Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-06

Iavolvea-T1lAe1-A IN Oouth
CaFolina-Ffres AID Hard Tines.
New name for Tilden: Oldham
afraid-of-hiscoparceners.-NI1r; bs~e.
Senator Blaine put it sharply when he
said: "The question is not whether the
people of the United States shall 60 for
ward to resumption, but whether, having
actually reached specie payments they
will by positive legislation 60 backward
and adoptirredeemable paper currency"
Rainey, the colored congressman from
South Carolina, who rendered himself
20 useful a. member of the committee
on enrolled bills at the close of last SEES
sion Is to gain the confidence of his Dem
ocratic associates, who were too drunk to
do their duty, thus states the political
situation in his state:
I cannot call to mind any period under
q Republican administration in South
Carolina when there has been 30 much
unrest and feverish excitement among
the people. One thing is certain, the
Republicans are threatened on every
side simply because they 80 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-
WINGED of the fact that there is deter
mination on the part of the Democracy
to crush out Republication, which
means sitting the Republican majorities
for in South Carolina there is unmis-
takably a Republican majority of from
$4,000 to $4,000, 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. It 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
lican ticket at the coming election. This
is only one of the means by which they
propose to destroy the Republican ma
iorities. They have located the precincts
far apart. They have also reduced the
number of voting hours, 30 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 desirous of votingOf the oppor-
tunity of doing 60.
The losses by fire in the republic are
estimated at 800, 600, 900 yearly, and
the opinion has been expressed that they
materially add to the hard times. They
are surely large enough to do 80, The
general increase of wealth in the coun-
try is reckoned at 500, OOO, 900 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 incre-
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 tri6ing 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 aud the requirements of
the pension list. There is no good rea-
son why the losses by fire should be over
SIC, DOC, 900, or even 80 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 BEN T.
Times.
The Albany Evening Journal proposes
this epitaph for Tlden:
Samuel Jones Usufruct,
Who was Drowned
Wavs of Popular Indignation:
After first being
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 foriorner,
Lies q goner,
Once q Reformer.
SIT. 1873. x.
How sharper than . serpents tooth 10
it to have . ciphering nephew.-1Foy