Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-22

currency and insisted that the volume
of currency should be greater at certain
times OF the year than at others, and
that there was not too much in the
country for the dullest times, he now
appears as an advocate of remorseless
| retraclion, Of that resumption bill, and,
if possible, Of something worse. He
| desires to hold Congress to that re-
sumption bill, and would be glad to see
resumption earlier than 1879, when
nothing less than miracle or univer-
sal bankruptcy can secure it then. He
would have the powers of the secretary
OF the treasury increased, when every
cody knows that he is now using more
power than Congress meant that he
should. He would rob the United
States notes of their legal-tender quail
ty. He would withdraw them at the
rate Of two millions a month, and put
interest bearing bonds in their place.
In short, he urges Congress to ruin the
country. ~
STIRRING UP sECTARIAN STRIFE.
From the New York World (dera.)
The purpose of the President to raise
the so-called ''school issue" for Sc
curing his own third term, which was
apparent in his Des Moines speech, is
more clearly manifest in the present
message. That part of it which pro-
poses the taxation of church property
is meant to reinforce the part which
proposes sectarian strife to construct
the common school system in the in
terest of political party caught and
collared and brought to Judgment be-
fore the whole people for its blunders,
it's usurpations and its plundering of
peoples substance. 1t will be found
that "issues" no more than govern
ments can be made. They grow; and
neither the soil nor the atmos-
phere of this republic just now
promises him the crop he would
selfshly harvest. Gen. Grant orders
up the school issue as if it were a
brigade. The brigade would obey.
But the issue does not exist in the con-
dition, the necessities, the desires, or
the hatreds of the American people.
Their first and great necessities now
are honest men in Office and an end of
the thieves; reform and economy in
the public service and an end of
100000, 900 budget; freedom from fed
eral usurpations, and home rule in. every
state; a revenue tariff and an end of
protected monopolies; hard money and
an end of india-rubber currency and
imitation. These are issues which Gen. I
Grant, if he were competent states
man might have forced upon the
people. AS it is they have been forced
upon him and his party, and he and
his party whl go down under the
peoples displeasure.
From the New York Herald 0nd.).
We are sincerely sorry that President
Grant has made SO strenuous an effort |
to drag religious questions into politics.
1t is an unworthy electioneering device,
which will not bear discussion, and
which is pretty certain to react against
his own party.
BIDDING FOR THIRD TERM.
From the st. Louis Republican (Dem.)
All these measures are rigorous, and |
some of them are little startling. They |
do not have the appearance of coming
from a president who contemplates
retirement to the tranquility of private
life at the end of his second term. They |
are not bid for obscurity.
CUBAN OPINIONS.
The Vos de Cuba, commenting on
that part of the Presidents message
which relates to Cuba, says: i" Gen.
Grants language seems to have been
chosen to wound the susceptibility OF
the Spaniards. He seems to like play
ing with the fire. He does not know
the temperament of the Spaniards any
more than Napoleon did. ]"
The Diaro censures the tone of the
message, WEIGH was published while
negotiations were pending between the
United States and Spain. It praises
family the Presidents refusal to ac-
knowledge the Cuban insurgents as bel.
igerents, and says that that part of the
message relating to Spain is studiously
obscure. Finally, the Disro, at the
conclusion of two columns and half of
criticism says: Cali believe that Gen.
Grant has disguised the insurgents.
That he has wounded the Spanish pride
is an unfounded assertion; his entire
message is contrary to the spirits of the
American people, who eminently desire
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