New-York tribune., 1878-02-07
POLITICAL NOTES.

Is this country willing to be sold out by pool Of
silver specuatOrsf !
There is only one name for the man who barter,
his cOuntry's credit for private gain.
A National day of prayer for deliverance from
Congress would furnish relief to the popular heart
The people are waking up to the enormity of the
silver swindle. but Congress remains stolid in its
infatuatl0n-Or worse.
Mr. Wood seems to have constructed bis tariff bill
on the recipe for boarding-house hash Put in
everything that is lying around loose"
Harry Genet says he really has no desire to re.
enter politics because they are all in mussn So
they are but if he gets his deserts there will be
some more Of the old kind IN the penitentiary
shortly
Montgomery Blair consoles sympathetic friend
with the assurance that he would devote himself to
the writing of history were it not for an irrepress-
BILE conviction that he ought to continue ito assert
the rights of the people, by yelling fraud. seems
safe to say that he Will do less harm as ShOuter
than as all historian.
That courageous band of warriors, fippantly
known as the Bug Commissioners. who went West
to exterminate the grasshoppers and other like pests
have requested of Congress an appropriation Of
$4,000 to enable them to complete their task
They say that amount will settle the jerky intru-
ders beyond hope of resurrection. 1t would be an
expensive funeral In fact the Commissioners are in
danger of having their title changed to gold bugs
unless they moderate their expenses. Ihe West Is
preJudiced against that name already.
Senator Howe said on Tuesday that there
was conspiracy against silver, and that the
whole of Europe was in it, He proposed to put a
stop to participation the part Of the United
States by voting for a 90-cent dollar. The only
conspiracy perceptible in Europe is concerted effort
to induce the United States to adopt just what Mr.
Howe proposes to vote for, silver standard. This
is not disguised enough to be called a conspiracy.
Its hope of depends upon the willingness Of
the people OF this country TO follow the advice OF
demagOgues and ignoTanuses.
The ONO Legislature is considering bill making
silver full egal-tender in that State. without
gard to any action which Congress may take This
is capital piece of news The sooner the bill
passes and goes into effect the better. Ohio will
thus be made q market for the immense mass Of
surplus silver which is burdening the country to.
day, and she will pay the rest of us a dollar for
every 80 cents worth she receives. This will be
and swift way to open the eyes OF the Ohio
people, and the corresponding havoc among her
demagOgues Will be refreshingly great. Let the
"OhO idea be tired and buried at home.
Mr. Mahlon Chance late United States Consul at
Nassau desires it to be known that he has an honor,
to w.t. that of residence in the same town of Ohio
with the President of the United States; and
grievance, to wit, a Presidents wifes nleces hus-
band. To make room for this person, MI Chance has
been supplanted at Nassau after eight years of SER
vice. The business houses the island presented
a farewell letter to him with 150 signatures, testi-
fying to his faithful service The American visitors
did the same Mr. Chance undoubtedly bore good
character at Nassau. He thinks it hard that Mr..
Hayess wife's nieces husband should have bis
place, but still he is willing to take another.
The silver advocate has been forced to admit that
he is not seeking double standard at all, but sim
Gle standard of silver. AS Mr. Halstead puts it, the
thing desired is the "optional standard. Under
it tho cheaper metal circulates. Debtors have
choice of metals to pay in. This Is the only
chance they have 10 secure any ame-
Iteration of their burden" This Is pretty cool con-
fession of determination to secure reputation.
The term Optional is entirely, inadeqnate. Il
should be called the "repudiation" or swindng"
standard, for that is what 1t is. Mr.. Hasteads con.
fession Is valuable one, because IT shows an aoan'
d0nluent of the pretended belief that remonetlza-
ton will restore Silver to an equal value with gold.
The whole agitation is now put on its merits as
movement to enable debtors to pay their oOhgatlons
I'm a cheaugF metal,