, 1870-04-01
WASAIMa aT0M.
Discussion Of the Tariff.
Able Speeches.
People OF the Period.
Gail HamiIton-Amasa WMker---
Pierre Soule-Badeau.,


knecks Ill round the country, and the t1ends
Of prerident Grant lament tlu.t be dignified 80
uani{est fraud with an official ENDORSEMENT.
This ia not the first time TINT tho iron interest
has appealed with success to President Grant.
for bis perrunal recognition In his annual Mes
sage he put in paragraph which, it is r1morea,
he did not write at all, at the request of taziN
lAsye1s fn1tuiteusIy BY holding seats IN Coz
gress. OF course the President uss imposed
upon in these cases. He has, however,
ono defect Of character rarely met with
in high place-sn ioe1p1icable respect for rich
men. Now, rich man without recognition Of
come kind, is one Of the poorest Of hunxn
creatures. Either commerce, iterature, socie-
Is or politics is necessary to make him happy,
and this is why 30 many dunces eit in the Sem
a.e and House, paying ont their money to 10
nqticed This Eost OF man is apt II
he have republican conscienco-to be d
good sort Of n1sn for a President to take by
the band now and then, to encourage him with
the fact that even enterprise is not the worst
thing in the State, and to ASSURE him that re-
spactatle wealth need not de5ar any Person
from yiating MagistEacy occasionally,
But, God help ua! how many rich men ire
worth more than one Or two intervievss And
what intellectual man ever made anything out
Of rich one--at least by any process or up
pea. worthy Of Intellect
Once was seized with a genuine wish to
"c1ltisbte" " = Eich mAn- He hid great
quantity Of horses, and gave "beautiful"
game suprera; He never sst Il, ANYTHING but
1 boz 1t the thestre, and il be vent fshing he
he hired q tug or steaxabozt and took party.
He Wac represented to NE MS ny gEeAtest
Aapp1eciator, ,--whatovet that may be--and1
seriously msde the attempt to like him and
bear With him.
In the first place, be drove NE out three
talk, you could really think that sou saw them
Groaing-in price. Hooked ut those lots with
tho eyes Of botany, sna poetry, and finance.
Afterward We went home, and heArd the histo-
r Of his patesual ancestors over three game
suppers. Al last the tetrapin tasted like his
gTeat.g1sndfather, Finally he requested mo
to write come atanzas on the said great-g1and-
{nther-and then 1ebolled.
Now, why should the President take pleasure
in sueh merely rich men a. Doeie and Corhin, OF,
Hozeo yet. in such designing rich men as Cakes
A.nca, Dsniel Mortcll, End others who are, Of
course, pleased with his attentions, and inte-
portaot designs than either social recognition
o. historical Teminiscenee Il they find that
they can impress the President with their
yicws, merely by the contact Of their riches,
they sill use him to theie fll, and hlaHt hia ad-
ninissration With their fulsome praise and in
sidious adyices.
The Presidents best aayisers aro not TO bo
fo4nd IN the private closet; The days Of tbs
PTiry Council went out with Clarendon, And
the Third Stuart. The president's advisers
ehould be the better prees Of tho country, aud
ths ey q tho m 1a{ssaoa a .;1e the o,s1
It is snostifying to cur conceptions q the
American Chief Magistrate, that be should feel
the contact Of any man, much less merely
rich one. This il the weakness of General
Grant, the real weakness! He is uBed. He ia
irupressible! he is M abused mAnl His rela-
tises have not felt, in the nice sense Of delica-
ey, the duty they owed him, 10 abstain from
soliciting Federal favors. Many Of them arc in
office. 0thesn hare tried to gov rich by Oh
tanning his ear. IT, is more than
probable that Corbin svindled Fiek and Gould
dent Grant But il Corbin had gTown .ich as
Cr<rsns BY his high re}ahonsMp, it won}a hare
been less dangerous symptom than the
known fact that people who have climbed to
opuIence hy the barharlsmA and slips OF legis-
lltion are looked upon hy the President aa tho
| best e3ponenta Of American citizenship.
4 few weeks before President Grants in
I auguration, he declared that he should give the
| weight OF his official influence against Land
[ grantsand Bubsdiea to corporations. His
| name is row used in Congress ~ befriende,
OF fhese projects ty sea aud BY Land, and ha
has twice endorsed them BY messages Yet
each :. !sm. II vii Il fire With lie State i
the farmer in Town is burning coru for fuel Ia
keep up tho delusion Of tho American Tag at
Sea. II will be 4 hard time for the immigrant
II railroad IMMIGRANTS are found to have ex-
1 hau1ted his homestead, and in place Of the
| cheap Government Of tho republic he will oye
| allegiance to coalition Of capitalists. pe
Tocqueyillc said, IN lis great work, That the
only chance for gsoss,. feudl tyranny to re-
establish it.ef IN this democratic 4ge
| wae through the manufactures but &c
Ased bcfq5e tho senszation Of 9nbsidized
| railways. Who can control the roads has in
| I'll ages controlled society. Columbus waa the
gre7test man in that be opened The widest
road, and Spain epeDt two centuries trying 10
close it. but n hen coalescing capitalists still
I govern the roads Of the Northern Hemisphere,
what navigator shall open them again
PACIFIC NAIL sr,Ds1nY.
