The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-29
AsTRIloSassrATEnENr.
Prosperity of the Couptry Under Repnh.
lican Administration.

Prosperity ofIhe Country Under Repnh.
lican Administration.
E. n. NJ, In the Cincinnati GiEetts.
We do not say that all the prosperity Of
the country is due to Republican, dminis-
tration; but we do say that whether from
that cause or not, the advance, progress, and
prosperity OF the country during the TWEEN
~ years Of Republican legislation has
never been exceeded by any twenty years
OF administration by any party in any
country. We say, further, that this has
been done in spite of all the Democratic
party could doto prevent it. The Repub.
licans had TO fight and conquer In great
war. They had after that war to admins
Ter the government beginning with three
thousand millions Of a public debt They
had TO restore a currency which was 40per
cent below par to the gold standard. They
had to provide q system OF banking which
should be safe and have the confidence OF
the public, when the country had been
oyerrun with Stale and corporate banks
whose notes were from to 8
per cent below par. They had to con.
tinue tariff protecting workingmen
when the internal revenue taxes
were already very high. They had to re.
construct States and return them to the
Union, when they were filled with rebels
breathing FIRE and slaughter toward Union
men. All this they did in spite Of the De-
mocratic party, which opposed them at
every point, as 1t did every measure oil
progress, humanity, and nationality toI
forty years. And, now what Ia the resultf
A restored Union, revived industry, q
safe and sound currency, taxes reduced, O
large part OF the national debt paid, the In
terest on the remainder reduced $40, O0O,'
900 per annum-in word, a prosperity
not exceeded by any country in any period
OF the world, prosperity to which that
succeeding the revolution bore no com.
parison; prosperity to which no period
Of Democratic administration made any
approach, Now, we say such Is the fact
demonstrated by the statistics Of the coun'
try. Ia there man go stupid as TO think
that the restoration OF the Union, the re-
yiyal OF industry, the extension OF com
nerce, the establishment Of sale banks
land sound currency, the pay
ment OF the national debt, and the
reduction OF taxes are not due to the
administration OF public affairs, and
that such administration could have
been made by any party whose principles
are not sound and whose conduct Is not
wise? II such there be, 1t is impossible
that any light should ever reach his mind
or any comon sense influence his iudg.
ment, Now let US look at some OF the
leading facts. The Republican party came
into power on the 4.h of March, 1861, net
quite twenty years ago. It came in with
ia President In danger Of his life going to
the Capital; with clouds OF darkness Gov
ering the country; with a vast rebellion
facing the goyernment;with the shouts
and laughter OF rebel congress assembled
at Montgomery; with France ready TO join
the rebels; with England, through its
great statesman (Gladstone), declaring
that the rebels had created new. nation
Such was the legacy left them by the
Democratic party, and such was
the awful scene which threw sc
many patrols into doubt, dismay or des
pair. In four years OF a mighty strug
| gle the Republican administration over
threw the Confederacy, conquered the
rebels, Inundated France, checked Eng
land, and restored the Union. Patriotic
!, Democrats did volunteer in numbers fol
the war, but the Democratic party In Con
gress opposed every measure OF the Re
publicaus, and every measure which they
have since taken for tho restoration
credit, industry, and commerce. 1t is now
. fifteen years since the war. Let US lool
into what has been the progress in theSi
years. Below we give the statistics o
leading articles Of industry, commerce
manufactures, money, and exchange il
1850 and 1880, as determined by the OIL
cial statistics Of the government: