The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1876-01-12
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wEpNEsDAY....JAN. II. 1910.
CONGRESS-.

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The Holidays being over, both branches
Of Congress went to work on Wednesday
last. The vacation was occupied BY the
COMMITTEES to q certain extent ia cutting
ont work for the session, and the country
will not be long in expectancy Of what is 10
be the path to be followed.
If any measure Of relief could be applied
BY Congress 10 animate the business Of the
country and rouse it from the paralysis
which has settled upon every industrial in
terest, then TO legislation upon the curren-
ey our FIRST anxieties would be directed.
But financial relief cannot speedily follow
any action Of Congress. The whole .sys-
tenn Of American finance is complex, yet
not scientific. The creation of a necessity.
and the supple slave Of the bour, it has be-
come an insolent master, an imperious spi-
rit. that will not be laid by any magic Of
legislation. Financial relief can only come
BY the operations Of time. It was dis
ease, stock to the monetary system.
which overthrow the unstable fabric Of ere
dit. and destroyed all confidence. And as
confidence is plant Of very slow growth. %
the country must await until il again reach
Is maturity before it can again welcome
prosperity.
In the meantime some hard lessons must
be learned, some pleasant practices be q
bandoned. some darling indulgences be sur
rendered. Economy, rigid and self sacri.
hcing, must be the FIRST step. The ease
with. which money was made up to the ex-
plosion Of IS out Of the profnsion of cur
Talcy then in circulation, begat wild extra
vagance. manifested not only IN generosity
Of living, but in the widest ventures Of
speculation. All that is past. and the pain
ful, but inevitable path Of retrenchment
must be trod, to bring back not only indi-
yidaals but the country to thrifty health.
And this brings US to the next most i'm
portant action Of the Congress in the begin
ming Of its work, which work must be cut
cut BY the COMMITTEE on Appropriations.
From this Committee proceeds all the mea.
sares Of retrenchment by which the country
is 20 be saved the many millions which have
been wasted without scruple for political
purposes among political friends. Perhaps
forty millions can be Topped of from ap-
pOpriations without detriment to the public
interests. This i IS much saved as wasthe
whole expense Of the country IN 1910 which
drove Martin Van Barren from power for
BIS unparalleled extrayagatce. There is no
reasOuIwhy tie government should not come
down in its expenses as well IS indiyiduals,
especially when there is demonstration that
the excess nov about TO be reduced has been
applied to illegal purposes.
And this brings up the next important
work Of the Congress that Of Investigation.
witch viii fatbOm the abyss Of radical cor.
rHptiOa. and end as it Ough. in driving the
party from power IS unit ohold il. There
Is % much TO investigate that time will
hardly be allowed to reach all the subjects
which invite attention, but the Indian Bu.
re.u. he Navy Department, the Pension
service. will all be called to give up their
disgraeeful secrets, expose participants in
them 70 punishment and perhaps restore to
tbe National Treasury portion Of III got
Ten wealth.
Perhaps We may add something u what
Congress does before our paper has gone 70
pres.
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