Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-08-25
our VAsmIxGTON LETTER

Is not suecess-The Silver Question.
The weather has continued sufocotingly ly
hot during the past few days, the ther-
mometer ranging from 800 to 1909 above
zero, with frequent showers. Reports from
farmers around are very encouraging.
Notwithstanding the extreme heat there
are great many strangers in town, wi o
arc either ON their way to, or returning
from, the Centennial. The hotels aud
boarding houses here arc reaping harvCsis.
Board ranges from Sl.50 to $3.50 per day,
according to location and accommodation.
The months of September and October arc
looked forward to with the expectation of
twice the rush AS now OF Ccntennialities tn
this city.
1t is expected that there will be a suffi-
cient number OF department clerks who
will avail themselves OF the privilege OF
resigning, to take effect two months hence,
with leave Of absence and pay for tie
same, to prevent any dismissals. If such
be the case much suffering will be pre-
vented. The two months pay will be to
many more money than they have ever
had at any one time before.
Hon. Andrew Williams, of Plattsburg,
n. Y, NJ. c., of the 18th district Of that
State, was called home nearly four weeks
ago to the death-bed of a sister, and since
her burial he has been dangerously ILL.,
The latest reports, however, announce a
little improvement in his condition.
So much effort has been and is now being
made by Saml ]. Tilden, to press upon the
people the fact at is l." "the reform
represent that they really desire that il
becomes eminently proper to canvass his
claims to the title he assumes, and TO un-
hesitatingly affirm his claims if the cvi.
dence warrants the action. Let us look al
1t:
FROM New York we learn that when
Governor Dix's term Cf Office began, in
1872, there were Sl1 100000 due the sink.
ing fund, of which it had been roble ell tc
make good Democratic DEFICIENCIES in other
trusts. Under his administration the
sinking fund was made complete, and the
debt OF the State reduced more than S..
100000. The total tax of 1874, prepared
for hy Republican legislature, was Sl6
900 900, and that of 1876, SS000,0O0. o.
this total the sum levied in 1874, for the
payment of debts and the sinking funds
nearly S6,000,000 the tax levied for 1876
for the same purpose, is nearly $4,000 900
The first sum WAS to refund moneys nnC
extinguish debt, and the dff,r
ence of S5,O00,000 is due tc
the extinction Of the debt, as TO the re
placement OF the abstraction from tn,
sinking fund. That the taxes are less thi
year is not due in the least, to Mr.. Tilden'
action, but because debt having been Ell
tirely cancelled by previous Republican
foresight, he has no such claim to meet
The attempt to make political capital b.
what he terms his "real economies" is
bnre-faced deception and frand. Before
assumed the reigns, the Republicans mad
provision, by increased taxation, to replac
the sinking funds that had been taken b
Democratic predecessors. Governor Di
J stated at the close of his term that, ha
, the Republicans been permitted the furthe
, management of the State finances INIT
1877 the bounty debt Of S2l ,000, 600 woul
have been paid without increased taxation
and he anticipated from the rate OF e1
I tinction OF debt already going OH. II reli,
: to the tax x-payers of $4,000000 per annun
r The result was even better than Gov. Di
had anticipated
Now that Mr.. Tilden had passed over
year in the gubernatorial chair, what r
suits does he show? One single off, nd
has been brought TO punishment of I'll
hundreds he was to convict and his of
GERS with $G,0O0,000 in warrants endorse
9 against the property Of his co-labOrc
: Tweed, return him the warrants endorse
!. Z no property foundp No record of secor
d offender being punished, has been mad
no record of amount restored nothin
save an elaborate and skilfully worded l.
ter accepting his nomination to the Pre-
c dency, if we except his approving an n
II looking to specie resumption in his ov
Is State, which makes some of the statemer
n Of the last letter appear ridiculous.
short, Samuel j. Tilden aS "reformer"
f. not a success. To quote the "independen
edition of Harper's Weekly, at is not u
fair to say that the Governors action
regard to the canal frauds shows not
y much a single and instructive desire
y honest administration. AZ the perception
- a wary politician, ambitious of the Pre-
- dency, that under existing circumstant
y reform was trump card to play"
o. Governor Tilden says that the "whC
saving in 1875, az compared with 1874,
$7,936, ,l55. OF that sum Sl,7l2,S30 il
TO diminished payment on debts; all the re
l. S6,223, 1926, are real economics" The pr,
'e aration made by Governor Dix and
ct publican legislature was the cause, deSp
ic Governor Tilden, that brought about
D. real econOmies;" and the Wanting exc
nation. II is |, the reform | represcn
~ had naught TO do with the replacement
the amount his Democratic confrere i
u stolen, or the taxes from which the peo
- had been rclievedl
~ II is impossible for any unprpjndit
~ man TO read carefully the speech OF Sci
!" tor Jones without being convinced by Il
- the impOssibility Of reAlming specie p
, menta unless we return to the double At
~ dard Of gold and silver. Mr.. Jones QUO
" and endorses the maxim Of Alexan
~ Hamilton, the great auther of our fin
~ cial system, in his report TO Congress
1871, that "To annul the use of either
'ui the metals as money il 10 dbridqe Me Qu
=! tity Of circulating medium, and is liable
M all the objections which arise from a &C
oi parison OF the bsne6ts Of a fll1, pitA Ae 4,
&c Of a sedhiy, circulation"
The speech of Mr.. Jones ia more Ella
PI' rate and exhaustive than those usually
livered in legislative body, and NJ
me without impropTiely, be called history
cir money from the earliest ages to the pres
The day. 1t c0ntGins information indispei
rry Bile to thorough understanding Of
nj money question, and stamps it, author
The a man Of vigorous intellect and a stud
The Of patient, careful research and wonde
We indnstry-One OF the few men who set II
igh indelible mark upon the age in vii
ted they live. Those who want light on
important subject be they resumptionisi
mi anli-resumpll onislS, hard or soft mo
70 men, should send To the Senator for &C
~, and thus prepare themselves to underst
ay the debates Of next winter. Erl