Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-02-26

ECONOMY. MISUNDERSTANDING the evidences
Of reform and Economy in conducting the af-
fairs of the Government, Mr.. DAWES, who is
looking after the waste places in national
economy, iHtimatcs tl,at there Is still ample
room for the exercise Of the virtue of ffugnlity.
Economy he says, may be pyaetsee,s m slfe
army, by retiring the supcrnumcrary officers
A very large sum of money can be saved IN
this way without reducing the elective
strength pf the army. There is room for
economy in the navy. A great number oil our
vessels in commission are worthless, and our
navy.yartls are sinkholes of public money
There may be economy in the Internal Rev
enuc Department. The Supervisors of In
tcrual Revenue are supprnumcraries-and the
special agents and detectives only contrivc TO
make the revenue service disrepuiablc. Con
gress is costing three times lis necessary cx-
penses. The Congressional Gloje is ahumbug,
the franking privilege is abused to an extent
that calls aloud for correction. Should
these suggestions in the line Of Economy be
carried out, the reduction of the public
debt would he considerably facilitated.
If the franking nuisance Is continued, the
editors of country newspapers must be held re-
sponsibc lor IT, They want exchanges Tree,
and to have the free of the mails in their
own counties. Let this dcad-hcad business be
abolished along with the ranking privilege
! There is no clear way of rcmedying the present
evils except To charge for all matter That passes
| through the mails. Congress, probably, has
| not got the courage to do this. Your Congress
man trcmblcs before the county presses vi MS
" Decstrck"
Dffi NJ
| we presume it's sentiments would be echoed by
most of the metropolitan dailirs Of the country.
Sclfshncss is the great principle in the control
! of the affairs of this world, and, unscemly and
ungraciOus as II would seem, these large city
establishments allow IL to crop out towards
the feeble local weeklics As has been stated,
over and over again, these city dailics make
their money upon their daily papers, and this
being the case, they aro enabled TO send their
wecklics made up from the matter used once
in the daily edition. at price but little above
the cost of paper and press work. They thus
come in direct competition, in II general circn'
lation, with the provincial weekly. The only
ground of hopeful competition is in the postage
from which the latter are, within the county
where published, free.
Put them both upon an equality, in this re
spect, rs the Commercial DESIRES and the loca
paper, in many cases, would go to the wall
The enlightened Congressman will look after
the interests of the county press of his Dee
strick," from motives of justice and the public
good, and rcbukc the selfishness and rapacit!
of such daiics as the COmmercml.
The following article from a late number o
the Rcr0luton is handed us for publication, BY
one Of the strong-minded, AS response ant
offset to MIR. ANDERsoNs last wOma'ns rights
article. AS the glove has been thrown down
we suppose our fellow-laborer will not object
any more than we are disposed to, to its bcin:
taken up by those who feel disappointed at th
closing article of the series, in not coming ul
to the hope and expectation that the earlier
ones, it was thought seemed to encourage
We have no objections to the admission of ar
tcIcs of point and snap, if concise and of nc
derate length, on either side of the question, II
they seldom fail to drive off the blue devils, ant
draw upon our happiness and good nature.