The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-04-01

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sway itvnor lead it, they will learr
something which is very necessary
| but often uuknown. The journey ot
/ Lewis and Clarke WAS much more
important to this country ethan any
of Mr.. JefFerson's intrigues in the
years while they made it, but heidfd
not think so thep.k RobeFts Fulton
and Chancellor Livingston were
much more important at that same
moment than either of these three
men9 bat, all acknowledgements,
Jefferson and his cabinet supposed
they we're the most important peo-
pie in the country. There is. how
ever. perhaps7not laones man innthe
.eoNhtryBat this Inemenh who could
tell at the moment, who that cabinet
was This single Illustration be,
longs to 8 principle which is always
at work. 4 The. Treasury 4hihks Tic
controls the fin ances ofiths oOuntFy:
the tEath is, the Finapees eehtFelthe
Treasury, The. Pest,Ofice Depart;
ment thinks it carries the news Of
the country and yet the western
Union Telegraph llaaghs7 the POST
Office to- seorn.s The 1SecFetaFy of
the Navy used to say IN his annual
report, that he sent ont. cruisers in
in winter ito assist the vessels of
| the merchant marine on our inclem!
ent cOast;'' butTthis Became too alb
surd, so much more likely was the
merchant marine to assist pur .gal7
But these are old illustrations It It il
said: 1.-the country is larger now,
and stronger.''soaU Undoubtedly it is
larger. But ifoabeeause larger. it
needs p stronger government, 4 it. is
| also SO much larger, that it can and
will turn that government over its
finger Fawhen it chooses. ut is not, as
we have said, thesfpeoples whose
names are in the newspapers allthe
time. who are the really important
people. tits the. Fultons and, the
Livingstons, not the Jeffersons and
the Randolphs. Grant that the car
rent expenses of the government
haye risen from two million dollars
to one hundred and fifty million
The country has Increased, in the
same time, from seven hundred thou.
sand square miles to four million !;
from three million people to nearly
forty million; and those, people are,
on an average, much richer than
they were then. Those people are
governing themselves. "A great many
ofJthem, who do not know or care
who is Secretary of State, ! or who is
chief clerk Of the non,committal of
flee. are, all the same, inventing new
steamboats,, and discovering new
worlds. sNow, the 'p-ospefityo of Glie
country depends on the shecess and
prosperity of the people and if the
nOn-committal- Office and the circum-
locution Office will let them alone,
without tinkering their tariffs, or nm
proving their currency, why, they
arelmAchomeres skilful in controlling
the bureaus. than the bureaus are in
advising or assisting them. -o....
just in proportion as the new ru-
ling party can make up It's mind to
remember that it is only one OF many
creatures OF representatives. by
which they, use their power for good
or evil, will the new party have q
chance to be permanent.
foThe new assignments Of parts is
Acknowledgements into Obschrity, not
undeserved, of most of the men who
have managed the. party machinery
on all sides for the last ten years.
These men are but a set Of scene
shifters. and scarcely more. ifsone
compares themwith the 5arricks and
KeInbles for whom, they work. and
who in healthy times hardly know
their names. AS the new set come
to their fiuty,-not UNNECESSARY,
though sometimes undergrdund,- ,--st
may be that the country will take
one step more towards o wider. sep
Grafton between State and National
politics. To ask for complete sep
aration is too much. To insist on
some separation. is hat otos support
the essential principles of the Cont
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THE W1E4R" 4NDI TEAR OF
s7oiiIs ss' CURRENGF.sa na sdaat
IA correspondent, Of the New wy ! eork
Ereaating' Post prints an elaborate
table to show that the average Toss
has been one per cent. per annum on
the entire value of currency and to
figure up a total loss of SIS, 900, 900
in the twelve years Of it's existence.
This position is not sustained by
what treasurer Spinner says says about
the old demand legal tender notes.
the entire loss on which, in ten years,
has only been one and one third per
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