The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-15

DayS as CdA, iUi INC Su0SotiOu VI lAo
children and their preparation for the
active duties Of life, to say whether he
wishes the little ones whom God has
given him to be exposed to the contain
mating influence of negroes in the same
classes and on the same benches and in
the same play ground at school. You
mnst either submit or withdraw your
children from the school and pay else
where another price for their tuition.
How many of the laboring men are
there here tonight who can, without
great sacrifice of comforts which they
IN can spare, afford TO pay the school
taxes assessed upon them and provide
for the education Of their children at
private expense besideH
Why is it that negroes whom We
were recently informed were so ignor-
ant that a great national poor-house
was necessary for their protection and
a horde of officers was appointed to
superintend the making Of their con-
tracts and the transaction for them oil
the simplest business affairs, are now
deemed fit and worthy of suffrage while
intelligent foreigners have to remain
full FIVE years in this country before
they are permitted to vote? Why are
young men OF sixteen, seven
teen, eighteen, nineteen or TWEEN,
ty years Of age, who are educated
intelligent and gifted by nature with
intellectual superiority to the negro per
mitted to vote? And, although ! am
not an advocate of female suffrage,
deeming il injurious to the sweet and
delicate characteristics Of womans ma
ture to mingle in political strife, why
are not women permitted to exercise
the elective franchise? The answer to
these queries is found in the fact that
the Radical party knows that it could
not control the votes Of the women and
the young men as it can control those
OF the unreasoning and ignorant blacks,
and therefore il refuses them the SUI
f.age.
Negro suffrage has been enacted for
partisan ends, and il is having an effect
which believe was fully designed 1t is
operating to degrade the suffrage and
disgust thinking men with the whole
system, in order that the Radicals,
when the time is ripe, may consummate
the process Of Capitalization by the de-
struction of the republic and the cree
ton Of centralized despotism upon its
ruins.
But the Radical party claims TO be a
party Of economy and reform, and |
have recently heard it said that Gen
eral Grants administration has spent
less money than any Democratic ad-
ministration that preceded it. The
country is burdened by an enormous
debt. | admit that the debt was occa-
stoned by the war, and repeat that it
was fortunate for some of these Rad.
ical gentry that the war occurred. II
has proven to them the greatest bless
ing they ever enjoyed. The debt
amounts in round figures to 8, 652, WO,-
600 They say they are reducing it
and have reduced it during the
past year. But this is an arithmetic
/ am at a loss TO understand. Let us
compare the official statements made
10y Mr.. Boutwell,, Secretary of the
Treasury, for the fiscal year ending July
|, 1869, with that of July |, 1870. On
the first of July, 1869, Mr.. Boutwell,
declares the national debt to be. about
$2,645, 100000. 1t is claimed that Gen.
Grant has reduced this during the past
year $l56,000,000. On the first of
July 1870, Notwithstanding this pro-
fessed reduction, the debt is stated 10y
Mr. Boutwell, to be, in round numbers,
1852, 100000, or about seven millions
greater than il was before the reduction
took place. i confess that this kind
of arithmetic is incomprehensible
according TO any rule that ]
ever learned. They claim that they
are also reducing the taxes, but the
same kind Of arithmetic prevails, and
the reduction is of the same kind as
that last illustrated. In 1868 there was
collected in taxes from the people the
sum of 1852 600, while in 1869 the
sum Of $40S,000OO0 was collected.
This is reducing taxation with n ven.
geance. They also boast of economy in
the public service, and the reduction OF
the expenses Of the government, but
the same kind Of arithmetic is en-
ployed. For seventy-two years, from
the foundation Of the Government up to
the year 1860, the total expenses of
the Government were $l,700,000,000,
while for the ten years from
1860 to 1870 the expenses reach
5,OO0O00,O00 From 1871 TO 1915,
twenty.three years, during which the
country was engaged in war with In.
dians and during which term the last
war with England occurred, the ex-
penses OF the government were $l72,-
100000 while the expenses Of Grants
administration for the year 1869 alone
amounted to 500, 100000. These sums
are beyond comprehension. We can
not understand them or obtain any
adequate idea Of their magnitude. No
man could count the national debt
were he TO count one dollar for each
second Of time in the period OF eight
hundred years
A large portion of this debt is in
bonds Of various kinds. These bonds
are held by the few and are made the
subject Of special protective legislation.
About 81 600, 900, 600 of them are what
are called five twenties." Their prin.
cipal is now due and payable, and the
Democratic party insists upon their pay
ment according to the contract, in order
that the interest upon them may be
stopped; but instead Of paying them of,
it is proposed TO issue in their stead
other bonds at a lower rate of interest,
running five, ten, fifteen and twenty
years, the interest and principal Of
which shall both payable in gold. |
The holders Of these bonds have already |
made good bargain. They have already |