The Portland daily press., 1878-10-15
MORNING, OCTOBER Is.

majority has been kept within tolerably fair
limits. The Democrats have the Legislature
and will retain Voorhees, in the Senate, but II
they can stand that we surely have no occasion |
20 complain. He will be the oracle and guide
of sour representative from the Fifth District.
He ought to serve the useful purpose of stand
ing for terrible example of how crazy puo-
lie man can become under the effects OF the |
Greenbsck mania. Ii we mast nave Demo
cratic statesmen at Washington, it is better
that they should be OF the unvarnshed and
transparent kind that you can't make any mis-
take about.
That Iowa shoull have weakened in any
crisis touches me nearly. 1 look upon this
young commonwealth as the most promising OF
the group Of which she forms part. was
aware that the soft money nonseuse mad found
some lodgment among her people, Loiwith-
standing their average of intelligence was so
high In fact after the exhibition of utter
lunacy which you gave in Maine last month
was prepared to hear of any sort of preposter-
GUS tergivisaton. looked with earnest solic
tude to see if the wild frenzy had made any
break in the Congressional delegation. When
L discovered that it had seized upon two of the
nine districts, made up my mind there was
no climate in the land morally salubrious
enough to escape the noxious visitation. There
is nothing for it but to let the epidemic have
its run and be over. 1t will break out in spots
where there seems the least danger of conta-
gion, and rage virulently for time in commu-
mites whom you would suppose to be panoplied
against it by an abundance of schools and 9TH
er kinds Of moral influence.
There are still great contests to be waged
and the 9Th of November will be an eventful
day. 1t is no longer question of carrying
the House, but of strengthening the minority
that is TO constitute the sole dependence of the
country as breakwater against mischief. We
have had foretaste already of what Demo-
cratic rule would amount to if suffered to pre-
vail without check or hindrance. 1t would
mean government without power TO enforce
the laws, disbandment of the army, immunity
to State offences defsing federal authority,
and great raids upon the treasury for the liqui-
dalton of manufactured and baseless claims.
If it were to come soon enough it would doubt
less be followed by debasement of the circu-
lating me 1ium, and the virtual destruction of
the national credit But there is this strong
point of security against the latter calamity,
that resumption will have been accomplished
before anything can be done to prevent it. 1t
is extremely fortunate that Congress is not
to meet until the ID of December; it would
be still greater piece of good fortune if its
assembling could be deferred year longer.
But at any rate, month is too little time to
bring about the enactment of a measure re-
pealing or modifying the law which prescribes
that the government issues shall be redeem ed in
coin on the LIST January 1879. The thing might
be done in the House under pressure, but in
the Senate opportunity would have to be
accorded for debate. So it is fair to assume
that the Treasury programme will not be in
terfered with. Thirty days of resumption will
suffice to satisfy every sane man in the country
of the wisdom and praeticabilty of the meas
ure. People will go to work. The absurd idea
that prosperity can be prevented by the Con-
trivances Of theorists or the legerdemain OF
politicians will become obsolete. Capitalists
will gain courage, and make investment in
enterprises that give abundant promise of sue
cess. There will sooE be enough for every body
to do and adequate compensation for all who
are willing to be useful
All that is required of the politician jus.
now is not TO NEEDLE with the finances in any
way. They will take care of themselves if
they are simply let alone. Natural causes will
produce the best possible effects, all in good
time Ii il doubtful whether interference of
any sort can do more than retard the restora-
ton of prosperity; but even that is something
that is very trying to the patience of people
already dspirited By an experience of five
years of distress and suffering. Every ballot
that is cast in November in such way as to
imply protest against the interposition of
any empirical methods of disturbing the stat
ute which DEGREES that resumption shall begin
with the new year, will help to lift the Repub.
lie out of the darkness in which it has been too
long .enveloped. YARMOUTH.