Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-01-20

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- +iS'i All !'-t'-'. "a 49,
recent date, sa!.:
e.. when III. 5,f.r,. L Game to tie
Presidency. in l,uI. TIC county
had undergone 4 process ot co"soIi-
dation, liberal constitutional con
struc;ion, and consequent cXtrlva-
sance, looking toward monarchy,
not unlike that which il has under
zone since the accession Of Grant.
The Republicans, however, OF THIS
dly have bettere:i the instruction oi
the old Feleralists. Steam, eiecir-
city. and other modern instrumental
litics being placed in the hands OF
the monopolists, controlling sums
of capital undreamed Of half a cen
fury ago, the power of the Federal
list, Imperial OF Monocrat'c party,
as Jefferson designated it, Is lnhn-
itely greater now than then.
But when Mr.. Jefferson put his
hands to the work, after Il long pc
ROD of misrule, the task Of reform
was perfectly simple, because the
principles upon which it was to pro-
coed were simple. Mr.. Parton elucl-
dates the whole theme in this brief
passage: The simplicity Of his
political system was such that he
could give a complete statement OF
it in o few lines; and it was so sound
that the General Government, from
1889 to 1878, has worked well so
far as it has conformed to it, and
worked i'll as often as it has departed
from it. Jefferson was so r'ghf that
every honest, patriotic man who has
since gone to Washington after
having learned his rudiments from
Jefferson, and has had strength
enough to vote up to the height OF
his convictions, has made very re-
spectacle public career, no matter
how ordinary his endowinents; while
every public man who has not ac
cepted this simple clue to the Tab
yrinth of public business has made
q career which time and events vii
condemn, through he may have hac
the talents Of Webster or q Clay
This is the Jeffersonian system IL
brief: Let the General Government
be reduced to foreign concerns only
and let our affairs be disentangleo
from those of all other nations, eX
cent as to commerce, which the mer
chants will manage the better the
moro they are left free to manage
for themselves, and our Genera
Government may be reduced to
very simple organization and a yer.
inexpensive one; few plain duties tt
be performed by few servants
This plan did indeed work te
adniration-to the admiration of al
mankind. In twelve years Of Demo
cratic administration the relativel.
enormous debt was reduced from
SS3 5000, 600 to s45 GOO, 600, notwith
standing the Louisiana purchase TO
$4,000, COO and the doubling CT tn
territory of the nation. And thi
was done not by increasing the mum
Der or amount of taxes, hut by wis
and frugal administration, begin
ming in the removal of every need
less tax consumer in the person O
every supernumerary office holder
i. Terson Topped off the excise OF
lefned sugar, on licenses to re
tailers, duties on carriages AM
stamps, and with these taxes wer
swept away three -fourihs of tn
beef-eating office-holders. 1t vii
be observed that jefferson, Madison
and Gallatin struck first at thos
taxes which brought the Fedora
power most Immediately into con
tact with the people in their home
and business. There were no ad
ministrative scandals in those days
no complaints of an army of pam
pered placemen using their none.
and official influence to overbear til
people in elections. The bushes
of The general Government was re
duced to the proper objects express
ly enumerated in the Constitution,
few servants transacted it honest
ly, promptly and cheaply. The.
had no time, if plain Democrat
could have had the inclination, t,
concoct third-term or other plot
designed to make their power per
manent. We commend this simpl
system Of Thomas Jefferson to tn
reform associations of every kind"
DURING the Governors absenc,
from the Territory, Collector Basil
will enlighten the old settlers Oh
the wonderful resources of our grea
and growing country, and her cause
will not languish. The Collector j.
O more horid writer than his Excel
lency, but the latter excels in court
ly style and grace of diction. Hap.
by we in the choice of such rul ers.
THE English astronomer, Proctor
says there is comet now approach
ing our sun at the rate Of 5000
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