New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-19

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friction, embarrassed by dstrust. or obstructe'
by redemption. That is what he hopes 10 eS
tablish eventually, in place OF the mlseraDie
mischievous currency now III vogue, "hlci
folks have TO labor and tug and sweat Tor
and never get enough of. His crusade II
against the Damnabe Dollar. AT present NJ
seeks only to knock ten cents of from IT. ~
n beginning, Just to show the world that 1t II
vulnerable. and that with proper and wen
directed effort, it can DO finally annlhllated
And he doesn't talk about the DamnablC
Dollar. or the cruel and relentless w.
rants who are trying to perpe'u"V,
! il at n hundred cents, III any tole VI
liberation or forbearance or with the least ue-
gree of allowance. The last ten cents In 'he
! dollar excite his profoundest disgust and near
tiest contempt. For the other ninety he has
no great stomach, but is willing for the pres
ont 70 ronrcss his gorge at it, if only the Gov
eminent will rise up in its might ana snlte
off into unrequited nowhere the aOomihatioh
of the cruel and unjust, the heaVy anu oP-
pressve final dime. And he VIII not CON-
nromise. "Nine dimes make one dollar" MS
fable rms. and he wouldn't listen to prop
osition even to throw in ten cent urlnh'
All. this is Pilgrim who is saturated Win
his belief 1t exudes from him at the toucn'
He overGows with it, Some token Oh DIS earn
ostness WAS given a few weeks ago "heh
no confronted the unhanged scoundfelS
who had the audacity to defend the Daihhaoio
Dollar before committee Of Congress 10
them he rose up in prophecy. "Reluse 10 emp
" thc dolar.r said he, "and We will come back
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sponge" Thus the great dollar clipper; anu
his hearers went away IKE tne young
man in Scripture, exceeding rIo"i"''
for they had great possessions. was
n fearful threat to be sure, but nothing hhe
what he has been uttering since. Men might
stand by and sec everything wiped out WIN
sponge and yet be not without nope. fo'
there have been such things before lneIe
was the tavcrn-keepcr, for instance, WHOSE ao-
counts. labOriously kept on the Dack Oh
the door with chalk, had been wiped
ont at house-cleaning. 1t will be rememDereu
that after he had spent some hours
IN the work of restoration, in answer to his
wife. who asked if he thought he had got
"tbem all down." he cheerfully replied, per
"haps not all of EN- but what I've got IS
against better men," SO 1t Is possible LOT
hope and cheerfulncss to survive even "lp-
ing out with a sponge There was moment
ary terror when the great Dollar clipper hiSt
threatened the Sponge, but 1t shortly as
appeared the country has experienced
so many. Since then lis manner has become still
more earnest there's blood in his eye and IN MS
discourse; his language drips with it. He has
burst into prose composition and print. and the
language he uses is as positive and direct III
its character as the drivers imprisoned eX-
hortation to the tardy and maynard mule.
He SAYS the demonstration of silver was a
conspiracy that "a subsidized press foams
with rage mt the idea OF Its repeal
that the air is redOlent with the
" oxygen Of revenge" that heartless
Shylocks, their agents, allies, and soul
"less soul-sayers" had better beware" and
that to require one hundred cents on the dol
lar would be the greatest crime against man
"kind since the fall of ADAM " 1t will not
"be done" he says, without a revolution
"that will crumble empires, reduce palatial
"citics to smouldering ruins, and drench the
"world in human blood"
And that's the way the Dollar Clipper ap-
Dcars at present. 1t is some of the most fear
rui As well as the finest language we have
ever encountered, and we stand off from it
and perIlse it with shuddering awe. For we
know he means it. We know he meant all he
said about wping out everything with a
sponge for 10 man, at least no Dem
ocratic Member OF Congress, would talk in that
way unless he had fully made up his mind to
do it. and knew right where to lay his hand on
the sponge. But, as before remarked,
that was not so absolutely dreadful as
his present purpose. He now proposes to
"crumhle empires "Teduce palatial cit
les to smOuldering ruins" and " drcnch
1.-THE world in human blood" There
may be persons who can read this unmOycd !;
men who will say Mr. Bland is fool-yery
likely BANKED fool Indeed it seems to us
as though the whole country thought SO else
why this st0lid Indifference But we take a
different view We would not excite unneces-
sary alarm, but it does seem to us that
when a man like Bland says he is going to
"crumble" and reduce" and "drench" as above
set forth. it is high time something was done
to concIliatc him. Let Us try and negotiate
with him. We might at least persuade him
not TO drench the world in human blood
That really seems to be doing too much for
ten cents on the dollar