Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-24

or any quantity and your agent or attorney
having it in charge should give away the
half of II, would you not revoke his authori
ty, and shall we not do collectively what each
of ne would do individually? The Republi-
can partyis evidently uneasy because of the
waste. In their wonderful Chicago platform
/ find the following deprecatory statement:
mo further grants of public domain should
be made to any railroad or other corpora
tion." Let us hope not; and who shall be
trusted in this appropriate time of reckon
ing and review? Shall it be the party that
has never given away an acre of this land to
railroad corporations, or the party that has
squandered upon them enough for On en-
pire?
Before leave this subject let me refer to
another matter somewhat connected with it,
which occurred during this Republican as
tendency. It will be found in the report of
the secretary of the interior for 1878. I'm
der acts of Congress passed in 1862 and
1864 the government loaned to six of these
railroad corporations more than 1854 ,OOO, 900.
This loan is represented by bonds which
bear q semi-annual interest of 6 per cent.
and mature in 1868. An attempt was
made to collect the interest, but the supreme
court decided that no interest could be col
lected until the bonds matured. If we add
but simple interest when the bonds mature.
the loan (principal and interest) will amount
to $181 100000; if we add interest on the
interest that accrues every six months (the
proper method of calculation), the loan will
amount to $390,OO,0O0. This large loan
was made first lein upon these railroads,
but it's priority has been surrendered. This
500 100000 may be considered as lost, and
should be charged to the Republican party.
REPUBLICAN ExrRAvAGANoE.
What more? What of our public expen-
ditures? Our aggregate expenditures for the
last nineteen years, emitting what was paid
as interest, have been more than $5, 800, 000,-
600. The aggregate expenditures for the pre-
ceding seventy years were in round numbers
ST. 100000 600. In the last nineteen years
we have spent, says 4, zoe, 900 600 more than
during all the balance of our national life.
The average civil and miscellaneous expen-
ditures of the Republican party during the
last nineteen years have been in round num-
bers $52,000,OOO year; in the nineteen
years next preceding they were less than
$17,000,0OO a year. The aggregate Indian
expenditures for the last nineteen years
amounted to 1897 200, 900; for the preceding
nineteen years they amounted to $44, OOO,-
600. will say nothing of our war and
naval expenditures or of those for pensions
and interest, for they are not fairly q
subject of comparison. But why this
great difference of expenditures in our Indi :
an department between two equal periods o
time; and why should the expenses of our
peace department in the last nineteen years
have been more than three times as great
as they we're in the preceding nineteen
years? In view of the additional and extra
ordinary demands of the war, which are yet
pressing heavily upon US, all other expenses
should have been carefully kept down and
regulsted by severe economy. But it was
not so; they all increased and kept pace
wi the more excusable extravagances of
the war. Money was poured out as if it
were but water, and not little of it into the
sands of party favoritism. I have no time
to partioularize. This period is conspicu-
GUS for its rings, jobs and other schemes of
waste and extravaganza, We have all read
about them. The press has been full of
them.
ALIENATION WITH garfield, BROTHERHOOD
WITH HANCOCK.
1t has seemed to me that many good Re-
publicans have come to desire change, but
hesitate to make it because of the South.
The leaders in power understand this, and
purposely keep alivethis apprehension. With
each recurring election they beat their
drums and sound new alarm, as if the
North and South were still at war. Every
idle or foolish word is exagerateds into a
threat and every local breach of the peace
into an act of disloyalty, and the entire South
is medD responsible. 1t will ever be so if by
such unfriendly and sectional agitators they
can retain their power. What of the South?
Was not their surrender absolute, and have
not all it's terms and conditions been COM
piled with? But they are still proud.
Would you have them get
down on their knees to you?
They are brave. Must they become coward
ly and would you have them so? Who are
they? Not strangers; they and we are the
children of a common ancestry, and born, as
it were, under the same roof. Their fore
fathers and ours united their voices in de-
claring our independence, and fought side
by side to achieve it; and they have done as
much as we to secure these blessings we en-
Joy. We have become very great Our re-
sources are infinite, our domain continent,
our possibilities boundless. Their work is
in it all, and equal to our own.
Two politics are before us-one of aliena-
ton, the other brotherhood. One leads to dis
cords, animocities and perpetual and increas-
ing dangers. Itmay terminate in an Ireland
or Poland in our midst, or something even
worst. It's end can not be good. The other
leads to harmony and safety and assured
prosperity. Garfield represents. the policy
of alienation; Hancock represents the policy
of brotherhood.
Hancock did more for us than Garfield to
overcome the rebellion, and he can do far
more to heal it's wounds. Let US be wise
and heal them. Now is our opportunity.
SALTWATER.