The daily gazette., 1876-03-01
Economy and Retrenchn.e,st.

useless to inquire further Tor the cause
Of the "hard times" They may be
traced directly to the effect of the Cen
eral Government. 1t is impossible for a
people, with such limited resources as
the people of Delaware to be required to
contribute Of their labor and substance
so great st.m of money as ten millions
Of dollars( SIC, ,OOo, ,0OO) in fifteen years and
not experience hard times.
Senator Salisbury ID a prominent
member Of the Methodist Church, emf
nent for his piety and candor. He
knows whereof he speaks. and ia not
given to talking for political effect. He
was sent to the Senate of the United
States because of his eminent fitness in
this regard, as well as for his high at
tainments in legal lore through long study
and practice.
The people OF Delaware therefore have
the greater confidence in his careful ut
ter .nces and it is for that reason we
here repeat what he says in furtherance
Of the great necessity there exists for o
return of the General Government to
the practice Of economy. That is all
Mr.. Salisbury or the Democratic Party
ask. Of course it is useless for us to
present our views to the politicians of
the Radical school who are so prejudiced
against the Democrats that they will
not stop to examine the results of the
work Of their party. But We loox to
the mass of the people who are deeply
interested. whose property has been
kgistdted out of their hands by cunningly
devised laws, to record their votes in fa-
vor OF change. 1t is impossible that
eur people-our small population, could
have cleared from their lands ten millions
Of dollars in fifteen years; we therefore,
present the fact that not only what they
had made in the last decade and a half
has been taken from them; but much
that they had earned in the last twenty
years has gone also. Ask the farmer
where the value of the farm has gone
that he had bought and half paid for,
when it was swept away to bay the in
terest and the other half? He has no.
been slothful. He has labored more dill
gently than ever he did. He does not
know it perhaps; but it has been eaten
up in the taxes to pay high salaries to
rogues, and specie on bonds for which the
government received so cents ON the
dollar, and which are now held abroad.
But we have already digressed to far,
we simply wish our readers to ponder on
what Mr.. Salisbury says, and ask them
selves whether it were not time we were
retrenching expenses. He concludedlhis
remarks on Thursday as follows:
Let it go out before the country +; let it
be understood, as 1t will be understood
that on this side of the Chamber as well
as in the other House of Congress there
IL disposition TO grant relief to the op
pressed industries of this country, to re-
lieve the people from taxation, but that
we are met by opposition stern and de-
termined that the people of this country
shall still languish under opp essive tax
alton, and that he Treasury of this cor n
try shall be depleted to pay high salaries
TO professors in academies. | want this
ASouS PICoCApCo SptLOCbi1 UtlOTe Ine DeO-
pie. We are III earnest. l would do nc
injustice to these professors, but nv dis.
tinguished friend from Kentucky has de.
monstrated as clear as a sunbeam that
they are better paid to-day than profes.
sors in ordinary institutions in this land
Yet with these facts staring US in the
face, seeing as we do that these men are
being paid far beyond the pay that ia ac.
corded to gentlemen in the same line Of
business, paid better than professors in
most OF the colleges of this country, WI
propose still to keep up an extravagan,
military establishment and oppose a re
auction OF the salaries of the professors
and propose to give them large com
pensation.
Sir, l go for economy, net Gnly in thi
particular but in everything, until tn,
oppressed people of this country are re
lived from the onerous burden of taxa
tion which has too long oppressed them
and which has reduced many of them I,
obsolute bankruptcy. L hope the Senat,
will not be Indifferent to the appeal
that are constantly made. No ionge
than last evening received letter from
the city OF Boston, in which the writer
whom do not know, detailed to me tn
wretched condition Of many persons il
that city. He told me that there were a
@Ss~Ss SAo pcOplt III That cit
who on that night, because they wer
out of employment, would be comnelle
to. sleep upon naked boards. with n
other clothing than that which the
wore in the day time. We know that !;
every section of the country there
great distress. l live in an agricultura
community, perhaps better off tba
many sections of the country, but l mic
up the papers of my State and read aG
yertisement after advertisement of sale
BY the sheriff of the county of tie land
OF my constituents; and know that
IS In part at least because there bav
feen large draughts upon their industr
ana M Their earnings to replenish the pul
lie Treasury of this country In The n,
Die little State in uhich / lire tbers b". ~
been tn the last fifteen years not much 10 Is
than SIC, ,OOO, 600 abstracted from the neon m
and placed in the Treasury of the H. Hsot !,
States-an amount greater than nh e''' tha :"
penses Of the State government f,on, ;
Foundation Of that government in l77G ,.a,
the present time. In addition to tSat '
As more than all the railroads in the g.,
have cost; it is more than ali Il
churches in the State have cost IL
more than all the school-houses in +
State have cost. When | rememha, =