The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-30

pOrtS DOCu AClaLL1C Auu ACluCs xnlS wear. end
ing June 30, 1880, it is only about one seventh.
Democratic orators bid us look ut
THE EXPORTS OF COTTON.
have looked at them, and find these facts
touching cotton and breadstufs: In 1860. bales
In 1870 bales Of cotton exported, zoos 1928; value
1921, O27 ,624. In $780, bales of cotton exported
1910, 1885, value: $2ll ,535 ,90@ fewer bales this
year than twenty years ago. In 1860, the bread
stuffs exported sold for $24 422 1920. In 1870 the
breadstuffs exported sold for 81, 25o,9 33. In
1880 the breadstuffs exported sold for $2ss $780,,
s35. Cotton has stood still, while surplus bread
stuffs have multiplied twelvefold. Look again,
look ut the value of all exports as they have
risen and fallen in one part Of the country and in
Others. The value Of all exports from south Of
1872 $50 800; in 1850, $751;, JAG, 573. Here is
steady decline. These unerring pools mark and
locate the bulk and substance of the nations
wealth and business.
government was taken by the throat and threat
ened with strangulation unless the election laws
were stricken down. that the democratic party
would have no majority in either house Of con-
gress, except for elections dominated and decided
by violence and fraud.
REPUTATION OF SOUTHERN DEBTS.
What use is made of all this ill., gotten power?
One of its chief uses has been the Reputation Of
honest debts. Every southern state but Texas
has lately repudiated its obligations. This aggre-
gate reputation Of state and municipal debts
amounts to about $500 900. In 1872 the
debts of the southern states were $242, 800. 900.
Now these states recognized and pay interest on
only $53 ,97S ,945. A large part even of this is
unpaid and funded interest. 100000 900 interest
has been scaled down to per cent. Whether the
residue of the debts also to be foreswom is
now an open issue. Is there excuse or palliaticn
for this? We are told SO. What is it? It is
that carpet-bag governments contracted these OBJ
legations. One difficulty with this excuse and
not the only one, is that it is not true The anti
ever visited the south, either with knapsack or
without it, was 500, 100000. No part Of this debt
has been paid; u large part has been repudiated.
The carpet-bag governments paid the interest on
it regularly. The increase Of debt since the war
was largely for public improvements. But the
most damaging fact for this excuse is that all the
alleged illegal issues of bonds charged upon the
carpet-bag governments put together does not
equal the sums repudiated by Georgia alone.
What are we to think of men and communities
who 60 into wholesale reputation sgayly as
the troubadour touched his guitar" When Mr..
Weaver brought forward in the house of repre-
sentatives bill to issue fiat money and make it
legal tender for all debts public and private man
after man from the south declared that if the
word private were stricken out he would vote for
the BILL They had no objection to paying off
public debts with chat, but private debts they
are sacred above national obligations. In south
ern ethics "a sovereign state is Of higher essence
than the nation" and this was the standing de-
Tense in rebellion for going with their states.
Moreover, state and municipal obligations are for
home purposes. If their own states faith and
credit is not inviolate with southern leaders, what
in their hands would be the fate of obligations
which were the means, the cause, the memorials Of
their defeat?
THE PERIL OF DEMOCRATIC AscESDANcy.
But we are told General Hancock would watch
them. An angel might watch tiger, a child
might attempt to divide a beefsteak with blood
hound; a lamb might lie down with lion; but
ic ascendancy in all the branches of the govern
ment is deeper rooted than any measure within
the scope Of existing public questions. States
men abroad talk of the balance of power" and
of changing the map of Europe" These say
ings mean not much more than might easily occur
here.
OPPOSITION TO THE ARMY.
The army too is envied, its "offence is rank"
Less than four lines Of the revised statutes are
all that denies commissions in the army to men
who, educated at the country's cost, and present.
ed with their country's sword, drew that sword
these four lines is now pending in the Senate,
already passed to a third reading by the solid
democrat vote. On the 25th of February last,
MIR. Herskell, Of Maryland, was relieved from the
operation of this exclusion, and senator from
Arkansas moved, as an amendment, its total re-
peal The ayes and nays were demanded, and
thirty-six senators, every democrat who was pres
ent voted aye; Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
and New York, contributed their democratic votes
to this southern proposition Of reform" Subse-
quently the mover and all concluded to reconsider
and drop the amendment. A sagacious conclu-
sion in a presidential year!" Mr.. Tucker, OF
Virginia, moved in the house the repeal of this
safeguard to the army as rider to an appropria-
ton bill, but it was huddled out of sight on a
point of order. A judicious point in a "presiden-
tial year." The democratic majority put in the
army bill 4 provision that officers now in the
army might receive advanced rank and pay if
they would retire. A benevolent thoughtful
provision certainly but if body of army officers
could thus be coaxed out of the service there
would be so many vacancies to be filled and filed
by the president and with the advice and consent
Of a democratic senate. When this free-will
offering was presented cry arose about gift
bearing Greeks" and other ungracious symptoms
were manifested on the republican side, and so
brevet rank and brevet pay stand over at least
till the season Of the Santa Claus. Meanwhile the
army has been reduced to d skeleton. and when
ever scare, a pretense, speck Of war on the
Mexican border or elsewhere shall be discovered
or invented, the army must be increased and filled
up. Filled up by whom? That depends ON the
approaching election. If Garfield and Arthur
IRE chosen, by union men, men always for the
union to the core; if Hancock and English and
the democratic get in by the men who went
with their states" Confederate soldiers would
fock to the standard of military as well us Of
civil service reform, and flock in fe'vor OF mag
nanimity. Rank in the army should be given to
those who fought in that army rather than to those
who ass,s'l it in the dread extremity Of the ma
TONS life.
Tho present tariff and revenue laws are deemed
very bad by the dominant element Of the democ-
racy. They want to change them. They will
change them radically whenever the way is clear:
There is whisky rebellion now in the several
states, and the officers of the law ara poweress to
suppress it. In Alabama the law is resisted and
the process Of the courts destroyed and defed.
H., IS