New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-17
4 FAILURE.

Not long since the London Siaudord.
speaking OF our government. said "the
| people begin to admit sadly that the grand
experiment begun a century ago is a
failure. BY every American who loved
his country. this speech was looked upon
as a malicious SANDER. We have suffered
from Democratic corruption: we have had
Democratic President smiling COM
placently and doing nothing to prevent
a war inaugurated by Southern men: we
have had Democratic Secretary Of War
turn traitor and appropriate the national
munitions OF war to wage war Of treason
and rebellion; we have had heaped upon
us colossal debt incurred in suppressing
the Southern rebellion; but. as Mr..
Lincoln said. eve shall be able to
keep house," and the majority of
us believe the United States govern.
ment is no: failure. There will
always be. however. croakers and lsh-
maels. who are not good and who see no
good in anything. 1t is their habit to
below at ward meetings. to reason on
false grounds. TO draw unjust COMPARE
son: between this ard other governments.
Many Of them are foreigners who come
here and educate and enrich themselves
as they could not do under the tyrannical
governments they deserted. To abuse
and enjoy this government is great
American privilege. As sample Of the
reasoning Of anti-American croakers, we
copy an editorial which appeared in the
New Orleans Times yesterday morning.
1t is one Of the able articles frequently
found in that journal. To take from or
add to such All article seems as profane as
to disturb holy writ. and we give the para
graph entire. with its peculiar spelling,
capitalization and punctuation:
The standing army of Great Britain rank |
and file, numbers 10000 effective soldier.
The total e. pAnse of this force Is S.. 900 900
yearly or g. " per copito' The army of this |
country MI hers, officer sud me7, $4,000. |
1t costs sl,:oO per head to support our |
standing ar,ny.
From 1856. 1854, Great Britain reduced |
her taxes s o9.000.000. At the last session
of our con- res taxes were largely in.
creased. Aht we still have Orfcience to
be made up Englands colonies are expen.
sive and Sea, tered all over the world. We
have no colonies to support or defend.
And yet with all Mr.. Superhuous machinery
of government. royal family to be taken
care OF. And many expenses which might |
be saved it only cost. 500 1000 900. more to
faver the great English Empire with its
immense colonial dependency and other
adjuncts. The people seeing all
government is failure. and why in time
ot profound peace. such enormous ex-
penses are necessary. The country does
not believe they are and proposes to
have a new shuttle and deal at the cards
From this we judge that our neighbor is
tavorably impressed with England. al
hough he abuses the English language
We have the financial and geographical
Information that English colonies are
expensive and Scattered all over the
World, and yet Great Britain reduces her
axes. "God save the Queen" while our
iebt is being constantly decreased. though
hat is not mentioned.
saS W INC SpAouid1 EoSseSsAOuS Vi Lug !
and. We believe the Dominion of Canada,
Western Australia. Guiana. Turk Island.
Wales, the British Indies and other PROV
nees yEld very fair return to England
or the favor they get of being governed,
o say nothing of the revenue officers of
long Kong. Malta. Gibraltar. Ceylon and
he Falkland Islands. So. then. if Eng.
md is all over the word. she has all over
be world to levy taxes from.
With Spotted Tail in Washington, fly
me among the cattle raiders of the Rio
irande, and the Democrats of Louisiana
! state of incubation, We may be to-day
l profound peace; but when 'the people" ).
ome to look at it they will find the
kpenses of our small army to be very
nall considering We give our soldiers
wing wages, and clothe and feed them f