The daily gazette., 1874-12-30
From the Neqo Y0rk World
The NeaO Translation of Blood.

The Republican party, moribund,
hao called In the political doctors to
cave it. Some say nothing will accom-
plish this but TRANSMISSION of blood
but, having no blood handy, propose
to supply its place with ditch water,
and replenish the arterial food from
the raging canal. This heroic mode
of treatment has q remarkable parallel
In the case of the philosopher immor-
talized by Mother Goose, who was so
wondrous wise he jumped into briar
bush and scratched out both his eyes !;
but when he found his eyes were out,
with all his might and main he leaped
into another bush and scratched them
in again. Ssmslsa simils5us curantur.
The Republican party is dying of
lewdness, license and extravagant ex-
penditure. The proposition is to cube
those expenditures, and 80 bring it to
life again. Heine's monkey sat blythe
fire cooking its tail in copper kettle,
and patiently waiting for sQpper-time
to come.
The question of the efficacy OF this
policy for restoring Republicanism
lies in q nutshell. Besides deficien-
cies, the Republican party charged the
country s3i9, 600, 600 for Conducting
its affairs in 1874, and gave very in
efficient service in return. The coun-
try thinks 1t can get this work much
better done for about $3.50, ,000, 900 a
year, and asks the Democratic party
to try the experiment. Now come the
quacks and say "The trouble is,
you do not spend your monev fast
enough to increase your income. Vote
twice as much, three times as much
appoint Shepherds to superintend your
public improvements for you, and Bah
cocks to measure them, and your saliva
tion is assured"
If increase of expenditures will save
the country, adopt the internal i'm
provemedt scheme and we shall have
the increase. Two canals from the
Ohio to the Chesapeake one from
the Tennessee to the Atlantic anothe1
from the Cumberland to the Gulf es
4 timated cost STE, ,000, 600. Now bring
Shepherds, Mullett's and the Credi
Mobilier figures to bear. The esti
mated cost of the comprehensive sys
Item of public improvements in Wash
tingtQn was little over $4,000, 900
I The actual cost SO far (work not nca
done) exceeds $50, 900, 900, or z! time
as much. This would give at ono
is1, ,3l2, 800, 900 for starter. Add nov
| for jetties and levees for the Mssis
sippi, estimate ser, ,000, 900; for Grant
j seaboard canal system from Maine t.
n Texass S100, 900, 600 estimate for irri
eating canals to connect Colorad
. with the Red river and the ..Missoul
(another one of Grants pet plans
$50, ,000, 900 estimate; for the Darie
lship canal, $3.50, ,0O0,0 600; for Nj
Jefies's canal, to empty the Gulf O
California into the Arizona basin
, Ss5, 600, 600 more. A "comprehensiv
( plan" must moreover embrace tn
four-legged "fast freight route fror
IH1re Mississippi to the Atlantic. Her
Is a total of further "estimstes' to til
amount of $3.50, ,O0O, 900, which, mani
, Ipulated according to the Shepher
lplan and measured according to tn
abcock plan, will, with the previou
h1"scheme;o add the snug little sum, o
ever $4,000, ,O00, 900 10 o,F natiohs
, Idebt, and upauestionably perpetrat
the power Of the Republican party.
But then-immigration, which |
Iscared away by our debt of $2, ,000
000, 900, will come in so much taste
when we owe three times as much
And the discomfort of laborers will
totally cease when we pay them il
tgreenbacks by the bushel, it needing
! $50 many to buy bushel of meat
II and industry cease under debt, an
monopoly cease when there are 8
many costly ways to market and til
country will thrive amazingly, deluge
thus thinvigorating ditch water An
, the monkeys will grow fat who sup o
l their own tails.