American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-02-19
POLITICAL POINTS.

OF the New York Commercial AdUer
tser, q strong. Republican journal, says
thai if Mr.. Hayes had sent in the name
of his son Webb for Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court it would moi
have surprised those who have closely
watched the manner in which Mr.
Hayes has made use of the Govern
men.'s patronage to reward his per
sonai friends. -"as-.
General Weaver, late Greenback
candidate for President, took occasion
to say ON the floor of the House of Rep
resentatives, at Washington the Other
day that Southern bull-dozing is a;
nothing compared with the intimidation
OF voters practiced by the Republican
mill-owners and manufacturers Of
Massachusetts. According to this il
would seem tilat Mowers engagement
to play secondafiddle to the Republican
managers has been Terminated. Harris
burg Patriot. = f'.-.-
L sr-Thescqming Cabinet of President
Garfield is ;. a. good deal talked about
far morethan the importance OF the sub.
jaGta requires.s II Garfield can, bys any
possibility, draw around him set OF
honest men, who will not steal, his .Ad-
nniiiistraeiof will be- entitled to more
consideration than attaches to the AID
of Grant; but the rumol
that Blaine IS to be Secretary of State
is not calculated to strengthen public
confidence in Garfeld's integrity.AlI,s.
dana State Sentinel = -
= "A rumersthat Senator. Brnce.is- tc
be appointed Secretary of the Navy has
prpdQced d profound impression II 10
naval circlcs..i The notion of. sdoftins
hats and firing saItites in honor Of q
colorcd man does not find favor with q
majority of naval officers. But this
fact furnishes no good reason why
General Garfield and his party should
not be- true to their alleged principles.
And they cannot be faithful to their
creed and obligations, if they decline to
put 3 negrointo the Cabinet ~ Hash
t1rgt07s Pest. e. ri:s
little Illinois = Republicans fur
nished a fair measure of their own po-
Itioal respeet;tbitity a few days ago,
when the lower branch of the Spring
field Legislature refused to amend a
resolution asking the appointment OF
an Illinois man to the vacancy on the
Supreme bench of the United States,
so as to ask an appointment prospect
i've of politics. The principle to which
they thus confessed their devotion
might have been boiled down into q
resolution that every Judge. of the SUI
pfeu1e Court must be a Republican. 1t
IS not to be forgotten that the Supreme
bench is The last bulwark of Republic
ahisnI. -!St. Lottts Repw6lieaas:: a 7 ar 't'
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p PlaM Statement. Of Patent. Fact.
SENATOR BECK risseentIy made an ex-
ha.lstive aud able argument In the SEN
ate in favor of legislation looking
toward the revival of American COM
merce-. 1t s not a. partisan question,
and Senator Beck did not discuss it
from q partisan stand.peint.C He Sim
ply cited the mournful but incontro-
vertible fact that American commerce
is dead, and urged the measure which,
in his Judgment, is necessary to revive
United States is thing of the past
and the Americah Tag has almost dis
from the seas. When the
American traveller abroad visits for
eign ports and sees them crowded with
shipping, he looks in vain among the
flags for the, stars and stripes.,, Our
carrying trade is almost entirely in the
hands of other nations, the products of
the country are transported across rthe
ocean in'foreign ships, and the money
we pay for transportation goes to en-
rich the nations of the cd world.
Once we had a fair. share of the worlds
but now we have nones
once we. had sixty or seventy Thousand
sailors, but now we, have uone;, once
we had a navy, that, command !.
ed respect, . it. 1T did not
elicit admiration.s-fbut now. our
navy has become a, disgrace that
only brings. tho Ameriean.hag and name
into contempt among the nations of the
world. All these; changes have come
about under Republican, policy and in
the twenty yeats IN which the -Repub-
ficah party has been IN power Iin this
But these dire not s'paaaisan
statements ma de for p6htiSdf effect.
They are but plain Statements 81 patetit
facts that are not denied and Can not be
denied by either, ,EelNbl ican, Of, Demo
crat. Tue simple ,Tuth is that tine
Gaited States has become, .supders the
policy of thesRHpublica party, . coun-
cry Sibsoltt ely destitute of a merchants
and that, its commercial inter-
ests sleep the sleep of death. "a The
question is, what shall be done to REM
edy this deplorable state of affairs 81 n-
less it is remedied;it is idle to. hope for
any sound or lasting Natioflal iiprosperi-
ty, Without commerce, no, nation I'M
der the circumstancesu under which the
American Republic, exists can expect to
prosper We. must as q matter OF ne
cessity by, some means rebuild the COM
marine. of the country. TWo
plans were put forward, one by Senator
Beck, and one by Senator Blaine, yoicing
the policiesaof their respective parties
Beck suggests freesships, -while
Senator. Blaine recoInmends'subs
to American ship builders. "Let enter
prise be- free said Mr.. Beck. Let
WhoeYer wants a ship to engage in the
carrying trade, buy it where he can buy
it the cheapest. Ii our. merchants can
buy ships on the same terms as the
foreign countries do they
will go into the carrying trade them
selves and American commerce will re-
build itself by a natural process TAX
the people, says Senator Blaine. % aud
raise money to substitute. American ship
builders. Hire American shipbuilders
to build ships by granting them Gov
eminent subsidies" These are the
plans proposed and they are worthy of
serious nSfuefatlo2- nlteFef may
bes;idin favor of Prptecfing American
Industries cannot apply in this case.
American shipDuilding, as IN industry
does not exist. and therefore does not
call forpr6teetion. 1t lis not u sound
public policy that brushes an industry
out of existence under the pretense of
protecting it. The revival of commerce
is of infinitely more Importance to this
country than that q few American ship
builders should have the exclusive
privilege of making ships. ! Cleuetand
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