New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-06
TrENHOLMS AMAZING SCREED.
THE CONTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY TRIES HIS
HIS HAND AT CALLING NAMES.


Ills HAND AT CALLING NAMES.
The following extracts are from an article tpp.
545-Cp in the July number OF The Forum 1t would
no hard 20 believe except for the signature OF W. L.
Trenholm that 1t was written by high officer OF thls
Government The language used seems more appro-
pirate to the climate OF Charleston, . C thah 10 ha'
of Washington, and suggestive OF the former
secretary of the Confederate Treasury than oil SUP
ordinate of our own Treasury Department;
During the nine years since specie resumption the
Government has collected from IFS people eleven hun
dred millions of dollars more than It, ordinary eX-
TYestmerts about thousand millions has been con
sumed in reducing me ona ,c with no prospect
OF is disbursement except BY payhg Doh,, wears
ssn,y g,as 9lciH I'M Country hare suffered from the
cruel drain yet Congress after congress mas Do'i
@ ,nn Hcars Tho Treasury has daily sucked n great
sms 81 money which the Government should not Mhe
N ,n5icI has no js TILE and which as really roooea
rom IN, peoDIe: but no sense of shame fushes the
cheeks Of any among the hundreds in Congress a,d the
tbosands outside who can arrest this drain aud abolish
his wrong but who Will not do so because OF me
restraints party politics. or for rear .n@ .d Us Sner
4 Irls ma Il. sshic1 they are interested. -,
Now and then some petty thief, tormenteun % re-
morc is driven TO dIvest himself Of few dollars or
@ 70 and these are mingled with the millions
Which the law is systematically stealing from t Inc
ncnnie: the newspapers chronicle another contripu-
@ ~ the Consctence FUND but the incident awaHes
no sym1sfhetic movement Of consc ence among moss
rho profit politically or oher1o'se' oy me des0""9
Tho entire surplus revenue is wasted, so lar s a.
the individuals are concerned 10 whom the nOncg
rigbtf,lIv belongs and from rhOm II has been ieTc'y
T,nv inLes Regarded Is their money, ana no,i ~
Is not the money of the Government, every uisPV.
ton Of 1t is hurfu except its restitution; uoi han
dollar cent for cent to the individuals IRON "nTih
Il came Whether used 10 buy silver al q "a ~ a.
count mr. bonds AT a premium. whether consumed IN
unnecessary expenditures or locked I'D inc o!yP ~
the Treasury what each man contributes nIouSn
excessive taxation 10 the surplus Il as hDsoIu'1y
lost 10 him as If It in the deep bosom VI inc
ocean buried, To speak Of such expcnul'uies al
restoring the money 10 the people Is eltier n"'"
a faitacy according the lights OF the speaEsi
The citizens OF the United States as taApsyera ha.
been for years knowingly paying for their h
more than IT actually costs certain hohoIcu az,
trusted senators and Representatives have ehpioS1,n
the force OF law 10 compel them to DO 50, aa ceI ,
party leaders and newspapers have us;d y aso
nlenis, Fraudulent representations ana suRscs'"i
and insincere arguments 70 mlsead voters ard 10
maintain This eIt0rt0jl while the people seem a., !"
love 10 have IL son Hence. IL appears mar WIN
out violence 10 moral sensibty, we icprcss a.a
punish In the individual what We exact OF INC Cl
zen We send erorfioners TO jnti and rern 10 w. ~
greSs those uho rtfdn crcessfre tnIuno". ~ ".
eXecrate the common liar and subscribe 10 ne"spaeI
that live upon economic fasehoods. we ouua"
personal waste and fasten proaigacy upon our CIV
ernment