The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-07
QtlOIl ADVICE.

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The following paragraph from the
Cincinnati Enquirer, 80 entirely meets
with our approval, that We transfer 1t TO
the columns OF the DEMocRAT:
The whole tax system Of the Adm IN.
istration should be overhauled by the
| House. That Is It's peculiar business.
| All revenue bills. says the Constitution,
must originate in the House. According
to ali the old English traditions, NO ap-
propriations should be made until there
| Is q redress Of the public grievances.
| The session Is long one. The mem
beers are paid by the year. Their stay
in Washington will not increase the
public expenditures, whether 1t is
| -FOUR months or eight months.
Let them. therefore.. take their
time. Get after the thieves from the
highest to the lowest. Investigate to
find out. Provide no whitewash fol. u
Democrat any more than for Repub-
lican. RI any thing, be more exacting
with the former than the latter. We
may attribute something TO the lax
political ideas of the Republican, lie
was educated to believe that almost
every thing was in the province OF Coy
eminent. The Democrat was not. He
was taught to favor the strict construc-
ton OF the Constitutions. TO let every
thing be done that could possibly be
done by private enterprise. and 70
favor an honest and economical Gov
vernment.
This extract Is taken from more
lengthy article in tho Enquirer, con
tanning other recommendations to the
Democratic majority in the Lower
Z - Ix,npcpcp uI nf which we
do not approve. Especially do we
take the liberty of dissenting from the
proposition that would seek to impose
on the Democratic party at Washington
the duty or policy OF repeating the
Radical act of Congress in favor OF specie
payments in 1879. This act, we have
the confident conviction, will be found
dead letter upon the statute books
when the period arrives for carrying 1t
into operation. While the Democratic
party, consulting its traditions and re-
cord ought to do nothing to prevent the
so-called Republican party from return
ing to a specie-paying basis from their
present wholesale shinplaster currency
abomination, at the date appointed.
II they ca, do so, the Democracy should
not, on the other hand, do anything to
relieve the Radical party from the ex-
posture in this, as in ten thousand other
cases or which the country Is cognizant,
Of hypocrisy, mere party deception, i'm
potence and utter failure. They are
the Administration party, and RESPONSE
BILE to the people, and tho Democrats,
with only majority in one branch OF
Congress. thoroughly checked by the
Senate, with the power Of the Executive
and Judiciary departments against
them-the tribunals interpreting the
laws. the purse and the sword, and the
whole affiliated band of eighty thou
sand ofIlceholders, altogether constitu-
ting what is termed the administration
of the Government-eanno be expected
to asstme any policy looking in the
slightest degree, atfirmatively or mega
lively, to an Administration pro-
gramme.
The Democratic party Is not. in the
most distant manner, we repeat. &C
countable for the present dangerous
and lamentable condition Of the tinan-
ces, and is certainly in no situation to
propose any remedies, and will not be
SO until entrusted with sufficient power
by the people. because until entrusted
with administrative functions it will be
impossible to promise, except specula-
lively. or to undertake reforms or q
- .xaAnA,At,o1 np1
lightened action. 1t seems to us, then,
that the last thing our party in Con
gress. or elsewhere. should do. is to
make side issues on the money ques-
ton. as il is called, dividing necessarily
our own forces. and compacting those
of our opponents. Sufficient for the
day is the evil thereof" 1t will be time
to interfere with financial affairs
when the popular voice by vote OF
confidence shall have determined to
entrust us with the Administration.
Whenever the country shall make up
its mind to forego for period at least
the Radical craftsmanship of war, debt,
taxes, bankruptcy, and rag currency,
with the latter Of which they have mum
dated the whole land, and to try once
again sound Democratic or Repre-
sentative republican regime. it will then
become our natural and patriotic duty
to devise and arrange for the re-estab-
lishment Of q metallic standard respect
ing the currency and business of the
country again.
Besides, why should tho House try to
repeal law when the Senate will be
certain successfully to obstruct it. 1t
would be hardly worth the powder to
endcavor to thus mark and intensity
the difference between the Democracy
In more cautious and honest dealing
with the people, and the Radicals. in
their more selfish and partisan spirit,
but apparently obdurate purpose in
their treatment Of the same subject,
while disastrously and dishonesty work
ing, in despite Of all their pretensions,
In favor Of the interests of money
class, and not of those Of the great
mass of American citizens.
We would counsel that our friends
let the money issue alone, with which
the Democracy can do nothing what
ever now, and let us continue to oppose
and denounce the Administration on
safer and more. solid ground. The
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