National Republican., 1874-06-01

some Of them Offering 70 aid IN smashing In
the heads Of the casks. These appear 10 have
left some incendinry sparks behind among
those remaining at the station, About
O'Clock one cask hsd been bored, and was
stopped BY men handling freight. A while
after the head Of one cask was stove in and the
contents all wasted; another was 50 badly
broken that before It was discovered q good
deal was wasted. The head was somewhat
strained, but there was no loss Of liquor.
At night the second meeting assembled, and
It was large one. The committee seem to
have neglected their duty sDd presented. No
business. The parson Of the church, Mr..
Crenshaw, opened the meeting with prayer.
And finally L. s. Abbott, ESQ.,, offered q pre-
amhls aud series OF resolutions, n wish
had q copy Of them for you, which, amer con
siderable discussion were adopted.
Mr.. Abbott then stated we must obey the
laws, and that we must sustain them. He
felt 1t to be the duty Of the community to con-
denim the aggrayating breach Of law and order
that had been committed at the depot that
day, and read the following:
Resoyued, Thst the act OF breaking In the heads
Of tho casks containing liquor at the depot to-day
was most axgravating violation OF law, and
merits and receives our unrestricted condemna-
tiou.
This was bitterly opposed, and Il is most
remarkable fact that the opposition came prin-
others, we should have examples of obedience
to law and order. Mr.. c. III. Burton, the
superintendent of the Mission Sunday schools,
opened against its adoption. His speech was
q purely left-handed or indirect Endorsement
and justification Of the law-breaking act. DR..
Graham at first was about "'alf and 'alf;" it
was difficult to tell on which the balance of
effort predominated. Dr.. Moran thought we
could do better than pass the resolution, and
followed In q spresd-eagle reference TO temper
ance and the evils OF intemperance. The Rev.
Mr.. Crenshaw moved 10 table il, and told the
chairman the motIonwas not debatable, and it
was done by vote of 2l TO 81 A good many
coIored men who did not know what they wore
voting for voted aye. Not half of the house
voted.
Mr. Dearing introduced this: We condemn
the unlawful act committed by persons un-
known to US, this morning, by the destruction
at the depot of property belonging to Mr.. Fox.
Rev. Mr.. Crenshaw opposed its adoption in
an excited speech. DIR. Graham supported it;
and il was at length adopted. So at last law
and order is sustained at Falls Church.
WITNESS.
THE FINANCIAL POLICY THAT WILL BENEFIT
'.--- THE WORKING CLASSES. -.
To the Editor Of The National RepuGhcnn:
SIR: There is, unfortunately, Z large number
of laborers in the country who either lack the
ability or the disposition to read and are there
fore liableto be imposed upon by political So
phistry. But, as q rule, the working classes
throughout the North read and judge for them
selves. As they are neither offlce-seekers nor
speculators, their interest in politics is limited
by an honest regard for the greatest good to
the greatest number. Occupied with realities
rather than with distractions, they base their
political judgments more upon concrete facts
than abstract theories. Benefits, in the fruits
of silent deeds, weigh much more with them
than benefits in the snowy blossoms of loud
promises. The infationists tell them that the
President has succumbed to capitalists and
grasping speculators, and become their dupe
for executing q financial policy that will en-
rich themselves at the expense of the laboring
masses, including the citizen soldiers and the
widows and orphans of their deceased compan-
ions; while they, the advocates of imitation, are
straining every nerve to protect these objects
of their deepest sympathies from the rapacity
of the moneyed aristocrscy. Let US see. Ac-
cording to the rule Of common sense, in work.
ing out financial results, the gold dollar should
be viewed as the fixed standard; SO viewing 1t.
our paper dollar Is about 10 per cent. below
par. Disabled soldiers and the widows and or
phans of those who sacrificed their lives in
saving the nation are entitled by law, in the
aggregate, to about $50, ,000, 900 annually in
pensions. They are now robbed of about 3d.
600, 900 of this by being paid in deprecated
currency. The President by his veto prevents
q policy which would soon rob them of twice as
much, and favors one which would secure them
their full pensions. Including clergymen and
and faculties OF colleges, there are In the
country about two hundred thousand teachers.
The instances are rare In which their salaries,
fixed by private corporations or public authori-
ties on a basis of money at par, are raised on
account of the deprecated currency in which
they are paid. Practically the salaries of
these hard workers In q sphere which benefits
every public interest are now cut down IL per
cent. The policy of the inhationists would cut
them down still further; that of the President
would result in preventing the present loss.
The census Of 1870 returns 260, 900 clerks in the
service of the Government, railroads, mer-
chants, &c. As general thing the salaries Of
these clerks are not changed on account Of
fluctuations in the value of currency. To
bring currency up to par is virtually to add
12 per cent. to the pay they now receive; to
further depreciate it is to cut their salaries
down In a corresponding degree. The census
returns 2,6S4 ,739 as engaged in professional
and personal services. Only q very small por-
ton of these do business on their own account;
2,007, 400 are laborers or domestic servants,
ard large part Of the remainder employees.
Not one of these toilers In the service of others
will be injured, and nearly all will be bene-
flied by the policy obliging their employers to
pay their wages, not in deprecated but in ap-
preciated currency. Engaged in trade and
transportation, 1,191 ,23S, Of which 10, ,6S1 are
bankers and brokers Of money and stocks, and
362, ,46S traders and dealers. Nearly all the
remaining S1S, ,139 belong to classes working
for salaries or wages. There is scarcely rae
of hope that, to any extent, the nominal rsty
of their wages would be raised in consequence
of q futher depreciation Of currency. Hence
they have nothing to hope for from imitation,
and nothing to fear from policy tending to
resumption. Engaged in manufactures and
mining, 2,707, ,421; Of these 392, ,0S4 are opera
tives In factories or mills; III, ,127 boot and
shoe makers; 152, ,107 miners; 161 $40 tailors,
tailoresses and seamstresses, and much the
largest PORTION Of the remainder are workers
for wages. ~
There is scarcely chance that any of these
employees Of manufacturing and mining capt
talists would be benefited by imitation, or suffer
loss in employment or pay In consequence of
financial legislation certain to increase the
purchasing power of wages, which are now SO
low that the nominal rule is not likely TO be
diminished. Of the 5,922, Al returned as en-
gagged In agriculture, only about one hal, g.
977 III, are farmers and planters, while 1885,,
900 are classed as laborers. This latter class,
certainly, have nothing to fear from policy
which would make the dollar in which their
hard-earned wages are paid worth 100 cents
instead Of SS; and nothing to hope for from
legislation that would have the opposite effect.
Il Is noticeable that In those portions of the
country where the proportion of employers to
employees is smallest, and where the latter
are most generally educated and supplied with
newspapers, the Presidents veto is sustained
with the greatest unanimity. In lows and
Kansas the proportion of those who pay wages
to those who work for wages is probably ten
times greater than In Massachusetts,; and in
the latter State all voters among the working
classes can read, while in the Southern states
q very large portion cannot. It Is hardly sup
possible that Cougressmen and editors, q vast
majority of whose constituents are intelligent
employees, are less influenced by regard for
their sentiments than those among whose con-
stituents tho proportion of emplo Ters Is much
greater, AMI the proportion of educated en-.
ployees very much less.
Now few words on the relative effects of
the policy of imitation or the opposite on debt
and credit, so far as it concerns the working
classes. The plain facts are these: Cases are
exceedingly rare, II not unheard of, in which
laborers owe capitalists; cases are innumer-
able in which capitalists owe laborers. The
working classes are not borrowers. II is the