New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-29
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THE COMING RULERS.

Over fifty thousand young men have registered
and will cast their first Presidential votes next
week, in this city, Brooklyn, and Jersey City.
The number of young men who have come OF
age since 1880 is about 10000 in this State,
about AZ, 900 in New-Jersey, and about 24,ooo
in Connecticut Are these young men going to
vote the country back into the barbarlsm
which existed before they were born9 In
some respects they cannot; but Will they as
far as they can, by casting their votes for the
party of reaction, which left the Nation
wrecked and robbed and torn by civil war
twenty -four years agO7
Their fathers, it may be, were taught that
this confederacy" of States could be broken
nj will. The sons have learned that we have
Nation, the most powerful and prosperous on
earth. If the fathers theories, called Demo-
cratic had prevailed, half dozen fragments
of the Union would now be cutting each others
threats; European standing armies would be
needed in each for its defence, and the traveller
from Bangor to New-Orleans, or from New
York to San Francisco would now be halted ut
each frontier to show his passport and his bag
gage. The flag was not torn because the Dem
ocratic theories did not prevail in past elections.
Do the Young men want those theories brought
back from their graves by Democratic victory
The fathers of the young men, it may be,
cherished the notion that States only should
create banks. With thirty-thrce kinds of
money, most of them bad, those fathers paid
n heavy tax called exchange on all trade be-
tween the different States, and yet the Demo-
Gratis long to destroy the uniform National
currency. good rs gold, alike in every State,
and TO get back the wildcat state banks OF
Democratic days. Do the young men agree
with them
The fathers IL may be, called Lincoln gorilla,
or. with Mr.. Hendricks. "a smutty old tyran','
named Grant "thc butcher" voted that the
war was "a failure" and ravcd that cmancipa-
ton of slaves was unconstitutional Have the
young men inherited these blind prciudiccS
Or have they learned In their histories that the
grandosl deeds aud tho greatest progress ol the
Nation began when these fathers were put ont
of power, under tho lead OF the patriots ANA
heroes at whom those fathers threw ionl
names
The fathers cherished a theory of free trade.
and were willing to buy their woollens anu
silks, their axes, knives and rails, from Europe.
Under their theory manufactures were stunled~
We made 1000, 900 tons OF iron. after eighty
four years of independence; with twenty-four
years of Republican Nationalism we make
100000 tons. Then we raised SO,OCO,OuO
pounds OF wool which we made into cloth now,
32O,OOO,OOO pounds. Then we made not Il
yard OF silk cloth now, more than we then
imported. Then we had 10000 miles of rail-
road now, 100000. Then the laborers In
seven of the oldest States had in all past time
accumulated $l4S,000 900 I'm deposits in
savings banks; now the deposits in the same
States are $S6G.OOO,OOO. Will the young
men vote to go back to the theories OF their
fathers9
4 Honor to the fathers for all that they wisely
did. But there would be small progress il the
generation that comes forward to take the
control of affairs must first turn back the hand
of time, and begin where the bright young
men of 1850 began. twenty -four years ago.
That generation has created new world,
grandcr than it's fathers ever imagined Tho
young men Of to-day were not born with eyes