The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-04-19


| national banking system and Gov
ernment land grants for internal
improvements. The positions taken
by Mr.. Burnett on these questions
were ably and successfully contro-
verted by Judge Wilson. On the
question of the tariff, he proved that
the Democratic. party in its plat
form in 1868 occupied the same po-
sition now advocated by the Re-
publican party Of this State; that if
the tariff was higher now than i'll
1923, las Mr.. Burnett asserted)
that it was 10 burden as there was
forty times as much produce, ETC.,
to raise it on; and that more than
half Of the Democrats in Congress
had always voted for the tariff laws;
that local or State interest governed
III that matter; that while the peo-
pie ofillinois, who reall farmers,
had instructed their Republican
Congressman to oppose the tariff,
the people Of Pennsylvania, who
were all manufacturers, instructed
their Democratic Representatives to
advocate a high tariff; that with
out tariff there would be a dearth
of labor in the mills, the same as
there now exists i'll our shipyardS
On the question of land grants for
internal improvements, which Mr..
Burnett most earnestly opposed,
Judge Wilson, in reply, read from
the State Democratic platform of
1870 where the Democracy call
ed on Government for just such a
grant as Mr.. Burnett now so earn
estly denouced. But this was not
all. Nearly every other principle,
said Judge Wilson, enunciated two
years ago was now ignored, and
many OF them utterly discarded.
This change of front, Judge Wilson
denounced as an effort to gull the
people who did not think for them
| selves. It made no difference, said
Judge Wilson, whether these rail-
roads are held by monopolists or
not, so long as they do good to the
country. If it were not for the land
grant to the Northern and Calitor-
MIA railroad, monopolyas it is now
called, it would not he built at all.
The position of Mr.. Burnett on
banking was that he thoughtpaper
money a curse, and National Banks
were only intended to destroy the
| Liberties Of the people. lie thought
there was no reason why the coun-
try could not get along without pa
per money, as 1t did dtorfthc ~or.
That period, ''before the war;" is
not 50 long passed, but what Some
OF lis can remember whether there
was any very great destitution ofpa-
permonvy at that time. Wepmem-
Der seeing a good deolin cireu' alton,
we think, issued under banking laws
made by the different States. We
hsys ppt forgotten how insecure
seme Of il was, how often at . dis
count, and how liable to break at
apy time. Contrast the paper
money Issued by these State banks,
("Nild cat currency" much of it
Went by the name ofl, their insecu-
ritYs with our National Bank paper,
its security based on the credit of
the Nation, and what is the con
clusion ? In regard to the home
stead law, Judge Wilson said the
only veto President Buchanan ever
gave was to that law. In regard
70 corruption, he challenged the
Democracy to name one on their
side who had ever been pun
ished- tor any crime, He spoke
Of the $12, 100000 defaulter and
thief d New York, Tweed, being
the State Senate BY 10000
majority afterthese frauds had'come
! to lihk aTheas are, some vOf the