The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-08-17
The German Press.

Mr.. Tilden's esssy on the subject
how To say little in many WORDS is
before U.s. It is OF fearful length,
and st the end every one will volnn-
tsrily ask, "What has he saide''
While Mr.. HAYES in a few seuten-
ees gave US plSin, uueQuivOeaI plat
form, Ineligible to every one, we
ses in the letter OF the Democratic
esndidate only an attempt to conceal
his real thoughts behind n multitude
OF words. Such = speech would 10
very we'll for 3 Democratic Senator,
but as the letter OF acceptance OF q
candidate, which every one ought to
read iu order to know what the eand.-
date really means, it is = very unfor-
tunate document, If one does not as
sumo that il was written in such q
style 10 order not TO be universally
read.
Some very remarkable things ap--
pear in the letter; for instance, Tiiden
asserts that the wOrkingmen have
nothing to do because the Govern
meDt consumes too much. We had
always supposed the more active the
consumption, the more active the de-
mand, and this proposition Is true.
The cause OF the lack Of employment
Is to be sought elsewhere than In this
consumption Of the Government. It
lies IN the uncertainty nOurished by
the irredeema5le paper money and
the threatening imitation, In the lac K
OF confidence, Ia the depression of
business that prevails EVERYWHERE.
and IN the excessively high local tax.
eS.
Mr.. Tilden then passes suddenly 70
the Southern States, and makes some
cheap remarks about the govern
ments forced on them (which they
have elected themselves for four
years, anu on the idea that brothers
should live together In harmony.
And then he returns again to the
finance question, and involves him.
self IN some contradictions. when
ne wishes to show that it Woald be
quite easy to again resume specie
payments, he says there.were seventy
four millions OF coin In the Treasury
on the 3Oth OF June, but when be
speaks Of the poor financial manage
ment this amount dwindles down
10 about forty millions. He thinks
further that II the expectation Of gold
was checked, we could easily aeeumu-
late It, aud he 10 right. But how is
that to be done? Gold seeks use, and
50 long As it is not used here, it goes
out OF the country. Does ne propose
to forbid the export? In order 10
prove the fraud that the repeal of the
Resumption Act is q step toward
specie payment, the Governor uses a
nUu1h Of IoaruoN r,rorooffi1v,s --hf.t.
are all more or less worn out. His
Ideas amount In the end to nothing
else than that this Is only to be intro
dueed u business In general docs not
suffer from it. This il the old inf1I-
ton theory. OF the positive Injury
that 3 lack OF confidence and - vaIne
expOs-d 70 continual fuetuatiOns
bring, nothing is said. And. vet,
Tilden, IL he wss an honest hard nOn.
ey man, would have to admit that
this Disadvantage, whieh.is daily be-
fore US, is far worse than II the green-t
back, which is now at So, is gradually,
by the resumption of specie payment,
brought to par. It Ia now 1876, and
in 1879 that is to be resumed. II Mr..
Tilden says 1t is 80 easy to do this,
why then repeal the act instead OF
working toward that end? II he is
President he can carry out his own
plane; IL not, and Hayes can not
obtain the end, then he aud not Mr..
Tilden Is to blame.
We are not yet able to eOnvinoe
ourselves that there Is 4 greater hum
bug than that Of wishing 10 repezl the
Act in order to advance
toward resumption. We shall return
later to this part OF the letter.
The declaration of Mr.. Hayes for
one term has forced Mr.. Pilden aIso
to say something on it, He therefore
recommends an amendment to the
Constitution introducing the one
term principle. That be BY this
would bring on himself the dispIeas-
ure Of the New York Stats Zeituag
and AHzeiger because he adopts this
Greeley fraud, as they call 1t, he prob.
ably did not consider He says, as
did the latter, every civil service re-
form Is inetteelive so long as the -aaaF
CCru pEtuClpi6 uDeS 1rUS-cxi5Gs bub
goes further. He did not wait for an
to the Constitution, for
which one has waited in vain for 8
CeuluFyt uuJ ueClhrou lm m6ulaI6ly.
that be under no circumstances will
accept q second term.
1t Is said that what requires q long
time is good. 1t is not so in this case.
The letter OF Tilden will at least not
bring him much good.
Ifit was shown that Mr.. Hayes
had been q member Of the Credit
Moblller Ring, then we should like to
hear the noise that the Democratic
papers would raise. How they would
pOunee on the pretended reformer;
how they would prove to 3 hair that
to eOnfide the Presidency to such q
man would be crime, &c. But as
the opposing candidate was not In
yOlved In that most corrupt Of ali cor
rupt affairs, but on the contrary, their
own man, Sam. J. Tilden, the great
was, they are silent. The
Credit MObilier Is all st once no
longer 3 wrong. And who ever, then,
doubts the reform zeal OF Tilden and
bis party is libeIer, whose infamoas
language pOisons the air. Do these
men really think that they can catch
the American Nation like a stupid
butterfly in such q net Of humbug and
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