The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
CURRENT OPINION.


CURRENT OPINION.
The Political Campaign and the Issues
InvOlved.--Tilde fairs i'm South
Carol1na---Firesa and Hard Times.
New name for Tilden: Oldham
afraid of-his-coparce Y. Tribune.
Senator Blaine put it sharply when he
said: "The question is not whether the
people of the United States shall go for
ward to resumption, but whether, having
actually reached specie payments they
will by positive legislation go backward
and adoptirredeemable paper currency"
Rainey, the colored congressman from
South Carolina, who rendered himself
so useful as a member of the committee
on enrolled bills at the close of last ses-
sion as to gain the confidence Of his Dem
ocraJic associates, who were too drunk to
do their duty, thus states the political
situation in his state:
E / cannot call to mind any period under
a Republican administration in South
Carolina when there has been so much
unrest and feverish excitement among
the people. One thing is certain, the
Republicans are threatened on every
side simply because they see fit to differ
politically with the Democrats. No
man in South Carolina can escape ostra-
cism who has independence enough to
assert his own personal convictions, if
they happen to be antagonistic to those
entertained by the Democrats. The fact
is, difference of opinion is not tolerated,
and it is evidently only question of
time when they will endeavor to make
the fight now going on in South Caro-
lima one between races. am fully con-
vinced of the fact that there is deter
mination on the part of the Democracy
to crush out Republicanism, which
means sitting the Republican majorities
for in South Carolina there is unmis-
takably Republican majority of from
$4,000 to 10000, and in my own con-
gressional district we have an actual
majority of between 5000 and
5000. That is fully established
by the recent census. How the Democrats
propose to carry state or congressional
districts three-ffths of which have an
undisputed Republican majority, can as
we'll be imagined as told. 1t can only
be done by violence, intimidation or
fraud. / believe that these demonstra-
tions now being made at public meetings
in our state are made for the purpose of
intimidating voters to such an extent as
to prevent them from voting the Repub-
ican ticket at the coming election. This
is only one of the means by which they
propose to destroy the Republican ma
jorities. They have located the precincts
far apart. They have also reduced the
number of voting hours, so that instead
of keeping the polls open from six in the
morning until six in the evening they
will be opened at eight and closed at five
in the afternoon, thereby depriving many
who are DESTROYS of voJingof the oppor-
tunity of doing so.
The losses by freuin the republic are
estimated at $10O,0OO,O0O yearly, and
the opinion has been expressed that they
materially add to the hard times. They
are surely large enough to do so. The
general increase of wealth in the coun-
try is reckoned at 500, 100000 annu-
ally in ordinary times, though, in dull
times like these, it is not probably over
half the sum. Hence, the fire tax, as it
may be named, amounts to from nearly
Is to 80 per cent. of our entire mere
ment, which cannot be far from the sum
Of the tax levied upon European nations
for the support of their immense stand
ing armies. Fires in Europe proper are
very few, and the damage trifing COM
pared with ours, in consequence Of the
substantially of the buildings, and the
greater care and caution exercised there.
What prodigious amount! A hundred
millions are enough to pay the interest on
the national debt, or to carry on the
general government, exclusive of inter-
est on the debt and the requirements of
the pension list There is no good rea-
son why the losses by fire should be over
$50, 5000 or even so much. For
tunately, these losses are steadily dimin-
ishing. As we grow older, we build
better and stronger. and are more pru-
dent. Our prodigality and waste are
passing with our extreme youth, and
there is little doubt that we shall be
frugal and provident-when we are
absolutely compelled to be.-N. y
Times. aa a ae
The Albany Evening Journal proposes
this epitaph for Tilden:
Hic facet
Samuel Jones Usufruct,
Who was Drowned
in
Wave of Popular Indignation:
After first being 81
Exclusively Killed by Key.
The Hope of
Renominating him in 80
"Stopped when the old man died."
Pause, mourner:
In this lone corner,
No spot forlorner,
Lies goner,
Once a Reformer.
S. I. 1878. x. fsT Y
How sharper than a serpent's tooth is
it to have q ciphering nephew Troy