The daily gazette., 1881-01-20
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EdItor OF Deiaware Gazette


Permit me to recall the following
significant conversation, occurring
during our late war, between Charles
Sumner and guest of his at the time
-one of the most intelligent foreign
Ministers.
After talking of the detail of the
history of the period, marches,
seiges and battles, ''for the rest"
said the visitor, 'sfrom this time
your government and mine are the
same"
Mr.. Sumner asked if he we're so
blind as to suppose that Mr.. Lincoln
was to become an Emperor.
"Not /, indeed" was the reply.
SIT is not that which makes govern
ment to be one thing or another.
What has made America America,
and different from Europe, 10 this
You have no need of revenue; your
government expenses have been as
nothing you have had no army, no
navy, no civil service of any great
magnitude, so you have lived with
out cabals at the center, having little
money TO receive here and little to
disburse. But now uous, aUon change
taut celia, lyou have changed all this.
Now you have a debt as large as the
best of US. You will have to raise
taxes as onerous as the worst of us.
You must have establishments of
officials as numerous, as well disci-
plined, and as powerful as any of
us. These central establishme ents
will govern your country as such
establishments govern our countries.
You will choose your Presidents in
one way; we will choose ours in
another. But you will have Just
what we have, the intrigues, the
corruption the overruling central |
power which comes in, and must |
come in. where great deal ofmoney |
is collected, is handled, is paid over.
Your nation will be governed then
just as ours is governed now. Only |
you will still call yours a republic,
while we call ours empires or
Kingdoms. Voila Ia difference ( what
s the diference.)
Let us not, Mr.. Editor, decline to
take lessons from every source.
Has not the printed predictions of
that diplomat whoever he was) been
measurably realized? 1t is also in
history that the Earl of Chatham,
our friend in revolutionary times,
cautioned us earnestly against a
funded national debt, as the rock
upon which England split her social
fabric. We have had warning upon
All the early fathers of
The republic deprecated the allowing
Jf such burden to be fastened
either upon ourselves or our posterty.
None saw the danger more clearly
Or labored against il more earnestly
-han Thomas Jefferson and Andrew
Jackson.
Well might the foreign guest of Mr..
anticipate "cabals at the CEN
er." Have we not had thems We
lad one, when a deputation of lobby
brokers and gold hold
rs-caj oiled the Senate in 1868 to fa-
ally amend the House bill creating the
egal tender notes dishonoring the
in their issue, by not
ccepting them at the Custom House.
These lobbyists were not patriots. ,
The patriots were in the field Offering
heir bodies to the death, to save the :
ountry yet willing to take the Green {
acks at par for their services. The
Dbbylsts were corrupt "cabal," bent ..
n having the Greenbacks dishonored
as the better to manipulate them,
nd pile up fortunes daring their coun-
ry's sufferlngs. From the lobby the I
'cabals" have now entrenched them
elves on the floors of Congress, if not
ven in Executive Chambers, voting
)r tinancial measures that will turn i'll
often gains into their own pockets.
ct the PEOPLE, nA.ny of them, it 4
,ould seem, stand supinely looking
a Having eyes they see not, hay
ars they hear not, neither do they un-
erstand p
They are cajoled by an extension of
he same influence, ramifying all the
of social hfe-of trade and in-
lstry.
What are we to do thenf Yield TO .
lie inevitable, or arise like men and
ek the remedyi All we want is full
nowledge amongst the people, with =
,uIage and craftsmanship to lead
em to victory and publication at the
.llot box.
There are two methods of manipu.
ting our public debt. One is the 81
uropean plan of refunding The govern
eat bonds as looking towards the -
rpetuation of the debt.
The other aims at so ordering mat.
RS as to ''place" the bonds in some =
rm, always under the control of gov
nment to be paid off at any and all
mes, when, by careful economy, the
of productive industry
d good tinanciering, the means may
provided tor their payment look
! towards their extinguishment at
, earliest possible time that can be
aimed to, with as little onerous taxa j
n as may be. PranaG faoie, is not /
, latter the truly patriotic and nel
,per methods, In view of the dangers ~
the purity of our institutio us, at L
dant upon the funding plan, as il. 4
trated in the gist of this communi-
ion
'he former, the funding plan, is fa- A
ed by the holders of the bonds who
Ii to perpetuate them as the best
sible untaxed Investment of money
Q bankers also want them perpe u
d as q basis of the National Bank
system.
'hese two factions may be consider
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