The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-09-16

yuise it IS you may, the main, if no
the only remaining cardinal dogm,
maintained by the Democratic party
at this time. Aside from the life
The blood. the tears, the desolatee
homes, the bereft households. this
doctrine cost the nation six and one
nalf billion dollars, to say nothing o.
the interest and pension charges, and
ether extraordinary expenses follow
ing, and to rest as burden upon the
property Of the people for years tc
come. All this immense expenditure
had to be provided for and met BY
the Republican party. In the par,
performance of this task, and it wa,
small one, my friends--nothinC
comparable to it is to he found il
the whole history Of the nation-we
devised our internal revenues and
currency systems. This work alone
entities the party to the lasting graft
tude of the whole country. Take,
had to be high If the nation wal
saved. When the war closed the
necessity still continued, and yet SC
wise was the policy adopted, looking
to the equality of the burden, and
the safety and excellence Of the cur.
rency, that there was no check to the
advancement and prosperity OF the
country. Our expenditures exceed
ed by billions our receipts during the
war period, but at the close of the
war, and each year since then taxes
have been lowered, until now, we
collect as internal revenue but little
if any more than one third what we
did in 1866, and this imposed, as we
know, upon q very few articles.
THE LOSSES AND STEALS.
Now how has this immense fund
been managed? Go to the officia
record and you will find the results
In the collection of internal revenue
since the commencement Of Gen
Grants term, we have lost one-6f
teenth of one per cent, or less than 81
IN $4,000. In customs collections
we have lost the one-hundredth part
Of one per cent, or IS in every $780,.
600. BY our nstional banking sys,
tenn depnsitors have lost an equiva-
lent OF t5.40 to every 100000, and
of course no less to bill holders
From June, 1861, to January, 1872,
the books Of the United States Treas.
,iry show the immense sum Of $685.
OOO, 900, 900, and Of this there wal
lost to The government about sos, 900
or one dollar in one million Of money
transactions! The public deb'
reached its highest points in 1866,
being in round numbers $2,.73,OOO,-
600. This debt has been reduced
near a half million, and taxation
(internaD something near three
hundred million, and ask; shall the
breath Of slander, the lies OF partisans
the struggles Of men in their des
perate efforts to attain power, de.
stroy this record, blot this all out,
and is this government to be admin
istered by those who have resisted
all this legislation and denounced all
these policies? Shall n country
saved by loyal blood be controlled in
its policies by those who encouraged
if they did not seek its destruction
To this there can be but one answer
by the patriotic, gr,,"fn' AL bones,
people of this land.
THE IOWA DEMOCRATS, PLATFORM.
But let us look little more mar
rowly at their platform. find in
the leading paper of the opposition
published AT the Capital, by one OF
their ablest and most estimsble jour
nalists, issued on the day and giving
the proceedings Of their convention,
in describing the spirit of the same,
these words:
"All were united in one common
purpose, the defeat of the enemy,
and for this purpose conflicting inter
ests were generally subordinated
The time had come
when the young maiden of reform
that had SO long served SO faithfully,
was to enter into their inheritance
and receive her reward, while her
Republican enemy, blotched and
fetid with corruption. was to be
turned out to de on the dunghill oi
its own raising
THE OLD DEMOCRACY AS A "YoUSG
MAIDEN"
For fine rhetoric and elegance o'
expression that's seldom equalled!
think can see the Young maiden
now, attired for the festive occasion
led by an artificial production of poll.
ticians struggling for power, (any.
thing for "the defeat of the enemy,")
her head decked with diamonds by a
''noble army of smcllers around the
rat hole of the public treasury" about
to enter into her inheritance. The
scene is grand, imposing, and only to
be drawn by the "old art masters!
And then think Of the long and
faithful service-this young maiden
Of reform-and how richly she de.
served the expected and promised
reward! and then how honest, con-
sistent, and patriotic this service had
been-ever frank, never Disgusting
never seeking to mislead, or betray'
and hence how well she deserved the
hoped for rich inheritance!
THE YOUNG MAIDEN's cHAPERoNEs.
As evidence Of these things, turn
back the leaves of our history, and
find that those who are thus bedeck
ing and chaperoning this joyous
maiden, about to enter into her in
heritance, or those with whom they
act, declared when the country va.
in its greatest extremity that they
abandoned all hope Of saving it, and
under the constitution were without
power to stay the tide which wa:
sweeping it TO destruction. ! fine
that in December, 1861, they votec
in the House Of Representatives tina
all attempts to preserve the Union by
force would be impracticable, ant
only destructive of Republican liber
ty; that in February, 1861, they
voted against the bill which author
lied the President to employ troop
to suppress insurrection; that in De