The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-03-09
Future Political issue.

The Day ton Journal "blocks OUT the
following as some of the leading issues
that will attract the attention of parties
In this country, and introduces them by
saying: Though all now mite in the
support OF Grant, and each predicts his
certain adherence or conversion to its
own views, the present interim of con-
cord cannot long continue. Some i'm
portan. changes are now before the PEG
pie; new problems are arising which will
demand an early solution. Perhaps par
ty lines will be rearranged in reference
to some of these. to which we will brief.
~ refer:
First, Finance and the currency. How
shall the public debt be paid? How
handled, so as to relieve the great burden
Of the interest, and preserve the public
faith? In answer to this we have a
score of conflicting theories by as many
leading men. each of whom supports his
own by an elaborate argument which
convinces nobody but himself 1t is
very evident in the general perplexity
which esists.that the .scoming man. in
finance has no. vet arrived. General
Grants Secretary of Treasury must be
a man Of large brain, far seeing sagaci
ty, and practical business experience, or
he will surely fail. But whoever he
shall be, if lie can solve the financial
problem, and reorganize the debt upon
a satisfactory basis, he viii win a place
among his country's statesmen, not be
low Alexander Hamilton.
Second Free Trade or Protection.
The old question Of tariff will yet be
great political Issue in this country, but
not for some time to come; fer all agree
that so long as the present interest of
the national debt must be paid, the du
ties - now paid furnish . revenue which
cannot be cut off.
Third Female Suffrage The ad.o
Gates Of this movement re either gain
ing ground, OF making up for lack of
progress by greater. clamor. Hardly an
excha nge reaches us that does not chion
icle the. doings of n Woman's Rights
meeting, or contain criticism thereon.
just what it oil signifies. or where it
will end, no one can tell Certain it is.
that all along The line the combat deep
ems and sometimes waxeth hot. We do
not intend to plunge into the ''imminent
deadly BREACH" but assuming an armed
neutrality, note the progress OF the me
lee, and now and then let go orr little
swivel. We cannot help pat'ing on the
back clever contemporary, who sends
his shot home after this manner: "The
practical working of the present sensa-
ton abont woman's rights, will be, that
the female champions of these transcen
dental notions will leave Few Of their
lineage to perpetuate their system
Fouvth-Foreign emigration; we refer
here 20 that of the Chinese and Asiatic
nations, fifty thousand of whom are now
settled on the western coast. The Pa
cific Railroad will be completed next
July. It is hard to exaggerate the
amount of trade and merchandise which
will flow into this country from the
West, when this and other rival lines
are established. It will surely be fol-
lowed by still greater tide of Chinese
immigrants, the most difficult to assimi
late to our native population of any who
have crossed the sea. They will sup
ply in abundance what the West has
chiefly wanted, cheap and industrious
labor to enable US to compete with the
East. But they are bitterly hated by all
classes among whom they have settled,
are allowed no citizenship, and are dis
couraged and oppressed in every way.
Should their number increase, there is
trouble ahead, for it will be remembered
that the Constitutional Amendment now
before Congess, gives them all the / al
lot.