The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-11-06
The Republican Party.

%llittpp. when we cOlllntuu IL llp 1T
,pntinn of those who may be disposed
to claim that the country is wor>c gov
crued now than under Democratic con-
troll:
Two facts are sufficiently eloquent OF
or national growth. First: The 6 per
cent. bonds issued in February, 1861.
sold for ~ cents on the dollar. The nj
lion then owed bE+ SGT, 1000, 900. The
same bonds sold in June, 1874, Is high
rs Ia! cents on the dollar. in %cHrrcncy,
or Il traction ove lloin gold, sithcugh
the uation then owed 8 1000, OO0 ,o06.
second: The value of annual exports of
domestic commodities increased from
$50. O0o. 900 in 1860 to S6l9, 600, 0t0 in
1873. being IN increase during the pc
riol of S216. 0O0. eGO.
There are those bold enough to assert
that the country is governed worse in
stead of better than formerly. Some
NAV be found weak enough to believe
such assertions. But it requires a great
deal of defamation to prove that the
day is cold when the merctry stands at
Us in he shade. The mercury won't
lie. Men, a%nhappily, sometimes do.
And ii will require Il great deal of rhet-
oric to persuade this country that it is
heinz ruined by a Government which ia
thirteen years has advanced its credit
throughout the money markets of the
world fully IS per cent. and has nearly
,rebled its surplus productions.
The success which has attended the
efforts of this Administration to effect in
ternal reform is fercibiy indicated. but
only partially measured, by these facts:
First. In thirteen years it has not
once been forced to resort TO loans ey-
rept by the exi@encies Of war. Cur ri
walls in popular favor repeatedly resorted
10 loans in time of peace.
Second. In six years taxes have been
remiued ut various times amounting to
more than 500, 600, 900 annually.
Third. The principal OF the public
debt has been reduced in the same time
hv the sum of $3.50. 000, 900.
Fourth. The Treasury note has been
appreciated from 7e Ito per cent, its
gold valae in March, 1869, to about 80
per cent its gold vssue.
Fifth. In spite o fShe financial disas-
ters which overlook the country in Sep
,ember, 1873. the public debt was dimin-
i>hed nearly $4,000, 900 during The last
fiscal wear.
Sixth. The cost of the Government,
excluding expenditures for improve
'nent> and disbursements made nHccSSa-
w To meet obligations imposed op us by
the rebellion, vas less per capits during
the last fiscal year shan during
rue wear ending June 30, FS6o.
Under Republican administration eff
ciai misconduct has been prosecuted with
tdficNible energy. Many ~etfrnscS have
been exposed. yet every time a rogue
has been punished the opposition has
shouted: "See how. corrupt Republicans
arr.r' IT is a. if, whenever a surgeon re-
moves a tuner from his patient the moi
should shout: How Very rotten the
doctor must be- So, this pniiincalmr
reform Is prosecuted at the risk of this
,woiold peril: First: Every time we
remove a rascal we leaj plAusibiliiy to
Democratic calpmny- Sccoad: Ercry
time we punish II We make q Demo-
crat. For Il few wears that party has
been recruited, not ONLY bythrse knaCe>
We have dismissed from Office, but by a
still larger number who have brca I'M
able to get office. it is not impossible
that by tiris process they mae ~ time re-
cover Il majority, Good men can not,
without uncasF1rSS. contemplate the
possibility OF the country once more
ialling into the control et that party,
when, in addition IL the devils which
always paralyZed it for any noble effort,
it shall have been reinforced by all the
uncleap spirits expelled from the Repub-
iican party
Bad pen. doubtless, are still left in the
Republican party, q, bad men are IN the
Democratic party. :" good mel are III
both parties. The difference is this: In
spite of the bad men in the former, II has
in thirteen wears raised the country
higher in true national greatness than
any country was ever raised before i'll
the same length of time, while, BECAUSE
Df bad men in the other party. the coun-
try constantly declined in character and
dignity while it had control. \ party
better than either, lOitier in Its aspirl-
lions, wiser in its methods, bolder i'll
its endeavors, is unquestionably desir-
able. Such Il party might be attained,
if the wise, the upright, and the patri-
ntic in the Democratic ranks would
unite themselves with the like in the
Republican organization. But it Is I'M
possible to frame such Il party by rein
forcing the etfete Democracy, which
has not achieved a single noble end, MOI
set before the country asingle noble aim
in forty years, with all the reckless adj
ventures and hungry place-huntcr>, who.
in former years locked to the Rcpubli-
can party--not to aid its enterprise, but
10 battcn Oh its strength.
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