The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-06
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.
Men and Matters at Washington City
Discussed and Described.
Some Comment on the Currency Ques-
tiOn-The Heresies Of Beecher and
Rockingham - "reminiscences
Of Voorhees, Speech-The
Record of a Pkflan-
fhropist.


repeating the bill under which the $50
bonds were issued, thus impairing the valid
ity of contracts, having again ''stiffened'' the
public honor by demonetizing a constitu-
tional and legal coin, thus destroying a
means of meeting the national obligations,
and, finally having consummated the in1ig.
Grating process by the passage of the re-
sumption act, thus insuring the present
cheerful prosperity of all branches of indus
try, the late republican party, in its I'M
eQualed zeal and anxiety to still further in
crease the existing encouraging condition of
financial matters, has been reinforced by the
labors of two notorious eastern divines one
the low religious comedian OF Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, and the other gentleman
of the euphonious and suggestive name of
Rockingham, and a sorry figure indeed, in
their new role do they exhibrt-par mobile
fratrum. The former, no doubt, is a success
in the fine art of nest hiding, illustrating
paroxysmal free love and abolishing hell, as
he has already enjoyed section OF the judg-
ment day, and to the Froth of the efforts of
both the new recruits, the advocates of gen.
eral ruin are welcome.
The belief is becoming quite general that
the present aspect of things is not the most
promising but whether the alleged, and
almost universally believed, causes named
are closely connected with the observed
effects, is the interesting problem. One thing
is certain, and we have high authority for
the'truth of the sentiment, unless the Bible,
too, is, in the language of the immortal
eight of the electoral commission, aliunde,
that ''affliction cometh not forth of the dust,
neither doth trouble spring out of the
ground" and there may possibly be rea-
sonable doubt whether every act or decla-
ration looking to the maintaining or
strengthening of the national credit origina-
ted by the act OF the republican party"
Perhaps that is so and again perhaps not.
Waving he question as to whether the
theory of homeopathy-the hair of the dog
hypothesis the best system in practice in
alternating the ills that flesh is heir TO, it
will not seriously be claimed that in the
higher domain of finances the same cause
that produces trouble if persisted in will
remedy the evil.
THE PRIEST TO MoLoCH.
The great Beecher, in Christian meekness.
caresses the friends of remonetizing silver in
such tender and endearing terms as ''they
are bull headed, without eyes, endeavoring
to undermine the integrity OF the nation.
The miscreants deserve an jnfamy asdeep as
the lowest depths of HE'LL But this
same classical humbug tells us that gold is
the standard in Asia, Africa. Europe and
America; that it is a universal, unchanging
standard" Whereas the fact is, and even COM
mon unenlightened' bull heads know it, that
of the two COINS. gold and silver, the latter
is and almost always has been the more
uniform both in value and in production,
and that when not interfered with by legis-
lation in the 'credit strengthening process
it has very generally ranked gold in value.
And further, even the untutored miscreants
inhabiting the rural districts of Indiana
know that of the money using people of the
earth largely over 500 600 900 use silver only,
while but about $50, 600 600 use gold alone
and 1872, 000, 900 use gold and silver, and the
white savsges of the benighted west are
laboring under the conviction that all bonds
Issued since 1870 are expressly and in terms
made payable in coin, gold and silver OF the
value then existing and they are determln-
ed in the light of their ignorance that Mr..
Shylock shall have his pound of flesh, but
not drop of blood. They also remember
that when silver was clandestinely, fraudu-
lently, surreptitiously, and under lying
pretences demonetized 1t was at a premium
above gold, and that there was a sneaking,
devilish purpose in banishing it from coin
ing and circulation. If, therefore, Beecher
knows no more about hell and true religion
than he does about finances he would as
well observe the old adage, me sutor
ultra repidam''-cobbler, stick to your last
and he will raise strong suspicion that II
there is no hell or devil some judicious sub
stitute should be speedily provided for the
bearing false witness against better informed
brother
One would suppose that the present con-
gestion and the paralysis of the nervous
centres of trade, business and industries, so
to speak, were sufficient to crafty the most
inordinate ambition of the admirers of the
"credit strengthening" legislation of the
great republican party. Is any one so de-
mented or "bull headed as to believe that
but for the criminal quackery of this party
in finance legislation we would now be
enjoying the blessings OF the present wide
spread ruin, misery, bankruptcy and suffer
Ing?
THE HON. d. W. VOORHEES,.
Never were the facts better put more
eloquently portrayed and more signally
enforced on behalf of the people than by
Indiana's distinguished junior senator. His
speech is the sensation of the capital. 1t
falls to the lot of Jew men; it is indeed rarely
the case that new senator makes such
decided success. His praise is the general
theme OF conversation, and he may well feel
proud of his audience. The weather was
fine, and such an audience greeted HIM as is
rarely witnessed. Not only were the gal
leries packed, but the senate chamber was
crowded. Members of the house in
large numbers attended, and his every
utterance was listened to with
marked attention. Not only all the
sitting, but standing room was occupied.
Among tne listeners in the galleries were
hundreds of intelligent farmers and labor
ers from the country, and there was no
mistaking their verdict, and in fact, with
little exception, his entire audience was in
evident sympathy with him. Never coald
il be said with less truth that the speaker
addressed the galleries in the disparaging
sense Of the expression. He held his listen
ers closely absorbed in his every uttersnce.
The truth is his words found an echo,
hearty response, a sympathetic reception in
the minds of nine-tentbs of the voters pres
ent, for the plain reason that he spoke the
solid facts, and the best possible commentary
on his speech lies in the interesting
truth that none of the real regulators of
John Sherman kind attempt even the