New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-17

without limit, and the redemption OF one
greenback by the issue of another mat 100
was cheap and simple system OF NANCE
Above the bare cost of paper and printing on
that plan money cost nothing. II the sys-
tenn had been once fairly established
money would have been cheap as DIRT,
everybody would have had pockets full
of it. and paying debts would have
| been Gas easy as rolling oil loS' DIX
somehow people didn't take to the pan Ill
sufficient numbers to establish 1t as the poIicy
of the Government. After thinking II over
seriously for few years. majority declue'
that ON the whole it would pay better in the
end to be honest and pay i'll money, than TO
be smart and pay III paper 1t was a ulsap-
Monument 10 a great many able statesmen,
and. among Others to Mr. Bland. Nothing is
so agcravating to the philanthrOpist as the
perverseness and stubb0rnness OF people who
stand in their own light and on account of some
od-fashioned and obsolete notions insist on pay
ing n hundred cents on the dollar. Mr.. Bland,
however, bore it very well until n time was
fixed for the payment of hundred cents on
the dollar for all the Government, and, by con-
sequence. all individual Obligations and the
be worth 97l2 cents. This was net to be en-
dured. There was but one way left to effect
the object desired, and get rid OF some flac-
ton of the debt. Silver was worth but "
cents So Mr.. Bland said, 4" If this chuclilc-
"headed people can't be brought to steal
"sheep. they must at least have sense enough OF
"what is due themselves and their pcrlshing
families to steal a small eve lamb" So he
introduced what is known as the bland Sill
ever Billr 1t inserted the popular hand into
the fleece Of little wee bit of n lamb, and
said "There, jerk it over the fence, i'll the
Interest of the suffering poor, and be happy"
Mr. Bland is determined to b" bcnefact0r.
He is confident that this scheme will work,
and he is, naturally enough, enraged to find
that there are people who are opposed to it,
He met some of them the other day in Wash
ington, and gave them piece of his mlnd-a
very vigorous piece. He told them distinctly
what would happen if they should defeat this
innocent measure for saving eight cents on
the dollar. And they will do well to remember
il. for there is no doubt that he is in earnest.
Unless you pass this BILL" said he, 'we
=" will come to the next Congress, and, as with
"a sponge, we will wipe out all your bonds"
Ii is n fearful threat. And 1t Is Tor the cohn-
try to consider whether it will allow Mr..
Bland to wipe out his little eight cents on the
dollar, or take the chances of his coming
back with the sponge and wpng out, not
only the bonds but all we mold dear.
This mans temper is up. Once let him
get hold Of a sponge, and there's no telling
what lac will not wipe out. The TRIBUNE has
not heretofore favored the passage of the Bland
bill but, really, if the man is in this desper-
ate state of mind, and is liable to come
back with a sponge-probably Sponge
with a capital Sit may be worth while
to consider whether it would not be better for
the country to pacify him by consentng to the
small swindle he proposes. It's only eight
cents and he seems to have set his heart on
it. Let us consent to anything in reason,
sooner than have him come back with