National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-07-28

indeed! The very worst in the world!
Very apropos was Senator Morton's re-
mark to the gentlemen of that reform
party: That it required an amount of
face to stand up and say, You did not
conquer our rebellion as cheap as you
"ought.'"
1t is very evident to- the thinking people
of the country that this matter of professed
retrencbment is a bald sham. That party
used to cry down the payment of the debt
They said: Let it extend for future gen.
erations to pay" &c, and now, ooh,
retrench, retrencb, TO pay the debt.
Cripple the Government in all its
machinery; clog it." What spectacle
for intelligent foreigners, who have come
to look and learn of us! This turning out
of employment thousands to propltiste
false sentiment, manufactured for political
purposes, will not win. Precious political
economists these fellows are! The effect
of rain and sunshine is to produce; to
withhold them is to destroy and blight
everything. So it is in the matter of
economy. These gentlemen forget by
throwing out OF employment thousands of
men by the stoppage of the public works
all over the country that they cripple and
paralyze business, and to that extent lessen
the ability of manufacturers and mer-
chants to pay revenue, and that thereby
the Government loses more than they can
retrench. They "pour in at the spigot and
let out at the bung." They forget that
''the sea sends back the rivers in rain."
fyou lessen the ability of people to
make a living, you not only produce suf-
feripg and induce crime and render insecure
society, but reduce the tax-paying capacity
Of the nation. What good will it do to
lock up the money supposed to be saved by
reducing the appropriations There is
surplus of $3O,OOOOJ0 in the Treasury.
Money is like air and water, the more &C.
lively it circulates the healthier it is. Will
the Withholding of millions vitalize .rade,
restore confidence and send the wheels of
industry whirling all over the country?
No; but the non use of the money will pro-
duce contraction, unsettle business, i'm
p"Nerish and beggar thousands.
AID thGB-
Shall The business of the country die?
Shall the business of the country die
Then forty million honest men
Will know the reason why.
And then the workingmen will want to
know why they cannot get bread. The
answer will be because Congress has re-
trcnched without proportionally reducing
the taxes. We may not be surprised if this
whole matter Of sham economy recoils on
the head of the would be reformers for
stopping the wheels of industry. The
workIDgmen of the country are not blind.
They know that lack of proper legislation
has already paralyzed the business of the
country. They know who has created
hard times" They know that during
the Republican administrations the country
has advanced, IN material and govern
mental interests, more than all the years
previous; and has made possible an exhibit
tion at Philadelphia, the grandest the world
ever saw, of our products and peaceful
achievements. Would it have been so had
the Democratic party been in powerf
Which party is the workingman's friend?
Let the people answer in view of the past.
Our legislators should learn true economy,
that dispenses blessings and holds together
society, and learn that giving doth not i'm
poverish in political any more than in a
Christian view.