The daily gazette., 1875-12-09
Grants MessODP.

From tie y. i world.
Reviewing our progress since l776, he
finds cause for rejoicing in the decreased
proportion OF our farmers to our total
population. Farmers, then he says.
were nearly the whole Of our population,
and now are but as in 10. This is the
, clumsy language OF his clumsier ignor-
ance
From nearly the whole OF our popu-
lation in l776 being engaged in the one
occupation OF agriculture, IN 1870 so nu-
merous and diversified had become the
occupation of our people that less than
6,Cc) 600 out of moro than td,ooO,0oO were
so engaged"
The population Of the United States
in 1879, was 33,55S,37I, no: more than
forty millions of these the males.
from babes to centenarians, mum bered
IL, f93, ,56J. The male citizens Of Il and
upwards numbered S,425,9H But the
total number engaged in all classes of
occupations were about half rs many
more, 20 wit 1866. 1923, the males being
lO,669, ,6;l5. Now Of this y. millions OF
both sexes and Of all classes Of occupa-
tions, those engaged in agriculture num-
bcr nearly millions Total, 5,922, III !;
males, 5,52J, ,J03 females, 396, ,96e. So
that eur farming class. instead Of being
but in ~, are 6 in II! of al the tailers
Of our land.
Upon this cgregious blunder the Presi-
dent fouDds his praise of what he calls
"thc American system of locating varl-
Gus and extensive manufactures next to
| the plough and the pasture, and adding
| connecting railroads ard steamboats,,
which has produced in our distant IN
te1ior country result noticeable by the
| intelligent parts of all CONNIE srcial ma
tions.' We fear that the late Mr.
tireeley's treatise on what It pleased
him to call Political Economy has
! given his envious and successful com
| petitor fit of intellectual indigestion,
and that when in March. 1877, he sets
out upon tour among "the intelligent
parts of commercial nations and dis
covers how they have infringed upon our
patent right to this American system
nothing less than universal war will
satisfy his sense of justice and his patri-
o.ic pride. II is God 5 mercy that Presi-
dent Grant did not applaud the habit Of
American rivers to How alongside our
| largest towns
The purpose of the President to raise
the so-called fschool-issue" for securing
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 proposes the taxation OF
| cnuTCn property Is meant 10 relnIOTCe tue
part which proposes n sectarian strife to
reconstruct the common school system
in the interest of n political party
caught and collared and brought to
Judgment before the whole people for its
blunders. ITS usurpations and its plum.
dering of the peoples substance. II
will be found that tissues no more than
governments can be made. They glow
and neither the soil nor the atmosphere
of this republic just now promises him
J the crop he would selfshly harvest
Gen. Grant orders up the school issue a.
if it were brigade. The brigade woulc
obey. But the issue does not exist il
the condition, the necessities, the desires
or the hatreds of the American people
D Their first and great necessities now ar,
honest men in office and an end of tn,
thieves reform and economy in the pub
lie service and an end of $500, 900, ,00
budget freedom from federal usurpa
tions, and home rule in every State
reve enue tariff and an end of protecte,
: monopolies hard money and an end o
india-rubber currency and imitation
These are issues which Gen. Grant if h
were a competent statesman might hav,
forced upon the people As it Is the,
have been forced upon him and hi
party. and he and his party will go doYl
under the peoples displeasure.