The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-16
THE INCREASE OF THE ARMY.

be crawling on their bellies, apologizing for
the bold and manly course OF the Democrats
in the last Congress, and whining for more
soldiers more bayonets, to keep the people
In subiection, and to protect the monopolists
and public thieves In their impositions upon
the country. The Go.uier-Journal has taken
the lead In this movement; Gen. George b.
| Mcclellan, presuming to speak from DEM
ocratic standpoint, pronounces for an increase
OF the army, and now we find Mr.. Tom Scott
| lifting up his voice through the North Amert-
can Reuier, and maintaining the necessity OF
strong military power to protect the money
power In Its supremacy.
'tWhat is needed" says the autocrat of
the Pennsylvania Central, would clearly
seem to be that proper forces should
| be SO dispersed at prominent points, large
cities and other great business centres-in
many Of which the government has arsenals,
custom-houses, mints, navy-yards and other
property Of It's own to protect-that their
| movements can be combined rapidly, and
| they may be directed against points Of dan
ger SO as to be able to act effectively and with
decision before violence can become triumph
ant" In accord with this the Louisville paper
exclaims, "The regular army must be in
! creased
Such is the method by which these new
Democratic lights and railroad statesmen
would maintain the laws among free peo-
pie. We hear nothing from them Of the
measures of government calculated to re-
lieve the industries of the country and open
foreign markets to our trade; nothing of
policies necessary to correct the evils of great
monopolies and to remove the burthens,
protective duties, and special and corrupt
legislation have imposed upon the honest
and legitimate Industries Of the people.
Oh, mol ALI the unwise and monstrous
policies and laws of the last sixteen years
must remain i'm force; the railroad monopo-
lies, with their fraudulent stock amounting
to four times the real value of the properties,
| m ust be maintained; protective duties which
paralyze our foreign trade and the energies
and industry of millions of our suffering
working people must be enforced in the inter-
est of certain classes of capitalists and man
ufacturers. The government must stand by
all these things at any and every hazard
The autocracy Of the money power has been
organized and established, and it must be
maintained.
1t is not denied by the advocates of this in
iquitous theory that it will promote discon-
tent violence and revolution. Indeed, the
fierce riots excited by this policy, and whose
track is yet marked by blackened ruins and
human blood, are made the pretext of their
call for more soldiers and bayonets.
The friends of centralized despotism want
no better platform than the recent articles of
the Cb,wier-joarndt In favor of an increase of
the army, and Mr.. Tom Scott's article in the
North American Reuie,C. Let Congress follow
the advice of such journals and of such men,
and there will be an end in this country of
constitutional liberty and Of what concerns
such men as Tom Scott much more-of all
peace and industry. They call for troops and
bayonets to force the American people to bear
without murmur or resistance the hunger,
restitution and misery created by mischiev-
GUS governmental policy too long pursued,
fancying they have found the preventive of
violence and revolution. Never was there a
greater error.
Mr., Scott refers to the vigor and prompt
ness with which all interests are protected in
England as an example for America. In this
Mr.. Scott shows how little he knows Of whath
is talking about. The English people are not
now and never have been during any prosper
GUS period of their history, governed through
the army. If England is great, rich and
prosperous country it is not because her peo-
pie have been held in subsection by bayonets,
but because her craftsmanship has been
liberal and enlightened; because men Of the
class of Messrs Tom Scott and VIM. Garrett
have never become more influential in the pol
itics of the kingdom than the real statesmen
Of the country. The English constitution,
English liberty and English wealth and glory
are the product Of civil policies adopted and
pursued by English monarchs and statesmen
through many centuries in the interest of the
English people.
And here we wish to direct the attention Of
our readers to a fact which every man in
America, who desires to preserve the peace
and advance the prosperity of this country,
should keep in mind. The Tudors were as
imperious race as the Caesars. But the
kingdom of the Tudors has progressed stead
lily toward freedom, wealth and greatness
while the republic of the Caesars in few
decades became the most licentious, tyran-
meal and ruinous government upon which the
sun ever shone.
How are we to account for these extraordi-
nary results? The Romans were, at the
time of Augustus, and for centuries had
been, a free, warlike and noble race; while
the Tudors and the lines of kings who pre-
coded them had enjoyed all the power
and indulgences of absolute monarchs.
Why, then, was it that Righteousness, des-
potism, commercial ruin, and, finally, ma
tional shame and extinction resulted from the
rule of the C@sars, while liberty, wealth and
national glory are the rich heritage of the
English people?
The reason is very simple. The Tudors had
no standing army. Under the government
of England, as-it then existed, the princes
were nominally absolute, indeed they exer-
cised, and sometimes harshly, many of
the prerogatives of absolute monarchs.