The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-02-13

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that in q very short time thei
complaints will be relieved.
Which shall it be? Shall timid
ity, parsimony and littleness swal
the action of our national legisla
tionP Or, shall it take the higl
comprehensive stand of states
manship?
Many scholarly complaints, o
excellent rhetorical finish, have re
Gently been made against our cur
rency, but with all its Theoretical
defects it has, nevertheless, ena
bled our nation to accomplish dur
ing the last ten years more won
derful results than any one would
haYc dreamed of being within the
realms of possibility.
There Is, for instance, the city
Of Chicago. Two years ago the
fire fiend had leveled it with the
prairie. To-day some ten miles
of palatial and substantial six and
eight story brick blocks constitute
the evidence of the general pros
perity of the city and nation, the
enterprise of our people, their
skill and energy as workmen, and
the excellence of our financial sys7
tem.
To their eternal fame be it said,
that the citizens of chat stricken
city did not sit down panic strick-
en- to beWail the past. They did
not rake for months in the ashes
to save old iron and molten scraps.
They incurred new debts, to be
sure, but they knew that two
years profit on their business
would go far to tighten the load.
Had they followed the Fabian pol
icy of the Opposition in Congress,
and belabored each other with vile
epithets their confidence in their
own fortune would have departed,
and business would have taken
other channels.
Financial revulsions we shall al
ways have; bankruptcies, like
shipwrecks, will occur; but while
war, inundation, and confagration
actually destroy existing things,
panics simply cause articles of
property to be measured by a less
nominal value or to change own
ership. Thus panics, however
disastrous to individuals, are by
far less calamitous to the nation
at large than war or conflagration.
In these circumstances Congress
will speedily devote, in obedience
TO public opinion, its attention to
the cheap transportation problem
and inaugurate q well considered
system, trying no new expert
ments, building up no special in
terest or community, but simply
following the wake of the natural
water routes, and enlarging them
to their fullest capacity.
The Opposition members well
know that an obstructive debate
upon the soap and candle ques-
tion, even if it were to result
which is not likely-in the saving
of a few Thousand dollars, which
would divert the attention of Con-
gress and the people from the
cheap transportation problem,
thus compelling the industry of
the country to pay millions of
tribute to railway combinations,
would be about as important and
useful TO the real interests of the
country as if each Congressman
were to watch in his own kitchen
to avert the possible waste of
soap-grease.
What the people most need are
inspiration and faith, so that they
may take hold with renewed vigor
to build up and develop our grand
inheritance. Had the great Thad-
deous Stevens, during the war,
counted the number of buttons
upon the military coats, and mag
niffed the inevitable shortcomings
and leakages of large military op-
erations, no appropriations could
ever have been passed, and the
war would have been, indeed, what
the Chicago Convention pro-
nounced it to be, failure; and the
Republican party would have been
sacrificed upon the altar of i'm
becility.
In that emergency, that great
man asked for thousand millions
of dollars, and they were voted
promptly and expended to the
best advantage by the men who
had charge of their disbursement;
and the country was all the more
ready for the self-sacrifice, because
Its confidence was not impaired
and its attention was not distract.
ed by the exhibition of small de.
ficiencies.
And thus it is to-day. Let the
public become animated with the
hope. that the producer in the
West and the consumer in the
East shall be brought closer to
gether. and that all branches o.
industry shall be revived by the
investment of money in perma
nent and beneficial works, and the
campaign can be made upon thu
greater issue, whether this system
shall be sanctioned by the people
or whether they shall abstain from
national expenditures for thes'
objects, to be piundered individu
ally by the tributes which soullesI
corporations levy upon their pro
ducts. Thus, we shall elevate
once more the political questions
into the realms of craftsmanship
SO that men of enlarged mind
can take an interest in politica
affairs. And thus shall we sweel
away, as the glorious orb of da.
dispels the fogs of the morning
she cloud of recrimination an
charges which are brought agains
! our public men because there ar
no other issues engaged public Al
tention.
Mr.. Sniggins wished to start Oh
f an early train a few days ago, an
r he purchased an alarm clock i
order to insure his waking at tn
= proper hour. He took it hom
: wound it up, and set it for fiS
2 O'Clock. He went to bed at tel
c About midnight something in Il
3 alarm clock gave way, and it star
+ ed off in q terrible clattel. tt
baby was scared and began 20 CIR
: and Mrs. Sniggins hastily awakel
ed, thought burglars were murde
q ing the infant, and went of I'M
e Mysteries and screams. ShiggiI
x mistook the alarm for a watc
e mans rattle, and being but hs
!. awake emptied six barrels of b
= revolver out the front windo