1received tod dag the resy original, weu-Hrit-
ten aud blessing magazine, called the 0rer.
| land Mo'a3.f9. It WAS the April number, and
[ in it wns an article upon the the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company.
This celebrated company has had credita.
bic history. md, receiving large n1sll subsidies
from tho Federal Government, it long Kept
up fine line Of Tessels, from New. 1ork u
Aspinwsu, and from Panama to San F1ancisco
| hnd iattersy hne from San FrancaBco to Japan
and China. While 1t its best, its stock Rold
ts1 sboEe pat; il received e1osbltant rates fol
soundly established that the London Times
used to publish editorials prophesEing that il
( would absorb tho competing shipping Of the
| world. 1retnember reading. Just II the close
! Of the wnr, an account Of the European int
jerome and others Of its Directors ran it intc
the STOCK market and abnscd its credit Just =.
! Fisk aud Barnard have prostituted tho Erit
I Railroad. 1t ran wooden Eessels. !anertcan
built altogether, dabbled in old steamship ms
teri2l, permitted the Panama Rail
I its friends. and at last the opening OF tn,
Pacific Railroad spoiled the trade between Sey
York and SAT- FTancisco, so that in the word.
OF the Qrer2ana:
| "Thls line has been ehoked ty TINT Iron ban,
sar 9aa waea ae he sed
| uxfnc which is II. Nfe-b2ood ss cbttuX away. 81
rsa, d!st1s.ssd nd n1a,ntaintng is ground VT
feat t,y the powerful subsidized and snbsidiznl
competitor Ia but question of tine.
l. y tae r ola ID Collins stosy oyer AGAIN: tn
crs and Of American steamships"
1t il not true in any large sense th4t th
competitors Of the Pacific Mail Company A1
powerfully subsidized-that is, out Of pppo1
tion TO the American subsidy. The Collin
atory is one Of tAe vansf! Of subsidies of y
e1cited nA.ion burning on excited captsin
and expensive ships against ieebergs, pronon
| tories, 4nl 1isasters wo1Ee than comnerci.
failure, and now the Dreraana Aonhty asks Z
to try the same fest on the Pacific Ocean:
"The monthly Japan steamer from San FraI
can't trans between China and califosnis; ne
| even In thts does II supplant deserving aa11n
stes tses sonus sse5 = & fs II ~ sa nssss
| people do mi intend to maintain paG1c nArtnt
then il i not tidur atfs that thtr adranta7e nou
7, saet'a e :. ~ % "a Ssht t eopa
I to perform the same With weekly steamers; The
| government would not, ve are couttheed, hestta,
| to e1,enu the necessary Subsidies TO them.
This is not verv encouraging; and the sol
argument in the article aforesaid ta, that il tt
| h1hnh should establish competing line frnl
Panama to San Francisco, they Eon}d at one
put stesmstip line between San Francis
ind 4ustralis and another between San FIaI
cisco and China,-both subsidized BY the Bn
ish Government Suppose this should b. t
care, zee what it would eATe:
l. It would save q subsidy from the Amer
can Government, payable out Of the pockei
Of people who never SAW the Pacific coast
q Save the steady Iosses OF the P&cidc Na
| Steamship Company. whose stock is down tvl
thirds below rar,-solely because people vi
not ride. from motives Of patriotism, thrt
weeks through the tropics when they can y
| enmplish the Journey IN ai1 dass by the pu]
[ u.An cars.
/ s. San francisco viii then have three I'M
! Of weekly steamships where now aha has b
one monthly line 70 ASH and one hi-reek]fF
Psrsma. It Is poor policy for : San Francis
publication to oppose such loeI dayelapeEuen
: 1 Mesels cut Of regard fot the kind Of burt1
| that the steamers fy. -
We cAnno. realize MI cur e1pensive dream
OF the American flag. We have just paid 1
immense Euheidy in money and enterprise
set several millions Of o1r countFynen Ire
: When ~e get I'd Of the other incahus OF = biz
ta.iH,-ss deadly weight Is s1syesy,-.we shi
: ind The oceans rc.dy to welcome Us, il We y
3 needed There are manE things which Il
! american aas might do-help cnba, snn.