The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-08-24

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necessary to carry on the government
efficiently. The public building.
commenced, and necessary to the
public service, are left withou suffici
ent appropriation to finish them
This means to abandon them and lose
what has been expended, or to large
ly increase the appropriation mex
year when the election is over. Tht
government property at the different
navy yards and naval stations is esti
mated to be worth $4,000, 900, anc
from its nature requires annual ex
penditures for repairs and to keep i
in serviceable condition. The amount
necessary for this purpose was esti
mated by the Navy Department Al
81 900, 900, but the House refused tc
appropriate anything, and the Senate
after long conference, obtained ar
allowance Of only 100000. This re
trenchment results in absolute loss
1t is the duty of Congress to make
appropriations from year to year tc
pay the judgments rendered by the
Court Of Claims. The amount re.
quired this year is $2,000,000, and
the House refused to appropriate q
dollar. This is retrenchment by re
pudiation. In private life mar
having the means and refusing to pay
his debts is not regarded as economi.
cal, but as rascally. In almost every
instance where appropriations are
reduced it is at the expense Of sal
aries already low enough, fixed by
Democratic Congresses before the
war, or to the injury Of the public
service, greatly crippling it, and il
not remedied by deficiency bills next
winter, in many respects destroying
it.
In reviewing the action Of the
House in regard to appropriations,
aud what they call retrenchment, nc
man can resist the impression that il
has been taken in total disregard ol
public interest. Nothing has beer
done because it ought to be done, OF
the public interest demanded it, bu,
as far as we can see in every case for
political capital or profit.
To create the impression Of re-
trenchment and economy it repudi-
ated public debts, stinted and Grip
pied the army and navy, left unfin-
ished public works, left navy yards
to get out Of repair and become use-
less, withheld from courts the means
necessary to enforce the laws and re-
duced salaries to starving rates
Looking at the House from its legis.
lation we should say that it is as un
friendly to the government as vi
know the body of its members to
have been a few years ago.
The administration Of any Presi-
dent will be in the main what the
party which elected him makes it. II
he breaks away from his party, the
chances are that he will be broken
down. In a government of parties
like ours the President must have his
advisers. The men to whom he owes
his election, who have defended him
from assaults, to whom he must look
for support in the future, will ordi-
narily control his action, and he will
do nothing offensive to them. The
success of Mr.. Tilden will mean the
success of the Confederate Democra-
cy. He would owe his election
chiefly to the South, and from that
section would come the men Of stern
will and purpose demanding and re-
ceiving the recognition of their pol
icy. The late rebels would swarm
in the cabinet, run the departments,
command the army and navy, repre-
sent the government at foreign
courts, and find ten thousand ways
to punish the loyal men oc the nation
for their humiliation and defeat.
To understand what Democratic
administration would be, examine the
position and controlling elements oi
that party. The man who expects
that hungry cormorants, long de-
ferred expectants, gangrened insti-
gators Of rebellion, the Northern SYM
pathizers who trod the narrow is
thmus between open treason and re-
sistance to the government fighting
for its life, the slave-drivers who
have lost their occupation, and that
innumerable caravan of dead beats
and adventures who compose so
largely the active list of the Demo
cratic party to become the reformers
of the land, must be indeed the most
hopeless of idiots.
With a majority of nearly two
thirds in the House they have wholly
failed for eight months to produce any
plan, scheme of relief, or policy upon
the subject of currency, banking, tar
if, or any other economic question.
While abusing everything that exists,
they produce nothing, can suggest
nothing. They have displayed imbe-
cility, incapacity, and stupidity OF
thought and conception heretofore
unknown in the history of parties
They have shown strong predictions
for the detective business but have
done nothing to elevate its character
or remove the suspicion that natural
ly attaches to it. Utterly unable to
build themselves up, they seek to
null others down,