The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-08-02
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easby those who oppose them for the BEN
Oft OF the people, but are for securing Of
fee and emolument for themselves. That
is al. The professions Of the partisans are
simple decisions. IL Is not for The people
that they are struggling, but for them
setcss. ID
The chief remedy relates to the Alleged
vicious character OF the national finances.
The remedy proposed by the deceittul
quacks has to be applied by Congress; ana
I've" say the quacks, . must be sent To
Congress TO see that it shall be applied"
That's it. g Let me DO III" says every
demagogue OF an aspirant. . I will see to
";t that you shall be relieved, fellow-citi-
Sc zens.s, ArTant deceivers as they are,
their assurance is IS impudent as their
remedy is false; and il the people elect
them they will only be conspiring against
their own peace and thrift. Agitation only
makes things worse, and The people by con.
fiding in the hypocritical theorists Will only
delay the restoration OF the country to or.
der and harmony. @
The .scrueI financial SYSTEM" as 1t is
styled by one congressional aspirant.
.sCruel" how? We know that the paper
money OF the nation is the best that we
ever had. Aud we know that there is an
abundance OF i,---so that any man who
offers satisfactory security for what he wants
can get it. Then how Is it "cruel ?" Phe
figures published in this paper show that
there is more currency in circulation at ms
time than there was at periods OF great
prosperity and Of. activity in commerce. In
what respect, then, can it be said that the
financial system is vicious" and in what
respect Is it I" cruel?" It's not vicious
because the entire acceptability and credita-
bility OF the paper money in all parts OF the
nation prove its goodness. How it can pc
scruel' we cannot understand; nor can
anybody else. The greenback lunatics in
dulge madness that is unaccountable save
upon the hypothesis that they are but
demag ogues, who are seeking to get politl-
cal power By agitation, under pretended
views o. public distress and governmental
obligations. They assume that the distress
should be afforded by Government.
There could be no greater iallacy and no
greater party hypocrisy. The madmen pro-
pose relief by increasing the amount OF pa
per money. How will that help the dis
tressed, unless the Government giueS them
this paper money? And that is what the
lunatics have boldly declared should be
done. No sober and honest man in the
country expects such an act OF Govern
ment. Every man with q grain OF sense
knows that such rem edy as that would
only plunge the nation deeper into debt
and the people deeper into distress. Yet
we find that men OF tolerable sagacity and
passabIe responsibility, in delusiye general
tiles favor this idea Of Government relief.
They know their error and their insinceri-
ty, and yet they pursue both. Their object
is clear. They expect thus to get relief Tor
themselves. The delusion is spread for en-
trapping the people. Tt is palpable and
gross as mountain. The quacks proclaim
that the currency is vicious, and the Fede-
raj financial system is cruel. 1t is Congress
that must correct the alleged viciousness
and cruelty, and they must be sent to Con-
gress to apply that great corrective.
The people who are deluded by such
shallow ideas and such shallow hypocrisy
must be unexcelled for simpleness and stu
pidity. Send such deceivers to Congress,
and they alone are relieved. They will each
get $4,000 per annum; but they will do
nothing to relieve the people. The alleged
vices and errors in finance have no exist
ence, and the remedies proposed are not
pplicable-indeed, not possible. This fact
will not distress successful quacks. 1t is
the easiest thing in the world for dema-
gogue to fail to do the impossibility aohich
he had promised as the means of getting
into office.
It Is time, indeed, for the people to learn
wisdom enough to be warned against these
demagogues. They certainly have wisdom
enough to drop hot horseshoe, and even
that much is enough to save them from the
folly of sending men to Congress whose
promises are insincere and impossible OF
performance, and whose real object is to get
themselves into comfortable places.
The present distress in the land is the re-
suit OF circumstances with which all men
are familiar. 1t cannot be relieved by print
ing more money. Every remedy OF the
demagogues only leads to more debt and
more distress. ALI the paths Of greenback
lunatics and forcible readiusters lead but to
further ruin and misery.
People Of Virginia, beware Of these sim
lister and insincere men. Remember the
fable OF the fox and the goat. A fox one
day, running gaily and incautiously through
wood, fell into an old well that had been
left uncovered. Unable to get out, he was
as much distressed in his hapless situation
as any impecunious politician could be.
Fortunately for him, foolish Billy goat,
, who had been roaming in search Of verdure,
attracted by the piteous Whines Of the cum
ming readjuster ut the bottom Of the well,
appeared at its brink, and, wistfully looking
down, inquired what was the matter. The fox
with great facility explained the " situation"
The goat regretted the mishap, but could
not see how Reynard was to get out
Of his fix" But that ingenious uniortu-
nate made it at once plain. Said he: " You
Jump into the well, and by rearing up
g and resting your fore feet against the side
Of it, can leap first upon your head, and
from that to the top OF the well. Once
(" up there 1t will be easy for me to pull
Sc YOU I'm, and we can both so banniIy