Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-03


Pun. DOCS 9
On the ith of December President :
Grant. for the first time 10 his official i,
career, will have the honor to address, =
through his annual message. Congress a
divided 10 political opinion and body
Of men With strong prejudioes and deep 4
sested convictions on both sides. This
fact alone is sufficient to invest the COM
ing message with interest, but when We
reflect on the great questions now before
the people, many of them as yet unde-
cided, it will be seen that the message
transmitted to Congress on the first
Monday Of next December will be OF
more importance than any document oil
that kind issued during the last ten
wears. It will be awaited with consider
able interest and read with no small
amount of dissatisfaction, for it would
seem as though his Excellency was dis |
posed to make but one dividing line
Democrats, imitation; Republicans. re-
sump,ionLthough the Fall elections will
no doubt modify his written views on
that subject. Whether tits little birds
flying in the air. little clans simmering
on Rhode Islands shore, or some otner
means Of communication with the fresi-
dents interest is not known, but gooo
authority is advanced for the pred'etioh
Of some OF his views. During the last
Congress n resumption programme
was devised but not carried out. IT pro-
vided for a substantial increase IN the
national revenue by re-imposing the tax
ON tea and coffee, the entire abolition OF
the free list on all imported articles sub
ject to import duties, and general re-
vision Of the present tariff bill. 1t Is
said that the President will urgently
recommend the passage of the bill legal
izing all those charges and will also re-
ommend that the internal revenue be
paid in gold and silver. II President
Grant would recommend the lessening
OF expenditures instead Of the increasing
OF revenue his views would. in our opin.
ion, meet with more favor from the peo.
pie OF the United states. As things &c
it seem pretty hard to collect the present
revenue, and "a an increase Of the public
tax implies and includes an increase OF
tax CATERERS it might be well to devise
some means better calculated to accomp
lish the desired end than the one at
tributed to the President as his theory.
Take the Indian question; poets and
philanthropists have told US the Indians
were a dying race. Sprague says theiI
springs have dried up, their council-firet
gone out. and relates several other little
inconvenience under which they labor
Granting all this it does seem that Lo il
the most expensive invalid ever heard of
When ,Buchanan-low be it spoken
swayed the rod OF empire this sick ma,
cost the nation little over two and
half million dollars; since the Lancast'
statemans time they have kept G
dwindling and sickening and dying, lik
young turkeys on dewy morning. uni
the year OF our Lord 1874 shows
nurses bill of eight million dollars.
course administration organs can vel
easily explain this matter, but yet Il
money is spent, and tor the sake of Il
country. the country's prosperity al
the general public good, tits to be hop
that the Indians will get we'll and cea
to dwindle. II few hundred thousar
Indians in 1860 cost two and half m
lion dollars, and thirty per cent. less
1874 cost eight millions, it would sc,
by the Law Of inverse proportion that
they keep on dropping off it will be
the more expensive in the future. p,
hsps it is with IN eye to this emergen
that the President seems disposed to a
vocate an increase Of tax; an increase
revenue can scarcely follow, for it "
be eaten up by professional plundere
political bummers and scalawags woi
ing on general principles. 1t is wi
nations as with individuals in quesiio
OF confidence, credit, economy and W
doing, The people of the United Sta
are just now economizing; each one pl
IDENTITY reduces his expenditures and
forwards essays to increase his incon
but the first measure is as necessary
the individual as to the nation. II v
hardly DO palatable, just now. to hi
an increased revenue recon mended;
people are cognizant OF stringent tin
u the Government is not, and it ,
hardly NEE. their views to have Tn
sam add to the weight while they
trying to get clear OF the mud In /
state the people are paying pretty d
'of 'hen whistle; true every ctiz
when he looks at his country's flag,
proud to see the star Of the Silver 81
shining in the constellation, but wi
he puts his hand in his pocket and
called to pay for all this, he finds
costs. When Grant vetoed the infla
bill in '73 he achieved for the na,io
victory commensurate with the one
on that April day ten years ago, "
the sword of the South was sheathe
Appomattox Court house. 1t is to
hoped that whom his eagerly looke'
message does appear it will be mod
IN form and force from the present
shadowing. He has achieved great
tories 10 war and peace, such a
tnent would be a crushing defeat.
The English people are SO enthu
tic over the recent feat Of Capt. W
who swan the British Channel,