The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-16
REPUBLICAN REFORM.
Letter from Hon. M B. Lowry-Hls Views on
the Political SITUATION.

Hon. NJ. B. Lowry has written powerful letter to
the Republicans OF Erie county, from which we ex-
The men who hold public dignties to enforce
measures the occasion for which has passed away
not worthy OF public support as they are unequal
to the advancing and liberal ideas of free people.
They have held places long that they act as if the
places were made for them and as II they had
hereditary right TO administer the government.
These men have outlived their usefulness. Their
less acrd scheme OF administration, ITO secure the
blessings OF peace and give public tranquility" II
can party as its representatives they viii destroy
that party and bring shame upon its heroic history
dae d sS yGn n With must TnS fake place OF
country will not tolerate chronic state OF political
hareds and political prescription as the established
The irst necessity of the Government was money.
To procure that three measures depending on each
other and incidents of each other were adopted.
One was system OF national banking, another a
system OF national loans and still another system Of
national taxation 10 provide for the interest those
loans. The banks that were then made answered
the end OF their creation and received their return
has BASED away, their public usefulness to the
Government bas been exhausted, but they remain
TO enjoy all their enormous privileges without any OF
their duties. From institutions OF national cOnVe-
nience they have degenerated into private ofhces,
broker shops, and become, under color
OF public authority, instruments OF eXtortion. They
are public nuisance that must and shall be abated.
bay by day these and other gigantic monopolies i'm
Andrew jackson said, when resisting abuse, 10y the
power OF these men and their machines, ''the rich
great cities are filled with a mass OF laborers who
create wealth 10 be despoied OF it by these artificial
instruments, once needed for the public good, now
the private propertyHof grasping and over
bearing men who amass wealth TO abuse
by their vulgar ostentation and luxurious living.
The rows OF stately palaces with their gorgeous
chambers OF velvet and gold that embesh the GEN.
tres OF are the fruits OF your labor that
pass from you 10 the merchant and are ia turn
seized by the money lenders who control these
tiOnal banks who lend al usurers rates in panics
created by themselves, and thus dishonesty acquire
estates that never should exist in free country.
The evil influence OF these corporations has helped
70 debauch both political parties.
As part OF the system OF taxation certain reme-
dies were provided by the law 70 secure their cOec
tion What has been the result? To the horror and
terror OF the community, and in open violation OF all
established ideas OF private rights, that law has been
converted into an instrument OF the most intolera-
ble oppression. Spies and infOrmers nest the COM
munity and invade the privacy Of every mans busi-
ness-spies and inf0rmers who share the forfetures
they occasion 10y their lawess seizures Prosecuting
| officers, who swell their incomes in the same way
and by large bills OF costs arrest innocent men, ac-
them, indct them, and If they cannot privately
| compound with them, commit them as criminals for
innocent and ignorant acts Of omission in the prose
cution OF their business. The courts OF the
United States are disgraced by the
| trial OF reputable and Industrious men
charged with the crime OF ignorance in the manner
| ol keeping books OF account, when they were kept
after the form furnished by the Government ofnceri
themselves To misplace stamps ignoTanLy anl
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