National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-06
WESTERLY VIEWS or THY FL
,NANCES.


POPULAR WILL Us. "CESARISM."
Tho New York Herald was the first paper in
the East that, in view Of tde liberal action of
Congress on the financial question, called on
President Grant to veto any bill ahst might be
passed increasing the national currency. That
the Herald should perpetrate oue folly or
another, on any subject, is not surp1isiag to
one who regularly sees that paper. But even
to one who Knows the vsgares Of that Journal,
it must be astounding to find it urging Ehe
President by veto to defeat the will Of the
people, when clearly expressed through Con-
gress.
There was, . short time since, an insane
howl on the subject Of 'sCessrism," originated
by the Herald, but confined 10 fts own idiotic
columns. Day afterday, fos weeks and months,
no issue Of the Herald appeared that did not
charge President Grant with the wicked pur-
pose, of oyerthowing our republican liberties, Of
making himself an autocrst, and this govern
ment a despotism-of substituting his own viii
instead of the viii of the people, as the supreme
law of the land. So copiousiy and 50 persis-
tently was this theme harped upon, that
"Cesarisn" became mockery and by-word
an sllusion of national ridicule and reproach
to the Herdld-and at last, either from sheer
exhaustion or shame, the paper dropped the |
subject, Enthusiastically claiming, however, |
that its discussion thereof had been opportune
and useful, as It had opened the eyes of the |
American people to the danger of encroaeh- |
meat on our form of government by Presiden. |
Grant, and that "Cesarism '-thanks to the |
vigilance of the HsrdLd-was now impossiblel |
Now, Is It not surprising that Of all the |
vigilant sentinels Of liberty In the land, this |
same New York Herald Is the first to propose |
that President Grant become the "Cesar"-the |
usurper Of popular rights; that It denounced |
him for trying, or aiming to be, and that it |
urges him to do the very things that are of the
essence of usurpstion-to substitute his own |
will for that of clearly expressed majority of
the American peoplel And Is 1t not q matter
of equal surprise, but of greater shame, that
other Eastern journals that ridiculed the nom
sense of the Herald on the subject of Cesarism |
Herald, that President Grant really become the |
imperious ruler that they had maintained it was |
morally impossible he could ever becomel
But there Is no doubt at all that the majority |
of the people of the United States, who de-
mand an increase of the legal-tender circula-
ton, and who also demand free banking, as the !
permanent and philosophical source Of q fexi-
BILE or elastic currency, will have to meet the
enemies Of such relief measures before the
President of the United States, and that Presi-
dent Grant will be urged by all the power
and specious logic that multiplied wealth can
bring to bear to defeat any liberal legislation
on the subject that Congress may enact. In
view of such fact, we wish to publish, for stan
dard reference, the vote Of the House of Rep
resentatiyes fixing the legal-tender circulation,
at $500, 900, which Is an increase of the
amount now outstanding. 1t Is an adverse pa
per that prepares the table, and 1t naturally
calls the increase 'sinhation"