The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-22
Don Ttntt and Greeley.

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Don Ttntt and Greeley.
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Commercial.
AGHOST.
The old Wing party dined with us yester
tav. 1t came incoming into the dining
room, startling some, and exciting oil. /
he'd calm, kind, philosophical counte
nance, bald head, and looked at this live
world of ours through gold-rimmed specta'
cles. Its coat YVES Of past generation,
and its pantaloons loose and baggy as its
principles. 1t left an old, battered white
Int in the vestibule, and answered to the
name of Greeley.
Dear, kind hearted old gentleman. it does
my heart good to see him. Brimful OF be-
nc7olencc, he docs more wrong through luis
Jcrversc notions than any man alive. with
his venerable pate pigeon-holed with vast
stores of information, he enllghtens no one.
His farming is farce, his political economy
an absurdity, while his popular name sends
broadcast over the land a journal that does
mo1c harm, socially, politically, and moral
". than sll the others combined.
He came into my room after dinner. He
breaks into room, as it were, and seems
to bring several people with him. There is
such an air of busy life about him.
81 don't know any young man. ne cried,
"who needs educating as much as you.
lave, therefore, brought you book to
studv.n And he handed me his volume of
Political Economy.
asst down. Mr.. Greeley" / responded.
81 en- glad to see you, and will study your
book with pleasure, and, perhaps, profit"
81 can't sit down. I'm off for New York
tonight"
He did sit down, however, and continued :
"You free-tradcrs are making great noise,
and il is the noise of the drum, loud from
emn:iness."
:ssTlank you. But we are getting the
peers G.. C., the people,, and you greedy
r.oLib;tionists will have to move or be run
over
Nh! yes, you have the people; but II L
was ten years younger"-
"Why, Mr.. Greeley, you are younger this
minute than am"
81 didn't say was not. There is some
thing in being old in wickedness. But if /
were ten years younger I'd want no better
sport than to go down into the arena and
clean: you al out"
"Perhaps."
"No perhaps about it. met this Perry,
this Professor Perry, up in New England.
We had Z discussion, and | knocked him
fore and aft. And | had the crowd. They
missed me in over their heads and hurrahed
me through. The Professor was backed up
by some few distinguished fellows, but the
crowd was so great they could not get in.
cleaned him.
ID fhof in ha
a-Chcek Valley, where we suffer. You had
the advantage in New England, where they
lave prospcrcd in our woes.'
at first, with 60 many speeches made on the
other side against me, but I'd win in the
end"
"Don't believe word of it; mans
most sensitive nerve is his pocket, and
there we are touched. But come, now,
don't let us discuss that crazy thing, the
tariff that makes men crazy and violent.
Won't you help us down the st. Lawrence ?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"It's Il damned humbug."
"What, giving us cheap transportation
to tide water Z" s..
"Certainly we tried that once, and not
a cursed luorscl went that way. New York
is the objective point Tor western produce"
ave tried it before those heavy railroad
combinations raised freight on u.s."
"Well, build more roads" ~.
"For Fisk, Jr., and Vanderbilt to gobble
up?" -.
"'Well, take your products down the
Mississippi, and 50 round to New York."
6; In the summer our produce spoils by
that route, and in the winter we are frozen
up. It's an Internal shame that we should
be so treated. While wheat is eighty cents,
and dull at that, in the Mack Cheek, it is
n dollar and sixty in New York. Now, you
favor reduction of the duty on coal ~
"Certainly it's another damned hum
bug. The reduction won't reduce the price
one cent"
"And you'll throw off the duty on salt p
Well "(hcsitatingly)" yes" .-'.
"And on fish ?" ~~r
What the devil do we want with duty
on fish We don't import fish; we export
it,"
EXACTLY. And the duty on lumber ."
"What are you aiming ut am in ia
vor of reciprocity with the Provinces. I
believe in admitting their products free,
and they to admit ours, if the internal fools
W0ulQ apfcc W DdSc thc1I lcS5ole1dtlOu ou WIG
true principles of political economy" ~
s'What l ain driving at is this: If We
will moderate our duties on those four arti-
clcs the Canadians will enlarge their canals
so as to take down vessels of a thousand
tons each, and with free navigation give us
their inland fisheries us well. Now, help
u.s."
81 won't''
"Why not?"
because it's id humbug. ! must
90. Read that book, and learn something"
81 will if can, but, like Bully Bottom,
I am slow of study. But come, now, be
reasonable. Help US down the St. Law
renee"
= 81 won't go,' he continued, outside.
"Well, don't 60 down there, or you'll get
into the pantry and commit. some absurdity.
Turn to your left, and then to your right.
But, touchingsthe St. Lawrence ?"
The yeferable philosopher disappeared,
but from the bottom Of the stairs he cried
out: =,
."D-n the St. Lawrence; it's hum
bug"
Poor old gentleman! How blind he is.I
a.as d. p.
A Richmond architect has perfected a
plan by which floating city may be built
..l.Io of ba Atlantic ccaan Hia