New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-09
SEED-TJuE and H4RVEST.

A wear hence, OF soon thereafter our country
will be stirred by the first thrOes of Prcsi-
dental canvass. ThencefOrth, there VIII be
riding and running, gathering and speaking
covering stumps with orators and filing bread
trays with documents, preparatory to the great
struggle We shall have the most equal con-
test that the country has known since 1874 AT
each election since 1885, the Democrats have
thrown away any chance of success they may have
had-frst, by splitting their party and running
two tickets in 1860 next by ruinous plat
form and a most homogeneous ticket in ga;
lastly, by nearly as bad a platform and a
rather worse ticket in 1868 We assume
the essentialimprobabIliy OF their repeating this
suicidal folly in 1872. They will not undertake
to upset the Reconstruction policy; they will
not proclaim their intention to disiranchlse
the Blacks they will not propose to pay the
National Debt in Grcenbacks, thus arbitrarily
substituting a promise that bears no interest
and is payable at no particular time for one
that bears six per cent. interest and Is
payable within twenty years. In short, we
assume that they will fight to win next time,
and not insist on running their heads against
wall to demonstrate their restitution of
brains Had they done this in go, they must
have triumphcd; had they done it i'll '6i or '6S,
they would have given us a very close and
doubtful contest. We assume that they are
hungry enough, chastcned enough by the
lessons of adversely, as not 10 attempt to
drive their wedge big end foremost again.
And, if they are only wise az scrpentS Trey
need not be harmless rs doves TO give us ali
we can do in 1872.
" octi
Iicans in every State and neghborhood to pre-
pare for the struggle just before us by getting
a Republican newspaper into every family
where it will be received and read. Push
your County or Village paper III case it IL
cheap and well conducted, but some good Re-
publican paper at any rate If the head OF
that family will subscribe and pay for it, 50
much the better; but if not and he will accept
and read it, send it to him, anyhow. A million
dollars spent in thus letting hight into house
holds that would otherwise be dark will never
be felt by those who in small sums give it,
while it will probably make the difference be-
tween success and defeat in the great impend-
ing struggle.
Political intelligence is disseminated and
political bias given through two main chan
latter is against us and cannot be changed
Ninety nine of every hundred bar-r0oms and
drinking saloons are intensely, efficiently
DemOcratic--Or, as Mike Walsh proclaimed
Them nurseries of Democracy" township
or village which is without one Of these
nurseries," either within its bounds or con-
veniently near them, is morally certain to be
Republican; while one which is cursed with
an overplus of tipping houses is almost uni
fOrmly against us. We cannot change this;
we can only counteract it. Let us spend one
dollar i'll circulating good newspapers where
our adversaries squandeT ten in their drunk
ard-manufactOries, and we cannot be beaten.
But it will not do to wait till the eve of the
Presidential Election. The enemy il sowing
tares at this hour. Every youth who is learn
ing to sip and soak in the grogshops is being
fashioned to the uses of Sham Democracy.
His virtuous parents may think otherwise
NAV be ignorant of his haunts and his habits;
but, if he is learning to love liquor and loose
company, he is being fashioned to the ends of
the adversary. Hence the Democratic mana
gers and oracles almost uniformly hate and
revile the Temperance Reform, even when
nersonally temperate. They know that its
triumph is their damage and probable defeat.
There is not o State in the Union whereof the
Democratic party is not cOnspieuously hostiie
to whatever legislation tends to diminish the
number or the power of its grogSlops.
In almost any township out OF New-En-
gland, fully one-thrd Of the families VIII DC
found, on inquiry, 10 take no general news
paper Some Of them may have s'oIy