds disposablc dollar. We don't
object to buying up the three per cent. legal
tenders whenever that shall be deemed advisa-
BILE: it is not Our fault that the Secretary is for
biddcn To buy up grecnbaCks: we only say buy
something 80 long as VIC have coin On hand that
we may safely spare, or SO long as We
have "a dime on deposit in any bank. We
are too poor 70 lend money to banks without in
tcrcst while we are paying Sl!OOOOOOO per an
mum of interest on our debt And every dollar
Of gold held useless in the Treasury tends TO
make gold scarce out of the Treasury, and so
aggTavatc that disparity between grcenbacks
?
blcrs affect to deplore.
Once more we congratulate the country on the
latest odviccs from Washington. We shall soon
be reducing the interest on our debt.
THE TRIBUNE" RETRACTS.
F,on The " Y. Tribune.
IL is impossible to doubt any longer that
women have the right to vote for the scenes Mt
Stcinway Hall on Thursday proved that they can
be just as disorderly as any legislature or poll
| teal convention of men. The opponents of
/ l.. I,.vs
ladies are too refined too delicate, to mingle
i'm the rough affairs of men, aud have refused
them the ballot rs n careful mother refuses her
infant razor for Il plaything. We fancied
| they might hurt themselves at the polls; but it
was an idle fear, and they have taken great
! pains to remove il. With n diplomacy which
! cannot be too much admired, their first net in
| their great convention has been to show that
| they are as competent as we are to get up u
| row and break up u meeting in confusion.
| As this Convention was called to discuss lual
rights, the ladies resolved to discuss everything
| else. First they debated George Francis Train;
| then long speeches; then the relative merits of
| New York and Chicago. reporters; then the
question Of color; then free love; then capital
and labor; then industrial schools and upon
| what other subjects they would have enlightened
! the world, had not the meeting ad iOurncd sud
| denly, it is impossible to imagine. But when
| the man with the map began to- give his views
| upon the contraction Ot the currency, and Mrs
! Vernon showed how, by the help of celestial
heaven, Miss Anthony, with her voice raised to
! the highest key unfortunately declared an adj
! jOurnment. BY this untimely decision the ladies
| were prevented from utterly rCiuting the theory
| that they are too much like angels to behave
| themselves like men.
| A few more conventions like this and the
| ladies will not merely be allowed to vote. but
compelled to vote. An act of Congress will be
solcmnly passed, declaring that women have
such extraordinary capacity for msmanagcment
that they can no longer be spared from public
life 1t will be insisted that they are just as fit
| to throw inkstanks az any Common Councilman,
and might possibly waste the public money MS
well Mr.. MattOOn. They have shown that
! they can be MS tumultuOus Hs n Democratic mass
meeting, and eclipse all our orators in the art Of
| speaking at once. Those who hcapd the storms
of Kisses on Thursday, are willing to swear that
they were to the feeble attempts Of men y
cyclone is to Il zephyr. Those who saw how
Mr.. Burleigh was put down and kept down, no
longer doubt that the ladies need not be afraid to
vote even in the Fourth ward or in Mackcrclvillc.
Upon the plea of their superior refinement
and angelic gcntlencss the ladies cannot much
longer escape from public duties. 1t is to be
feared that men have been bascly deceived foT
many thousands of years, and that we have
been unjustly compelled to assume the whole
weight of burdens that the women should have
helped us to bear. We demand, therefore, that
| these conventions shall be continued, and the
great fact that woman is not mans superior
fully demonstrated to the world.
|
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