The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-03

they were" We are no nearer sound cur
rency to-day than we were in 1868; and the
laborer to-day looks with apprehension upon
the gold quotations, as he did during the war.
The tariff, which ought long ago to have been
SO simplified and lowered as to give US for our
surplus manufactures constant aud profit
able market abroad, has been maintained at a
point where it compels universal stagnation
OF manufacturing. Those branches which
have been specially favored are now, as was
natural, specially Frustrated. We have no
ships; we have but an uncomfortable foreign
trade, and that mostly in crude products;
skilled labor has been discouraged; American
ingenuity, famous formerly all over the world,
is no longer respected or admired abroad.
To add to these evils General Grant has
been from the first careless in administration
He has systematically encouraged extrava-
gance in the use of public money His chosen
friends are men accused of population and
notorious for their wastcful use OF the peo-
pies means. Frauds upon the revenue, OF
vast extent and ruinous to honest dealers,
have occurred time and again until they
almost cease to attract public attention. But
every dollar wasted by the government comes
out of the peoples pockets. Every act Of
maladministration in federal agent or
officer encourages greed and corruption
among the people. Every revenue fraud ruins
or disables multitudes of honest dealers.
Every incapable tavorite makes the conduct
of private business and enterprise more costly
To- Nr(l Iltxy
disabes a useful enterprise and makes the
people poorer.
lizard times is the universal complaint,
and it will be the watchword of the next
election. We cannot have relief from the
pressure of adversely until misgovernment in
the Southern States is cured ; until extraya-
gance and corruption in the federal admins
trntion are remedied until a sound cur
rency of gold and silver makes the laborer's
reward sure and definite until the shackles
ore removed from our foreign commerce and
the ingenious hands OF our skilled mechanics
and artisans are once more allowed to labor
for the whole world and not confined to the
limited home market.
These ara the tasks to which American
craftsmanship must set itself this year. The
timid and time serving politicians Will have
to stand aside. The people will no longer be
scared by the Southern bugaboo. They cam
not be deceived by glittering projects of
costly internal improvements. They have
given the greenback fair and long trial, and
they see to-day that only California and
Texas, where gold and silver form the cur
rency, are measurably prosperous. They have
seen home industry protected" until the iron
furnaces, the cotton and woollen mills, and all
the other protected industries are PROSTATE
and ruined. 1t is a good time to change, not
only the ships captain, but the ships course.
II we had to advise q Presidential aspirant,
under the present circumstances of the
country, we should say to him, 'Grant is out
Of the way. The people ask for new man
and new policy. Timidity, silence, pru-
dence are to-day out of place. If you want to
succeed in 1876 define your position before
the people. Begin the canvass to-day. Lay
your plan before the public. Show that you.
know how to remedy the evils which have too
long cursed Us. Care nothing for party; the
people are ready to break parties to pieces.
II you believe in anything announce it boldly.
What is demanded is o leader; man who
viii command parties, and not one who will
be the creature Of conventions, the obe5ient
tool of political hacks, the slave OF expe-
diency."
Party nominations will not be worth six
pence next year. The nominating conven-
tons will have Few element to deal with.
They may be composed Of politicians but
unless they grasp with the question Of the
day they will make shipwreck Of party.
The only available man in 1876 will be the
man who has courage and ability to command,
to lead, to remedy evils and bring us back to
wholesome government and to renewed pros
perity.. Hence we believe that silence is now
the most dangerous vice for q Presidential
candidate. The people want to know before
hand where men stand. They are ready
enough to follow leader, but they will not
follow a wooden fgurehead They will elect
that man who most surely persuades them
before his nomination Of his ability to re-
deem the country from evils of which it is
tired, and which it can no longer afford
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