New-York tribune., 1874-06-11
CURRENT DISCUSSION.
PRACTICABLE REFORM.


A correspondent of The NEw-fORK TRIBUNE
with considerable cocency that "toal abstinence
may be correct. We do not believe that any purely
moral reform be effected simply by legislation.
There must be condition precedent to success the
willing heart and the acquiescinc judgment. We do not
think of religion would be benefited by the
Men can't be converted by legislation. Bat total abst-
nence practicable reform in SO far as men accept
II ana hold fast 1t, do just religion is rem
dered practicable by adopting and living 1t. We know
ths the fact the worlds history that the use Of
pies We may depore the evils OF excess in drinking
ever so mach still there WIN be, as there
always has been, the and often the abuse
Of sllmulants In tins country, the latter has be-
come the source OF terrible evils They obtrude them,
selves upou all sides, and in almost every form OF
vice ana Say then there Is only safety In total
abstinence Very wel but the great army OF drinkers
vii; not accept your panacea for the evil; they Will
drink Heie aud there total abstinence coa9lers ah1
victim Of intempera6cc but this is ehected not
legislative pains and penalties but by persuasion aud
the triumph Of moral sense l Is our profound conVe-
ton that the temperance question ought not to be made
a political issue than purely religious ques-
should be- Practicable reform IN morality can
ouy be ac through love and good WILL and appeals
TO the heart aud understandings crusade of force and
auarhemas and carnal warfare and political raidinS,
men, can accomplish the eni sought for in behalf
OF temperance the other hand 1t Is likely to defeat
Ii aud thus work out positive evil rather than
s0O0' TIE CURRENCY ISSUE.
THE NEw-YORK TRIBUNE desires to shift
the currency from where 1t il where 1t IL
II saws: I've regret 10 disposition the part OF
the ionsts to represent The currency question
issue between the rich and poor. or tne money
edly regrets this "dsposou to represent the
currency question: for II is disposition to represent
exactly as 1t is BUTT IL not alone the men who
money that advocate OF currency II Ia the
of money-tne men who employ capital actively in
men who buy money-that Is. hire it-wIsh it to be
cheap Tie Mho use money also wish to b. cheap
and plenty. The men who sell money wish
acknowledses the whole heresy q eOn,rac
ton OF keeping money at ITS present volume which
effect contraction under Its second head SAYS the
creditor 10 Tie @ at "s.es yH 1 where tue
value than you agreed 10 pay" But the debtor class
LEES than dollar and sixty for every dollar owed.
by this very policy of direct cOntrac ou while the re,
nay TO much larger extent 1t viii be at an incaicu
iable amount OF bankruptcy aud ram TO those who are
greatly indebted" the chief advocate OF diminished
Currency to admit that debts will be paid under
reduced currency. II this we're the entire issue-and
belong those who greatly indebted" who stare
an iucacul(le amount OF bankruptcy and ruiu in the
the bankruptcy aud ruin THE TRIBUSg's explanation
Of the currency issue Will not tend to make the theory
of contraction excessively popular.
THE NEW ANTLsLAyERY CRUSADE.
Prom IA< dibany Argus
The crusade for the liberation of the whites
and industrious blacks OF the south from the hraldom
winch Oppresses them nds itself to The sympathes
of every Humanitarian with force ut least equal In
siren the appeals made by the original antavery
crusade We need not enlarge upon the result OF the
prrposerous plan Of reconstruction. Theft rapins and
bribery riot in the Southern capitals plantations
fell 10 waste; cities tuInDed into decay government
became buresQue and some OF the airest regions OF
the cotton country were plunged into ruin which
now seems rretrievabe. An this because the Federal
Government took the franchise away from the ntelli
&c people and set loyal but rasca aiven
turers to rule over them. TIE TRIDCNE intcrposes
apology for this biunder Ii that most Of our
aw makers In those days Of exultant patriotism
doubtless believers in the necessity OF dsfran
chisemeut. Tney remembered with excusable bitter
ness the suerngs Of the past four years Tney thor
Oughy distrusted the repentance OF the conquered
6outh We do not question the SINCERITY OF ths feeling
uaeed we have every reason for believing II to have
been held With deep earnesness aud abiding conviction
But there IL longer reason for this fear. Virginia,
Georgia aud other Democratic States have highest
evidence OF their determination tue black Ia
ali the common rights Of humanity.
OXEN AND GREENBACKs.
from TA Qsisey wA.g.
The NEw-YORK TRIBUNE has manifestly no
respect persons in high places, judging from 1t
says about and Congress and green
hacks Does THE TRIBUNE mean to insinuate that the
credit Of our Imitation organs IL not good We know
that they continually clamoring for money
while there plenty Of 70 DO had cheap, by people
whose credit good Possibly oug iDn alton advocates
tbus that the Governments ought " make grseLbscks
NOV ukc gra6A